Since 1999, David has scaled ICM from a small start-up charity to a US$15M organization that has transformed the lives of more than two million ultra-poor people, in five countries, through partnership with 20,000 indigenous churches.

Until early 2013, David was Morgan Stanley’s Chief Financial Officer in Asia Pacific, responsible for the company’s businesses in China, India, Korea, Australia and other countries. Before his role as CFO, David spent more than a decade as a Morgan Stanley Managing Director, overseeing its tax department in Asia. Prior to Asia, David worked for Arthur Andersen; Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft; Caplin & Drysdale; and the U.S. Department of Treasury where he was the Associate International Tax Counsel.

In addition to his role with ICM, David also serves as the board chair of Asian Charity Services and Friends of Hong Kong Charities. David is husband to Deanna, has three children and three grandchildren.

Jim is the founder of Hybrid Social Solutions, a pioneering social enterprise that is building a gridless solar electricity network to transform rural communities across the Philippines.

Jim is also currently Director of First Gen, the leading clean and renewable energy company in the Philippines; Chairman of Healthway Medical, which operates close to 200 primary care and corporate clinics in the Philippines; Chairman of Stiftung Solarenergie Philippines; and a member of the National Advisory Board for the World Wildlife Fund of the Philippines, the country’s leader in marine conservation and environmental protection.

In recognition of his work in social enterprise, Jim was conferred the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 and Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and Social Entrepreneur of the Year Philippines 2012 awards.   

Before entering the social enterprise sphere full-time, Jim worked with Ayala Corporation, where he was: senior managing director and a member of the Executive Committee, President and CEO of Ayala Land, and a Trustee of Ayala Foundation.  Prior to joining Ayala, Jim was a Director of McKinsey & Company, the world’s leading top-management consulting firm, where he worked across 29 countries.  At McKinsey, he focused on development work in emerging markets.

Jim earned his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, graduating with honors in 1988.He completed his undergraduate work in 1984 at Princeton University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in Economics. 

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Born into a multicultural family, with an Irish- and Swedish-American mother and an Indian-Indonesian father, Marissa has lived two-thirds of her life in Southeast Asia. She currently resides in Singapore, with her husband Jared, two daughters Elizabella and Alianna, and son Theodore.

Marissa is passionate about using business to shine God’s light and truth into the world. At Busana Apparel Group, Marissa serves on the board, supporting corporate strategy and strategic partnerships. The group’s clothing factories primarily based in Indonesia employ over 30,000 people, of which 90% are young women. She is thankful for the opportunity to serve God in this family business, founded by her late father.

Marissa started her career in New York working as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers, where she lived through the firm’s collapse in 2008 and learned the importance of God’s sovereignty.

Since 2008, Marissa has pursued spiritual integration in faith and work. In New York, she was a fellow of the 9-month Gotham Fellowship. In Jakarta, Marissa joined the 6-month Kingdom Entrepreneurship Academy (KEA) and subsequently served as a Director of KEA. Marissa also was a part of the first cohort of Resource Global in Jakarta and now serves on the global board of Resource Global. She is passionate about seeing young marketplace leaders become empowered by their faith in their vocation.

Marissa also serves on the board of TrustBridge Global Foundation, the first donor-advised fund (DAF) to be truly global, with a mission to make global giving easy. Marissa is excited about the power of generosity to not only build the kingdom but also to unite people across faith backgrounds, and she has personally found incredible freedom in the reality that God owns everything and we are privileged to be His stewards.

Marissa holds a Bachelor of Science degree magna cum laude from Tufts University with a major in mechanical engineering and a minor in entrepreneurial leadership. She also holds a Masters in Business Administration with distinction from the University of Oxford.

Dr Suparno Adijanto is the managing director of the Bumi Raya Group of Companies headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia. The Bumi Raya Group is active in industries such as mining, plantation, renewal energies, supply chain, distribution, and property development. He was the executive chairman and CEO of Singapore listed Global Palm Resources Limited, a plantation holding company before privatizing it in 2023.

He also sits on the board of several educational institutions (Kinderland Indonesia, Ichthus School, Multimatics Group) as well as market place ministries (Crown Financial Ministries, Alpha Indonesia, Resource Global Indonesia, Kingdom Entrepreneurship Academy). Suparno is an elder at the Jakarta International Christian Fellowship. He also advises several social welfare foundations and international bodies (Christian Economic Forum, CGNTV, Gerobak Pintar).

