Nanette Medved-Po is the founder and chairwoman of the HOPE and PCX Groups. HOPE (Generation HOPE Inc. and Friends of HOPE, Inc) invests 100% of its profits to improve public school education infrastructure, agriculture interventions for smallholder farmers, and environmental initiatives in both the plastic waste and carbon sequestration spaces.

As an impact company, HOPE has been certified the Philippines' first B Corporation for meeting the highest standards of social and environmental transparency and accountability. HOPE has likewise been recognized by PriceWaterhouseCoopers with its Grand Prize for Developmental Social Enterprise and was also awarded the Best New Brand and Best CSR by the Global Bottled Water Awards. PCX (Plastic Credit Exchange LLC and PCX Solutions, Inc.) is the world’s first non-profit plastic credit program. Founded in one of the epicenters of the plastic pollution crisis, the Philippines, PCX Solutions advises companies around the world on how to map out and execute comprehensive solution sets effectively over a partner’s sustainability journey.

PCX was the first in the world to establish a Plastic Pollution Reduction Standard and serves a global ecosystem of carefully vetted partners that responsibly recover, process, and recycle plastic waste with programs that improve livelihood, scale up social impact, and reduce the flow of plastic pollution into nature.

Nanette serves on the Board of Trustees of the WWF Philippines, on the Board of The Hunger Project, and on the Board of Directors of Winrock International. She received the NGO Leadership Award and Social Innovation Leadership Award from the Philippines Leadership Awards and was also honored as one of Forbes’ Heroes of Philanthropy.

Nanette graduated Summa Cum Laude with degrees in Finance and Entrepreneurship from Babson College in Massachusetts.

- Currently leads the Geocycle Philippines Team in working towards making our future a better place for our future generations through rethinking waste and define new and innovative ways to manage it, contributing to a more circular and regenerative economy.

- Chemical Engineer working in waste management industry for more than 15 years with background in operations, technical, strategy development and project conceptualization & business development in Geocycle;

- Doing waste management consultation through Asian Development Bank for national government agencies like NEDA and PPP Center.

Commissioner Crispian Lao is the Vice Chairman of the National Solid Waste Management Commission under the Office of the President, Republic of the Philippines, as the Private Sector Representative for the Recycling Industry. He is a strong advocate for the environment through proper waste management and the development of enabling policies to promote appropriate, technologically and economically viable investments and support Small and Medium Enterprises in the Philippines.

He is a Co-Convener and Founding President of the Philippine Alliance for Recycling and Material Sustainability (PARMS), a multi-stakeholder organization of renowned brand owners, industry groups, supply and waste value chain with civil society and academe in partnership with government (Manufacturers, Industry Groups, Retail Groups, MRFS/Junkshops/Waste Consolidators & Haulers, Recyclers, NGOs, and Government Entities) whose objective is to “Develop and Implement a Holistic & Comprehensive Program to Increase Resource Recovery and Reduce Landfill Dependence towards Zero Waste”. In 2020, PARMS launched and is now implementing its “ZERO WASTE TO NATURE: AMBISYON 2030” initiative and roadmap with short (2022) medium (2025) and long term (2030) targets to guide sound and implementable actions on single use product and packaging applications towards Sustainable Consumption and Production and Circular Economy.

Within APEC, Mr. Lao also serves as the Co-Chair and Industry Sector Representative to the APEC Virtual Working Group on Marine Debris, and is also a technical working group member of the Climate Change Commission; board member of the Solid Waste Management Association of the Philippines; a Technical Committee member of the Bureau of Product Standards; a member of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry Environment and Climate Change Committee; and past president of the Philippine Plastics and Industry Association.

In addition to his several professional memberships, Commissioner Lao received and conducts trainings on Solid Waste Management, 3Rs, Sustainable Materials Management, Circular Economy, Waste to Energy, Mercury Waste Recycling, among others. Because of his extensive professional experience, he also does consultancy work, project management and plant design, and is regularly invited as a resource speaker on the environment, packaging and emerging technologies. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in De La Salle University, the Philippines.

He is part of the UN Ad Hoc Open Ended Experts Group on Marine Litter, attends the UNEP Marine Plastics Expert Workshops, one of the global expert panel group panel that led to the publication of the Study on “Breaking the Plastic Wave” released in the Science Magazine in 2020; and a Technical Advisory Group member of the Global Review on Safer End of Engineered Life; a member of UN-Habitat Healthy Oceans and Clean Cities Initiative (HOCCI)’s Project Advisory Committee and regularly invited as a global and local resource person on Solid Waste Management. He is a member of ISO Technical Committee 61 (Plastics) and Technical Committee 323 (Circular Economy) member and a Certified BERDE (Green Building) Professional.

Background
► In BNV’s 17 years working with SGV & Co. as an accounting advisor and a sustainability practitioner, he has provided audit and accounting support on
matters such as audit remediation and readiness, new accounting standards, transactions accounting, and other finance agenda to both local and
ASEAN clients. He has assisted a wide array of clients in understanding and identifying key sustainability issues and has led sustainability advisory and
assurance matters on areas such as climate change, sustainable finance, circular economy and sustainability reporting including review and/or audit
of related reports or disclosures on non-financial information.

Experience
► Experienced in audits of companies reporting under International Financial Reporting Standards, US GAAP and SOX 404 audits of internal control
over financial reporting.
► Led multiple yearly audits and quarterly reviews of local and foreign entities including publicly listed companies from various industries such as
those in the power distribution, power generation, renewable energy, oil and gas exploration, industrial water supply, real estate,
telecommunications, semiconductor, land development industries and educational institutions, among others.
► Provides accounting support, advice and training to various clients regarding audit remediation and readiness, new accounting standards (i.e., PFRS
15, Revenue; PFRS 9, Financial Instruments; PFRS 16, Leases), service concession arrangements, share or asset purchase agreements, transaction
accounting, corporate treasury, finance digital transformation, compilation support, payroll accounting, sales certifications, accounting and
financial reporting policies, collection and processing audit, among other special matters.
► Provides advisory and assurance services on publicly-listed companies’ non-financial reporting and integrated reporting in compliance with the
SEC’s Guidelines on Sustainability Reporting and BSP’s Circulars on Sustainable Finance.
► Provides non-financial reporting assurance in accordance with the Philippines Standards on Assurance Engagements 3000 (PSAE 3000) to evaluate
companies’ compliance with plastic offset / credit issuance.
► Led and provided sustainability and non-financial reporting assistance and assurance services, sustainable finance transformation and frameworks
advisory services, as well as sustainability bonds verification services, waste management assurance, process assurance, plastic offset assurance
and plastic footprint audit and assurance services, technical advisory and official tabulation services, and climate change advisory services such as
the implementation of a low carbon energy program in the ASEAN region and GHG emissions baselining, for various local and foreign clients.
► He is a member of SGV’s Accounting Standards Group and the Capital Markets Center, as well as SGV’s Sustainable Actions for Value-Creation and
Enablement (SAVE) Council, leading the Firm in the implementation of sustainability initiatives.
► He has attended sustainability-related sessions organized by the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
► He has been a resource speaker for various sustainability webinars and is a contributor to various Business World articles on sustainability.
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