Creating Businesses for Impact
Sustainability
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Synopsis
In this fireside chat, Yen-Lu Chow, AIM’s founding executive chairman, will go one-on-one with social entrepreneur Aparna Saxena, and explore the topics related to impact businesses that is near and dear to her heart:
Why Impact businesses a need of the hour
Despite the negative rhetoric around ESG, here is how it needs to be viewed
Enablement of individuals, businesses, and governments to pursue growth that is:
Ecologically sustainable
Socially Inclusive
Governed in an Economically viable manner
How businesses can embark on this path without getting overwhelmed
What roles do governments individuals can play in this process
Aparna Bhatnagar Saxena
Co-Founder of Vriksh Impact Partners | Environmentalist
Aparna Bhatnagar Saxena is an unapologetic feminist, a vegan, an environmentalist, and a student for life - now based in Jakarta, and have now lived and worked in 4 countries in Asia. She is now a social entrepreneur, and has worked in start-ups, SMEs, larger corporations and impact businesses.
Under her leadership, TORAJAMELO has cemented its identity as a slow ethical lifestyle business and foundations that works on environmental, social, and cultural sustainability of indigenous communities of Indonesia. iN 2O23, Aparna founded AHANA (ahana.co.), an ethical house-of-brands that collaborates with businesses across Asia to offer market access collaboratively.
Aparna is also co-founder of Vriksh Impact Partners, a boutique investment and advisory firm in India that is focussed on supporting early stage plant-based businesses.
Yen-Lu Chow
Founding Executive Chairman WholeTree Limited / Over-The-Rainbow; Asia Institute of Mentoring | Founding Partner Fatfish MediaLab | Executive Mentor YSI SEA | Founder of the Deep Human Movement
A former Apple Distinguished Technologist, Yen-Lu is an award-winning entrepreneur, technologist, venture catalyst & angel investor, mentor & advisor turned author and keynote speaker, mental wellbeing champion, social innovator & change-maker, ecosystem builder, philanthropist and humanist.
As an angel investor and venture catalyst in the tech ecosystem, Yen-Lu has mentored young entrepreneurs and businesses for many years. He has made significant contributions to the Singapore tech and entrepreneurship ecosystem, serving on countless startup business plan competitions internationally, government panels on innovation and entrepreneurship, and as mentor and advisor to the major universities. He co-founded a business angel fund in partnership with the Singapore government, served as a director of Business Angel Network SEA, executive mentor and adjunct professor to NUS Enterprise, mentor to INSEAD, plus numerous panels on entrepreneurship and innovation internationally. As an expert and practitioner in speech recognition and language processing (with 6 international patents and having worked in the field for over 20 years since early 1980’s while leading Apple’s initiative in this area in the early 1990’s), he was an early pioneer in the application of AI with a strong base in the tech space.
He is on a life mission to help bring about a kinder, gentler, more inclusive, more just, and sustainable world.
About Asia Institute of Mentoring
Asia Institute of Mentoring (AIM) is a non-profit volunteer based organization with a mission to bring mentoring to the spotlight in Asia, raise the quality of mentors and the standard of mentoring, bringing mentoring to all facets of society to impact millions of lives.
We are committed to create an Asia-based people-powered mentoring movement to move people … to learn, to share, to give forward, to transform, to harness the deep human potential, and create social impact – bringing about a kinder, gentler, more inclusive, just and sustainable world for all.
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