1. Ms. Anita Gupta

Designation: SVP Corporate Communications & Sustainability, DHL

Anita Gupta is the Head of Corporate Communications and Sustainability, DHL Asia Pacific responsible for developing and steering the internal and external communications efforts for DHL Asia Pacific. In addition to her corporate communications responsibility, she also drives the company?s corporate citizenship initiatives, thereby leading DHL?s Asia Pacific Corporate Sustainability efforts. Prior to joining DHL she held various positions in the areas of Public Affairs and Communications Areas at Citigroup in New York, USA

Before her stint in New York, she was Director of Public Affairs and Communications for Citibank in South Asia.

Ms. Gupta has a strong interest in supporting community relations and promoting Indian culture and women?s empowerment. She established the Public Affairs function for the American India Foundation (AIF) and was appointed as the coordinator of US President Bill Clinton?s visit to India for the AIF in March 2001. Ms. Gupta is a Global Advisory Council member of Vital Voices, a non-profit organization promoting women's economic, political and social advancement around the world.

2. Mr. Edward Rubesch

Designation: Founder of Global Social Venture Competition GSVC, South East Asia

Edward Rubesch's experience combines a mixture of practical and academic entrepreneurial experience. He has founded four companies in Thailand, which he still heads as President. In 2002, he started the New Ventures Program at Mahidol University's College of Management to give business professionals the entrepreneurial skills necessary to start and succeed in new businesses. He is currently at Thammasat University, where he is developing the Global Entrepreneurship MBA. Ed received SB and SM degrees in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a Master of Management degree from the Sasin Graduate School of Business, a joint program in Bangkok, Thailand, offered by the Kellogg School of Northwestern University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Chulalongkorn University.

He recently completed his Ph.D from Thammasat University, with a study of border entrepreneurs in the Greater Mekong Subregion. He is active in academic research in the areas of entrepreneurship, innovation, and distribution in developing countries. Ed is an active participant of the Roundtable of Entrepreneurship Education, which brings together educators from around the world to examine best practices in entrepreneurship education. Ed has attended REE in the US, Europe, Latin America, and Asia, and was the host of REE Asia 2006. Ed has also been active in business plan competitions for students at the MBA level. His teams have competed internationally and won first place at Asian Moot Corp, first and third places at the University of Oregon New Venture Challenge, third place at Global Moot Corp, and finalist and second place at the Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC).

3. Dr. Nancy Lane

Designation: Communications and Development Officer - Plan International

Dr Nancy Lane is involved in communications and development at the Plan International Asia Regional Office in Bangkok. Prior to this, she worked in similar areas for the International Centre of Excellence for Education in Mathematics at the University of Melbourne, Australia; Pacific Resources for Education and Learning in Honolulu, Hawaii; and the Australian Academy of Science in Canberra. For three years she coordinated the social enterprise start-up, Invite-a-Writer, and in 2001, she was a finalist in the Australian regional Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.

4. Ms. Sarinee Achavanuntakul

Designation: Investment Banker and Lecturer on Business & Society at Thammasat University

A financier by training, Sarinee Achavanuntakul is currently a writer and independent academic who tries to regularly publicize new developments in social enterprises and "humane capitalism" via her personal blog at http://www.fringer.org and various publications including http://www.onopen.com and Prachachat Turakij newspaper. She is also serving as consultant to SET Research Institute, a newly established capital markets research institute under the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), and teaches an undergraduate course called "Business and Society" every year as adjunct professor at Thammasat University's Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy.

As independent academic, Sarinee has written a number of academic papers covering issues in the Thai capital markets, including "Capital Allocation in Thai Economy under Globalization" (with professor Kittichai Sae-lee) for Thammasat University, and "The Use of Nominees in the Stock Exchange of Thailand" for Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI). Sarinee's final position in her former career as investment banker was Executive Director at Hunters Advisory, a boutique local financial advisory firm. Prior to that role, between 2003 and 2006, she worked in Corporate Finance and Corporate Strategy departments at SCB Securities Co. Ltd., a local investment bank. Prior to joining SCB Securities, she worked as investment banker in Financial Institutions Group, Deutsche Bank AG Hong Kong Branch.

She holds an MBA in finance from Leonard Stern School of Business at New York University, and a BA in economics from Harvard University.

5.

Parminder Jutla

Designation : Development Manager, UnLtd*

Parminder is a graduate of the School of Social Entrepreneurs, fellow of UnLtd and has worked as a Development Manager for UnLtd for 5 years, in this time he has worked with over 400 individuals to help them develop their ideas to become sustainable both financially and socially. As a social entrepreneur he is always on a path of creativity, innovation and learning. He lives his life without malice or ill will, all ways trying to help others to make a better world.

Personally he has developed various businesses and projects many of which have been the first for the community, such as a photographic documentation giving a modern day insight into the Indian community in the UK. He has also created Streets CC which is a community consultancy that helps communities create ideas utilising community resources to generate income and financial sustainability in deprived communities; such as advising developers on how to improve designs of buildings ensuring that the community is involved in the creation and sustaining of community buildings, public spaces and structures.

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Mr. Ben Happel

Ben is a Research Associate at the Asia Research Centre in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and currently pursues a PhD programme of the University of St. Gallen (HSG). Ben is based in Bangkok and focusing on for-profit social entrepreneurship in Asia. He is especially interested in social impact measurement and integrating social impact into for-profit structures. Apart from his research, Ben works as a management consultant, mainly in the media and telecoms industries. He has experience in strategy consulting (Solon Management Consulting, Munich/Budapest) and investment banking (Deutsche Bank, London), and co-founded Springer & Dame oHG, a trading company. Ben has studied law and business and holds a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Passau, Germany, and spent time as a visiting scholar at the Haas Business School in Berkeley, USA and the Universidad de Malaga, Spain.

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Mr.? Saroj Khongkhaprasertsin

Investment Manager, Pine Partners Limited In affiliatioin with Merchant Partners Securities

Grauduated from Insead MBA programme in 2006. Three years of experience in financial advisory one year in entrepreneurship and one yer in asset management.?