Indonesia
ROMY CAHYADI
Romy Cahyadi is the Chief Executive Officer at Instellar, Indonesia. A purpose driven entrepreneur with two dogs and an abundant love for nature, he co-founded an education consulting company in 2002 which provides educational programs for schools in remote places in Indonesia. By 2012 he decided to use his experiences as an entrepreneur to help other entrepreneurs driven by their purposes to create sustainable impact for the environment and communities. This has led him to develop experiences in supporting and working with various kinds of social purpose organizations in Indonesia and abroad, including 150 community enterprises and 150 civil society organizations through various projects. Grounded in local context and culture, Romy learned from best practices in the United Kingdom and Europe to co-found Instellar in 2017 to accelerate social innovation through incubation, advisory and investment in mission driven companies. In the last 7 years Instellar has supported 300+ impact driven businesses. Instellar works with international development agencies, corporate and impact investors to run incubation and acceleration programs, and various social innovation projects with partners from the United States, Korea, Singapore, and Europe. Instellar is a certified B Corp in 2023 as the first and only impact consulting company in Indonesia to receive it. In 2023 along with a number of players he co-founded the Indonesia Impact Alliance, an association of impact investing practitioners committed to build a robust ecosystem towards impact economy and transparency.