Vicente “”Vinci”” Nakpil-Roxas is a Filipino entrepreneur and strategic advisor working across investment banking, development finance, smart-city technology and media. He is Managing Director of The Lab, which bridges public and private sector interests through targeted investment, appropriate technology, modern local governance and data-driven development. The Lab manages the Philippine country partnership of the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance, with the World Economic Forum as secretariat. The Lab is launching its smart communities program in the Bangsamoro region (BARMM) as pilot smart provinces for BIMP-EAGA. Since 2018, Vinci has sat on the board of CIMB Bancom Capital Corporation, which provides cross-border capital markets and advisory services across ASEAN. He was previously Strategic Financial Advisor and Investment Director at Bancom II Consultants. He is also a Director of Hong Kong-based Newtech Capital Resources, which invests in smart-city businesses across Asia, and Country Representative for Carbonless Asia, a regional decarbonization investment platform. He is a Pioneer Council Member of the CoTwin Foundation as well. A film and TV producer since 2008, Vinci helped design the country’s first incentive package for foreign productions at the Film Development Council of the Philippines. In 2009 he launched the 180 Microcinema Festival, Asia’s first international online short film festival. He now sits on the board of SIKAP, the Creators Association of the Philippines, which advises the Department of Trade and Industry on structuring creative capital and infrastructure investments under the Philippine Creative Industries Development Plan.