Richard Loi

Group CEO, ecoCarbon

A senior partner at a Big 4 accounting firm with 37 years of experience, Richard brings deep experience in advising private enterprises and family-owned businesses across Asia Pacific. His background includes leadership roles in audit and advisory services, with a strong focus on governance, compliance, and long-term value creation.

Bernard Ho

Group COO, ecoCarbon

Bernard brings over 30 years of industry knowledge in Indonesia’s forestry and agribusiness sectors. His past roles include leadership in operations, land use, and compliance, with a recent focus on sustainable reforestation and landscape restoration efforts.

Sophia Ong

Group CMO, ecoCarbon

Sophia has spent over two decades in private banking and wealth advisory, working with high-net-worth clients across Asia. She has advised on complex financial transactions and held leadership roles in investment teams, with board-level experience in privately-owned enterprises.

Richard Loi

Group CEO, ecoCarbon

A senior partner at a Big 4 accounting firm with 37 years of experience, Richard brings deep experience in advising private enterprises and family-owned businesses across Asia Pacific. His background includes leadership roles in audit and advisory services, with a strong focus on governance, compliance, and long-term value creation.

Bernard Ho

Group COO, ecoCarbon

Bernard brings over 30 years of industry knowledge in Indonesia’s forestry and agribusiness sectors. His past roles include leadership in operations, land use, and compliance, with a recent focus on sustainable reforestation and landscape restoration efforts.

Sophia Ong

Group CMO, ecoCarbon

Sophia has spent over two decades in private banking and wealth advisory, working with high-net-worth clients across Asia. She has advised on complex financial transactions and held leadership roles in investment teams, with board-level experience in privately-owned enterprises.

Rowil (Buboy) Aguillon

Chief Markets Officer, CCDI

Buboy Aguillon has over 20 years of work experience with national and international NGOs and a decade of work in the corporate world.  His expertise includes organizational design and mobilization, and specializes in situational analysis and risk assessment. Buboy brings extensive experience in upland development, stakeholder engagement, and sustainable livelihoods.

Anselmo Cabrera

Deputy CEO (immediate past COO), CCDI

Ansel is a certified forester and environmental planner. He has managed natural resource and biodiversity programs for 30 years, including engagements supported by the World Bank, GIZ, and USAID. His expertise lies in environmental planning, project planning, conservation financing, stakeholder consultation, watershed management and environmental governance. 

Robert Scalia

Chief Operations Officer and Carbon Business Lead, CCDI

Robert Scalia is a sustainability professional 

specializing in carbon project design and implementation. He has led large-scale ARR 

initiatives, including a 35,000 ha project in Senegal, where he developed budgets, 

certification strategies, and secured government approvals. His experience 

includes financial modeling for reforestation projects, authoring technical plans, 

managing pilot projects with local stakeholders, and conducting environmental 

and social due diligence.

Samuel Monsalve

Chief Technical Officer

Samuel Monsalve Correa has over 10 years of experience in nature-based solutions, 

REDD+, and ARR projects across Latin America, Africa, and Asia Pacific. He has 

worked extensively with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities and previously with South Pole, leading NbS projects through Verra VCS and CCB validation and verification. His work emphasizes strong social and environmental safeguards, highquality project design, monitoring, and evaluation.

Rowil (Buboy) Aguillon

Chief Markets Officer, CCDI

Buboy Aguillon has over 20 years of work experience with national and international NGOs and a decade of work in the corporate world.  His expertise includes organizational design and mobilization, and specializes in situational analysis and risk assessment. Buboy brings extensive experience in upland development, stakeholder engagement, and sustainable livelihoods.

Anselmo Cabrera

Deputy CEO (immediate past COO), CCDI

Ansel is a certified forester and environmental planner. He has managed natural resource and biodiversity programs for 30 years, including engagements supported by the World Bank, GIZ, and USAID. His expertise lies in environmental planning, project planning, conservation financing, stakeholder consultation, watershed management and environmental governance. 

Robert Scalia

Chief Operation Officer and Carbon Business Lead, CCDI

Robert Scalia is a sustainability professional specializing in carbon project design and implementation. He has led large-scale ARR initiatives, including a 35,000 ha project in Senegal, where he developed budgets, certification strategies, and secured government approvals. His experience includes financial modeling for reforestation projects, authoring technical plans, managing pilot projects with local stakeholders, and conducting environmental and social due diligence.

Samuel Monsalve

Chief Technical Officer

Samuel Monsalve Correa has over 10 years of experience in nature-based solutions, REDD+, and ARR projects across Latin America, Africa, and Asia Pacific. He has worked extensively with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities and previously with South Pole, leading NbS projects through Verra VCS and CCB validation and verification. His work emphasizes strong social and environmental safeguards, high- quality project design, monitoring, and evaluation.

Dr Lim Boh Soon

Senior Advisor, ecoCarbon

Richard Pattle, LVO

Senior Advisor, ecoCarbon

Based in Dubai, Richard served 18 years as a combat helicopter pilot in the Royal Air Force. He was Master of the Household for Their Majesties The King and Queen of the United Kingdom until 2014, when he was appointed Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order and became Vice Chairman of Standard Chartered Private Bank. He co-founded the Indian hedge fund True Beacon, serving as CEO for five years and became Senior Advisor to ecoCarbon in 2023.

Dr Lim Boh Soon

Senior Advisor, ecoCarbon

Dr Lim, with over 28 years of financial experience in Asia, serves as an independent director on several boards in Singapore, Malaysia, and the US. He has worked with UBS Capital, NatSteel, Rothschild Ventures, and Singapore Technologies. Notably, he was the first non-Muslim CEO of Kuwait Finance House, Singapore and the first foreign CEO of Vietcombank Fund Management, where he raised two private equity funds for Vietnam's largest state-owned bank.

Richard Pattle, LVO

Senior Advisor, ecoCarbon

Based in Dubai, Richard served 18 years as a combat helicopter pilot in the Royal Air Force. He was Master of the Household for Their Majesties The King and Queen of the United Kingdom until 2014, when he was appointed Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order and became Vice Chairman of Standard Chartered Private Bank. He co-founded the Indian hedge fund True Beacon, serving as CEO for five years and became Senior Advisor to ecoCarbon in 2023.