Our Advisors support us through providing their expertise and insights. With their advice, we are able to improve our business model and expand our network, in turn growing the impact that our social enterprises bring. Thank you for #leaningin with us!
Lizzy Hawkins
Lizzy Hawkins became interested in social enterprise while working in the business Ministry of the British Government. She was inspired by the many ingenious approaches that social entrepreneurs have adopted to address social problems. When she arrived in Singapore after two years as Director of Trade at the British Embassy in Jakarta, she was delighted to join Laina and Audrey in realizing the A.I. mission.
Marliany Hardi
Marliany Hardi is a finance professional with more than 20 years of experience in operational and investment finance in the technology industry. She has managed start up companies, managing Asia Pacific diverse markets, and worked in global business units.
Professor Shonali Krishnaswamy
Prof Shonali Krishnaswamy is the CTO of AIDA Technologies (www.aidatech.io) and Deputy Director of the Data Science Research Institute, Swinburne University of Technology.
Shonali was the Head of Data Analytics at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. She led a team of post doctoral data scientists, and established and directed analytics-focused R&D labs in a number of sectors including Banking, Insurance, Telecommunications and Healthcare.
Before joining A*STAR, Shonali was an Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Distributed Systems and Software Engineering in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia. Her R&D interests are in Mobile User Analytics and Mobile and Distributed Data Stream Mining.
In recognition of her contributions, she has received several awards including: Monetary Authority of Singapore Fintech Hackcelerator Winner (2016), Institute of Engineers Singapore (IES) Prestigious Engineering Award (2015 & 2016), Institute for Infocomm Research Role Model Award (2013), IBM Innovation Award (2008), Monash University Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher (2009), and an Australian Research Council Australian Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2003-2005).
Shonali was the Head of Data Analytics at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. She led a team of post doctoral data scientists, and established and directed analytics-focused R&D labs in a number of sectors including Banking, Insurance, Telecommunications and Healthcare.
Before joining A*STAR, Shonali was an Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Distributed Systems and Software Engineering in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia. Her R&D interests are in Mobile User Analytics and Mobile and Distributed Data Stream Mining.
In recognition of her contributions, she has received several awards including: Monetary Authority of Singapore Fintech Hackcelerator Winner (2016), Institute of Engineers Singapore (IES) Prestigious Engineering Award (2015 & 2016), Institute for Infocomm Research Role Model Award (2013), IBM Innovation Award (2008), Monash University Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher (2009), and an Australian Research Council Australian Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2003-2005).