Dr. Jason is a distinguished conservationist who specialises in environmental and wildlife conservation. With over two decades of experience, Dr. Jason currently leads the WWF-Malaysia Peninsular Malaysia Conservation Programme and oversees the Tiger Conservation and Sustainable Markets Programmes. Prior to this, he served as the Head of Sarawak Conservation Programme for 10 years.
Sarimah Talib, a Chemical and Process Engineering graduate with a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering, embarked on her sustainability career at Sime Darby Group in 2007. Notably, she assumed the role of the inaugural CEO of the Malaysia Green Foundation, directly reporting to the Minister of Green Technology, Water, and Energy, thereby significantly contributing to promoting sustainability at the national level.
Rashyid is the Chief Sustainability Officer of the world’s largest producer of Certified Sustainable Palm Oil, Rashyid leads all efforts in implementing on-the-ground programs to promote responsible and ethical production throughout Sime Darby Plantation’s operations and global supply chain. He also engages with a wide range of stakeholders within the sustainable palm oil sphere.
Jenifer is the Founder and Principal of Grit and Pace, through which she advices corporations on ESG and what it takes to drive transformative change in supply chain, procurement and operational excellence. She has over three decades of experience in top executive positions in the consumer-packaged goods industry and had the opportunity to work and live in various countries in Asia and the United States. She spent 25 years at Mars Incorporated, where she last served as Global Chief Procurement Officer.
Yuet Mee Ho-Nambiar serves as an independent non-executive director on boards of several local and international institutions. These include a regional financial institution, where she also chairs the Board Sustainability Committee, and WWF Malaysia. An accountant by training, she spent a large part of her career in Big 4 international accounting firms and had helmed various leadership roles in the Asia Pacific region.
Sunil is a part of the senior leadership team at SAC and leads a team of researchers driving catalytic knowledge and advisory at the intersection of sustainability and leadership, designing and delivering senior leadership programmes, and developing practitioner toolkits and frameworks.
Rejecting platitudes and theoretical models, Rajeev combines 22 years of global Fortune 100 experience with research-based insights to provide unique and practical approaches to personal leadership, ethics, governance, sustainable business growth, and stewardship. A sought-after speaker and consultant, he is the CEO of Stewardship Asia Center, Singapore, and President of Leadership Energy Consulting, Seattle, WA, USA.
Effon Khoo founded the online HR/payroll software Kakitangan.com in 2015. Today, the platform actively serves around 10,000 companies and 150,000 employees in Malaysia, facilitating leave applications, claim submissions, time attendance tracking, and payroll processing. Each month, Kakitangan.com processes approximately RM 250 million in payroll, with this figure growing steadily.
Matt is the Chief Innovation Officer of Sunway Group, one of Southeast Asia’s leading conglomerates with 13 business divisions across more than 50 locations. He’s also the Founding Director and CEO of Sunway iLabs, an award-winning innovation lab that focuses on 4 key areas: corporate venture capital, startup accelerator, venture builder, and entrepreneurship education.
Vivek has 33 years of extensive experience across Telecommunications, Finance and FMCG industries, during which he has successfully led multi disciplinary and multi-cultural teams.
Vivek is the Group Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Axiata Group Berhad prior to that served as the Group Chief Financial Officer. Axiata Group is a prominent Regional Telecommunications company with presence in 9 countries across South and Southeast Asia serving 160 million customers.