Suparno graduated with a Bachelor of Science, Economics (Honours) from University College London. He holds an MBA from the Bradford Management Centre, University of Bradford, England and a Doctorate of Philosophy from the College of Business Administration, Georgia State University, USA.

He is passionate in mentoring young leaders in the areas of leadership and stewardship. Suparno resides in Jakarta with his wife See Mun and they have three adult children.

Ryan’s unique experience as a pro athlete and entrepreneur has been instrumental to his success as a disciplined investor and leader at Next Legacy. Since founding Next Play Capital in 2015, Ryan has created a strong investment platform that affords non-traditional diverse communities access to venture capital and company investments. Now that Next Play Capital and Legacy Venture have joined forces, Ryan’s leadership and vision continue to play an integral role in the combined firm.

After seven years in the NFL (including a Super Bowl Championship with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers), Ryan launched his investing career as a Principal at DeBartolo Development. A few years later, he co-founded StraightCast Media, a mobile app designed to empower athletes to create their own HD content. The company was sold to FOX Sports in 2014, allowing Ryan to pursue his dream of starting Next Play Capital.  

Ryan built his track record from notable investments including Pure Storage, StemCentrix, and ONEHOPE wines. He’s also led funding projects for Peloton, Impossible Foods, Flexport, Hims, Bytedance, and Rubrik. In addition, Ryan has served on the Advisory Board for Docusign, Tonal, and Most Days.

Ryan holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from UCLA. He is a member of the Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow Program. Since its inception in 2006, he has been actively involved with The Ryan Nece Foundation, empowering teens to embrace the #PowerofGiving. He currently serves as its Chairman. Ryan enjoys cold showers, knowing what makes a perfect blueberry muffin, and spending time with his son, daughter, and wife.

Anne Chiou was previously Director of The Economist Corporate Network at The Economist Group in Hong Kong. She engaged top executives throughout Asia in providing key insights and industry knowledge on strategic issues central to business developments in the region.

Before joining The Economist Corporate Network, Anne was Head of Programs for Business and Policy at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center . She also worked extensively with senior banking executives as a regulator at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and worked in banking policy at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority as well as supervising financial market activity under the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong.

Anne has a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Pomona College and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University. Anne currently serves on the Dean’s Council of the Harvard Kennedy School. She also serves on the HKS Fund Executive Committee of the Harvard Kennedy School.

Mr. Cherian Thomas is an international development professional with experience in the development & infrastructure sectors. Till recently, he was Regional Leader for the South Asia Pacific region of World Vision International, a humanitarian and development organisation working for the well-being of vulnerable children, overseeing its work in 15 countries in Asia and the Pacific Islands. Until April 2020, he served as the National Director and CEO of World Vision India.

While in India, he led a team of around 1,500 staff members, together serving 2.6 million children in projects spread across 142 districts. Mr. Thomas has over 39 years of experience in diverse fields, and before joining World Vision India in August 2015, served as CEO, IDFC Foundation, where he oversaw the working of the Foundation and its joint ventures with the Governments of Karnataka, Delhi and Uttarakhand. 

Mr. Thomas has experience in the fields of infrastructure, banking, project finance, policy advocacy, capacity building, programme support and advisory services for government clients and community engagement programmes. Apart from IDFC Limited, where he worked for almost 18 years, he has worked with major organizations such as Tata Industries Limited, ICICI Limited, SCICI Limited and Citibank in the areas of corporate finance, project finance and banking. 

He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering (Honors) and Masters in Management Studies in Finance from the University of Mumbai, India. He is married to Jamila Koshy, a psychiatrist; they have two grown-up daughters.

Wen Li Lim is the APAC Regional Lead for Praxis, a venture-building ecosystem advancing redemptive quests, supporting founders, funders, and innovators motivated by their faith to address the major issues of our time. Based in Singapore, she has spent the last five years immersed in the intersection between faith, investing, sustainability and entrepreneurship, focusing on partnerships across the region. This has included roles at Faith Driven Investor, an impact VC fund and a mental health tech company. Her initial two decades of experience in Perth Australia includes 10 years at EY, international HR at a ASX listed mineral sands company, founding a non-profit and COO at her local church. 

Wen’s passion is building communities in various sectors, including creation care (with A Rocha Singapore), Christians in Web3 (co-founder) and most recently in the stewardship space (Stewardship Collective). She is driven by collaborative action, to propel resources to flow into the most needed places in the region.

