6:30 - 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 26 July 2011
The American Club, 10 Claymore Hill
Social entrepreneurship, with enterprises using business models to achieve social goals and seek a double or even triple bottom line, is one of the hottest topics today. Yet what it actually involves is often a mystery to many. You’re invited to attend the Social Entrepreneurship Forum and learn about it from some of the most experienced practitioners and experts in Singapore.
Two of our panelists have set up non-profits to assist social enterprises overseas in starting up and gaining funding, and another has actually run a successful social enterprise. The moderator for the forum is the head of the Social Enterprise Association here. Our distinguished panel will provide insights and information about this growing movement. Our moderator and panelists are:
Kenny Low
In 2002, Kenny founded City College to provide alternative education for youths who needed a second chance to complete their secondary education. In 2006 he founded O School, a dance school, to provide employment for youths, generate bursaries for City College and celebrate youth talents. To date, City College has helped more than 600 young people qualify for tertiary education and O School has become the leading street dance school in Singapore. In 2007, Kenny received the SIP-Schwab Foundation's Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Kenny graduated with a business degree from Nanyang Technological University of Singapore and earned his master’s in education management from Monash University in 2008. He is married and has two daughters.
Rob Kraybill
Robert is managing director of Impact Investment Exchange Asia, which is creating Asia’s first social stock exchange as a platform to raise investment capital for social enterprises. Robert is also a Senior Advisor to Asian Tiger Capital, a financial services firm in Bangladesh. Before joining the social capital movement, Robert spent nearly 20 years in the traditional capital markets as an advisor and investor, most recently as head of Asian private equity for Marathon Asset Management, a US$12 billion alternative investment manager. Before that, Robert was head of investment banking, Asia ex-Japan, for Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. Robert began his career at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. Robert received his B.A. magna cum laude from Princeton University and his J.D. summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. He has lived in Singapore since 2004.
Stefan Jacob
Stefan is the co-creator of BoP Hub, an organization that helps scale the impact of Base-of-the-Pyramid-focused social enterprises through strategic partnerships with corporations. He has worked with large multinationals and small start-ups and is comfortable in both the boardroom and the village hut. On the corporate side, he worked as a management consultant working with Fortune 500 companies and private equities firms before helping to start a company offering innovative financial products to the energy markets. Outside of the private sector, Stefan spent two years developing on the ground expertise through projects with social enterprises in Thailand, Cambodia, Ethiopia and Mexico. Stefan focused his undergraduate work at Harvard on Latin American development and his MBA at Berkeley on entrepreneurship and social impact.
Teo Mee Hong
Mee Hong heads the Social Enterprise Association of Singapore, the national body for the social enterprise movement, helping to give voice, focus and visibility to the social enterprise sector in Singapore. It provides a cross-sector platform to foster a positive culture for social enterprises while representing the work of its members. Mee Hong previously worked in the retail, insurance, FMCG and non-profit sectors. At NTUC, she launched the Employment and Employability Institute (e2i) and U Care Fund.
The Stanford Club of Singapore is excited to invite you to join fellow alumni and friends to meet and learn more about social entrepreneurship. Spaces are limited. To reserve your space, please send the reservation information below to Richard Hartung at rlhartung@stanfordalumni.org by 22 July 2011. For more information, please contact Richard at 9695 8210.
For registrations received by 22 July the fee is $25 for Stanford Club members, $30 for DUAL members and $35 for other alumni or guests. The fee includes light refreshments and drinks. Registrations received after 22 July will be $35 for Stanford Club members and $45 for DUAL members or guests. All payments must be made before the event.
Download the registration form here
Dr. Thomas J. Fogarty is an internationally recognized cardiovascular surgeon, inventor, entrepreneur, and vintner. Intrigued by the creativity of winemaking, he purchased and created Thomas Fogarty Winery and Vineyard, a commercial winery near the Stanford campus. Avid interests in model building and tinkering eventually joined forces with his surgical expertise, inspiring him to create one of the most innovative advances in modern biomedical engineering. Patented in 1969, the Fogarty embolectomy catheter not only revolutionized vascular surgery, it revolutionized medicine. He has also been involved with a wide spectrum of innovations in business and technology. Dr. Fogarty has served as founder/co-founder and chairman/board member of over 33 business and research companies, based on medical devices designed and developed by Fogarty Engineering, Inc. During the past 40 years, he has acquired over 100 surgical patents. Dr. Fogarty is the recipient of countless awards and honors; most significantly, he is the recipient of the Jacobson Innovation Award of the American College of Surgeons and was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame in December 2001.
