CHAMPIONS OF GLOBAL INNOVATION

Amy supports the CEO and leadership team to knit together Investible’s strategic goals with tactical execution through project planning, coordination and KPI tracking. She connects with all teams to keep Investible’s activities, projects and calendars accountable to the top priorities, while also working on special projects to amplify Investible’s impact.

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Amy’s nonlinear career path starts with roots in english literature and law. She brings diversified experience and knowledge in experience in strategic planning, stakeholder engagement and communications, and has spent the past five years of her career in major projects and infrastructure construction delivery.

Ben is involved with all aspects of the Investible Climate Tech Fund, including sourcing and analysing investment opportunities and interacting with founders from initial conversations to completion.

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Ben has led the sales team of a health drink startup, invented his own medical device, which professional athletes around the globe wear, and was the program manager of INCUBATE, one of Australia's leading startup accelerators. As a founder and having worked with hundreds of founders in varying capacities, Ben brings a strong level of empathy his role at Investible.

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Caryl contributes to accounting, finance and compliance for the Investible Group, putting her skills across budgeting and reporting to use on a global scale.

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She previously worked as an External Auditor and Tax Consultant for Ong, Ordonez and Associates, CPAs, as well as an Accounting Officer for Reliv Philippines Inc. and a Senior Finance Officer for Unicity Network Philippines. She is passionate about working in an industry that helps jumpstart companies looking to change our world for the better.

Charlie serves as our CEO, leading our Sydney and Singapore based team to source, screen and support our portfolio companies globally, and managing Investible's global strategy.

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Charlie was Investible's Chief Investment Officer for two years before being appointed CEO. He played an instrumental role for our firm; setting the strategic direction for our investment team to help companies succeed and create exit opportunities. He has over 12 years of investment experience across four continents for leading firms and renowned funds.

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Charlie previously led investment at funds across Singapore and Oman, actively pursuing startups in fintech, deep tech, edtech, cleantech, the TMT sector, and more. Following this, he pursued innovative climate tech startups in a Singapore-based innovation centre before moving to Australia's Northern Territory, strategically investing in tech-enabled companies and other VC funds.

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Charlie is passionate about uncovering solutions and scaling them across borders and cultures. When he's not identifying and engaging great founders and companies, you can find Charlie sailing - a passion of his that has taken him across the world.

Christine Amour-Levar is a French-Swiss-Filipina, Philanthropist, Record-Breaking Adventurer, Best-Selling Author and Human Rights & Sustainability Advisor. She started her professional journey working for Nike across the world and went on to build a global career as a marketing and communications expert and social entrepreneur intent on solving some of the world’s most pressing issues.

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Christine is a Board Member of Investible’s Singapore-based Funds, helping provide strategic support to Investible and its portfolio in Asia and beyond.

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A passionate champion of female empowerment and environmental conservation, she founded not one, but two award-winning, non-profit organisations, Women on a Mission (WOAM) and HER Planet Earth, to bridge these two passions. Both take all-female teams on pioneering expeditions —with WOAM empowering and supporting women who have been subjected to violence and abuse, and HER Planet Earth raising funds for underprivileged women affected by climate change. Both NGOs have collectively raised close to 2 million USD to date for organisations that advance the position of women around the world.

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Christine is also a Board Member and Advisor to several purpose-led organisations in the Social Impact and Sustainability spaces – with a particular focus on CSR, Impact Investing and Cellular Agriculture.

Creel is a Co-founder of the early-stage VC Investible and CEO of Greenhouse.

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Creel has been championing entrepreneurship and social enterprise in Australia and around the globe for almost a decade. His endeavours include founding the Club Kidpreneur Foundation, developing curriculum for the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship, training thousands of entrepreneurs in Decisionship - his unique business methodology. Creel brings methodology to the process of business model ideation and rapid business validation.

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Creel is a B-Team Australasia Board Member & AI Coalition Chair.

A nurturing mentor and coach to emerging senior executives, Dr. Bill Foo brings with him a wealth of deep leadership experience to his role as Chair of Investible’s Funds in Singapore.  

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His more than 30 years of senior leadership experience include 12 years as CEO of ANZ Singapore, Vice Chairman ANZ South Asia, Southeast Asia Head of Investment Banking and the President of Schroders Indonesia.  

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Bill is Chairman of Tun Lok Group and a director of NYSE-listed Kenon Holdings and numerous other leading global organisations.

Outside of business Bill a Trustee of the Strategic Studies Fund. He is active in non-profit organisations including the Salvation Army, James Cook University Singapore, and is passionate in mentoring and coaching emerging business leaders and military officers.

As a world-recognised Chief Sustainability Officer, expert, speaker, advisor and author, Darian brings a wealth of sustainability, ESG and business human rights experience to our Climate Tech Strategy Investment Committee.