Borned in Vietnam and moved to Singapore at 14, Hien had a stormy encounter with God, and struggled for the following 6 years before she could understand His love for the world and her deep need for Jesus. After a decade working at Google, Grab, Sea Group, and VNLIFE, Hien was called to serve the farmers and fishers at the edge of the earth. She now works at the intersection of mission, livelihood and climate through KarbonMap.

Hien Mai is the founder and CEO of KarbonMap, a tech solution to sustainably manage land use and natural resources in forestry, agroforestry, and regenerative agriculture through job creation and deep community engagement. KarbonMap provides a unified data management platform that changes end-to-end data management through a hyper-local, AI-powered solution that enables project developers to attract financing, manage complex operations cost-effectively, sell high-integrity certified credits and impact project-linked communities at scale. KarbonMap’s customers include the World Bank Group and GenZero, the carbon credit investment arm of the Singapore government.

Jason Lee serves on the Board of Directors of the Lausanne Movement and was Chair of the Board of Trustees and Co-Founder of Christians in Web3. He has held advisory and committee roles with SG500, the Metropolitan YMCA Singapore, Blockchain Australia, the Blockchain Philanthropy Foundation, and the FinTech Association of Malaysia.

His career cuts across the finance, technology, entrepreneurship, and the non-profit sector. He was Senior Director at the Milken Institute, a global think tank, where he led business and program development across Asia, engaging asset allocators, corporates, family offices, and foundations. He also served as COO of the Algorand Foundation and VP of the NEM Foundation, overseeing governance, treasury, investments, and grants. In addition, he co-founded PolicyStreet, a regional digital insurer now serving over five million users, and began his career at Standard Chartered Bank with a focus on wealth management.

Jason holds a Master of International Business and a Bachelor of Laws, and has engaged in executive education programs from Wharton and Cambridge Judge Business School. He lives in Singapore with his wife and two daughters and is committed to building community, equipping families, and advancing frontier technologies to create lasting legacies in Asia.

Pamela Hsu Phua is Director of Matrix Global Investments Limited, a privately held investment company with multi asset class interests, and serves on the family council of a Hong Kong based single family office.

With over 25 years of leadership in private wealth management across Switzerland, Hong Kong, and Singapore, Pamela has held senior roles including CEO Asia at VP Bank AG, Managing Director and Head of Asia Family Office at Pictet Wealth Management, and Managing Director, Group Head and Head of Intermediaries for Greater China at Julius Baer.

A Senior Accredited Director with the Singapore Institute of Directors, Pamela serves on several international boards connecting capital, innovation, and social impact. She is a board member of TrustBridge Alliance, the Asia partner of TrustBridge Global, a global donor advised fund platform, International Care Ministries, which empowers the ultra poor through community transformation, and Child’s Dream Foundation Switzerland. She also serves on the Advisory Board of U-Go Singapore, which focuses on expanding access to education for underserved youth. In addition, Pamela sits on the Advisory Board of Generosity Path Singapore.

Guided by a belief in generosity and stewardship as foundations for lasting impact, Pamela works with families and enterprises to align wealth with purpose, cultivating models of giving, governance, and collaboration that create enduring value for both society and the next generation.

A Palo Alto native, Lin made history as one of few Asian Americans to ever play in the NBA. Prior to his NBA career, Lin played four seasons at Harvard.

In February 2012, two years after going undrafted in the NBA Draft, Lin’s historic performance for the New York Knicks, commonly known as “Linsanity,” made him a global sensation. In 2019 he became the first Asian American player to win an NBA Championship, with the Toronto Raptors.

Lin recently retired from professional basketball after a 15-year career, securing back-to-back championships for the New Taipei Kings with his brother Joseph Lin, and collecting Season and Finals MVP awards in his last season with the Taiwan Professional Basketball League  (TPBL).

Lin is co-founder of JLIN LLC, a mission-driven management company that strives to create positive change through brand partnerships, storytelling, and investing, as well as Board Chair of the Jeremy Lin Foundation, whose mission is to love and serve underserved youth.

Jenni is an oceanographer, science communicator, and science and sustainability consultant. She has a PhD in Biological Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and has been working on climate change and sustainability for over a decade. Through her academic research on microplastic pollution and her work on climate change, she has become passionate about teaching the world that their daily choices have lasting impacts.

