Speaker Categories: Impact Architects

Johanna Zuleta

Founder, La Zuleta

Johanna Zuleta is the founder of La Zuleta , a consultancy cultivating high-level leadership alliances and offering strategic advisory across a diverse spectrum – dedicated to develop meaningful relationships between business, diplomacy, philanthropy and cultural sectors. Through consciously curated gatherings at places such as Davos, G20 Summits, COP Summits, European Parliament, Art Fairs and Biennales, working with governments, patrons, museums, institutions, indigenous leaders, grassroots movements and communities across geographies, generations and life paths. Johanna’s approach is dedicated to ongoing engagements and actions with purpose, for a local and global impact, with love.

Solla Zophoniasdottir

Learning Services Orchestrator, Climate-KIC

Solla Zophoniasdottir is the Learning Services Orchestrator at Climate-KIC, with over 15 years of experience facilitating organizational change and developing learning initiatives for climate action. Renowned for her expertise in change management and systems innovation, Solla empowers diverse organizations to build skills and shift mindsets for transformative impact in the climate space.

朱岩 Ian Zhu

Founding Member, NIO Capital

朱岩先生现任蔚来资本管理合伙人，投资委员会成员，主导新能源汽车、人工智能、车联网、物流、先进制造等领域的投资。他带领团队投资了宁德时代（300750.SZ）、容百科技(688005.SH)、途虎养车（9690.HK）、Momenta、Pony.ai（PONY.NASDAQ）、能链集团、嬴彻科技、黑芝麻智能（2533.HK）、主线科技、Seyond图达通、博云等明星企业。

朱岩先生深耕新能源及智能汽车领域投资近20年，是中国最早探索该领域的投资人之一，致力于发掘和培养全球汽车、能源和科技产业新格局的缔造者。加入蔚来资本之前，朱岩先生已积累了丰富的投资实践和企业管理经验。朱岩先生曾作为管理合伙人负责投资及管理的项目包括Lucid（LCID.NASDAQ）、精进电动（688280.SH）、地平线（9660.HK）等。

朱岩先生毕业于斯坦福大学商学院，获MBA学位。朱岩先生本科就读于北京大学，获物理学学士和经济学双学士学位。

Mr. Ian Zhu is a founding member of NIO Capital and played a key role in building the firm’s investment team, setting up its venture and growth funds, and establishing its operations. His investment focus includes smart electric vehicles, low carbon energy networks, mobility and logistics services and manufacturing innovations. He led NIO Capital’s investments in CATL (300750.SZ), Ronbay (688005.SH), TUHU (9690.HK), Momenta, Pony.ai (PONY. NASDAQ), Newlinks Technology, Inceptio Technology, Black Sesame Technologies (2533.HK), TrunkTech, Seyond, BoCloud, among others.

Mr. Zhu has extensive experience in investment, fund management and business management. Prior to joining NIO Capital, he was a Managing Partner and Investment Committee member of Tsing Capital, where he led investments in Lucid (LCID.NASDAQ), Jing-Jin Electric (688280.SH) and Horizon Robotics (9660.HK). Ian also worked in both start-ups and large technology companies like AT&T, where he managed diverse functions, including sales, business development, engineering and R&D.

Mr. Zhu holds a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business and dual bachelor’s degrees in physics and economics from Peking University.

张乐 Zhang Le

President, MCM International Group China

作为MCM国际设计公司中国区总裁，张乐女士专注于生态产业规划与可持续乡村振兴领域。她深度参与开展过全国200余个项目实践，包括重庆鲁能江津美丽乡村项目，成功将旅游开发、文化传承与生态实践融入乡村产业升级。其核心工作聚焦于推动农业与多元收入模式结合、推广现代农业技术、通过教育赋能和治理创新提升社区能力，以及保护传统文化遗产。在张女士的引领下，MCM持续推动创新可持续的乡村发展模式建设，使其始终屹立于中国乡村振兴实践的前沿。

As President of MCM International Group China, Ms. Zhang specializes in ecological industry planning and sustainable rural revitalization. With hands-on experience in over 200 projects nationwide, including the Chongqing Luneng Jiangjin Beautiful Rural Project, she integrates tourism, cultural heritage, and ecological practices to enhance rural industries. Her focus areas include aligning agriculture with diverse income streams, promoting modern farming techniques, empowering communities through education and governance, and preserving cultural traditions. Under her leadership, MCM advances its mission to create innovative and sustainable rural development models, positioning her at the forefront of China’s rural revitalization efforts.

Nakul Zaveri

Partner, LeapFrog Investments

Nakul Zaveri is a partner at LeapFrog Investments and co-head of the firm’s climate investment strategy. Nakul has over 20 years of experience spanning entrepreneurial, operational, and investing activities.  He brings relevant investing experience across Climate and Responsible Investment strategies including investing in renewables, climate tech, industrial/ enterprise efficiency, evolving consumer priorities, and related value chains.

