Mathias (老马) is Executive Vice President and Regional Manager - Digital Consulting and Smart Cities, Asia at DNV GL - Digital Solutions. He and his team are driving DNV GL's services towards Cyber Security, Smart Cities & Ports, Digital Development and DNV GL's Digital Platform Business Veracity in Asia - from DNV GL's Digital Hub in Singapore. 

Before Mathias assumed this role he was the Executive Vice President and Regional Manager Asia Pacific, Energy & Renewables Advisory, at DNV GL Energy, delivering advisory services to the energy value chain including renewables and energy efficiency.  Mathias special interest is the impact of digitalization on cities and the energy ecosystem.

He has taken courses at Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley and attended Leadership Programs at Ashridge Business School and INSEAD.

The Co-Founder and Managing Director of Sunseap Group, Frank belongs to the second generation of a solar industry business that has been established for over 35 years. Frank has over 20 years of experience in the solar industry. Frank has also spent time in marketing & advertising, Information Technology (IT), as well as Food & Beverage (F&B) industries. Frank was awarded the distinguished Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award 2014, the prestigious Entrepreneur of the Year Award (EYA) 2015, the PVSEC Special Award in 2016, and was named an honouree of the Spirit of Enterprise Award in 2017.

Mr. Vijay Sirse is not only an entrepreneur, innovator and investor, he also wears the demanding hat as Founder, Chairman and CEO of vTrium Energy Group (www.vtriumenergy.com), an Integrated Electricity Management Solutions specialist. The first company in Singapore to implement innovative Organic Photovoltaic solar projects in a tropical urban environment, Mr. Sirse surmised - “In all that we do, we embrace our core values of Integrity, Honesty and Innovation, for they are a daily reminder that placing customers first is something that is non-negotiable”. 

vTrium Energy is the parent company of Red Dot Power Pte. Ltd., (www.reddotpower.com.sg) the latter which was founded on the core principles of customer-centricity and empowerment. Red Dot Power, a New-age Energy Solutions provider, is a disruptor in the Singapore energy market scene and a leading player within the National Electricity Market of Singapore (NEMS). Red Dot Power believes in empowering customers to take charge of their energy usage. This fundamental belief is what drives Red Dot Power’s vision: Empowering People, Powering up Communities. 

Red Dot Power has been at the forefront of the electricity market liberalization process in Singapore. Balancing both demand and supply, Red Dot Power provides all-inclusive energy management solutions to its consumers, on both demand and supply sides i.e., electricity demand management, sustainable electricity supply using solar and fuel cells, battery storage, electric vehicle charging stations and micro-grid projects, thus providing a complete one-stop electricity solution to consumers. 

Mr. Sirse has more than 38 years of overarching experience in the niche energy sector. Helming senior management roles with global energy players such as Globeleq, El Paso and ABB, his excellent innovative skills have helped him create an integrated energy solutions company under the vTrium Energy Group banner.   

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 websearch 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 green/cleantech companies and often takes an active position in the steering of his investments.  Since 2015, he has also been a mentor – advising startup teams at the National University of Singapore, Republic Polytechnic and Singapore University of Technology & Design. 

Kavita Sinha is the regional director for South and East Asia for International Forum for Energy, an ECF initiative.  In her current role, she leads grant-making strategies that enable corporates, utilities, civil society, financial institutions, and governments in Southeast and East Asia to transition to clean and low-carbon energy system.   

In her previous role, she worked with an American multinational firm that provides smart city, smart grid, and internet-of-things solutions, where she led strategic partnership, business development, and sales in key markets of Asia. In the past she held leadership positions with international development agencies and consulting firms on clean energy, climate change as well as co-founded entrepreneurial ventures on clean technology. 

Kavita has authored articles on policy, regulation and technology on regulatory, policy and investment aspects of clean energy and smart technology. She is a coach and mentor with Private Financial Advisory Network, and also mentors entrepreneurs, start-ups and private voluntary organizations on leadership, strategy, scale-up and governance aspects.  

She has a honours degree in Chemical Engineering from a leading engineering school in India and an MBA from Rutgers Business School, USA.  

“I love to connect the dots” 

Heng Liong started his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers in general assurance unit. The early part of the seven-year career was spent in the London office. Notably, he led the short form assignment in Tanzania and South Africa that culminated into the successful listing of a gold mine company on the London Stock Exchange.  In Singapore, he managed client portfolio (local listed and MNCs) across industries in real estate, shipping, hospitality.    

Heng Liong joined SP Group seven years ago in the corporate planning unit and since took on multiple roles and portfolio including business development, renewables, energy storage and mergers and acquisitions.  Better known as a collaborative intrapreneur, Heng Liong started and led several corporate initiatives and notably founded the employee ideation platform “The Pitch” within SP Group and co-founded ideaBox – a translation lab collaboration between SP Group and Singapore Polytechnic.   

Heng Liong attended the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and graduated with first class honours in Accountancy.  Heng Liong is a qualified chartered accountant (ICAEW).    

Matteo brings over 20 years of experience in early stage and social entrepreneurship in the areas of access to finance and energy in South and East Asia. Matteo is an active advisor, investor and mentor in several startups bringing new products and services to market in cleantech, fintech, and consumer internet. 

Currently Matteo collaborates with the Consultative Group for Assisting the Poor (CGAP) and WindKinetic Off-grid Power Systems. CGAP is an office of the World Bank with the mission to advance financial inclusion to improve the lives of the poor. With CGAP, Matteo has spearheaded projects in Bangladesh and Myanmar aimed at increasing the adoption of digital financial services among unbanked and under-banked population. In parallel, Matteo is developing the market for rural electrification in South East Asia for WindKinetic. 

Prior to CGAP, Matteo led the startup phase of Wave Money, Telenor and Yoma Bank’s mobile banking joint venture in Myanmar and served as Chief Operating Officer of Eko India Financial Services, a leading Indian branchless banking initiative. Matteo contributed to the company’s growth from an idea in 2007, to serving more than 4 million customers transacting US$500M yearly in 2012. 

Matteo holds an MBA from Boston University, an MS in aeronautical engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and is scheduled to graduate with a Masters in Sustainability at Harvard Extension School in July 2019.