Her career has given her opportunities to gain experience not only in the world of scientific research, but also in science outreach and communication, teaching, consulting, impact investing, and philanthropy. 

She was previously the Climate Scientist at King Philanthropies, where she did extensive due diligence on both for-profit impact investments and non-profit gifts at the intersection of climate and livelihoods. She was a Senior Scientist and Director of Communications at Applied Ocean Sciences, a science start-up of ocean consultants, collectively doing the highest caliber science outside the structures of academia. 

She was the Price Postdoctoral Fellow at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps. There she focused on science communication, by building exhibits and events for the general public, and teaching middle school to graduate students.

During her PhD and beyond, she also became one of the most preeminent scholars in the nascent field of microplastic pollution. She not only developed lab and field research experience, but she has given hundreds of talks, lectures, and interviews on the emerging dangers of microplastics and the importance of limiting plastic in our own lives. 

James is currently the Lead Pastor of The Gathering and also oversees the Next Generation Ministries at Kong Fok Church. He was formerly the Executive Director of Young Life in HK and is now serving as an Advisor for YL Asia Pacific, with a particular focus of growing the mission in the Global Cities of Singapore, Seoul, Taipei and Tokyo.

He is married to Christina and they serve together primarily at church but also in the various ministries the Lord has called them to across the city. Their main passion is intentionally making disciples of Jesus through reliance on the Word and Spirit of God, whilst also focusing on mental and emotional health and family well-being. 

They moved to HK from the UK in 2018 and have three young children RJ (13), AJ (8) and MJ (1), and also a dog called Walter. As a family they love playing sports, musical instruments and arts and crafts.

Georgie Lee is an investment banker with over 50 years of experience in the stockbroking and investment banking industry in Asia. He has held senior appointments at leading Asian financial institutions in Singapore and Malaysia, such as the DBS Group, Singapore Technologies (ST) Capital, UOB Kay Hian, and TA Securities (Malaysia).   

After graduating with an honors degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Georgie first honed his skills in journalism. prior to embarking on a career in financial services, He initially served Singapore’s national daily newspaper, the Straits Times/Business Times, before becoming a correspondent with the Financial Times of London for seven years. 

He is also the Immediate Past President of Gatekeepers Singapore, a Christian marketplace ministry. He was also involved in the church plant of the Chapel of the Holy Spirit, an Anglican church in Singapore, where he and his family attend. 

Georgie and his son, Galven, authored a best-selling 300-page book, “Unfolding His Story,” which documented the history of the Christian Charismatic renewal in Singapore over the past 50 years.

He has just released his latest book, The Bottom Line, Business By The Book, which explores the biblical worldview of business from an Asian perspective. Covering theological economics and the praxis of marketplace theology through case studies, the book includes a chapter on the Proverbs 31 woman, written by his wife, Evelyn. 

Evelyn is a retired banker and currently a realtor. They are parents to two lovely children, Evangeline, a lawyer who is married to Sherman, an entrepreneur; and Galven, an associate director with a global telecom alliance, and is married to Alice, a senior communications manager with a Norwegian telco. Georgie and Evelyn recently became proud grandparents to Talia.

Bryan Che is Chief Strategy Officer at Huawei. There, he leads Huawei’s vision and strategy across its overall businesses and portfolio, which spans mobile and consumer electronics, telecommunications, and cloud and AI.

Bryan has tremendous experience building new enterprise businesses and open source technologies. In the open source community, Bryan serves as a board director across various key organizations, including Eclipse Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), and Open 3D Foundation (O3DF). As an American expat employed in China who has traveled more than 3 million miles to over 40 countries, Bryan has worked extensively with many customers and partners around the world.

Bryan graduated with his Bachelors and Masters degrees in computer science from MIT.

ILARIA is the founding Chairwoman of Tech For Good Institute: a non-profit think tank founded by Grab to encourage and enrich dialogue on social, economic and policy trends accelerated by the digital economy. She is also the Group Advisor on Tech & Social Impact for Grab (Southeast Asia’s leading superapp, Nasdaq: GRAB). Prior to assuming this role, she served as a corporate finance executive and helped drive Grab’s historical Series H fundraise – the largest in the history of Southeast Asia. She was formerly an Executive Director at the Sales & Trading Division of Goldman Sachs New York where she was celebrated as a top quartile performer, in charge of helping Asian companies go public globally.

