Cleantech Group

Abhijit Salvekar

Al Simpson

Ali Rotatori

Aloysius Lim

Aloysius is a Client Partner at Circulor, a technology business working with major MNCs to enable responsible sourcing and sustainability in industrial supply chains through traceability. Aloysius has over 10 years of international experience in business development and consulting in the emerging technology and professional services sector. Aloysius has an MBA from University of Liverpool and Bachelor of Accountancy from Nanyang Technological University.

Alvin Seng

Anand Pathak

Andrew Hoare

Andrew Wong

Andrew was born and raised in Montréal, Canada and brings strong international experience to the table. He started his career in Montréal at Deloitte focusing on private enterprises in the technology, manufacturing and finance industries. While in Montréal, Andrew also spent time helping a startup with financial and strategic matters. Prior to joining TRIREC in 2019, Andrew spent five years in Taiwan, the majority of which was with CLSA in equity research covering small and mid-cap companies in the autoparts, automation and technology industries.

Andrew holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Graduate Diploma from McGill University. He is also a Chartered Professional Accountant (Order of Chartered Professional Accountants of Québec).

Anthony DeOrsey

Anthony manages Cleantech Group’s research team, delivering critical insights on new cleantech innovation and opportunities for engagement to Cleantech Group’s clients in the industrial, investment, and policy communities. He is based in the U.S.

Anthony joined Cleantech Group in late 2019 after over 8 years of work in US-China cross-border expansion consulting and start-up venture funding roles, including 5 years living in Shanghai.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from University of Rhode Island, a Masters in Sustainability from the Harvard Extension School, and he an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.

Anvesh Madabushi

Based in Emerald’s Singapore office, Anvesh Madabushi specializes in the mobility and automation sector. He is engaged throughout the entire investment process—sourcing, evaluating, selecting, and supporting innovative mobility start-ups from early diligence to exit.

Anvesh’s expertise spans the automotive and energy storage industries, with a proven track record in product management, specializing in launching new products from concept to series production. Anvesh worked in Japan at Daimler Trucks Asia – Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation from 2016 to 2022 and led the successful new product development of the electric light-duty truck “eCanter” in Japan. He also led the product launch of the medium-duty truck “Fighter” in Indonesia and oversaw various series change developments involving safety features, connectivity integration, and central electronics upgrades across various markets in APAC, Europe, and Middle East.

More recently, he worked at VFlowTech, a vanadium redox flow battery manufacturer in Singapore, and introduced a 500kWh vanadium redox flow battery that was used in a microgrid project to decarbonize the island of Pulau Ubin in Singapore. He also won the “Make It in the Emirates Startup Pitch Competition” hosted by the Government of UAE, an event that spotlighted deep tech startups addressing climate change issues.

Anvesh holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering with a specialization in power and energy systems from the National University of Singapore.

Ashley Grosh

Benoît Clément

Bolong Chew

Brenda Teo

Brendon Wright

Bret Kadison

Bret Kadison is Senior Vice President of Energy and Climate Innovation at Teneo. In this role, Bret advises decision-makers across the energy and clean tech ecosystems – including investors, suppliers, and users - on harnessing opportunities and managing risks associated with the energy transition and climate change.

Before joining Teneo, Bret advised energy & industrial firms and family offices on energy transition and corporate strategies through his consultancy, Relentless Energies. He previously served as COO / CFO at Arva Intelligence, a nature-based carbon sequestration and precision agriculture firm, and at Brazos Resources, a diversified investment firm with energy, real estate, and other venture investments, where he led energy their energy transition strategy.

Under President Obama, he served as Financial Market Development Lead at the U.S. Department of Energy and as Policy Advisor at the Export-Import Bank of the United States. In these roles, he led efforts to establish secondary financial markets for renewable energy and energy efficiency and to bolster the competitiveness of U.S. advanced energy exports. Before joining the Department of Energy, Bret advised foreign and domestic utilities on integrating energy efficiency and distributed renewable generation strategies into their business models.

Bret received a BBA in Finance from Emory University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Carl Guan

Cecilia Chang

Chris Chung

Daisy Yang

Dan Fleischer

Daniel Doll-Steinberg

Daniel Kearney

David Pong

Djoann Fal

French entrepreneur and investor recognized for his significant contributions to Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem. At 22, he co-founded GetLinks, a platform connecting tech talent with opportunities across Asia, which grew into a multi-million dollar business operating in six countries. Under his leadership, GetLinks secured investments from prominent entities, including Alibaba’s Hong Kong Entrepreneur Fund and Australia’s SEEK Group. Djoann’s efforts have been acknowledged by Forbes, Tatler, Fast Company, and The New York Times. Currently, he serves as the General Partner at Atlas Capital, focusing on climate tech investments aimed at building adaptive, climate-resilient cities.

