Carbonbase was started by a team of passionate technologists, designers, and finance professionals who were deeply concerned about the urgency of effective climate change action. Having attended UNFCCC Conference of the Parties, we were inspired by the energy of youth, but frustrated by the glacial speed of policy formation. We wanted to create a platform to drive big change in corporate and governmental action.
Founder and first product manager of Hyperledger Fabric at IBM and Linux Foundation, former head of Ping An Blockchain, chief architect of Ping An FIMAX blockchain bottom and privacy computing platform, and representative for Ping An in 2021 Forbes Blockchain 50
Managing Director of Liang Capital Partners. Co-founder of the China-US Green Fund, with a long family history of sustainable development and social influence in China and the United States.
Mr Yip, is an independent Non-Executive Director as well as Senior Advisor of several listed and private companies in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Thailand and the Republic of Ireland, including Ping An Insurance, Sun Hung Kei Properties and HSBC Jintrust Asset Management.
Dr. Ulf Henning Richter is a professor, author, public speaker, and energy and infrastructure expert, based in Hong Kong SAR, China. He previously served as Chairman / Head of Office of Lukoil Asia Pacific Hong Kong Branch. Prior academic appointments include Tongji University, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Portland State University, and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He received a Doctorate in Economic Sciences from HEC Lausanne, Switzerland, and an MBA from European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel in Germany, and was a Visiting Scholar with INSEAD and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University. He has 20 years of work experience and a global network throughout East and South East Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America.
Ms. Ruby Shang joined The Asia Foundation Board of Trustees in 2017. Ms. Shang was Country Director, Asia Director and Advisor at the Clinton Foundation from 2003 to 2015, where she established the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) in Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Papua New Guinea, Thailand and Vietnam. She first implemented CHAI in China as Country Director and assisted the Chinese Ministry of Health to successfully implement a national Care & Treatment program for HIV/AIDS, In 2008, she assumed additional responsibility for the Clinton Climate Initiative in China, Japan, Korea, Australia, and throughout Southeast Asia, implementing sustainable Energy Efficiency Programs for Building Retrofit and Solid Waste with eleven city governments, as well as Forestry programs with the national Forestry Ministries in Cambodia and Indonesia. In 2011 she became the Asia Director for the Clinton Climate Initiative. In September 2014, she assumed the role of Senior Advisor to the overall foundation and left the Clinton Foundation in October of 2015.
Alex Simpson - Builder in Fintech at FinTech Portfolio, leveraged my10+ years of experience and expertise in the fintech ecosystem to co-found, connect, and architect businesses and people from the inside out. He has a track record of producing 7-figure new revenue streams, raising over $100m in the fintech space, and creating and executing growth and turnaround strategies for global companies. He is also a venture partner at Launchpad Capital, an advisor and investor at multiple fintech startups, and a mentor and speaker at prestigious platforms.His mission is to unlock new potential revenue around financial systems and to contribute to economic sustainability, financial efficiency, social wealth and access disparity, and the decrease in fraud and unnecessary operating expenses. He believes that a rising tide lifts all ships, and that working more collectively in business, rather than in isolation, can create more value and impact for the space.
Emmanuelle Prono is an accomplished leader in ESG, sustainability, legal, and compliance with deep operational experience in product development, manufacturing and global supply chains. She is currently a senior advisor at the AdviXory, a global advisory practice which helps organisations navigate challenges in business and supply chain through public affairs, sustainability and human capital strategies. Most recently she was the Group Vice President, Sustainability and Deputy General Counsel at a multinational listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Passionate about sharing experience and expertise, she collaborates with senior leadership to create, define, and implement their ESG strategy to achieve critical results in decarbonisation and social rights across their organisations and value chains.
She is active with non-profit organisations, trained as a B Corporation leader and Climate Fresk facilitator. As a member of Mayaa Nepal, she is working with the organisation which is dedicated to improve the lives of underprivileged children in Nepal and Hong Kong. She co-founded and held board membership of Emergency Hong Kong, an organisation providing free, high-quality healthcare to people affected by conflict and poverty.
Emmanuelle holds a Bachelor Degree and Master Degree in International Relations and International Business Law from ILERI (Paris) and a Master Degree in International Law from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. She successfully completed the Sustainability Business Management course, University of Cambridge (Institute for Sustainability Leadership).
