About Us
Our Founders
Nayoko Kho
Host & Founder
Nayoko cares deeply about education accessibility and employability, environmental awareness, and bridging people to build impactful collaborations. He is the co-founder of Algoritma Data Science School; a school that equips individuals with data skills so that they can obtain meaningful employability and develop capabilities for corporates to prepare for future disruptions through training. You can contact him here.
Araya (Noon) Hutasuwan
Producer & Co-Founder
Araya is the Co-founder and CFO of Snapcart, a startup specializing in collecting offline data to enable Real Time Shopper Engagement through machine learning capability. Prior to Snapcart, she started her career at Thailand’s top investment bank, Phatra Securities, expanded her family business to Myanmar and was a Vice President at Ardent Capital, a venture capital based in Bangkok investing across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. You can contact her here.
Benson Kawengian
Producer & Co-Host
Benson’s passionate about well-being and joyous living. He wants to play a part in building a world where we are kinder to one another. He is the owner and CEO of Datra Group; a construction and sporting goods company with a mission to improve health and wellbeing through sports and public spaces. He is also a technology investor and aspiring property developer. Benson is an active member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization and TED communities. You can contact him here.
Our Co-Hosts
Justin Kan
Co-host
Justin is an American internet entrepreneur and investor who co-founded the law-tech company Atrium where he served as CEO. He is the co-founder of live video platforms Justin.tv and Twitch, as well as the mobile social video application Socialcam. He was formerly a partner at Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator. Justin graduated from Yale University in 2005 with a combined degree in physics and philosophy.
Daniel Kan
Co-host
Daniel is a co-founder at Cruise Automation, an American self-driving car that was acquired by General Motors for more than $1 billion and has become a subsidiary of GM. Daniel started his career by working at UserVoice (helping companies gather user feedback). He then founded Appetizely, an app for every restaurant. Prior to Cruise, Daniel ran Exec, a personal assistant on-demand with Justin.
Abhishek gupta
Co-host
Abhishek is a cofounder at Circles Asia, a revolutionary telco company based in Singapore. Prior to Circles Asia, Abhishek worked as a private equity investor with Bain Capital and Standard Chartered Private Equity across Asia, where he helped regional businesses get funding. He was also a consultant with McKinsey in Southeast Asia, specializing in the private equity and telecoms, media, and technology space.
Kiki Dhitavat
Co-host
Kiki is an ex broadcast journalist and producer/presenter turned digital marketer. She has worked with multiple leading international companies across various sectors such as CNN, Fox Asia, and Deliveroo.
Liviana Putri
Co-host
Liviani Putri is a full-time writer for Prestige Indonesia and DA MAN, a leading societal and lifestyle magazine in Indonesia. She writes various in-depth profiles with highly affluent profiles across the country and internationally specialised in covering women empowerment, environment and sustainability, social and culture, art and design, also entertainment.
Arya Harsono
Co-host
Arya Harsono is a Research Coordinator for the New Climate Economy, assisting the program with the execution of on-going research on developing authoritative evidence for the relationship between risks of climate change and economic performance. Arya joins WRI after completing his Master’s of International Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
Jan Sriyuksiri
Co-host
Jan is a Reiki Master, Sound Healer and founder of Jaan Healing. She specialises in Sound Healing, incorporating light language into her practice. She reads auras and assist her clients with bespoke spiritual guidance to ensure a positive way forward and help them tackle any issues they may face, emotional, mental or physical.
June Chen
Co-host
June Chen is a co-founder and CEO of The Sense Living, an elderly care business that aims to redefine the lives of the aging population in Thailand. She was previously an investor at Monk’s Hill Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage tech companies, primarily Series A, in Southeast Asia. June’s prior experience spans across VC investing, banking and operations at her family business.
Dewi Kusuma
Co-host
Dewi Kusuma is the founder and CEO of nakedpress, an F&B business specialising in serving vegetable cold pressed juices in Greater Jakarta area. She is passionate about healthy living, wellness, and sustainability. Prior to nakedpress, she started her career as a management trainee at HSBC and later build her career as equity research in CLSA, Macquarie, and Nomura.