Ilaria is currently a global keynote speaker, regularly featured at forums organized by world class organizations such as Milken Institute, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Stanford University, Princeton University, South By Southwest etc. She is also selected by the World Economic Forum as a Global Future Council member (an invite-only global network of leading experts across sectors to provide insights to drive the forum’s initiatives), a private investor, serves on the board of trustees of humanitarian organization CareForChildren, an operating advisor to Owl Ventures (largest Education Tech focused venture capital fund in the world), an advisory council member to Stanford University’s “SCPKU” that promotes academic exchange between the US and China, an advisor to former NBA basketball player Jeremy’s Lin’s family office, and an advisory board member to GlobalSF’s Women Empowerment Initiative and British real estate development firm Kinrise.

Ilaria holds a B.A. from Stanford University. She is also a freelance singer, concert pianist, former food critic & restaurant judge, culinary school graduate, actress in musicals & plays and an avid scuba diver. A common theme between her work in multiple sectors is the dedication to building bridges between the East & West with a mission to further mass flourishing.

Andrey Sawchenko is the Regional Vice President, Program Impact, across Asia Pacific. He currently leads IJM’s programs working with governments and civil society partners to demonstrate effective models to eradicate forced labor from key industries and recruiting corridors in Southeast Asia.

Andrey’s last post was Regional Director for IJM in Southern India, leading programs working with Indian authorities to end forced labour slavery in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Andrey previously spent 10 years in Thailand and the Philippines leading teams fighting sex trafficking. After four years of IJM’s partnership with local law enforcement in metro Cebu, independent auditors found a stunning 72% decrease in the availability of children for commercial sex.

Before joining IJM, Andrey was a lawyer in Seattle, USA. Andrey is also a regular speaker on podcasts and conferences, and was recently interviewed on Channel News Asia to help shed light on the ongoing scam center crackdown.

David Liao is Co-Chief Executive Asia and Middle East and Executive Director of The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC)  Holdings plc.  David is a member of the HSBC’s Group Operating Committee and serves on the Board of Hang Seng Bank and Bank of Communication.  Mr. Liao also serves on several government and regulatory bodies, including a member of The Exchange Fund Advisory Committee of Hong Kong Monetary Authority, He is a member of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the 14th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.

He joined HSBC in 1997, during which he spent 15 years in China and came to faith there. Outside of work, David serves in a cluster of home churches in Jordan, is an active speaker amongst Christian communities in the commercial arena. As a leader, David is eager to see the Lord’s sovereignty at work in the marketplace.

David holds an Honours degree from the University of London.

Jinho Chung is the Chairman and CEO of The Wells Investment, a leading Korean venture capital firm focused on impact investing and mission-driven investing. With a distinguished global career, he has served as CEO of Prudential Securities Korea, Asset Korea, and Nomura Securities in Tokyo.  He also co-founded MYSC, a pioneering social impact group based in Korea.  Jinho has also been at the forefront of building a redemptive venture ecosystem in Korea and co-founded FWIA (Faith and Work Institute Asia). He holds a B.A. in Economics from Korea University and an M.A. in Commerce from Waseda University in Japan.

Reuben is currently the CEO and Cofounder of Arkadiah Technology. Arkadiah is a nature technology company that uses AI to fuse lidar, satellite imagery and ground truthing to provide transparency and traceability to enable investments into nature restoration. He is passionate about leveraging his experience of having ran multiple technology businesses to accelerate Southeast Asia’s momentum towards a nature-positive future.

Reuben was previously an executive board member on GXS Group – Digibank JV between Grab and SingTel. He was also a founding member of Grab Financial Group, and grew it into a leading regional fintech unicorn.

Recognised as a thought leader in fintech, Reuben has been invited to speak and serve as a panelist at various banking & finance and technology conferences and forums.

He is an active investor and also sits on various boards such as Heliconia, a Temasek subsidiary. He was also formerly at Bain & Company and The Walt Disney Company.

Reuben is a graduate of Insead and National University of Singapore.

Edward Y. Chang has been an adjunct professor in Stanford’s Computer Science Department since 2019. Previously, he was a tenured professor at UC Santa Barbara. From 2006 to 2012, he served as a director at Google Research, where he pioneered data-centric and parallel machine learning and contributed to the ImageNet project. Chang later became president of HTC Healthcare, where he developed AI-powered diagnostics and won the Tricorder XPRIZE. He has also held positions at HKUST and UC Berkeley. Chang earned an MS in Computer Science and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. He is a Fellow of ACM and IEEE for his contributions to scalable machine learning and healthcare AI.