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Darian was the inaugural Chief Sustainability Officer for the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the first CSO for a central bank globally. She was named a UN SDG Pioneer for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, listed in Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business and recognised as one of Asia’s Top Sustainability Superwomen.

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With a career spanning more than 20 years, Darian has led the sustainability efforts of companies at the highest level, led transformational projects for organisations like the UN, NHS, and WWF, and taught about sustainability and innovation through universities, books, and speaking engagements.

Emilie is a member of Investible’s Climate Tech Fund Investment Committee, playing a key role in reviewing and evaluating potential investments for the Fund. In addition, as a Venture Partner, Emilie helps leverage her global network to introduce portfolio companies to Investible and support them post-investment.

Emilie is currently CEO of corporate transformation consultancy, E5S and previously the Chief Transformation Officer for Aboitiz, the Philippines’ second largest conglomerate. There, she created new business lines with nation-building scale and double or triple the usual profit potential. Her remit included diversification into high-growth new industries, enabling impact outcomes in all projects, long-range scenario and contingency planning, upskilling staff, bureaucracy busting, educating on global best practices as well as fostering a culture of autonomy and experimentation.

Before that, Emilie was CEO of ExO Works, a corporate transformation consultancy which helped large organisations like Visa, HP, BHP, Siemens Energy, Vodacom, Rio Tinto, Santos, Boston Scientific and Procter & Gamble to emulate the world’s fastest growing companies. Their clients averaged 70X return on investment from these projects and tripled retention of the talent involved.
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She draws from her track record in helping build a startup to a $300 million valuation over 2 years. She also spent a decade in private equity where she sourced a range of $20 – 400 million investments in energy production start-ups and technologies around the world, which meant evaluating the growth potential of around 100 business opportunities per annum. That gave her a deep understanding of the patterns that make a business likely to thrive or fail.

Ian serves as the Chairman of the Board for Investible's Early Stage Funds 1 & 2, and the Investible Climate Tech Fund. He has a deep knowledge and network of contacts in the Singapore business community with over 35 years of Senior Banking and Finance experience in both Australia and Singapore.

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Ian has previously held executive and leadership roles including National Manager-Business Finance with Australian Guarantee Corp Ltd., Chairman at Finance Houses Association of Singapore, and President of Hong Leong Finance Ltd., also in Singapore.

James manages all finance and operations activity across the Investible Group as well as the risk and compliance processes for its funds management business in Australia and Singapore. James brings over 20 years of experience in financial services and start ups, leading successful businesses in banking and wealth management in Australia and South East Asia, including as COO of CBAs Private Bank, as well as leading successful start ups in eco-tourism in Canada and technology companies in finance and education in Australia.

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James is also on the board of Not For Profit, You Can Sit With Me, a national charity focused on improving the wellbeing of school children in Australia.

Jayden is involved in the entire investment lifecycle, covering origination, screening, due diligence and closing of investment opportunities. He has extensive transactional and commercial experience across an array of sectors having spent over four years in Ernst & Young’s transactions team, and as a co-founder of a SaaS startup. Jayden is also qualified as a Legal Practitioner and Chartered Accountant.

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He is passionate about the belief that through investment in technology the livelihoods of people worldwide can be transformed for the better.

Khairu has over 15 years of experience in the startup and venture capital industry, investing across the US, China, India and Southeast Asia. In his experience running an accelerator and witnessing several IPOs and acquisitions, Khairu has developed deep connections and strong insights in assessing and supporting investments becoming high-growth companies.

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Based in Singapore, Khairu is active across the entire investment lifecycle; responsible for sourcing, screening, and leading due diligence on potential investment opportunities.

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Kim Stewart-Smith is an experienced CFO, ASX listed Non-Executive Director, Chair of Audit and Risk Committee and Board Advisor. Previously a Partner at Ernst & Young, Head of Corporate Services working closely with the EY Entrepreneur of the Year businesses as well as Australian and International businesses.  

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Kim is a Chartered Accountant, Fellow of the Governance Institute, Tax Institute and Institute of Company Directors with over 30 years of experience in Accounting & Finance. Kim has a Senior Executive MBA from Melbourne Business School.

As part of our investment team, Marie supports the entire workflow of our investment process from sourcing and diligence through investment and support.

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Her background is in Accounting and Strategic Management and prior to Investible, Marie worked for a government linked organisation doing impact financing funding and venture building impact driven enterprises in Singapore. She also worked in a water-tech start-up, on business development and strategy. Starting up a business is a powerful way to challenge the norm and solve the world's known or unknown problems, which is a space she finds is very exciting and inspiring.

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Nick is involved across the entire investment lifecycle of Investible's early-stage funds, including sourcing, screening, performing due diligence, helping close investment opportunities and supporting portfolio companies when needed.

