Pay it forward ... Catherine Ryan Hyde
Board of Directors
SEALNet, a 501(c)(3) organization in the United States, is operated primarily from the bay area by the Board of Directors, who provide oversight of the entire organization. The board is composed of a mix of students and professionals.
|
Kwee Bin Teo Founder, Web Startup Kwee Bin (K.B.) Teo, a Singaporean, is currently starting up a collaborative community site for small businesses called mymightybiz.com, where small businesses can help each other. She is based in San Francisco, California. She was formerly, a team manager with the Boston Consulting Group and an investment banker with Mergers & Acquisitions shop, Lazard & Co., based in London, UK. She was also, for a summer, the Business Development Manager of a technology company sold to IBM in 2008. Kwee Bin is the creator of the SEALNet Service Leadership Program. She has gone for several projects in Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia. She holds honor degrees from Nanyang T. University and the Harvard Business School. |
|
Kevin Teo Founding Partner, Volans Ventures Kevin is currently Founding Partner and Director of Volans Ventures . He was previously Head, East Asia at the Schwab Foundation of Social Entrepreneurship and Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum . Prior to that, he has held management positions at software startups funded by Sequoia Capital (CenterRun and Clearwell Systems), was Principal Engineer at Sun Microsystems and developer at Trilogy software. Kevin graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a MS in Information Networking, and holds a BEng in Computing from the Imperial College, London. |
|
Leng Lim Executive and Leadership Coach, Leng Lim LLC Leng Leroy Lim holds degrees from Princeton (BA), Harvard Divinity School (MDiv) Harvard Business School (MBA) where he delivered Harvard University's 350th Commencement Graduate Oration. An avid mountaineer who has led expeditions in Alaska, Leng was an interfaith chaplain at the University of California Irvine, and later a management consultant at Marakon Associates. Combining his different expertise in diverse fields, Leng is an Executive Coach who works with senior management on leadership development, and has consulted to clients in the US and Asia, including PricewaterhouseCoopers, The National University of Singapore and The California Wellness Foundation. He resides in San Francisco and Singapore. |
|
Seihout Sok Scientist, ISIS Pharmaceuticals Seihout graduated from Stanford with degrees in Chemical Engineering and is currently working at ISIS Pharmaceuticals in northern San Diego. He has been involved with SEALNet since 2005 when he was a freshman at Stanford. He co-led SEALNet Service Project Cambodia 2006, in which he returned to serve his old secondary school in Phnom Penh. In addition, he was also involved in Project Cambodia 2007 and 2009 to help reviving traditional art in his country. Seihout loves to hang out with SEALNet folks because these folks are amazing and selfless individuals who sincerely care about their friends, family and community. During his free time, Seihout enjoys reading, playing tennis and basketball. |
|
Ngọc Tú Thuỳ Ngô , Yola Institute Originally from Vietnam, Tu Ngo, a public policy major, co-led Project Cambodia 2006 and Project Vietnam 2007. Through SEALNet and various service experiences in Vietnam, she has learned that besides passion, knowledge, leadership, and networking are all important to creating changes. With an additional interest in business and organizational management, her ambition is to utilize and modify business concepts to create efficient and sustainable social enterprises. She also loves photography, documentary films, blogging, googling, listening to stories, and spending time with her family and friends. |
|
Lorra de la Paz Student, Stanford University Lorra is a Filipino sophomore majoring in Economics at Stanford. She has a keen interest in development economics, studying poverty and social entrepreneurship. Outside of the classroom, she enjoys planning all types of excursions from birthday to trips to SF. In her free time she enjoys taking photos, swimming and listening to people's stories. Lorra had an amazing experience being a member of Project Philippines 2007, which inspired her to co-lead Project Philippines 2008. She thinks PP08 is a wonderful way to give back to her country, strengthen her love for the Philippines, show others what the Philippines has to offer and lastly, inspire the Filipino youth.
|
|
Art Tosborvorn Student, Stanford University Art is a sophomore majoring in Mathematical and Computational Science. Art enjoys playing frisbee, badminton, and squash. He also enjoys taking photos and playing music when he has time. Thai food is his favorite; the second being free food. He participated in Project Thailand 2006 and co-led Project Philippines 2007. |
|
Andrew Plan Student, Stanford University Andrew Plan is a sophomore at Stanford University, majoring in Human Biology and minoring in Music, Science, and Technology. He is a newcomer to SEALNet, joining after being inspired by the extraordinary people he met in the organization and their unifying passion for Southeast Asia. A Filipino-American born and raised in Texas, Andrew is also an aspiring musician, writing guitar-driven songs and performing across campus. |
|
Ping Punyakumpol Student, Stanford University Chanya Punyakumpol (Ping) is a freshman at Stanford University. She enjoys swimming, playing tennis and squash in her free time. Before coming to Stanford, she spent 18 years in Bangkok Thailand, where she was born. She also spent a year at Exeter, NH as a senior in Phillips Exeter Academy. Ping is currently undecided about her major. However, her potential majors are between Economics and MCS (Mathematical and Computational Science). |