Jolene is currently the Client Development Manager at Nurasa, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek, and has been enthusiastically working in the sustainable food industry for most of her career. She is the food start-ups’ go-to for collaborations, on how to leverage Nurasa’s upcoming Food Tech Innovation Centre (FTIC), and on how food businesses can benefit from Nurasa’s end-to-end solutions for scale-up manufacturing and go-to-market support. Jolene was previously an agtech venture builder, as well as serving as Founder & CEO of Urban Tiller, where she connected viable urban farming with hyper local supply chains. She also co-built and ran a Singapore insect farming enterprise for sustainable animal feeds and helped to create one of Asia’s first mycelium alternative protein start-ups.