ADVISORY PANEL

Djames Lim

Chief Aquaculture Officer, ESG Compliance

Djames took the path to concentrate in Aquaculture Township planning, development, and operation. His Aquaculture career later led him to co-develop the World’s largest integrated shrimp farm in Indonesia.

Djames Lim started his working life after graduating from the University of Miami, USA, and was in construction, aquaculture, and property development.
He then focused on aquaculture township planning, development, and operation. His aquaculture career later led him to co-develop the world’s largest integrated shrimp farm in Indonesia. He started farming in Puerto Rico, Vietnam, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, etc.
He is currently serving as a Specialist to the Asian Development Bank to revamp Indonesia’s aquaculture industry. He also held many Advisory positions with heads of state/Ministry of Fishery in various countries or organisations.

Eddie Lim

Investment Strategist

Eddie is a serial investor who has started and invested diversely across industries and markets globally, including gaming, IPTV, F&B, properties and online portals in China.

Eddie is a serial investor who has started and invested diversely across industries and markets globally, including gaming, IPTV, F&B, properties and online portals in China. He also develops and sells good class bungalows, shophouses, and commercial buildings in Singapore, and invests in properties in Indonesia.

As the major backer of premium central kitchen Gozen, as well as vending and OOH platform Innovend, Eddie provides the entrepreneurial vision and strategise the regional go-to-market plans for both companies.

Gerard Lim

Agricon and Technology

Gerard is an established technopreneur with accomplished leadership skills with over 28 years experience with proven track record in organisational & people development, digital strategy, business modelling, experience design etc.

Gerard is an established technopreneur with accomplished leadership skills and over 28 years of experience with proven track record in organisational & people development, digital strategy, business modelling, experience design, Go To Market (GTM) planning, digital marketing, technology direction, & management, digital transformation, innovation ideation, leadership and business development.
His unique blend of experience from entrepreneurship in start-ups to delivering solutions to some of the world’s largest corporations.
Gerard founded Agroz Group in late 2020 to offer solutions in sustainable farming, providing improvements in Food Safety and Food Security.

Lars Brittsjo

Protein, Value-Add, Food Science, ESG

Lars is best described as the ultimate entrepreneur. Best known for being responsible for bringing products and brands like Imedeen, Cellasene and Xndo to the market, his marketing technique and philosophies has proven very successful.

Lars established his own company – Bionax – to distribute and market cosmeceuticals, natural remedies and herbal medicines. He also started Reborne Pte Ltd, a Singapore based company that developed and marketed high-quality bio-technology products and healthy food such as Ready to Eat meals and Zero calories noodles and the worlds lowest GI rice.

Lars has four children and nine grand-children and has served on the Boards of several community and charity organisations including Youth for Christ, Vietnam Outreach and the Christian Outreach Centre and others.

Andre Paul Cheung

Forex, Risk Management

Andre has over 35 years of experience in senior positions in forex, futures, e-trading, financial services and risk management with industry leaders such as Deutsche Bank, Morgan Grenfell, EF Hutton, Paine Webber & Dean Witter Futures, Bache Commodities, Rudolf Wolff and Sampo.
His specialisms are crucial in international investments that involve multiple currencies.
Andre is currently residing in Mauritius but is very well connected and travels regularly especially Japan, England, Africa, Hong Kong, and China.

Dr Zhao Xiaobin

Lead, R&D, ESG

Xiaobin is a UK Chartered Chemist, Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining in UK. He also has 30 patents and 60 scientific papers published under his name.

Professor Zhao is a visiting professor at University of Strathclyde, University of Changzhou and University of Lanzhou. He is a UK chartered chemist, Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining in UK. He also has 30 patents and 60 scientific papers published. Professor Zhao works in several MNCs, such as Johnson & Johnson as Head of Research & Development, and has joint patents during his tenure. He was also at NovaThera Ltd Cambridge UK as Programme Director, Cambond Ltd UK and Aquoprotein Ltd UK as CEO. Professor Zhao is now actively involved in creating sustainable production of protein and building materials. He is also an activist in climate change and sustainable food production.

Peter Fleming

Finance, Audit, Investment

Peter is a British national and is widely respected professional in the Accounting and Financial sector having spent his 30 years in Asia and the Middle East serving various MNC.

