David is a highly experienced executive who has held board positions in the United Kingdom and internationally renowned tech companies. Having always been involved at the forefront of new technologies, David was led to join Solar Water Plc not only because of its proven, award-winning solution but also because of its obvious global benefits. David is a frequent speaker at conferences, a published author in his industry and a visiting lecturer at University College London on their MSc course ‘Telecommunications and Business’.

Mr. Chayun Budiono is a Managing Director of PT Gerbang Multindo Nusantara, a privately owned Indonesian green energy system integrator. He obtained his master degree in Renewable Energy System, with emphasis on Economics of Energy Supply System from the University of Oldenburg (Germany). He provides lectures on related energy topics at the “Sepuluh Nopember” Institute of Technology (ITS) in Surabaya, Indonesia.

Bence manages investments in renewable energy, energy storage, and energy efficiency projects and platforms across South East Asia. Bence has a decade of experience in power generation M&A, valuation, and project finance. His experience includes developing and financing over 300MWp of solar PV projects in South East Asia, including Cambodia’s first utility-scale solar farm and one of Vietnam’s largest solar PV projects of 168MWp.

Mr. Aloysius Damar Pranadi is a Research Analyst under the Policy, Research, and Analytics Programme at the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE). He graduated from the Engineering Physics Department of the Universitas Gadjah Mada, and is pursuing his master’s degree at Energy and Power Management at Universitas Indonesia. He was involved in the ASEAN Interconnection Master Plan Study, ASEAN Multilateral Power Trade, ASEAN Power Cooperation, ASEAN power database, etc. His interests are power economics and renewable energy (solar and geothermal).

Sebastian Groh is the Founder and CEO of SOLshare, a cleantech startup based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is a 2013 Stanford Ignite Fellow from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and holds a PhD from Aalborg University and the Postgraduate School Microenergy Systems at the Technische Universität Berlin.

Ms. Nazmun Nahar, Senior Project Officer (Energy), ADB has over 18 years of professional experience in power generation, electricity transmission, distribution, rural electrification, and promotion of renewable energy and energy efficiency. She is currently in charge of administering several Loans and Grants—with a portfolio of over $2.5 billion under Energy Sector of Bangladesh Resident Mission, South Asia Regional Division.