Since 2019, Chang’s research has focused on virtual assistance, collaborating with Monica Lam, and more recently on large language models (LLMs). He hypothesizes that LLM Collaborative Intelligence (LCI) could pave the way toward artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Chang has authored seven books, including:

• Unlocking the Wisdom of Large Language Models (2024)
• LLM Collaborative Intelligence: The Path to Artificial General Intelligence (2024)
• Journey of the Mind (Poetry, 2023)
• Mandarin translation of Erwin Schrödinger’s What is Life? Mind and Matter (2021)
• Big Data Analytics for Large-Scale Multimedia Search (2019)
• Nomadic Eternity (Poetry, 2012)
• Foundations of Large-Scale Multimedia Information Management and Retrieval (2011)

Jacqueline Khoo is the founder of JC Trust Ltd., a private charitable trust incorporated in Singapore that focuses primarily on healthcare. A Literature major from the National University of Singapore, Jacqueline is deeply concerned about the marginalized and forgotten members in society. Through her work at the trust, she emphasizes support for those unable to afford medical treatment, including foreign construction workers, foreign women without recognised status in the country and children from the region who come to Singapore for cancer treatment. Additionally, Jacqueline serves on the board of City to City Asia Pacific, with a vision to establish initiatives that aid communities in cities where churches are planted.

Experience:

• Medifund Committee Member, Singapore General Hospital
• Medifund Committee Member, Assisi Hospice
• Medifund Advisory Council Committee Member, Ministry of Health
• Corporate Social Responsibility Sub-Committee Member, Singapore Academy of Law Patient
• Appeal Committee Member – National Kidney Foundation

Amy is the Southeast Asia Director of Acts of Mercy International. For her direct work with victims and survivors of the scamming crisis at the border of Thailand and Myanmar, Amy has been featured in the New York Times, Associated Press, South China Morning Post, and many other international media outlets.

Phillip Wang and Gail Lien are a married couple based in Singapore who have spent over two decades engaged in fields spanning engineering, education, philanthropy, and impact investing. Their Christian faith deeply informs their values and actions, guiding their personal and professional journeys as they seek to steward their time, resources, and energy toward causes that reflect justice, sustainability, and compassion.

Phillip, born in the UK to parents from mainland China, is a UK-chartered structural engineer with a background in civil and structural engineering. He has worked in both the UK and Hong Kong before moving to Singapore in 2002, where he contributed to several of the nation’s landmark projects. These include the National Library of Singapore and, notably, his role as project lead for a local architectural practice in delivering the Singapore Sports Hub in Kallang, completed in 2015.

Since 2004, Phillip has been actively involved with the Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore, where he teaches and consults on structural design for architectural students. Alongside his professional work, he has provided pro bono engineering advice for community and humanitarian projects in Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Japan. His ongoing interests lie in issues related to migrant labour, sustainable construction, and the circular economy. Outside of work, he enjoys swimming, tennis, music, and a good glass of whisky.

Gail Lien is a Singaporean and began her career as an investment analyst in Hong Kong after graduating from the London School of Economics. After stepping back from full-time work to raise their three daughters, she redirected her focus toward the non-profit and philanthropic sectors. Over the last two decades, she has been deeply involved in a number of initiatives supporting education, health, and social inclusion. She serves as a governor of the Lien Foundation, and sits on the boards of both Healthserve and Rainbow Centre. She is also an active volunteer with Rainbow Centre and the music and arts organisation, Voices of Singapore.

Gail holds postgraduate qualifications in Education, Theology, and Natural Medicine, and most recently completed an executive programme on Women’s Leadership Development at the Oxford Said Business School. Her personal interests include reading, tennis, and word games.

A pivotal moment came in 2004 when a significant financial event in Gail’s family allowed the couple to remain in Singapore. Over the following twenty years, as they balanced work and parenting, Phillip and Gail began to explore how they might responsibly steward the resources entrusted to them. This exploration has led to a thoughtful approach to philanthropy and impact investing, focusing particularly on conservation efforts and supporting marginalised communities throughout Southeast Asia. They continue to learn, through mistakes and experiences, as they go about seeking the common good.

Together, they manage their giving with intentionality, aiming to fund and support work that aligns with their belief in human dignity and environmental responsibility. They are also involved with A Rocha, a global Christian conservation organisation, and are hopeful about expanding this work further in the region.

