Jim Ayala has worked on economic development issues in emerging markets for thirty-five years in his various roles as social entrepreneur, Chief Executive Officer of a publicly listed company, management consultant, and board member of a number of NGO organizations. He believes that business and investment capital have an essential role to play in solving urgent social problems by working with other stakeholders to commercialize social innovations at the base of the economic pyramid. Through Hybrid Social Solutions Inc (a social business) and Stiftung Solarenergie Philippines (an NGO), Jim is currently building a grid-less Hybrid Solar Network across the Philipines to address the energy poverty preventing over 20 million Filipinos from improving their lives.