Dmitry Govorov

Emir Nurov

Fraser Hughson

Gang Lin

Gary Lawrence

George Lee

Helen Wong

Jason Robinson

Jeff Chi

Dr. Jeffrey Chi is a veteran in the venture capital industry with a strong track record in promoting entrepreneurship and socially responsible investing. Based out of Shanghai, Dr. Chi heads Vickers Venture’s investments in Asia and has investments in life sciences, medical devices, financial services (including fintech) technology and sustainable innovation (including electric vehicles, renewable energy, and decarbonization).

Dr. Chi co-founded Vickers Venture Partners in 2005 is currently its Vice Chairman for Asia and member of its Investment Committee. He is also former Chairman and Ambassador of the Singapore Venture Capital & Private Equity Association. Dr. Chi sits on board Aardvark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: AARD), Matchmove Pay (Fintech), QYH (Carbon credit development company) and others. Dr. Chi also sits on the advisory panels of Monetary Authority of Singapore and Chongqing Connectivity Initiatve (Financial services).  He has also served on the board of SEEDS Capital (Investment arm of Enterprise Singapore) and on the advisory panels of the National University of Singapore Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management, and the commercialization arm of A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research)

Jeremy Tan

Jing Zhou

Jing focuses across a range of technologies to identify opportunities and build strategic partnerships between startups and Saint-Gobain’s family of companies.

Prior to NOVA, Jing started her career in the role of management trainee with Metro Group where she worked in different business functions in China and also worked in Corporate innovation in Germany, she enjoyed connecting the dots among corporate, business units and entrepreneurs.

Jing holds a Master in International Management from Audencia Nantes Business School in France, before that, she got her Bachelor degree in German language and Literature from Nanjing Tech University, China.

In her spare time, Jing enjoys travelling, exploring new cities and meeting new people.

Jitendra Apte

Jugnu Pati

Jugnu has spent 15 years in impact investing, and investment banking with extensive experience in both debt and equity with a focus on fintech and cleantech sectors. She has a proven track record of investing in emerging and frontier markets in more than 15+ countries across South, Southeast Asia and Africa and extensive experience working with and serving on the boards of early and growth stage businesses. Prior to joining ADB Ventures, Jugnu was Investment Director and Head of Asia with Bamboo Capital Partners, a swiss based fund where she led the development of the impact-tech space in Asia. Previously, she worked as an Investment Officer at IFC, World Bank Group where she was responsible for debt and equity transactions in the financial services sector for South Asia. Jugnu is an Indian national and currently lives and works in Singapore. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, and an MBA from Xavier Institute of Management, India

Kang Hui Lim

Kisa Giebink

Kisa has spent her career focused on project finance and investment in clean energy in the Mekong region and West Africa. She leverages this experience in her role as Head of Finance at energy access startup Okra Solar, working with Okra to raise $14M USD to date.

Khan Yow

Kavickumar Muruganathan

Kopal Agarwal

Laura Schwartz

Lauren Blasco

Lauren is a Partner at The Radical Fund, an early-stage VC fund dedicated to investing in and supporting entrepreneurs who are rapidly scaling solutions for an inclusive climate transition for a more resilient Southeast Asia.

Lauren is a seasoned sustainability and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) expert with over 13 years of experience in sustainability and impact, she established measurable ESG standards for Indonesia’s tech sector. Inducted into the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s ESG task force and the ASEAN Business Advisory Council’s Carbon Center of Excellence, Lauren is a key figure in developing sector-wide ESG standards. Her career includes impactful roles at AC Ventures and adjunct professor at Hong Kong University.

Martin Khamphoukeo

Martin joined GC in 2021. He drives sourcing of deals for corporate venture capital investments and is involved in those investments from evaluation through execution. Prior to GC, he worked in a technology consultancy providing VC as a Service to fortune 500 companies. He also worked for a startup that digitized the supply chain for manufacturing companies. Martin holds a M.S. in Marketing Communication Management and a B.S. in International Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School.

Melissa Zhang

Michael Blanding

Michael Gryseels

Min Zhou

Mongkohl Jandakaew

Nicholas Gandolfo

Mr. Nicholas Gandolfo joined MUFG as Director, ESG Finance in November 2023. Based in Singapore, he oversees the development and delivery of blended and transition finance solutions for MUFG’s corporate client portfolio across Asia Pacific excluding Japan.

Mr. Gandolfo brings over 25 years of financial services and ESG advisory experience to MUFG, having worked in the private and public sectors across countries such as Australia, Cambodia, China and Indonesia.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Gandolfo has worked with HSBC, BlueOrchard/ Schroders and Sustainalytics, where he was actively involved in areas from impact Investing to second party opinions for sustainable finance transactions as well as ESG ratings, amongst other corporate services.