Henry is a Managing Principal at Sovereign’s Capital LLC and the co-founder of FaithDrivenEntrepreneur.org, and FaithDrivenInvestor.org along with GenerosityBayArea.org.

Sovereign’s Capital comprises a family of funds across Venture, Private and Public Equities, in the US and SouthEast Asia. Sovereign’s invests in leaders whose faith and values create a workplace culture that is about business excellence and community citizenship.

Henry Kaestner is also the Co-Founder and former CEO and Chairman of the Board at Bandwidth (NASDAQ:BAND) and Co-Founder of Republic Wireless. Combined the two companies values are faith, family, work and fitness (in that order).

Henry’s past professional life included positions at Arthur Andersen, Merrill Lynch and several boutique institutional firms focused on energy trading based in New York City.

Henry and his wife live in Los Gatos, California with their 3 sons.

Max serves as a speaker and writer for Australia’s Centre for Public Christianity (CPX) and as an Associate Speaker for OCCA while based in Sydney, Australia. Max aims to help people make sense of current issues and life’s ‘big questions’ through the lens of the Christian worldview.

Max was born in Sri Lanka and moved to Australia with his parents as a refugee when he was just one year old. He graduated from the Australian National University with degrees in Law and Political Science. After practicing law, Max worked as a political and policy adviser in the Australian parliament for eight years. He has since completed postgraduate study at the University of Oxford and is currently undertaking his PhD on the ethics of human dignity.

Max is passionate about the power and relevance of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in transforming hearts and minds amid a materially prosperous but spiritually unsatisfied world. Max has spoken in universities, political institutions and businesses including Samsung, Lego, Goldman Sachs and Amazon. His writing and commentary has appeared in various mainstream newspapers including The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herard and The Economist. His first bookThe Freedom Trap was released in March 2025.

Jim is the founder of Hybrid Social Solutions, a pioneering social enterprise that is building a gridless solar electricity network to transform rural communities across the Philippines.

Jim is also currently Director of First Gen, the leading clean and renewable energy company in the Philippines; Chairman of Healthway Medical, which operates close to 200 primary care and corporate clinics in the Philippines; Chairman of Stiftung Solarenergie Philippines; and a member of the National Advisory Board for the World Wildlife Fund of the Philippines, the country’s leader in marine conservation and environmental protection.

In recognition of his work in social enterprise, Jim was conferred the Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 and Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and Social Entrepreneur of the Year Philippines 2012 awards.   

Before entering the social enterprise sphere full-time, Jim worked with Ayala Corporation, where he was: senior managing director and a member of the Executive Committee, President and CEO of Ayala Land, and a Trustee of Ayala Foundation.  Prior to joining Ayala, Jim was a Director of McKinsey & Company, the world’s leading top-management consulting firm, where he worked across 29 countries.  At McKinsey, he focused on development work in emerging markets.

Jim earned his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, graduating with honors in 1988.He completed his undergraduate work in 1984 at Princeton University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude in Economics. 

Pei is passionate about seeing the Body of Christ join Him in the renewal of all things. Her journey has taken her from ministering to college students in the U.S., to supporting education startups in China and Singapore, to assisting with entrepreneurship ecosystem prototypes in Southeast Asia.

Recently returned to her home country of Malaysia, she is exploring an ecosystem approach to help more Malaysian Christians embark on redemptive quests that will embody the full truth and beauty of the gospel.

Robert is a Managing Director at JLIN, a mission-driven firm established by a professional basketball player Jeremy Lin to impact culture. Under Robert’s leadership, JLIN has incubated an investment group, JLIN Capital Studio, to pursue redemptive investing endeavors.  He currently serves as a founding GP at Asia Companion Fund, a venture fund co-launched by JLIN Capital Studio to invest in ventures whose culture seeks to bless their stakeholders.  

Robert is a Board Observer at Endowus, one of the leading independent digital wealth management platforms in Singapore and Hong Kong. He is also a Board Member at Merry Year Social Company (MYSC), a Korea-based impact venture ecosystem builder with presence across Asia. Prior to JLIN, Robert managed faith-driven family offices at Caprock, a Silicon Valley-based $12B+ multi-family office and a founding B-Corp member.

Josh is the CEO of The Gathering, a learning community of philanthropists motivated by our Christian faith to give humbly and steward wisely all the resources God has entrusted to our care. Previously, he was a Co-Founder and Partner at Praxis, a creative engine for redemptive entrepreneurship whose mission is to build ventures, foster community, and create content for equipping Christian innovators, founders, and funders.