Climate Advisor
Katherine is a Senior Advisor to the Social Alpha Foundation, The Digital Economist and The Open Earth Foundation where she leads collaborations with the UNFCCC Global Innovation Hub. A former diplomat specializing in human security and climate, Katherine has been spearheading innovation at the nexus of technology, policy and sustainable development for 30 years. She has held leadership roles at Climate-KIC (Europe’s largest Climate Innovation Initiative) and served as CSO of the Green Digital Finance Alliance (Ant Financial –UNEP NGO) where she advised the UN Secretary General's Task Force on Digital Financing of the SDGs.
Katherine is a member of the EU Blockchain Observatory, the BIS Digital Green Bond Project Genesis, and the ESMA FISC Working Groups and is active contributor to digital innovation programs, accelerator, and educational initiatives globally. Katherine is Swiss-Canadian and currently based in Fribourg, Switzerland.
Professor Lisa Wilson [Short] is amulti-award-winning international business leader, academic,entrepreneur/inventor and mentor, focusing on the fields of emergent technologies, ESG, cybersecurity and digital assets. Her passion has always been to identify and harness the potential of technology and education to change the lives of those out of the traditional range and focus of most leaders and digital entrepreneurs.
Over the course of a fast-paced, respected and high-profile career, Professor Wilson was the driving force behind a project, which unlocked USD$1Trillion in agribusiness in international target markets, engaged a multi-million pound industrial research backing for a British and international digital economy project, established and launched Mind Shifting Frontier Tech Ed Accelerator to deliver digital transformation analytics to improve the growth, efficiency and revenue diversity to under-served SMEs across the globe and industry bodies. A career pinnacle was leading a strategic digital impact change programme for Nobel Peace Laureates to mentor, advance and amplify their philanthropic goals. These are just a mere example of Professor Wilson’s achievements.
Alongside her incredible range of commercial successes, Professor Wilson has served as a strategic advisor to multiple organisations including the UK Centre for Digital Trade and Innovation,Law Tech UK, the UK Government the EU Commission, INATBA, the Permanent Secretariat of Nobel Peace Laureates, and the UN Commission on the Status of Women. She is currently leading XTCC Investments, which recently unveiled the world's first multi-currency investment product for high-quality voluntary carbon credits, highlighting her commitment to driving digital trust and innovation.
Working across continents, commercial specialisms and cutting-edge technologies, Professor Wilson has consistently challenged and disrupted the status quo. As a result, she has been credited with being one of the top 100 B2B thought leaders in the world to follow and one of the world’s top 20 thought leaders and influencers on blockchain, ESG, EdTech and cryptocurrency for 2020, 2021 and 2022. It is therefore no surprise that Professor Wilson’s expertise is sought after by governments, decision makers, leading legal counsels, businesses, security specialists and digital technologists around the world.
Professor Wilson’s formal education management, training, development, and infrastructure achievements include the development and delivery of the first Accredited VET Qualification and Training Package in Australia and the embedding of WHS skillsets in all training packages. She has authored seminal academic works around blockchain and relationship-driven business. Her two Honorary Doctorates, along with Fellowships from the Royal Society of the Arts, Manufacture and Commerce (FRSA)and British Computer Society (FBCS) have recognised her lifelong dedication, commitment, and sincere efforts to grow business and develop digital technology on the international map, and for her contribution to social, economic, and corporate fields.
From the creation of authenticated virtual learning communities for young people in Africa to the commercial execution of a SaaS solution for an APAC B2B eCommerce marketplace for SME agribusiness, Professor Wilson’s commitment to social mobility for the under-served has been unwavering throughout her remarkable career.
Mr. Joerg Ayrle is a highly accomplished executive and board member with extensive international experience, distinguished for his fervent advocacy for sustainability and prowess as a change agent. Notably, he served as the Group Chief Financial Officer for IHH Healthcare Berhad (Bursa Malaysia / SGX) and Thai Union Group PLC (SET). In prior roles at Siemens AG and Osram Sylvania Inc., Joerg played pivotal roles in strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and finance.
His contributions are highlighted by spearheading Thai Union's treasury transformation into a global finance hub and initiating the groundbreaking Blue Finance program, pioneering sustainability-linked loan instruments in Thailand.At IHH, he led a finance transformation and established the in-house banking subsidiary.As a founding member of IHH's sustainability committee, Joerg played a key role in shaping environmental commitments and sustainability disclosures. Renowned as a speaker at sustainability and green finance events, he was honored with the prestigious Marquee award "Best CFO Asia" by the Corporate Treasurer in 2016 and 2022.
Currently serving as an Independent Director of Regal Springs AG, Switzerland, a member of the Editorial Board of the Corporate Treasurer, and an Adjunct Professor at Tongji University, Shanghai, Joerg brings a wealth of expertise to Carbonbase's advisory board.
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