David Yeo
Regional Transaction Manager
PFAN
David Yeo serves as Regional Transaction Manager for PFAN. He supports the PFAN Asia Regional Coordinator and also helps to build and maintain the investor network for PFAN. He is both a coach and has mentored several PFAN and PowerACE projects to date.
David is an advocate of sustainable practices, in both business and environmental sustainability. He consults and advises local SMEs to path their journeys of growth and expansion, together with his team of industry veterans.
He has been involved in the various downstream aspects of the renewable energy industry since 2012, focusing on Solar PV and Biomass projects. David was previously from the Electronics Manufacturing and Services Industry and a foremost expert in reverse logistics in the Asia Pacific.
Eddy Lee
VP Ventures
Engie Factory Asia Pacific
Eddy is the VP Ventures at Engie Factory, which is the Asia Pacific innovation arm of Engie, a global leader in the energy transition. At Engie Factory, he selects startups in future cities and sustainability for investment by Engie's corporate venture capital fund, and also venture builds startups with external founders.
Eddy has invested in more than 50 US and Asia technological startups. He relocated from Silicon Valley to Asia to support the region's growing startup ecosystem. Concurrently, he coaches at the National University of Singapore, INSEAD, and StartX accelerator among other institutions.
He was formerly a Stanford University consulting professor, a medical imaging scientist, and a circuit design engineer.
Katarina Uherova Hasbani
Founder
Enrupt
Katarina works on transformations shaping the energy systems of tomorrow. The future of energy will be closer to the customer, using cleaner, renewable sources and leveraging digital technologies. Katarina is supporting this transformation by building partnerships between young, innovative startups and corporations. She brings insights from several energy sectors and regions to create programs and activities where new ideas thrive and deals get executed.
She has over 17 years of professional experience in energy from government & consulting in Europe, Middle East & South-East Asia. Her past roles include Board Member and Vice President of the Alliance for Rural Electrification (Industry association, HQ in Belgium), Female Founders (Non-profit, HQ in Singapore), and Global Committee of INSEAD Women in Business.
Nagaraja Rao
Head of Investment Facilitation
PFAN
Nagaraja Rao has been with PFAN since 2008. As Head of Investment Facilitation, he provides focused support and assistance to projects as well as to PFAN network members in transaction structuring, financial modeling, project risk identification, risk mitigation, and support investment negotiations outreach.
He supports clean energy projects and simultaneously seeks out investors and institutions to fund them. He also provides strategic support in PFAN scale-up, market penetration, and investors outreach activities.
Nagaraja has mentored much renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in Asia, Africa, Central Asia, and Central Europe, several of which have reached financial closure, and many have won business plan competition awards.
Paul Singh Gill
Managing Partner - Asia
IOTA Omega Ventures
Paul is a seasoned corporate executive turned entrepreneur; and more recently, mentor. His professional career over the last 25 years has been in leading corporate transformation initiatives in fields as diverse as gold & copper mining, banking & financial services to web search platforms.
In the last 10 of those years, Paul has been an entrepreneur and manages the Asian office of Iota Omega Ventures, an operational due diligence advisory firm with offices in Singapore and Oxford, United Kingdom. He has also been active in starting and growing companies, with six companies started to date and four successful exits.
Paul is an investor in early-stage/cleantech companies and often takes an active position in steering his investments. Since 2015, he has been a mentor - advising startup teams at the National University of Singapore, Republic Polytechnic, and Singapore University of Technology & Design.
Peter Storey
Global Coordinator
PFAN
Peter Storey is a financing professional, specializing in developed countries and transition economies with significant expertise in renewable energy as well as other infrastructure sectors. He has held senior positions with major European banks and project developers and has over 20 years of experience in working on multi-disciplinary advisory and financing mandates, and of structuring and developing projects.
Peter is the Global Coordinator and also one of the founding members of the Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN). In spite of his soft-spoken demure, he bears the weight of PFAN providing both leadership and direction. He has an in-depth understanding of investors' mentality and has guided many projects to successful financial closures.
Stanley Ng
Program Director - Southeast Asia
New Energy Nexus Asia
Stanley is the Program Director for New Energy Nexus in Southeast Asia and is currently working on building the energy startup ecosystems in the region. He works with universities, companies, and the civil society to support budding entrepreneurs in enabling the transition to a clean energy economy.
Armed with digital technology and energy innovation background, he has experience in renewables, cleantech startups, digital media, and IT advisory. He is also an advocate of innovation the role of entrepreneurship in the energy transition.
Stanley is a native of New York City and has spent the last 12 years working in energy startups and digital technology companies both in the United States and the Asia Pacific region.
Wilfred Mworia
Regional Coordinator
PFAN
Wilfred started his career in enterprise software, working for several local and international software houses. With a keen interest in the transformative potential of entrepreneurship, he ventured out into tech enterprise for a number of years, after which he found he could have a greater impact by enabling other entrepreneurs to thrive. He has since worked in various capacities, providing business started and investment support to entrepreneurs.
Wilfred currently serves as the Regional Coordinator for Eastern Africa at the Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN), where he works to grow investment towards clean energy ventures. He supervises a team of coaches in the region and also acts as a mentor himself in projects where he can contribute his experience and expertise.