Contributors

Kiean Khoo

Kiean Khoo is the Asia Business Head at Milestone Systems, leading strategic business growth across Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Korea. 

With over 20 years of experience in sales, leadership and business development, Kiean has previously held key roles at Singtel and Orange Business Services, delivering results across industries such as financial services, automotive, and logistics. 

Kiean plays a pivotal role in expanding Milestone’s regional footprint amid growing demand for video surveillance-as-a-service (VSaaS), leveraging his deep expertise in telco and ICT solutions to unlock new opportunities.

Kim Ang

Kishore Butani

Kishore Butani is the Founder of CARBONyatra in India. His specialties include carbon project aggregation, project sourcing, offset documentation and VCS/ ISO 14064 offset trading.

Kitty Bu

Passionate about accelerating change for impact-oriented results, Kitty Bu works towards catalysing system transitions to achieve net-zero economies at scale. 

She leads the Southeast Asia region at Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP),  identifying and executing opportunities to catalyse investments in critical solutions for decarbonising the region.

Drawing on her private sector experience and background in  adopting an ecosystem approach to drive net-zero transitions, Bu has made early strides at GEAPP in pioneering creative partnerships that can greatly amplify and complement GEAPP’s  own financial contributions to investments. 

Klaus Payrhube

Klaus Payrhuber is the Product Manager at GE Energy.

Klaus Payrhuber

Klaus Payrhuber is the Product Manager at GE Energy.

Kohe Hasan

Kohe Hasan is a partner at Reed Smith LLP based in Singapore. She advises on energy projects globally with a focus on emerging markets, in particular Sri Lanka and Cambodia.

Laurie Pearson

Laurie Pearson is Of Counsel at Norton Rose (Asia) LLP. Laurie is a member of Norton Rose’s projects and energy group based in Singapore.

Lavan Thiru

Lavan Thiru, executive director at Infrastructure Asia, works closely with both the private and public sectors in Singapore and the broader region. His focus is on project origination and development to enable more sustainable infrastructure. 

Through Infrastructure Asia’s project facilitation and development efforts, several projects in Southeast Asia have successfully advanced, with some reaching completion.

Thiru has been actively involved in various initiatives on infrastructure financing, including spending over a year at Clifford Capital, a specialist in structured finance solutions. Prior to his appointment at Infrastructure Asia in April 2021, Lavan held various leadership positions at the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Lee Mather

Lee Mather is vice president and director of Black & Veatch’s global conventional generation power business in Asia. Based in Indonesia, Mather has more than 21 years of experience working for Black & Veatch across multiple global locations. He oversees the growth of Black & Veatch’s services, and engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) solutions for power generation facilities in the region.