Innovation With Lasting Impact

George has made a career of coordinating teams of professionals for optimum results. With more than 35 years of experience in business, mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnering, manufacturing, technology development and more, George has spearheaded successful start-ups across industries from manufacturing and software applications to hazardous waste remediation and land development.

Well-seasoned in doing business at all levels, George has overseen the acquisition of 18 companies and the opening of overseas subsidiaries. Many of the companies he founded remain international leaders in their fields today.

Sufiyan brings more than 12 years of experience helping organizations strengthen financial reporting, improve controls, and support better business decisions. An ACCA member, his work spans financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, analytics, and performance reporting. He has led initiatives in financial modeling, variance analysis, dashboard reporting, and process improvement that have delivered measurable gains in forecasting accuracy, reporting speed, and cost optimization.

Mary Ellen, Co-founder, has spent 35 years connecting dots across industries — academia, manufacturing, consulting, trust banking, non-profit healthcare, and medical research. She founded a graphic arts firm serving advertising, corporate marketing, and film, then rose to President of an award-winning film design company. Trained in architectural and environmental design with a focus on green, medical, and childcare facilities, she brings creative vision and practical systems thinking in equal measure. She translates complex environmental technologies into clear strategies and straight talk that drives real engagement and collaboration.

Richard brings more than 25 years of experience spanning academia, corporate valuation, and sustainable investment. A senior vice president at GARP and former finance professor, he has advised governments and institutions on project finance and risk management across Africa, Asia, and the United States. His focus with Watts Matter is the alignment of capital flows with sustainable industrial development and circular-economy growth. He holds a PhD in Finance and is a Chartered Financial Analyst and certified Financial Risk Manager.

Shoaib started his first business with less than £100 in his pocket and built it into an award-winning million-pound concern. A chartered accountant formerly with PricewaterhouseCoopers, he has helped hundreds of businesses build sound financial functions while offering growth strategy, business plans, financial accounting, and modeling. Over more than 20 years he has built more than a dozen ventures spanning accounting firms, pharmaceuticals, SaaS applications, and SuperApps, with a track record of disrupting established business models.

Malcolm is an Engineering and Commercial Management Professional — a qualified I.Eng., MIET, and MCMI with a Professional Diploma in Management — specializing in engineering, project delivery, and contract recovery. He served for a decade as VP and MD of Siemens Thailand’s networks business, and held senior roles with Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent managing high-value telco infrastructure contracts. Based in APAC since 1992, he has led commercial operations across Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Africa.

Pongpon is a Business Development and Executive Management Professional with degrees in Accounting, Law, and Business Administration. He has held senior roles in both local and international companies, with a focus on developing new business opportunities across Thailand, Indo-China, and the Middle East. He brings direct experience in IT, telecom, and international trade, including the establishment of overseas vendors in Thailand, and has built relationships at senior executive, government ministry, and military leadership levels on strategic commercial initiatives.

Nick has spent more than 30 years working across five continents and 40 countries, including senior roles at General Motors, Chevron, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Mott MacDonald, plus consulting for the World Bank and UNOPS. He is a Chartered Purchasing and Supplies Professional, CPA, Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Public Secretary, and Certified Information Systems Auditor, with a Master’s in Procurement, Logistics and Supply Chain Management. His current business interests span clean cooking, e-mobility, green energy, and smart agriculture.

Alex earned an engineering degree, pursued a successful acting career, then returned to business — bringing the discipline of one and the people-instincts of the other to his work. He has applied his technical skills across ventures including an air purification system for businesses during COVID-19, the development of a new industrial park in Guatemala, and a bone broth brand focused on health and wellness. As Watts Matter's Partner for Latin America since 2010, he has led business development across the region and built the relationships and on-the-ground presence that anchor the company's work there.

Feriel's work centers on HVAC efficiency, energy efficiency, and thermal insulation. Her engineering bridges thermal performance and renewable integration — designing buildings to use less energy and to use renewable energy better. She holds a degree in engineering and a specialized certificate in Efficient HVAC Systems from Delft University of Technology. With Mehdi Zerhouni, she is piloting a system that captures excess solar PV output for heating and cooling.

Victor is a Civil Engineer and Director of Hidroc de Guatemala S.A., an engineering consulting firm he founded in 1993. With more than three decades of experience, he specializes in delivering infrastructure projects across Guatemala and the region, covering the full lifecycle from feasibility analysis to detailed design and supervision. HIDROC has developed particular expertise in power generation and transmission, public and private lighting, and integrated project management, serving both public- and private-sector clients.

Mehdi specializes in renewable energy and energy systems, with a focus on evaluating return on investment for renewable energy projects and assessing mitigation costs of energy initiatives within environmental constraints. He is trained as an engineer and holds specialized certificates from Harvard University, École Polytechnique de Paris, and the Technical University of Denmark. With Feriel Bouhali, he won the top national honor for the design of a device that produces biogas from household waste.

Lee brings decades of hands-on engineering and commercial management experience, shaped by a career spanning New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Southeast Asia. After ten years teaching building services at Port Moresby Technical College, he settled in Thailand, where he has lived for more than 30 years. He has directed engineering operations in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Malaysia, specialising in complex building systems, and as head of electrical engineering for a major Thai construction firm he managed profitability, cost control, and cross-disciplinary coordination on major developments.