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BEAU SEIL Unitus Impact United States PAUL SANTOS Wavemaker Singapore GERBEN VISSER Incubasia Ventures Singapore NAZAR YASIN Rise Capital United States Beau has been highly involved in the social enterprise and impact investing space for the last five years. As a Principal at Montara Point Investments, he worked with Geoff Woolley in connection with his global investment and management responsibilities related to venture leasing, microfinance, and impact investing. Immediately prior to the launch of Unitus Impact, Beau was a Principal at Capital Impact, where he worked extensively on the Sorenson Housing Opportunity Fund, a private equity fund focused on developing India's affordable housing ecosystem, and spent significant time in China working on multiple projects and leading Capital Impact's outreach in the PRC. Paul Santos is an experienced entrepreneur and early stage investor. He has co-founded 6 companies across several industries exiting twice and has made more than 20 early stage tech investments. He currently leads Wavemaker Pacific, an early stage venture firm that is the Singapore/ Southeast Asia representative of the DFJ Global Network, the world's leading venture collective with 15 firms across 4 continents. Wavemaker Pacific makes seed to series A investments primarily in e-commerce, SaaS and mobile as well as IP-driven startups. Gerben Visser is a Managing Partner at IncubAsia Ventures. He is an advocate of building the technology innovation and venture investment bridge between Europe and Australia into Asia. He is also a Board member of Bansea (Business Angels South East Asia), a mentor at Seedcamp, StartupBootcamp and an advisor to a number of early stage technology companies. Gerben has gained over 12 years of international experience in private equity, mergers & acquisitions and corporate finance at RBS, Bank of America and Citigroup in Amsterdam, New York and London. Throughout his career, Mr. Yasin has founded, led, invested in, and advised multiple billion-dollar Internet companies globally. Mr. Yasin is the Founder and Managing Partner of Rise Capital, a global investment firm that backs Internet-enabled businesses in emerging markets. Mr. Yasin was previously a Director at Tiger Global, where he was one of three people responsible for managing the firm's private investments. Earlier in his career Mr. Yasin was the CEO of Forticom, a $1bn+ market value emerging market Internet company which he sold to Mail.ru (LSE: MAIL), and previously co-led Goldman Sachs' Internet investment banking activities in the EMEA region.