Contributors

Naina Subberwal Batra

Naina Subberwal Batra joined AVPN as our CEO from September 2013, and has been appointed as Chairperson in May 2018. Naina’s leadership over the past 6 years has grown the AVPN membership by more than 4x and elevated the organisation into a truly regional force for good. Under her direction, the organisation has grown from focusing only on Venture Philanthropy to supporting the entire ecosystem of Social Funders from philanthropists to impact investors and Corporate CSR professionals. She was instrumental in developing AVPN’s innovative services that connect, empower and educate the now 600+ members of AVPN. In 2019, Naina was awarded one of Asia's Top Sustainability Superwomen.

She has a master’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University where she graduated at the top of her class. She also holds a bachelor degree in Economics and International Relations from Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA and a General Course Diploma in economics from The London School of Economics.

Namita Sethi

Namita Sethi, CPA, is the CEO at Futurebooks. A Certified Practicing Accountant from CPA Australia (License 9607781), Namita has over 13 years of experience in finance and accounting in both Australia and Singapore, across multi-national Chartered Accounting firms helping small businesses establish and grow through funding rounds and acquisitions.

Nanny Eliana

Nanny Eliana is the Founder and Account Director of Bridges M&C.

Naomi Troni

Naomi Troni is the Global Chief Marketing Officer of Euro RSCG Worldwide

Narinder Kapoor

Narinder Kapoor is Senior Vice President and Managing Director for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Asia Pacific.

On November 1, 2017, Narinder was appointed the region sales leader at HPE.

Narinder has more than 30 years of experience in general management and finance and has held several senior executive positions. He had earned for himself the reputation for turning businesses around and driving growth.

Prior to this, Narinder was the regional vice president and general manager for HPE Pointnext Asia Pacific and Japan. It was one of the most successful services teams across HPE.

Before that, Narinder was the vice president and managing director for HPE Southeast Asia, Taiwan and Hong Kong for four years growing the enterprise business to become one of the largest sub-regions in HPE.

His career with HPE started when he joined Compaq as a finance director in 2000 for Southeast Asia. Since then he has done multiple roles like, managing director for Philippines, general manager for enterprise server and storage for Southeast Asia.

Narinder started his career with Goetze India in the manufacturing sector. Subsequently, as regional finance director with Bobst (Southeast Asia), he played a key role in setting up operations in Indonesia and Brunei for Oracle Systems (Southeast Asia) and as financial analyst in IBM Singapore.

Narinder holds a Bachelor of Commerce (First Class) from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. He also graduated with first class honors in Chartered Accountancy from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and in Cost Accountancy from the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India.

Natalie Turner

Natalie Turner has a background in innovation, leadership and organisational development and has worked for and consulted with some of the world’s leading organisations. She is the Founder and CEO of The Entheo Network and the Co-Founder of Women who Lead. An experienced facilitator, trainer and innovation consultant, Natalie is also an international speaker on innovation, entrepreneurship, and leadership.

Natasha Zhao

Natasha Zhao is Managing Partner at QED, a private-sector think tank that organises the QED Changemaker Forum conducted biannually among its community of corporate C-suite executives and board directors to drive change for the collective good.

Nathaniel Forbes

Nathaniel Forbes is the Director of Forbes Calamity Prevention

Neeraj Kaushik

Neeraj Kaushik, Principal Consultant, is a Product Manager for the Infosys® McCamish NGIN platform initiative at Infosys McCamish Systems, US. He is a published author and Top Voice on LinkedIn in 5 areas-Insurtech, Business Analysis, Product Management, Artificial Intelligence and Data Architecture.

Neeraj is an innovative and effective thought leader recognized for achieving exceptional results in highly competitive environments requiring continuous improvement and has driven the business of large-scale technology projects based out of the US, UK, India, and China Geography for the last 18+ years. He has an excellent insurance business domain, architecture, design, and implementation skills in various life insurance administration as well as producer management & compensation systems.

Prior to this, Neeraj was part of Big 4 Consulting firms like PwC & Deloitte where he led digital transformation programs and strategic consulting initiatives across the Life, Annuities, and Property & Casualty Insurance space.

He holds a master’s degree in insurance & risk management from Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH) and the designations of ALMI (LOMA), Fellow of Risk Management Association of India (RMAI) and President Select Member (Leadership Excellence at Harvard Square).

Neeraj Sundarajoo

Neeraj Sundarajoo is the Co-founder & CEO of Singapore- headquartered Zeemart (www.zeemart.asia), a free procurement platform for F&B businesses. The Zeemart platform brings greater supply chain efficiency and cost savings to F&B operators. The company currently has operations in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam.

Zeemart has been selected as one of Singapore Business Review’s 20 Hottest Startups for 2019.

Immediately prior to starting Zeemart, Raj was the Group Managing Director of Wunderman (a WPP company), after his first entrepreneurial venture Comwerks had been acquired by WPP. Raj is a winner of the SICCI Entrepreneur of the Year Award as well as the ASME Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He has also featured in the ‘Young Turks’ programme on CNBC featuring promising young entrepreneurs in Asia.