Circle Capital

Ambika began her career covering energy policy on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. She later launched Bloomberg TV’s early emerging markets programming from London and Hong Kong before playing an instrumental role in the merger resulting in the rebranded BloombergNEF. She garnered operational experience through launching a content platform startup in India, which she then sold. She has also worked on investments, strategy and innovation for large family businesses in Hong Kong, and was most recently a fund manager with Symphony Asia, a private equity and venture capital firm in Singapore. Ambika currently serves on the board of British Tech Advisors (B.TA), an independent network partnered with the British High Commission in Singapore.

Ambika holds postgraduate degrees in International Journalism and Finance from City St George's, University of London, with an undergraduate degree in English and Politics from Gettysburg College in the US. She is passionate about sustainability, and has completed a Sustainable Finance certification from Cambridge University. Ambika also speaks several languages, and is currently learning Bahasa Indonesia.

Sonam’s experience revolves around building regulated financial infrastructure for banks, enterprises, and fintechs across Southeast Asia. His work at Ant Group, Visa, and Thunes has centred on creating trusted, scalable cross-border payment systems for emerging markets.

Raised in a small Himalayan village in Sikkim, India among cardamom farmers, Sonam’s perspective is shaped by communities whose livelihoods depend on the delicate balance of climate, soil, and finance. This background informs his work at the Manager, where he champions the principle that climate impact and commercial scale must advance together, improving the lives of those most connected to the land.

Sonam is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He is based in Singapore.

Wei Hern began his career in deals advisory at PwC Singapore, supporting M&A operational due diligence and carve-out work for clients across the APAC region. He subsequently joined Liminal (formerly Menyala), a Temasek-backed venture studio, on the fundraising team, sourcing lenders and pitching portfolio companies to venture capital firms and family offices, and authoring investment theses with a focus on ESG and emerging technologies. Wei Hern has worked on low-carbon project finance transactions across APAC, spanning financial due diligence, debt structuring, and syndication, with sector focus on renewables and industrials.

Wei Hern holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School, with a double specialisation in Finance and Business Analytics, and completed a semester exchange at ESSEC Business School in France where he studied structured finance and portfolio management.

With a keen interest in energy transition financing and carbon markets in Southeast Asia, he has completed the Bloomberg ESG certification and the World Bank Group's Investment and Finance in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs) program. Wei Hern speaks fluent English and Mandarin Chinese and is conversational in Japanese. Outside of work, he is a long-time taekwondo practitioner who currently coaches the NUS Taekwondo team on an ad-hoc basis.