Sabella's Sales Director since October 2021, Jérôme has a Master’s degree in electrical engineering. He started working in Italy for 5 years for a subsidiary of the BNP Paribas group as a Quality Manager and International Project Manager. He then joined the General Electric group (Oil and Gas French branch) where he spent 17 years in various management positions ranging from Sales Manager of Service business to Product Manager for the technical and commercial development of integrated compressors and then to Sales and Marketing Director for the sale of new compressor units.

Christophe Nappez obtained a BSc in physics at University College London and then an MBA from ESSEC Business School Paris. He started his career in the photovoltaics industry in Tokyo, Japan, before joining EDF in Paris as a project manager for rural electrification in developing countries. Then, after a few years as product manager for energy efficiency in the EDFs marketing department, he moved to EDF’s transmission engineering center where he is business development manager for South-East Asia.

As the Director of the Financial Inclusion Group – Center for Learning and Inclusion Advocacy (CLIA) of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), Joyce is deeply involved in various initiatives to drive the BSP’s financial inclusion agenda forward. She handles policy development and advocacy work with a particular focus on inclusive digital finance, MSMEs, and agriculture financing.

Joyce joined the BSP more than 18 years ago as a Bank Examiner. Prior to her current assignment, she was involved in the strategic management and enterprise project management implementation of the BSP.

Laura Whitford is the Director of Conservation Partnerships for The Nature Conservancy's Asia Pacific Program. She leads a regional team focused on public and corporate partnerships, as well as TNC’s engagement with the Asian Development Bank. She has worked in the Asia Pacific region for over 15 years, on partnerships, policy and programs that support the joint achievement of sustainable natural resource management, resilience, equity and economic development goals. She is particularly passionate about the intersection of issues relating to environment, climate and gender.

At the age of 19, Daniela founded Sustainable Ocean Alliance (SOA) as a college-room idea at Georgetown University. Six years later, she has built SOA into a global organization that is cultivating and accelerating innovative solutions to protect and sustain the health of the ocean. With phenomenal speed, SOA has created the world’s largest network of young ocean leaders - by establishing a presence in over 165 countries and has successfully launched the world’s first Ocean Solutions Accelerator to develop technological solutions that can address the greatest threats facing our planet.