Pratheepan Karunagaran serves as the Executive Director of Apical, overseeing the Group’s Bulk and Value Added downstream business, Sustainability Roadmap and long-term growth strategy. With a strong commitment to continuous improvement, people and culture, he has played a pivotal role in leading Apical into new and emerging markets, most recently the renewable fuel sector.

By unlocking new sources of value through circularity, Pratheepan leads Apical’s venture into Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). His strategic vision has facilitated Apical’s joint venture with Spain’s Cepsa and together, they are set to construct Southern Europe’s largest biofuels plant, capable of producing 500,000 metric tons of SAF and renewable fuel annually. This landmark venture positions Apical at the forefront of the renewable fuel industry while addressing the energy needs of the aviation sector.

A seasoned leader in global agro commodities trading and merchandising, Pratheepan brings over two decades of leadership experience in the commodity space, spanning various sectors such as rice, sugar, oil seeds, and edible oils processing. His expertise extends across Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe.

Pratheepan earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States.

Margaret Kim is the CEO of Gold Standard, a leading standard that allows climate and development initiatives to quantify, certify and maximise their impact towards climate security and sustainable development. ​ ​

Kim has over 15 years of experience in international management roles including at the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) where she held various posts including the Head of Green Climate Fund liaison and Head of Strategy and Integration. ​Prior to this role, she occupied leadership roles in the private sector in business development and corporate strategy at a leading biotechnology company.​

Mikkel Larsen is the Chief Executive Officer of Climate Impact X (CIX). He is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction of CIX, as well as developing and executing the company’s vision and mission to accelerate environmental impact at scale through carbon markets.

Mikkel was one of the early pioneers of the international Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and of Singapore’s Emerging Stronger Taskforce, a public-private partnership to establish the country as a climate services and carbon trading hub. Prior to his current role, he was Group Chief Sustainability Officer and chair of the Sustainability Council at DBS Bank. He has also held leadership positions at UBS, Citigroup and KPMG in Europe.

Mikkel is involved in numerous international sustainability-related councils and committees. These include: the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market; World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and Natural Climate Solutions Alliance (NCS Alliance); and World Wildlife Fund Advisory Council (Singapore), amongst others.

May is a Director in the Investment Group at GenZero, and she is responsible for investments in technology-based decarbonisation solutions.

Before GenZero, she was Head of Sustainability and Innovation at SP Group, a leading utilities company in Asia Pacific. There, she led several key initiatives in energy transition, including strategising its sustainability focus on UN Sustainable Development Goals, investing in cutting edge sustainable technologies and venture-building of innovative business models. Her achievements include incubating and building the world’s first blockchain-powered Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) platform to accelerate the adoption of renewable energy.

She also worked at J.P. Morgan’s investment banking arm, in their New York and Hong Kong offices, where she executed strategic business reviews and capital markets transactions across fast-changing economic conditions. May started her career as a financial analyst with Fidelity Investments and with the private equity fund investments team at Temasek.

May graduated from the Boston University with a Master of Business Administration.

Cindy joined Keppel in 2001. She was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of Keppel Infrastructure Holdings Pte Ltd (now Infrastructure Division, Keppel Ltd) on 15 February 2021.

In her over 20 years of service with Keppel, Cindy has held various leadership positions. She was the Director of Group Corporate Development (GCD) of Keppel Corporation Limited and concurrently the Managing Director of Keppel Urban Solutions Pte Ltd (KUS), an end-to-end master developer of integrated smart and sustainable precincts and townships in the Asia-Pacific region. As the Director of GCD, Cindy focused on identifying and extracting synergies across the operating business units within the Keppel Group, as well as harnessing both internal and external collaboration. Cindy is the founding Managing Director of KUS. She set up and led the unit to pursue and capture business opportunities arising from rapid urbanisation and the increasing global focus on liveability and sustainability.

Prior to these, Cindy was the Executive Director of Infrastructure Services in Keppel Infrastructure, where she was responsible for the operations and maintenance business of energy and environmental infrastructure including combined cycle gas turbine power plants. waste-to-energy plants, water facilities, and district cooling systems. She has diverse experience in operations and process excellence, as well as assets, people, and organisation management.

Her principal directorships include various Keppel operating subsidiaries, MET Holding AG, Cleantech Solar, Ammonia Energy Association, College Advisory Board of Nanyang Technological University, College of Engineering, Board of Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and a Fellow Member of The Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES).

Cindy holds a degree in Mechanical & Production Engineering (Second Upper Honours) from the Nanyang Technological University and an Executive MBA from the Singapore Management University.

Wee Seng is the Group Head of Energy, Renewables and Infrastructure, Institutional Banking Group at DBS Bank. He is also a Director on the board of DBS China Ltd and was also the Country Head of DBS Vietnam from 2016 to 2021.

Wee Seng played an integral role in the establishment of DBS’ project finance business, having set up the team in 2010. Within a decade, Wee Seng nurtured and built an award-winning team that is well-recognised as one of Asia’s leading project finance banks today.

Wee Seng is also a founding member of Clifford Capital, a specialist finance company set up to address gaps in the project and structured asset-backed finance markets. He has been deeply involved in project financing in Asia, covering projects in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Australia, Singapore, India, China and South Korea. His sector experience includes power (both merchant and IPP/Captive models), renewables, PPPs, as well as oil and gas including LNG.

Susan Mac Cormac co-chairs the ESG + Sustainability and Social Enterprise + Impact Investing groups at Morrison Foerster. She is known as a go-to legal resource for growth, private equity and impact investors focused on financial, social, and environmental returns, social enterprises (for-profit and nonprofit companies focused on social or environmental purpose), and mainstream companies developing environmental, social, and corporate governance policies. With deep knowledge of the impact investing model, she understands the nuances of how institutional investors can craft creative solutions and structure both investments and companies to emphasize impact and returns.

Susan was a founding board member of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), is a member of the board of directors of Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), and an advisor to UN Environment Program Finance Initiative. She was named as one of the California Lawyers of the Year twice by the Daily Journal (2012, 2016) and the Most Innovative Lawyer in North America by the Financial Times (2015).