Chief Executive Officer
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TRIA Pte. Ltd.
Ng Pei Kang is the CEO of TRIA, a venture-backed, sustainable and innovative foodware company. Today, TRIA’s products serve more than 200 million meals a year with clients consisting of brands such as KFC, 4Fingers and Soup Spoon. In 2019, TRIA achieved a
technology breakthrough that allows a closed-loop outcome for single-use foodware. This end-to-end solution, Bio24, could be a game changer for the packaging industry.
For her efforts on circularity, TRIA has been featured in no less than 70 media events in the last three years, which includes Plasticity (Thailand, Malaysia), Global Table (Australia), FIA Future Summit (Singapore), and being mentioned by Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister, Heng Swee Keat, at the Singapore Budget. TRIA has earned a number of accolades such as the Emerging
Enterprise Award, Pentawards, ASEAN-Korea Excellent Design Award and Singapore Packaging Star Awards. Pei Kang is an honouree on Eco-Business’s A-list for Sustainability Leadership; Tatler’s Gen.T as one of the young leaders who are shaping Asia’s future; and a juror for Singapore Good Design Award.
In his work, Pei Kang advocates the need for an outcome-driven mindset (not promise-driven) and believes that innovation is the key to drive sustainability. He believes sustainability is not a zero-sum game and how we can break the resistances in adoption is through the value-adding of innovation.