Dorjee Sun
Dorjee is a social entrepreneur who has founded 11 companies with 2 acquisitions and 3 exits and assets sales [cvMail (2000), Elevate Education (2002), AsiaGroove (2004), Honey RoastedTV (2005), Joosed (2005), Carbon Conservation (2007), Carbon Agro (2009), Whogives (2012), SnapClip (2014), Freedoms (2014) and Home Group (2014)].
Dorjee is a founder and director of the Home Group which owns equity in companies that work in the areas of conservation, agriculture, philanthropy, technology and financial innovation. Dorjee is also a founder and director of Carbon Conservation which owns equity in large scale sustainability and carbon conservation projects globally with project partners and clients such as Rio Tinto, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Olam and Twitter. One such project in Aceh, Indonesia, won the Carbon Finance Deal of the Year award and was also the subject of an award winning documentary, “The Burning Season”, narrated by Hugh Jackman which explained how orangutan conservation and avoided deforestation could be tied in to generate alternative monetary incentives. The African Rainforest Conservancy honoured Dorjee with an Earth Day Award and by naming a newly discovered blue spotted species of chameleon from the Tanzania rainforest – the “Kinyongia dorjeesuni”.
His most recent undertaking is a solution for busy undergraduates called UNSWOT – a simple idea, an enabling digital platform, to engage the students face-to-face online with a conversation, a discussion, a debate on wide ranging issues such as challenges facing UN, Australian immigration policies, international obligations and climate change. Last month, this new idea was presented to University of North South Wales Vice Chancellor Ian Jacobs and 51 other Heads of Schools.
Dorjee has also been named one of TIME Magazine’s Heroes of the Environment, a World Economic Forum Global Leaders of Tomorrow, CPA Top 20 Business Leaders, one of Esquire Magazine’s 5 Gentlemen of Philanthropy, one of the Young Leaders by The Australian newspaper, he has won the Asialink Leaders Program Alumni Award, was named an Asia Society 21 Fellow, a World Cities Summit Future Leader, is the Chairman Nexus Youth Philanthropy Singapore Conference, on the board for the Nexus Youth Philanthropy Australia Conference and his work has been covered in Wall Street Journal, Fortune, TIME, Esquire, ABC, PBS, BBC, Discovery, CNBC, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and other media outlets.
Dorjee has a law degree, commerce degree and diploma of Asian Studies (Mandarin) from the University of New South Wales, studied at North Sydney Boys High. Growing up in Sydney he now shares his time between Singapore, San Francisco, Sydney and other project locations.