Impact Investing

Ms. Kline is the President and Board Member at AHEAD Medicine, a biotechnology company in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to joining AHEAD, Ms. Kline founded an impact venture capital fund targeting entrepreneurs in emerging markets, where she remains a Partner. She also founded SeaSky Lab, which brings knowledge and resources from Silicon Valley to Asia for tech entrepreneurs Ms. Kline is a veteran of Intel Corp., where she created the company’s first tablet for emerging economies and remains a Board Member of the Intel Alumni Network in San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to Intel, Ms. Kline was an economist at the World Bank, where she implemented technology projects in South America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. An advisor to several incubation programs, Ms. Kline is UC Berkeley Skydeck’s Lead Ambassador to 48 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. She is also a Professional Faculty in the Sustainable and Impact Finance Group at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a board member of The Circulate Initiative in Singapore. Ms. Kline holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and an MA in Economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. A native of Bangkok, Thailand, she graduated with First Class Honours from Chulalongkorn University.

Jayesh is a Co-Founder of Sony Entertainment Television, a multibillion-dollar major television network of Sony Pictures Entertainment, which he successfully exited. He is a Managing Partner of Good Startup, a venture capital fund manager in Singapore that invests in Alternative Protein companies. Good Protein Fund is a venture capital impact fund that invests worldwide in plant based, cultivated meat and fermentation technology companies. Good Startup's mission is to remove animals from the food chain. He was an advisor to Vistas Media Acquisition Company Inc., which successfully concluded a $100 million Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) of Anghami (Nasdaq: ANGH). Anghami is the largest music portal in the Middle East. He is on the board of One Animation and Milaap. He is on the Advisory Board of Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital a non-profit in Bihar. He is on 2 Investment Committees of Aavishkaar social impact venture funds. The Aavishkaar group has assets under management of $1 billion dollars. Jayesh spent over 12 years at IBM in Houston and Singapore. He was part of the team that brought IBM back to India. IBM's largest headcount in the world is now in India. He holds a Bachelors degree from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Jayesh is a published author of "What Shall We Do With All This Money?"

Lu Zhang, Founder and Managing Partner of Fusion Fund, is a renowned Silicon Valley investor, a serial entrepreneur, and a Stanford Engineering alumna. Lu is a World Economic Forum - Young Global Leader (Class of 2018).

She has also garnered other accolades including the Featured Honoree in VC of Forbes 30 Under 30 (2017), Silicon Valley Women of Influence (2018), Town & Country 50 Modern Swans – Entrepreneurship Influencer (2017) and was recently selected as the Best 25 Female early-stage Investor by Business Insider (2021). Lu is also on the Jury Board of Cartier’s Young Leader Award. Prior to starting Fusion Fund, she was the Founder and CEO of a medical device company (acquired in 2012)

Lu is a frequent speaker at tech events and conferences such as Davos World Economic Forum, Future Investment Initiative (FII), Forbes, Web Summit, SuperReturn, etc., and serves as a mentor and advisor to several tech innovation programs in Silicon Valley.

Ritu Verma is the co-founder and Managing Partner at Ankur Capital, an early stage venture capital firm that invests in innovations for the next billion markets. She sits on the board/board observer positions at multiple of Ankur's portfolio - Cropin, Agricx, Niramai, StringBio, Vegrow, Krishify and BigHaat. She is passionate about disruptive technologies across multi sectors. Prior to starting Ankur Capital, Ritu ran Truven an advisory firm for venture funds looking at investments in India and SE Asia. One of the funds she worked with was BASF corporate venture fund, which focused on investments in renewable energy, agri-biotech and materials. She is passionate about bringing innovation from lab to the market and did that for over a decade across different roles at Philips and Unilever across the globe. She holds an MBA from INSEAD and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Pennsylvania and has bachelors from Middlebury College, Vermont. Ritu is also part of the steering committee and director at ThinkAg an agri-sector platform for scaling innovations in India. She is a member of the Global Development Committee for American Society of Mechanical Engineers that focuses on hardware innovations globally. She is also a member of the IMC agri and food processing committee.