Peter is a British national and a widely respected professional in the accounting and financial sector, having spent 30 years in Asia and the Middle East in various key MNCs.
His experiences include senior positions in Schlumberger as Regional Finance & Tax Manager, General Motors as Regional Director; Cap Gemini Ernst & Young as Regional Vice President, Lim Shrimp Organization as CFO; and Deskera (a leading business solutions software company) as CFO.
He currently lives in Singapore with his family, traveling widely within the region. He is also a certified career coach and a best-selling author.

Markus Hafeli

Agri-Food, Protein & Investments

Markus owns an international investment and advisory firm focusing on ag-tech and supply chain in high growth sectors such as novel proteins and specialized logistics for pharmaceuticals.

Markus owns an international investment and advisory firm focusing on agri-tech and supply chain in high growth sectors such as novel proteins and specialized logistics for pharmaceuticals. Markus was the CEO of a PE family covering strategy and performance management, M&A transactions, and board management.
Prior, he was CFO at Zuellig Pharma, COO at Sonnenhof, Managing Director of Golden Springs Group, SyAqua Shrimp, Managing Director in Parazelsus Group, and owner of Bridgework Capital. He has a Master of Science from Berne University in Business Administration and attended executive education at Stanford University.

Gerhard Heinrich Held

Lead Finance & Investment

Gerhard is a well-respected professional Banker with vast experience across various industries over the last 40 years such as Head, Treasury in Bank of Tokyo (Frankfurt).

Gerhard also served as the Head, Corporate Credit in Dresdner Bank AG Group; GM in Dresdner Bank Tokyo and Board of Securities in Japan, Korea and the Philippines; Regional Managing Director in Commerzbank AG (Germany largest bank) as the Regional Managing Director of India, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, China). At the peak of his career, he served as the Commissioner at Bank Indonesia (Indonesia Central Bank). Later he moved back to Switzerland and started as Managing Partner of EA-CP GmbH Munchen advising start ups and pre-IPO; ED of Private Banking in Bank Vontobel AG Zurich; etc

Hans-Olof Stålgren

ESG, Aquaculture & Protein

Hans-Olof Stålgren is an experienced rural development advisor who has been working for over 20 years with the European Union Rural Development Fund as well as the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund.

Hans-Olof Stålgren is an experienced rural development advisor who has been working with the European Union Rural Development Fund and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund for over 20 years. They support rural businesses in agriculture, tourism, fisheries and aquaculture, with a strong focus on sustainable development in Europe.
Hans-Olof was also the Swedish representative for the Bioeconomy-Fishery Aquaculture sector in the Baltic Sea Region. Starting as a farm advisor in the 1980´s, he was later running his own business in farm supply, feed, seed and fertilisers. As a trained agronomist, he holds a Masters degree in crop production from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

Sin Boon Ann

Legal & Governance

Boon Ann is recognised in industry publications as an industry leader and for his expertise in capital markets. He also specialises in corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions.

Boon Ann was appointed the Deputy Managing Director of the Corporate & Finance Department and the Co-head of the Capital Markets Practice in Drew & Napier LLC in 2009 before he retired to be a consultant with the firm in March 2018.

Boon Ann began private practice in 1987. He is prolific in handling corporate finance transactions, particularly in the area of initial public offerings in Singapore. He also acts as counsel to listed companies on secondary equity offerings and debt offerings and advises companies on regulatory compliance. Boon Ann was formerly a member of the Legal Panel on Convergence Issues Committee established by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore.

Marcel Verburgge

Agronomist

Marcel has over 30 years of experience in agriculture operations and management and has led and completed numerous agricultural projects globally. Notably, Marcel supplied resources and operated a 50,000 sqm aquaponic farm in Kuwait.

Marcel is the owner of Dahui Aquaculture and Aquavision consulting company in China. He is also a consultant for Ausfish Modern Aquaculture and Agriculture in China.

He has also operated a fully automated 15,000 sqm smart farming in China, Hefei. Further, Marcel set up the infrastructure and provided valuable materials for an aquaponics class in a university in Kazakhstan. Marcel is currently managing a 100,000 sqm greenhouse project with aquaponics in Kazakhstan. In addition, he also supplies materials to a smart aquaponic farm consisting of 41 indoor farms equipped with artificial intelligence technology.