Jolene Lum

Jolene is the Head of Business Development at Nurasa (formerly Asia Sustainable Foods Platform), a Singapore-based company dedicated to inspiring people to embrace sustainable foods by accelerating access at scale across Asia. In her role, Jolene works closely with promising food tech businesses to facilitate new industry connections and scale their growth as they advance from product development and pilot launch to commercial scale-up. She provides guidance on how to leverage Nurasa’s end-to-end enabler, operator, and investor capabilities, including the pilotscale manufacturing facilities at Nurasa’s new Food Technology Innovation Centre (FTIC).

Driven by a passion for sustainable development and innovation, Jolene founded and served as CEO of Urban Tiller, prior to joining Nurasa. Urban Tiller is a farm-to-table agritech start-up that delivers fresh, safe and sustainable produce within eight hours of harvest, with the goal of improving the resilience of local food supply chains and consumer access to environmentally friendly options. During this time, she worked with over 20 farms in Singapore at peak and served more than 500 unique customers.

Jolene’s entrepreneurial experience led her to become a Venture Builder for AgTech at Singaporean innovation firm, RENERGii, where she managed and supported regional start-ups in scaling their innovation and operational capabilities. During her tenure, she co-built and supported the operations of Feedwerkz, an insect farming enterprise for sustainable animal feeds in Singapore, and helped to establish Mycovation, one of Asia’s first mycelium alternative protein start-ups.

 Jolene received her Bachelor’s in Chemistry (Physical Science) and Comparative Literature from Yale-NUS College, and her International Baccalaureate from United World College of the Adriatic.