Nakul joined LeapFrog in 2022 and in his current role guides LeapFrog’s climate strategy, focussed on supporting pathways out of poverty for emerging consumers that also deliver rapid decarbonisation of all sectors of industry. Previously, Nakul was Managing Partner at Relativity Investment Management, a sustainability focussed investment manager, where he made investments in high-growth companies addressing risks and opportunities created by megatrends of climate change, demographic shift, and increasing use of technology.

Katy Yung

Chief Executive Officer, Sustainable Finance Initiative

Katy Yung is the Chief Executive Officer of Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFi), a global
platform created by and for Asia Pacific-focused private investors and changemakers, who
believe in mobilising private capital for positive impact. SFi advises, guides and collaborates
with impact driven family offices, asset owners, private investors, and financial services
professionals to best position their capital for profit and purpose.
Prior to founding SFi, Katy was Director of Investment at HK-based family office RS Group,
where she led their transition from a traditional investment portfolio to one that was 100%
sustainably invested. In this role, she was actively involved in designing and implementing
impact and climate change strategies across asset classes.
She started her career in investment banking at J.P. Morgan Securities (Asia Pacific)
Limited, where she focused on capital raising and M&A transactions across a diverse range
of sectors.
Katy graduated from Duke University, NC with a Bachelor degree in Economics,
Comparative Area Studies.

Su-E Yap

Director for Corporate Engagement, Asia Pacific, The Nature Conservancy

Su-E is the global lead for The Nature Conservancy’s Foodscape Accelerator—a technical assistance facility that aims to scale up Regenerative Foodscapes around the world. 

Previously, Su-E served as the Director for Corporate Engagement (Asia Pacific) for The Nature Conservancy where she worked with private sector players to mobilize capital and action for conservation. 

Dorji Yangki

Director of the Office of the Governor, Gelephu Mindfulness City Authority

Dorji Yangki is the Managing Director of the Office of the Governor of Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC), Bhutan’s Special Administrative Region established under Royal Charter in 2023. One of Bhutan’s first female architects, she brings over three decades of experience in public service, academia, and private practice in Bhutan and abroad.
A former Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Dorji is a strong advocate for climate-resilient and biophilic design rooted in Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness values. She helped establish Bhutan’s first national heritage conservation office and led major restoration projects, including Taktsang Monastery and Semtokha Dzong. She also authored Bhutan’s first Green Building Guidelines and drafted the national Architecture Guidelines, now adopted nationwide.
Dorji has been a leader in advancing architecture in Bhutan and the region, serving as the first elected President of the Bhutan Institute of Architects and the first female Chair of the South Asian Association of Architects (SAARCH). She studied architecture in Australia and has trained internationally in Japan, France, Norway, the Netherlands, India, the USA, and the UK.

Britt Yamamoto

Founder, Perennial

Dr. Britt Yamamoto is an entrepreneur, author, and educator whose work weaves together
agricultural wisdom, human well-being, and the evolving nature of leadership in a complex
world. His approach was shaped in the fields of California and the farmlands of Japan, where he
came to understand that many of life’s essential truths—patience, care, adaptability—are found
in living soil.

For over three decades, Britt has worked across the globe, designing and leading programs that
cultivate reflection, connection, and transformation. As the entrepreneur behind Perennial and
RootSpring, he has supported hundreds of thousands of people worldwide in building the inner
capacity and relational depth needed to live with greater purpose—responding to the demands
of today while nurturing the conditions for a more regenerative future.

His international best-selling book, The Soil of Leadership: Cultivating the Conditions for
Transformation, and his forthcoming work, The Hyakusho Way: Japanese Wisdom for a
Flourishing Life, offer a grounded philosophy and practical path for those seeking a more
expansive, rooted, and abundant way of being.

A Fulbright scholar with a PhD in Geography, Britt also serves as Clinical Associate Professor at
the University of Washington, where he continues to teach and mentor global changemakers
committed to a more connected and humane future.

Siti Maryam Yaakub

Senior Director, Conservation International

Dr. Siti Maryam Yaakub, Senior Director of the International Blue Carbon Institute at Conservation International, leads the institute’s global efforts in translating blue carbon science into tools and methodologies for climate mitigation and adaptation. Based in Singapore, she spearheads initiatives aimed at fostering multidisciplinary expertise and cultivating a resource hub for knowledge exchange.

Siti is a marine ecologist and works across tropical marine and coastal habitats. Her work and research interests broadly lie in the areas of ecosystem restoration and nature-based solutions for adaptation and mitigation in marine environments. Within this, she is specifically interested in using seagrass habitats as a model system for understanding ecological thresholds to stress, ecosystem resilience, and the effects of human activities and climate change on the marine environment.