Joanna Yeo is the CEO and founder of Arukah, a Singaporean project developer developing institutional biochar and biogas projects from waste, with an inclusive business model allocating 50% of carbon credit revenue to participating farmers and digitalisation from IoT sensors and computer vision to direct farmer payments. To date, Arukah has opened the largest biochar plant in SE Asia, received Gold Standard’s first global approval for digital MRV for biogas, and are on track to delivering the first investment grade biochar credits from the region, partnering with agribusinesses and cooperatives in some of the largest agrifood exports from Asia and Africa. Joanna was previously Head of Asia for Figure Technologies (NSDQ:FIGR) and her career has spanned new build traditional and digital financial businesses, including a US$2 billion pan-Asian fund strategy at Morgan Stanley and first time ESG reporting or assessment initiatives across asset classes since 2012. She serves as an impact investment committee member for the UN Sanitation and Hygiene Fund, and has been a board director for Collectius, a World Bank IFC partner. Joanna began her career in private equity and data science, and holds degrees from Harvard, Stanford, and Cambridge.