 Co-Chair
Van Ly, Partner & Consultant, Raise Partners
Van is a partner at Raise Partners, a new collaborative consulting practice bringing together expertise to share with organizations that contribute to the betterment of humanity. She has 20 years of experience working in both the private sector in branding and communications and the nonprofit sector in fundraising, communications, and program management. In particular, she has extensive experience in nonprofit fundraising and program strategy, strategic marketing and communications planning and delivery, grant writing, corporate social responsibility and citizenship, and donor and stakeholder engagement.
Van has a master’s degree in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a bachelor’s degree in International Studies from American University in Washington D.C. |
 Co-Chair
Keith Schulz, Chief Sustainability Officer & Chief Industrial Officer, Motul Asia Pacific |
 Vice Chair for Sustainable Finance Sub-Committee
Binh Le, Founder & CEO, ASART
Binh is Founder and CEO of ASART, a leading independent and boutique advisory M&A firm in Vietnam, with a focus on strategic synergies and investment returns.
For over the last 12 years she has been working intensively with M&A transactions and strategic projects for both sell-side and buy-side. Previously, she worked at KPMG. Binh has built an unique set of experience and track record with a combined knowledge in M&A, finance, strategy, valuation, structure, commercial performance, accounting, tax, legal, reporting, problem solving, executive negotiation, politics, government relations, and advocacy. Her current work is the optimal combination of these areas of expertise, with emphasis on value creation and sustainable growth.
She has assisted and advised leading Vietnamese companies and multinational corporations in various industries, with 110+ projects and 230+ companies for a total value of USD3.6+ billion, directly with board of directors and shareholders.
She has an MBA from Indiana University and Purdue University (IPFW, USA) and a Bachelor Degree in Commerce with Distinction from RMIT (Vietnam). |
 Vice Chair
John Vu, Business Operations Manager, Matera Alliance Inc.
John Vu is the Business Operations Manager at Matera Alliance Inc., a startup specializing in solutions to prevent modern slavery in the supply chain in Vietnam and increase compliance with international regulations. In his role, he works directly with global brands to implement FACT® modern slavery prevention training and certify their factories in Vietnam, as well as the development of the PAXU® workforce wellbeing mobile app. He is a Vice Chair on AmCham Vietnam’s ESG committee and was previously a communications consultant at The International Organization for Migration (IOM) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok. Prior to his work in ESG and sustainable development, he worked for global communications agencies in the Silicon Valley coordinating media and analyst relations programs for cleantech, energy and big data startups.
John has a dual master’s degree in Global Studies from Humboldt University of Berlin and FLACSO Argentina, and a bachelor’s in Public Relations from San Jose State University. |
 Vice Chair
Paola Romero, Capital Projects & Sustainable Finance Lead, ERM Vietnam
Ms. Romero is the CDP Partner Lead at ERM Vietnam. She has over 25 years of experience in delivering environmental and social impact assessments. Ms. Romero has extensive experience in preparing impact assessments that cove the full lifecycle of projects. She has experience as well in working with international sustainable IFC standards, EP4, OECD Guidelines and ADB Safeguard Policy Statements for Multinational Enterprises. She is well versed in the current regulatory framework of environmental, health and safety, and hazardous waste regulations in several international contexts including Vietnam. She has been responsible for directing projects and obtaining the relevant authorizations for EIAs and Social Impact assessments. She has participated in more than 500 EIAs for industrial sectors including power (solar), manufacturing, chemical, petrochemical and mining. In addition, she has led more than 300 compliance audits and Phase 1 Due Diligence assessments and more than 50 ESHIA financial due diligence assessments against international IFC standards. Ms. Romero has participated in projects linked with diverse financing institution and international banks such as Actis, Macquarie, Alsis Funds, Mizuho, ING, KfW, Proparco, IFC, WB, Credit Agricole, Banobras, BancoMext, FMO, among others. |
| Secretary
Anh Mai, Manager, Impact and ESG services, KPMG Tax and Advisory Limited
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Board Liaison
Gregory Testerman, CEO, Testerman Advisory, LLC
Greg’s thirty-year career in international Corporate & Investment Banking spans four continents and all of the world’s major banking centers and capital markets. After training at JP Morgan Chase’s New York headquarters and in Europe, he worked seventeen years with Banco Santander throughout Europe, Asia, and Latin America, including as Chief Executive and Country Manager of Santander’s bank in Japan – with responsibility for Southeast Asian markets – and Chief Executive for Santander’s Miami branch, responsible for correspondent banking, trade finance, and structured trade throughout Latin America. He spent nine years as Treasurer and Senior Managing Director of Capital Markets for the Foreign Trade Bank of Latin America (“Bladex”), a supranational development bank. Throughout his banking career, Greg has specialized in building new businesses, and turning around challenged ones. |
 Board Liaison
Kasia Weina, Co-Founder, Director, Evergreen Labs
Dr. Kasia Weina has extensive experience and education in research and project management. She has a bachelor’s in biology and chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, an MS in pharmaceutical drug discovery from the University College London, and a PhD in Molecular Biology (cancer and stem cell research) from the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Kasia has worked in laboratories in different countries, including the Great Lakes Water Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison (NIH), a biotech firm in the Cambridge area, and the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany. After her PhD and a Postdoc period, she pivoted her career to sustainable development and social entrepreneurship in Asia and frontier markets. In 2015 she co-founded her first startup focused on designing and producing eco-friendly products in Hong Kong, before moving to Vietnam in early 2016 to co-found Evergreen Labs.
As the director of Evergreen Labs (a solution-driven social and environmental project, development organization, and social venture builder), Kasia oversees daily operations, including idea validation and innovation and technology within the experimentation branch, while applying a scientific approach to sustainable business development. In the past five years, she has co-developed two social business spinoffs and grown the advisory branch. To date, Evergreen Labs has worked and scaled innovations in Vietnam, Myanmar, Lao PDR, Indonesia, and Thailand. Kasia focuses on: solid waste management, agriculture value chain, and sustainability management. She has managed projects for a variety of notable clients including ADB, MBI, IDH, GIZ and IUCN.
Kasia has published 10 papers in international journals, co-authored work with UNDP, and has been featured in South China Morning Post. In 2020 she received the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Graduate of the Last Decade Award. Kasia still supports labs in Germany with research paper publications in peer-reviewed journals and has supported research projects at VN-UK University of Danang, Vietnam. |