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Prior to joining Investible, he worked at Superseed Ventures, Reece Group's corporate venture capital fund, investing in Seed to Series B tech startups across ANZ and North America, with a focus on construction tech, proptech and supply chain tech. He also spent ~4 years as a management consultant at Strategy& and Accenture, focusing on corporate strategy for ASX100 companies across numerous industries and commercial due diligence on growth-stage software startups for global private equity funds.

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Nick is passionate about supporting ambitious founders through the growth journey and is excited by the role innovative technologies can play in shaping the future for consumers, businesses and societies.

Pete brings more than 20 experience in the Investment Management industry to Investible’s Singapore office, shaping our operational excellency in the booming economic hub.

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He is an expert in fund structuring, investment product and operating model design, and establishing processes for asset management businesses.

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Pete is deeply experienced in private markets, having worked in both private equity and venture capital, and has a passion for sustainable investing, having spent 6 years working on ESG with asset managers.

Peter serves as a Non-Executive Director for Investible, bringing over 40 years at the highest levels of retail and investment banking.

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He is the former Chief Executive Officer, Macquarie Atlas Roads, a position he had held between 2009-2018 where he took it from an entity with market capitalisation of $AU278 million to a top-100 ASX-listed company with a market capitalisation of more than $AU3.7 billion.

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He previously held several senior corporate advisory roles with Macquarie Bank in Australia and globally, and has served on the boards of nine different entities over the past 27 years.

Rob is an agribusiness executive with over 30 years global experience, including various senior operational roles in a long career with Bayer, an dmore recently as CEO and Group Director for the Boralis Group, an advisory firm scaling sustainable food systems and circular economy solutions across APAC.

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Rob is skilled at identifying and growing emerging businesses who are working on solutions in food production resilience, processing and packaging innovation, waste, organic materials and water recovery. He is also a strong industry networker, recognising that great results often come by bringing smart, passionate people together.

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Prior to relocating to Sydney this year, he was actively supporting the Singapore Government’s food security strategy. His family continues to operate a mixed farming operation in southern NSW.

Tim Bennett is an independent member of the Investment Committees for Investible Early-Stage Funds 1 and 2.

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With over 15 years experience as a Mergers & Acquisition executive, he leads the Corporate Development and Capital advisory division at Prime Financial Group, an ASX-listed financial advisory group.

Based in Sydney, Tim will be serving as a key point of contact and support for our growing investor network, as well as building the Club Investible platform and community.

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Tim joins us having recently returned to Australia from New York, where he oversaw Investor Relations and Operations for a real estate investment fund managing approximately US$1bn in investment assets. Prior to that, Tim spent 10 years in wealth management in Sydney across various roles, where he built out his knowledge and reputation within the industry.

Tina is a founder, investor and airline and travel executive with more than 30 years of experience working with high-growth companies globally.  She co-founded two travel tech companies; led the founding team of two Asian airlines; and led marketing and operations at Lufthansa and IHG.  

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Tina is an active leader in the start-up ecosystem in Southeast Asia with a particular passion for future mobility, impact investing and diversity in organisations. She sits on the board of Manila Angel Investors Network, the largest and most active angel network in the Philippines. There, she also chairs its Gender-Lens Investing Committee, which works with high-potential female-led startups. She is also a director at Kerubin Capital, a Singapore-based fund backed by Australian Aid Investing in Women that co-invests into women-led companies.

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She advises and mentors the founding teams of several companies in Southeast Asia and consults for early-stage European companies who seek to grow their footprint into the region. Her work focuses on innovation & technology, aviation &aerospace, travel & tourism, and sustainability & social enterprise. 

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Tina is also a founder of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce in Singapore and an active member of Women in Aviation International.

Trevor is one of Australia’s most active and successful angel investors and one of the most respected and influential names in the Australian tech startup ecosystem.

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After successfully co-founding, growing and selling his own business for over 9 figures in 2008, Trevor embarked on a practical and hands-on educational journey in Silicon Valley with some of the world’s best early stage investors. He has since made more than 100 direct investments across diverse industries and geographies, including as a seed stage investor in Canva, now valued at US$40 billion.

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As the co-founder and chair of leading early-stage investment group Investible, Trevor is committed to providing high-potential founders with the support and resources needed to scale.He also serves as Chair of the car-sharing network Car Next Door, on the board of listed education provider Kip McGrath and as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at UNSW.

Trixie is involved in the full spectrum of investment activities within the Investible Climate Tech Fund including sourcing, screening, and analysing investment opportunities, as well as liaising with founders during the due diligence process.

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She has a passion for innovation and given her biology background, dedicated her early professional years to commercial R&D in various biotech startups. Engaging in sustainability and climate change projects, such as insect protein and cultivated meat, cellular agriculture projects, cell therapy-based products and more. Trixie also worked within a Chinese VC firm focused on deep tech solutions for food and agriculture.