Mr. Gandolfo holds a double degree in Arts and Commerce from Australia’s Deakin University and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia. He also holds various certifications related to ESG and sustainability, such as GARP (Sustainability and Climate Risk), CFA (Investing in ESG) and SASB level 1.

Nicholas Parker

Nick has pioneered and championed sustainability ideas, ventures and initiatives around the world for over three decades. He’s currently Chairman of Parker Venture Management Inc. through which he makes catalytic investments (presently in solar, fintech and analytics) and provides strategic advice, particularly to private wealth holders. Nicholas is also Founding Managing Partner of Global Acceleration Partners Inc. (“GAP”) a financial enterprise accelerating cross-border deployment of technologies and business models into emerging economies, especially China where Nick has been active for the past twelve years, to achieve “exponential impact” against major sustainability challenges.

Nick coined and introduced the “cleantech” concept to the finance and business community in 2002 while launching Cleantech Group (“CTG”), a market-leading research and advisory platform that he chaired until the end of 2013. Under his leadership as “Mr. Cleantech”, CTG helped create a global innovation ecosystem, mobilized over $6B in private equity and convened thousands of decision-makers, while serving influential businesses and institutions in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America. In this role, he spoke at hundreds of top events and was regularly featured in most major media.

In recent years, Nick’s contribution to advisory boards includes the Singapore Economic Development Board, Ontario Premier’s Climate Change Advisory Panel, Centre of Excellence for Commercialization of Research and the Clinton Global Initiative where he was principal energy and climate advisor. From 2003-08, he was Chair of E+Co, the award-winning impact investment company for clean energy enterprises in frontier markets. Nick is currently a Distinguished Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada and serves as Treasurer and Board Member of the Centre for Mindfulness Studies.

Nick earned a BA Tech, Hons. (Carleton University, Ottawa) and an MBA in International Business (City University, London). He has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America while currently residing in Toronto. He’s authored or edited many publications and articles related to cleantech, sustainability, finance and international business, starting with Investing in Emerging Economies in 1993, co-published by The Economist and the International Finance Corporation. Nick’s a keen swimmer, soccer fan, outdoor enthusiast and happy parent.

Nicole Cerulli

Nicole is an Associate, Transportation & Logistics at Cleantech Group and is based in Spain.  She focuses on emerging innovation and trends in transportation and logistics and has experience across all cleantech sectors.  ​

Nicole earned a Bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies and Sustainable Development from Barnard College and a Master’s in Urban Resilience Design and Management from Universitat Internacional de Catalunya.​

Patrick Berbon

Pavina Adunratanasee

Peng Kang

Qi Zhang

Qi Zhang is an Investment Manager at the Venture Capital team in Shanghai, China. She supports the portfolio management as well as the screening, evaluation and execution of investment deals.

Before joining Evonik Venture Capital as an intern in 2020, Qi held internships at another CVC and a local investment bank, where she supported strategic investments, market intelligence in nutrition and health and analytics of chemical industry in China. Qi did also an internship at the United Nations Office in Geneva, where she was responsible for events in sustainable development. Qi gained a Bachelor degree in Applied Chemistry and a Master degree in Management from Fudan University. She is a graduate from the combined pre-doc program with École Normale Supérieure (Paris).

Ravi Jain

Ravi Jain is a technology entrepreneur and business leader with a proven track record of driving innovation and growth. He most recently led Ola Krutrim, India’s pioneering AI unicorn, where he played a key role in scaling the company. Prior to this, Ravi was responsible for Strategy at the Ola Group, and he also founded and led the After Sales division for Ola Electric during his tenure.

As an entrepreneur, Ravi founded GenY Medium, a leading marketing technology company that helped several enterprises and funded startups in India and North America achieve technology-enabled growth. Before launching his entrepreneurial ventures, Ravi was a Principal of Investments at VenturEast, focusing on early-growth stage investments in the healthtech and cleantech sectors. His investments led to successful mergers and acquisitions, generating strong returns for the fund.

Ravi began his career as a Scientist at Procter & Gamble’s Technology Development Centre in Kobe, Japan, where he honed his expertise in technology and innovation. He holds an Engineering degree from IIT Bombay and an MBA from the Indian School of Business.

Outside of work, Ravi enjoys trekking, playing badminton, and staying updated on the latest developments in diverse technology fields.

Richard Youngman

Since January 2016, Richard Youngman has been CEO of San-Francisco based Cleantech Group (CTG). This followed 7 years of driving the growth of CTG’s activities outside North America, especially in Europe and Israel, and Asia, based in CTG’s office in London.

Richard has more than ten years’ experience researching cleantech innovation, venture capital markets, and start-ups across Europe and globally. He is a regular keynote speaker at major cleantech events and is the driving force behind the annual Global Cleantech 100, a list of the world’s most promising private cleantech companies.

