Shujog, a Bengali word meaning “opportunity”, will prepare Social Enterprises (SEs) in Asia to have the organizational accountability, sound governance, and fiscal accountability to raise impact investment funds.

Team

Durreen Shahnaz

Durreen Shahnaz is the Founder and Chairwoman of Impact Investment Exchange and Founder and Managing Director of Impact Investment Shujog. Durreen is Adjunct Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. She has a track record as a successful banker, media executive and social entrepreneur. She founded, ran and sold the social purpose business oneNest in New York. She also headed up the Asia operations of Hearst Magazines International, Reader’s Digest Asia, and Asia City Publishing Group. Durreen began her professional career as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley (New York), followed by stints at Grameen Bank (Bangladesh), World Bank (Washington, D.C.), and Merrill Lynch (Hong Kong). She holds a BA from Smith College; an MBA from Wharton, University of Pennsylvania; and an MA from the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Durreen was a TED 2010 Fellow and Asia Society Asia 21 Fellow. She is an appointed member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Social Innovation for 2011. Durreen is also the Social Entrepreneur in Residence for INSEAD’s Social Entrepreneurship Catalyst Program.

Mona Sinha

Mona Sinha is the Director of Strategic Initiatives and a Member of the Board of Shujog. She also serves on the Board of Trustees of Smith College, representing Smith in the Asia Pacific region.  Mona began her professional career as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, followed by a marketing career at P&G and Unilever, during which she restructured the Asia Pacific operations of Elizabeth Arden. Most recently, she worked on a project for Goldman Sachs Asia on the development of Asian leadership. She holds a BA magna cum laude from Smith College where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa; and an MBA (Beta Gamma Sigma) from Columbia University. In New York, she served as a Trustee to All Souls School and Girls Learn International, is a patron of the Science and Nature Program at the American Museum of Natural History and a founding member of Family Benefit at the Asia Society.  She is also an Advisory Director to Breakthrough, a human rights organization based in the US and India.

Patricia Tan Shu Ming

Patricia Tan Shu Ming is Director of Research for Shujog and Director of the COMO Foundation, the corporate philanthropy arm of the COMO Group. COMO Foundation supports income-generation, education, and skill development programs for at-risk women and girls in developing countries.  Ming’s career has focused on two areas: cooperation between the public and private sectors for social good, and the role of ideas and values in shaping corporate identity.  In the area of public/private cooperation, Ming’s academic interests have focused on institutions charged with shaping public understanding of abstract issues such as science, technology, and ethics.  Ming obtained her bachelors and masters degrees from Stanford University and her doctorate from Oxford University. She was Singapore’s Rhodes Scholar for 1997.

Gyneth Tan

Gyneth Tan is Director of Marketing & Communications at Shujog. She started as a business consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte and later crossed over to join top creative marketing agencies like OgilvyOne, ICLP, Leo Burnett on global brands like Porsche, Procter & Gamble, Starwood Hotels, HP, IBM and SAP across Asia Pacific and Europe. As an avid diver, she took one year sabatical to volunteer in a Marine Conservation project in Mexico that helped to solidify her interests in Sustainable Social Enterprises. With 12 years of experience in interpreting international tone to suit local consumers she is focused on further elevating IIX and Shujog as a serious game-changer in the global stage of impact investment.

Lina Tang

Lina is the Business Development Associate of Shujog. She  was born in Guangzhou, China but moved to Seattle, Washington at a young age and graduated from the University of Washington in 2005 with her BA in International Studies and Sociology.  She has previously worked for Starbucks China, developing and expanding its corporate social responsibility efforts in the northern China markets. Afterwards, she went on to work for the Grameen Foundation as its China Liaison where she learned and witnessed first-hand the positive impact microfinance and social enterprises can have in empowering people and communities in need.  She has lived in Beijing, Washington DC, Hong Kong, Taipei and recently moved to Singapore.  She speaks English, Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese.

Magnus Young

Magnus is a Research Associate at Shujog. Drawing on extensive language training and internationally focused legal studies, Magnus’ key focus is the interplay between law, politics and economics in areas such as sustainable development, taxation, and public finance. Magnus holds a joint honors degree in Chinese and law from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and a dual MPA-MPP Masters degree in public and economic policy from the LSE, London and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore. He has previously worked with impact measurement for the Programme on Social Innovation and Change at the LKY School, as an accountant for CEVA Logistics, and as a research intern at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (Unitar), where he wrote learning material on corporate governance and public finance.

Luke Douglas

Luke is a Research Analyst at Shujog. He was a Princeton in Asia Fellow at Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta and has previously worked at XTec (Washington, DC) and State Street (Boston, USA). His time studying Indonesian language and culture combined with his prior experience working within SMEs and finance lends particularly well to the challenges Shujog faces in Indonesia. Luke holds a B.A. in International Politics & Economics with Mandarin from Middlebury College, USA and has studied at the University of St Andrews, Scotland and the Zhejiang Institute of Technology, Hangzhou, China.

Robert Kraybill

Robert Kraybill is Managing Director of IIX, the Treasurer of Shujog, and a member of the Board of Shujog. Robert is a senior finance executive with two decades of experience in the capital markets as an investment banker (with Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Wasserstein Perella, and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein) and a private equity investor. Robert came to Asia in 2004 as head of Asia-ex Japan Investment Banking for Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and most recently was head of Asian private equity for Marathon Asset Management. Robert has significant experience in emerging markets in Asia. He currently acts as Senior Advisor to Asian Tiger Capital, an innovative financial services boutique helping to facilitate investment in Bangladesh. Robert holds a BA from Princeton University, magna cum laude, and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, summa cum laude. In addition, Robert has served as an Adjunct Professor in the MBA program of Singapore Management University.

Luca Bozzo

Luca Bozzo is a volunteer at  Shujog focusing on social and environmental impact analysis. A native of Italy, Luca has over ten years of experience working in Emerging Markets as an entrepreneur and as a banker. Through his research work and business  experience, he has gained in-depth knowledge of sustainability issues, especially relating to policy for sustainable agriculture and renewable energy. He has recently moved to Southeast Asia to identify opportunities to  develop sustainable agriculture businesses in the region and advise enterprises on sustainable practices. Luca holds an MSc in Science & Technology for Sustainability from the  University of Sussex, an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BA from Cornell University.