Previously, Josh served as the Director of International Giving for the David Weekley Family Foundation, where he divided his time between conducting due diligence on innovative social enterprises and helping portfolio organizations scale their impact. He worked as a journalist and was published in The San Jose Mercury News, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and Stanford Social Innovation Review.

He also co-founded and served on the board of directors for Abide, a mobile app for encouraging and enlivening the practice of prayer and meditation. He graduated from Harvard College and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He and his wife Jane are raising their two children near San Francisco.

Carl is the Chairman of Trustbridge Global, the Co-Chair of Generosity Path, and CEO of Sunstone Group, a holding company with businesses in technology, consumer products, healthcare, hospitality and management consulting.

In addition to managing Sunstone, Carl is often engaged as a strategy consultant by multinational corporations, NGOs and government organizations to drive innovation and leadership initiatives. Carl previously served on the boards of Church World Service and Family First Global. Carl has a master’s in theology and a doctorate in strategic leadership.

Dr. Rodel D. Lasco has more than 40 years of experience in natural resources and environmental research, conservation, education and development at the national and international level. His work has focused on issues related to natural resources conservation, climate change and land degradation. He is an author of the IPCC, the 2007 co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, since 1999. He is also a member of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) in the Philippines.

He is the Executive Director of the OML Center, a private foundation whose mission is to promote research on climate adaptation and disasters risk reduction. He was the Philippines Coordinator of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) from 2004 to 2019, a center devoted to promoting “tree on farms”. He is an affiliate professor at the University of the Philippines at Los Banos.

He is a multi-awarded scientist with over 100 technical publications in national and international journals dealing with the various aspects of natural resources conservation and environmental management. He pioneered research in the Philippines on climate change adaptation in the natural resources sector, the role of tropical forests in climate change/global warming, and the policy implications of the Kyoto Protocol. He also spearheaded the Philippines sub-global component of the global Millennium Ecosystems Assessment which is designed to assess the role of ecosystems and their biodiversity in providing services for human well-being.

John is currently the the CEO of TreisD Corporation, a start up focusing on secure printing and anti-counterfeiting, where he is also the lead investor. He retired from Apple, Inc in October, 2015 as their Vice President of International after almost fifteen years. He was responsible for the largest revenue piece for Apple, culminating in over $100 Billion in his last year.

Prior to Apple, John was the CEO of Academic Systems, an educational content company which he sold to Lightspan, Inc. They took the combined company public on NASDAQ in February, 2000. For the ten years before that, he served as the Vice President and General Manager of North America for Adobe Systems.

Earlier John held sales management positions at both General Parametrics Corporation and Texas Instruments. He currently holds board seats on two privately held venture-backed companies.

He also sits on two non-profit boards – Young Life and the Bay Area School of Ministry. John also is an advisor for Conductive Ventures – a technology focused venture capital fund. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Davis. He and his wife, Nancy, live in Atherton, California.

Michael Ramsden spent the majority of his childhood growing up in the Middle East, is married to Anne and has three children.

He worked as an Investment Executive with the Lord Chancellor’s Department in the UK, and was a Professor-in-Residence at the Wolfsburg Executive Institute in Switzerland.

He has travelled to over 100 countries in the world, and been a regular visitor to Asia since 2001, where he has spoken to government leaders, Boards and CEO’s of major financial institutions, as well at some of the regions leading universities on issues of culture, faith and reason. 

Tyler J. VanderWeele, Ph.D., is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Director of the Human Flourishing Program and Co-Director of the Initiative on Health, Spirituality, and Religion at Harvard University. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University in mathematics, philosophy, theology, finance, and biostatistics.

His methodological research is focused on theory and methods for distinguishing between association and causation in the biomedical and social sciences and, more recently, on psychosocial measurement theory. His empirical research spans psychiatric and social epidemiology; the science of happiness and flourishing; and the study of religion and health. He is the recipient of the 2017 Presidents’ Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS).

Dr. VanderWeele has published over 500 papers in peer-reviewed journals; is author of the books Explanation in Causal Inference (2015), Modern Epidemiology (2021), Measuring Well-Being (2021), Handbook of Religion and Health (2023), and A Theology of Health (2024); and writes a monthly blog posting on topics related to human flourishing for Psychology Today. You may also visit his School of Public Health Profile.