Riad Imam Mahmud is Country Director Max Foundation Bangladesh since 2012, and the Co-founder Managing Director of Max Social Enterprise, a spin-off piped water business, since 2019. He has led the organization to reach 3 million people, with significant impact on reduction of child stunting (from 51 to 25% between 2016-2021) through Max Foundation’s signature Healthy Village approach, the program he innovated in 2015.

Alma has over 30 years of experience managing Water Supply and Sanitation Programs and PPP Programs involving urban infrastructure, including seven years as Chief of Party for the USAID Philippine Water Revolving Fund Project and Follow-on Program, and three years of the current Safe Water Project.

Ryo is Senior Manager in charge of business development at Life Business Headquarters, Yokogawa Electric Corporation. Since joining Yokogawa in 2016, he has led various business development projects that apply Yokogawa’s innovative technologies to customers’ potential business issues embedded in their work processes. 

Suniti Gupta is the CEO of Innoterra, the company that developed a tech farm trace for GI-tagged Alfonso mango and QR Code for Banana.