Meet the Speakers
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Gregory Vijayendran, SC
Partner, Rajah & Tann Singapore
Gregory is one of 100 Senior Counsels in Singapore and specialises in various spheres of civil and commercial litigation, arbitration, mediation and dispute resolution. He is also a recognised expert in banking and insolvency, as well as charities governance and presently specialises in complex commercial litigation and chancery matters.
Gregory has been consistently recognised by Best Lawyers in Singapore for Insolvency and Reorganisation Law and Litigation since 2010. Among his multiple honours include: being ranked as a Distinguished Practitioner in Dispute Resolution by Asialaw Leading Lawyers (2022), conferred the Pingat Bakti Masyarakat (PBM) in 2022, received the prestigious SAL Merit Award from The Singapore Academy of Law (SAL) in 2024, and recognised as a Leading Lawyer in Dispute Resolution: Litigation by Chambers Asia Pacific 2026.
Beyond his practice, Gregory is very active in serving the community and has done so for a very long time. Currently, his community commitments include: Chairman of Prison Fellowship Singapore, Charity Council member, Honorary General Secretary on the Board of the National Council of Social Services (NCSS), and also serves as a member of the Ethics Review Committee (NCSS), Board Director at Law Society Pro Bono SG, Trustee at National Youth Fund and Rare Disease Fund, as well as Chairman of the Law Christian Fellowship. Some of his past community engagements include: serving for nearly two decades as President of Club Rainbow Singapore, Founding Director of Singapore Cord Bank, and the longest serving President of the Law Society of Singapore.
Greg is also President of the Tribunal for the Maintenance of Parents. In recognition of his dedication and judicial temperament in his role at the Tribunal for the Maintenance of Parents, Gregory was awarded the Outstanding Volunteer Award at the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) Volunteer and Partner Awards 2025.
Gregory graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and was one of the main speakers in the university’s mooting team in 1992 that emerged world runners-up at the 1992 Jessup International Law Moot Competition in Washington D.C.
Carl Thong
Executive Chairman, Sunstone Group
Dr. Carl Thong is a serial entrepreneur and founder of the Sunstone Group, a family office with diverse businesses. He is the General Partner of Eagle Venture Fund, a social-impact venture capital fund, and the chairman of Eagle Venture Studio Asia. Eagle invests in companies that fights human trafficking, provides economic empowerment, economic enablement, and healthcare transformation.
Beyond entrepreneurship, Carl serves as the Chairman of TrustBridge Global, the world’s largest international Christian donor-advised fund, and as Co-Chair of Generosity Path, an international ministry leading the global generosity movement. He is the priest warden at All Saints English Church and also serves on the board of the Theological Education Board for the Singapore Anglican Diocese. Carl He is also a Professor at Singapore Management University.
In his personal time, Carl enjoys cycling with his wife, researching great Sunday brunch restaurants for his family, reading the Bible, and playing musical instruments.
Helianti Hilman
Founder, JAVARA
Helianti Hilman is an Indonesian entrepreneur and gastronomy advocate working at the intersection of biodiversity, culture, and inclusive rural economic development. Her work in sustaining Indonesia’s bio-cultural food heritage and strengthening community-based food enterprises has earned her international recognition as a leading voice in social entrepreneurship.
In 2008, she founded JAVARA, building supply chains that connect thousands of smallholder farmers and food artisans across Indonesia, bringing biodiversity-based products to domestic and international markets in more than 20 countries. Building on this experience, she later founded Sekolah Seniman Pangan, an initiative that nurtures grassroots entrepreneurs, indigenous communities, and rural food artisans to develop high-value enterprises rooted in local biodiversity and traditional knowledge.
Helianti subsequently initiated and led the establishment of Past Collective, a multistakeholder cooperative that enables food artisans who share common values in embracing biocultural assets and ethical trade to scale more effectively and efficiently through shared resources, collective operations, and market access.
Most recently, she has been spearheading new ventures in community-based Bioculture Gastronomy, creating immersive culinary experiences and regenerative food ecosystems that celebrate biodiversity, seasonality, and cultural landscapes while strengthening local economies.
Her work has received international recognition, including from the Skoll Foundation, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, and the EY Social Entrepreneur Award. She has spoken at major global forums including the World Economic Forum, Obama Foundation Leaders Forum, and Social Enterprise World Forum. Her work has also been featured by leading international media including Channel News Asia, DW TV, NHK, Arirang, The Guardian, and others.
Helianti holds a Master of Laws in Intellectual Property Rights from King’s College London and has completed executive education at Harvard Kennedy School and leading universities in Australia.
Jeremy Han
Board Advisor
Jeremy helps companies to scale their profits and their impact. His personal mission is to help 100 CEOs, in 10 years, to impact 100m people. Besides business growth, he helps clients to set lasting legacy goals that spur both dynamic growth and long-term impact. Some of these goals include creating 1m jobs in 10 years, clothing 1m people in 10 years, and enabling 1m under-privileged children to attend university in 10 years.
Jeremy is also a certified Family Office Advisor and also a Board Advisor to some of the fast-growing private companies in Asia, helping them to plan their next stage of growth and wealth management. For many of them, integrating their family goals and business goals are critical and he is able to integrate the two into 1 approach.
Jeremy is also the director of Corporate Strategy for Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group (AKLTG), an Enterprise50 Award company. Together with the leadership team of AKLTG implementing Scaling Up and digital transformation since 2015, they have scaled their net profits 12x from 2015-2019, doubling it again in 2020. Now he coaches companies across APAC how to scale.
Jeremy's clients are spread across APAC, in more than 20 different industries ranging from professional services to heavy industries, and some of them have experienced 10X growth. He is also an international speaker for audiences as large as 500 business owners, and was a featured speaker on the Asia CEO Forum Tech Summit 2021 speaking on digital transformation.
Jeremy is a founding member of Transformational Business Network Asia (TBNA), and serves as a pro-bono business mentor for social enterprises in Asia that are working to eradicate poverty through enterprise.