About this speaker
Carrie is a seasoned business leader with a passion for the environment, particularly the impact of our food supply on the planet. Her expertise is in strategy and general management. She had managed major greenfield Capex projects from conception to revenue-generating operations.
Carrie co-founded Avant with Dr Mario Chin in late 2018, the first and leading cultivated fish company in Asia. At Avant, Carrie provides the vision, guides the strategy and supervises the implementation.
Avant is the first cultivated meat company in Greater China and the first cultivated fish company in Asia. Avant’s technology offers a system to produce nutritious, tasty fish and functional marine proteins directly from fish cells at economically viable costs. The group’s end-to-end technology platform also allows continuous new product development from scratch all the way to production. Avant aims to be a global leader in producing traceable and sustainably cultivated proteins in a fully contained environment for food, skincare, and functional applications. Founded in 2018, Avant now has presence in Singapore and Greater China. Avant has also been awarded Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum and featured in Reuters, Financial Times, Forbes, The Telegraph, South China Morning Post, and CCTV.
