Jay Desan, Co-founder of BoomGrow, Malaysia
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Today\\u2019s episode is with an entrepreneur, sustainability consultant, mother and former lawyer, Jay Desan.\\xa0
\\n\\nShe is the co-founder of BoomGrow, an agritech company that is growing clean greens in Malaysia.
\\n\\nThis mother of two never expected she would be in the tech space but she did know a lot about sustainability.
\\n\\nJay said that she spent many years in the UK\\xa0 studying and understanding corporate responsibility in human rights which she later expanded to re-imagining the corporation.
\\n\\n(ESG refers to Environmental, Social and Governance, the three key factors that measure the sustainability and ethical impact of a business or company.)
\\n\\nIt made her realise how shifts and changes can happen very incrementally, starting with one person but once it\\u2019s combined with multi-stakeholders, transformation can happen.
\\n\\nShe came back to Malaysia with the idea of making a difference but with the idea of staying in academia.\\xa0
\\n\\nShe began working in the sustainability area with companies but realized just as quickly that broken systems don\\u2019t make changes happen. Structural problems hounded her and she became frustrated at how food was grown and distributed.\\xa0\\xa0
\\n\\nJay explains that they grow vegetables indoors in containers with technology that is set up to control variables such as water, light and humidity to maximize their output. With this setup, they are able to produce consistent yields for the supply chain.\\xa0
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