Ronald Rogers

Ruchira Shukla

Saikiran Reddy

Sasha Bukhari

Sasha is an Associate, Data & Ecosystems at Cleantech Group and is based in the UK.  She collaborates on projects to further develop Monitor’s i3 and the cleantech ecosystem.

Sasha has experience mapping ecosystem data and contributing to research projects across Cleantech Group’s key sectors.

Sasha has a B.Sc. in International Political Economy from the City University of London and has completed a dissertation project on the relationship between renewable energy and the impact that a transition away from fossil fuels will have on social landscapes. The project connects energy centralization to corporate hierarchies and power distribution.

Sebastian Groh

Dr. Groh is a 2013 Stanford Ignite Fellow from Stanford Graduate School of Business and holds a Ph.D. from Aalborg University and the Postgraduate School Micro Energy Systems at the TU Berlin where he wrote his doctoral thesis on the role of energy in development processes, energy poverty & technical innovations, with a special focus on Bangladesh.

Selene Law

Selene is a Senior Associate leading Energy & Power research at Cleantech Group and is based in the UK. Selene has over ten years of experience working in the energy sector in analytical and journalistic capacities, covering the entire value chain from upstream oil to power and renewables.

Prior to Cleantech Group, Selene worked at S&P Global, Wood Mackenzie and Fitch Research. ​

Selene has a degree in Journalism from Falmouth University in Cornwall, UK, and a postgraduate degree in international relations from the University of Bristol.

Seonghoon Woo

Shalini Divya

Shaun Seaman

Shivani Chotalia

Shivani is a founding partner of the CleanAI Initiative where she is convening the ecosystem to commercialize and scale AI solutions to our global climate challenge. Over the past decade Shivani has been deploying clean energy infrastructure as Director of Development & Partnerships with NRStor where she led innovative energy storage projects, including the first commercial flywheel facility in Canada, the first commercial fuel-free compressed air energy storage facility in the world, and Canada’s largest battery project (1000MWh) through a 50/50 partnership with the local Indigenous Nation. Shivani has been recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 in the Energy category, Corporate Knights 30 Under 30, and Canada Clean50 as an Emerging Leader. She also serves as a Board Member of Environmental Defence Canada and a co-founder of Bold Realities – a platform for dialogue regarding the role of corporate Canada in reconciliation.

Shubham Vishvakarma

Sophia Nadur

Sophia is Managing Director Asia & Middle East at bp ventures, leading the sourcing of venturing deals and portfolio management in India, China, Japan, elsewhere in AsPac, and the Middle East. She explores new opportunities that support bp’s scaling of advanced mobility, bioenergy, and other new energy vectors, power systems and other tech-led business models that help to accelerate the energy transition. Sophia joined bp ventures in 2020 from bp’s advanced mobility team, having designed the company’s global e-mobility strategy, helping bp to become a leading provider of integrated mobility solutions in the UK, Europe, China, the US and beyond. Her passion is the electrification of transport across India through investing in and advocating for the scale up of e-mobility startups there. Sophia holds an MBA from Warwick Business School, a BSc in Physiology from McGill University, and an LLB(Hons) from University College London. Before joining bp, she worked as an innovator and business builder in the global consumer goods and services industry and ran her own award-winning startup. She currently holds non-executive director roles at two startups, BluSmart and Magenta Mobility, and is shareholder rep for 5B, Hysata, Zingbus, Enjoyelec, and StoreDot. She is also a qualified lawyer and arbitrator. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophianadur/

Sue-Ern Tan

Takashi Imai

Mr. Imai joined Kyoto Fusioneering in April 2021 as a Director, responsible for finance, corporate governance, human resources, corporate planning, IT, etc. Prior to joining KF, he spent about 10 years as Representative Director and CEO of Ace Insurance Japan (now Chubb Insurance Japan).
After graduating from university, he worked as an engineer at Mitsubishi Research Institute, where he was engaged in engineering simulations, including those related to nuclear power. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Tokyo, a Master of Science degree from Yale University, and an MBA (financial engineering) from Hitotsubashi University. He is a U.S. Certified Public Accountant (Delaware).

Tarun Jami

Theo Scherman

Tim McCaffery

Tim van Vliet

Veena Moktali

Veena, an electronics engineer and a management post-graduate from the US, has 26+ years of experience working with technology products and developing product commercialization strategy.

Her career spans across UK, USA, and India specializing in emerging technologies.

She has helped the company, Periwinkle Technologies, obtain patents and regulatory approvals, collaborate with premier research institutes, and develop strategic partnerships.

Under her leadership, the company has spread its customer base across India and is now expanding into many other countries thereby benefiting hundreds of thousands of women.

Periwinkle Technologies is the winner of the Zayed Sustainability Prize 2025 in the Health Category.

Vijay Chandrasekhar

Vilas Kuchinad

Willy Halim

Yosuke Kubo