Kavita Gandhi has an extensive background in environment and developmental sector spanning over last 20 years. Kavita has been involved in multi-dimensional projects like United States Asia Environmental Partnership (US-AEP) and was Instrumental in setting up of Clean Technology Environmental Management Centre (CTEM) in the Singapore Manufacturer’s Association. She has experience working with environmental sector startups and SMEs in her capacity as a manager of the Singapore Association for Environmental Companies (SAFECO). Kavita was one of the key personnel involved in setting up the Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore and securing a grant from SPRING Singapore to run programs in the area of local enterprise development, market development and training & conferences for clean energy industry. She also represents the association in various government and non-government committees related to clean energy. She was instrumental in developing and managing some unique programs like the SME Energy Efficiency outreach as well cleantech incubator. Kavita has an MSc in Environmental Management from Wye College, University of London.

Kavita is also representing SEAS on the following:
• Environment & Resource Standards Committee (ERSC), ESG
• Co-convener Renewable Energy Standards (RECs) working group, ESG
• TC for Energy, ESG
• SCEM Steering Committee, NEA
• Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) committee, ADB
• Advisory Board: EcoLabs Centre of Innovation for Energy, NTU

Meet Vinod Kesava. Co Founder & CEO of Climate Resources Exchange (CRX) who has 20 years of experience in the global carbon markets will shed light on the untapped additional value of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency projects. He will share proven CRX successes where RE installations can be integrated with environmental attributes from carbon credits/renewable energy certificates resulting in a full sales cycle consisting of additional revenue streams from carbon assets and environmental attributes.

Vinod Kesava is also a council member of SEAS.

Er. Edwin Khew Teck Fook PBM
Bachelor of Chemical Engineering, 1973; 2011 UQ International Alumnus of the Year
Chairman & Director.

Er. Edwin T.F. Khew, is the Chairman, Director and Co-Founder of AirCarbon Pte Ltd, a blockchain based digital platform to trade digital carbon and invest in sustainable projects. He is also a former Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) and currently the Chairman of the Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore (SEAS), an Emeritus President of The Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES), a Supervisory Board Member of Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) and a Board member of the Professional Engineers’ Board (PEB) Singapore. Er. Khew represents SEAS on the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Energy for All Partnership’s (E4ALL) Steering Committee as its Co-Chair and Chairman of its Enterprise Development Working Group.

Er Khew has an Executive MBA from the National University of Singapore, a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Queensland, Australia, is a Fellow and Chartered Engineer of the Institute of Engineers, Singapore, a Fellow and Chartered Engineer of the Institute of Chemical Engineers (UK), a professional engineer of the Professional Engineers Board, Singapore and a Fellow of the Singapore Academy of Engineers.

Er. Khew was awarded the Public Service Medal (PBM) by the President of Singapore during Singapore’s National Day in 2014.

Jeremy is currently the Managing Director of Operations for Gurin Energy and has over 22 years of business experience including more than 14GWp of solar and 1.5GWh of energy storage projects in the areas of project execution, PV electrical solutions design, and plant performance monitoring. He has worked globally supporting clients in US, EU, and APAC markets and is currently responsible for the operational and technical requirements of projects being developed and under execution.

He previously managed regional teams providing technical advisory services to global developers, lenders, and investors while in DNV as well as electrical solutions for PV and storage in Schneider Electric. He has worked on more than 80 projects and has strong experience in PV and Energy Storage design and deep understanding of PV module, inverters, and energy storage technologies.

He holds a B. Eng Hons in civil and environmental engineering University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Robin graduated from the Singapore Management University (SMU) with double majors in marketing and law, and a Certificate in Private Banking from the Wealth Management Institute in 2006. He earned his Executive Diploma in Directorship from the Singapore Institute of Directors (SID) and later graduated with a Global Executive MBA from INSEAD where he was awarded the INSEAD Scholarship of Excellence. He later returned to INSEAD and completed the INSEAD International Directors’ Program (IDP) in 2021.

He also serves as non-executive director on 2 non-profit organisations; Forum for the Future Asia, and the Family Business Network Asia (FBNA). Robin’s speaks Bahasa Indonesia and has ancestors who were born in Manado, Sorong, and Jayapura.

Dr Thomas REINDL is Deputy CEO of the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) and Principal Research Fellow (equivalent to Associate Professor) at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

During his time at SERIS, he won public research grants in excess of SGD 20 million, founded 2 spin-off companies and authored strategic scientific papers such as the "PV Roadmap for Singapore".

Dr. Reindl holds a Master in Chemistry, a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences and an MBA from INSEAD, all awarded with highest honours. His research interests are high-performance PV systems, techno-economic road-mapping, and the reliable integration of renewable energies into energy supply systems.

Steve has close to 28 years of energy and commodity price reporting experience and currently leads the OPIS Price Reporting business, part of Dow Jones. He leads a global team of market reporters, covering oil products, gas/LNG, petrochemicals, renewables, carbon credits and most recently, solar panels. Prior to his current role, Steve was the Editorial Director for ICIS in the APAC region and led the global Market Engagement team. He was on the board of IHS Markit Benchmark Administration Ltd (IMBA UK) under the jurisdiction of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA UK). Steve focuses on championing OPIS benchmarks, analysis and news as trusted enablers of market development and the energy transition to net zero.

Steve holds an MBA from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management and an undergraduate business degree from Deakin University, Australia.

Rajiv is an Executive Director in the DBS Project Finance team and has ~19-years of experience in financial services, credit analysis and banking. He has worked in an advisory and arranging capacity on deals in conventional and renewable power (including solar, wind, distributed generation, battery technology projects) oil & gas and mining sectors and across jurisdictions. Rajiv brings solid credit and analytical experience having spent 7 years with Standard and Poor’s (S&P) as a credit analyst. In this capacity, he served as the sector expert for project finance in South and South-East Asia and played a key role in the development of the infrastructure practice in S&P. Prior to his experience with S&P, Rajiv worked in Sales for i-flex Solutions (now Oracle Financial Solutions), a provider of credit scoring technology solutions to banks and financial institutions.

Eileen has over 20 years’ debt finance, capital markets, M&A and financial advisory experience, including 17 years of corporate and investment banking experience with international banks in Shenzhen, New York and Hong Kong, where she originated and arranged acquisition finance, special situation finance, project finance, structured finance and capital market transactions for clients in industrial, infrastructure, energy and resources sectors.

Over the past five years, Eileen has focused on advising clients on cross-border PPP projects and infrastructure M&A transactions. She provides end-to-end and customized financial advisory services through the entire project life cycle including tender advisory, M&A buyside/sellside advisory, project finance advisory, debt and equity raising assistance, procurement and bidding strategies, financial modelling, project planning, feasibility study, and market research for infrastructure, energy and resources projects. Based in Singapore, Eileen has also worked in Deloitte Hong Kong and Beijing offices. She works closely with many investors and professionals in Asia active in infrastructure and clean energy investment and finance.

We are part of Leader Energy Group (HNG Capital). Operating across 7 countries. We are in the power and renewable energy. We provide projects for EPC, EPCI, PPA, Rental & O&M options for our customers across the region.