About Us

Utilize Lands & Create Green Spaces

About us

We Are Tercio

Envisioning a Better Tomorrow

Embracing impactful and sustainable practices throughout its business operations, Tercio constantly searches for ways to resolve pressing environmental matters. Here, our focus is not just the environmental impacts but also the social and economic benefits can bring to the society.

Places Life Can Enjoy

Our target is to utilize land in arid environment, mountains, and semiarid deserts, creating green spaces to grow and live. Places with less desirable conditions, using recycled wastes to build roads and infrastructures. Together afforestation with planting, farming, and later soil carbon storage, as a new income source for the locals through collaborative approach.

Every Action Counts

We believe tree planting and reforestation are efficacious practices to sequester carbon in the atmosphere, restore ecosystems and improve soil health. AIPA, our first creation under UTOPIER to combat climate change by growing trees in dry environment like desert, restore nature and biodiversity on arid land, and build inhabit places under less desirable conditions. We encourage individuals to reduce their carbon footprint within local communities through the adaptation of a more sustainable lifestyle for enhancing the quality of life and be a sustainable influencer across all levels.

Vision

To provide simple yet impactful solutions for individuals and corporates, effectively reducing their impact on the planet.

Mission

We strive to be a balancing force in matters related to the environment and society. At UTOPIER, we plant new trees to combat global warming and climate change, exploring channels to absorb atmospheric carbon and lock it up, collaborate with corporates to cut back carbon emissions and regenerate value. From global plans to local actions, we integrate ideas, innovation, knowledge, and technology to become part of the global actions toward a greener, sustainable future.

The Roadmap

Sustainable Development Mindmap

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Our Team

Cannis Yu

Co-founder
and CEO

Travis Hatch

Co-founder and CEO (U.S. & Mexico)

Adriana De León

Chief Chemist,
R&D

Dr. Muhammad
Shakeel Ahmad

Consultant

Dr. Natasha
Lee Hai Yen

Consultant

Professor Dr.
Sazaly Abu Bakar

Consultant

Dr. Immo
A. Hansen​

Consultant

Dr. Liang,
Chia-Hua​

Consultant

HK

MY

US

MX

TW

Cannis Yu

Co-founder and CEO

Having over 10 years of experience in project management, her work revolves around business operations, production planning, global distribution, and client servicing. She is capable of executing special projects and requests, and also specializes in producing items for hotels and airlines.

The recent pandemic has forced her to stop and feel. She noticed the worsening impacts of our climate-changed world. A hotter world, rising sea levels, powerful typhoons, frequent wildfires, floods, droughts, etc.

After a discussion, she helmed the execution of a new project, UTOPIER, in 2022. This sustainable development aims to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere to limit global warming, in exchange for more climate-friendly moments and fresher air. Moreover, our direction is aligned with the UN’s SDGs across all levels, exploring ways to implement the three main objectives of SDGs.

Utopier

Cannis Yu

Co-founder and CEO

Travis Hatch

Co-founder and CEO (U.S. & Mexico)

Travis holds more than 20 years of experience in producing and providing world-class chemical solutions to the manufacturing industry. He runs between the United States and Mexico to ensure products manufactured under his facilities are safe, clean, and reliable.

Carbon dioxide is the most commonly produced greenhouse gas. As more customers become aware of the importance of being environmentally responsible, he foresees such opportunities and starts building sustainable business practices for manufacturing, operations, and supply chains. Travis devotes his passion to assisting corporates in reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 for a greener, cleaner, and healthier world.

Travis Hatch

Co-founder and CEO (U.S. & Mexico)

Adriana De León

Chief Chemist, R&D

Adriana has over 10 years of experience in chemical engineering, mainly in delivering specialty chemical products to the automotive and oil industries. Her role here is to improve the quality of products and procedures while ensuring safety, to develop and manufacture products and processes that cope with company’s direction and be able to communicate with our partners worldwide on issues relating to the use of eco-friendly, sustainable chemicals, as well as the development of sustainable packaging.

Adriana De León

Chief Chemist, R&D

Dr. Muhammad Shakeel Ahmad

Consultant

Dr. Muhammad Shakeel is a senior lecturer at the University of Malaya under the UM Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC). His primary focus is on renewable energy materials, energy integration systems, hydrogen technologies as well as green and clean energy. Furthermore, he is the co-inventor of the patent, An Irrigating Planter Assembly.

Dr. Muhammad Shakeel Ahmad

Consultant

Dr. Natasha Lee Hai Yen

Consultant

Dr. Natasha Lee is a senior lecturer at the University of Malaya under the Tropical Infectious Diseases Research and Education Centre (TIDREC). Natasha’s areas of expertise include Vaccinology, Genomics, and Bacteriology. She is also the co-developer of the “GRAZE” Biofertilizer Project.

Dr. Natasha Lee Hai Yen

Consultant

Professor Dr. Sazaly Abu Bakar

Consultant

Professor Dr. Sazaly is the Director of the Tropical Infectious Diseases Research and Education Centre (TIDREC) and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus Research and Reference (Dengue and Severe Dengue) at the University of Malaya. He played a significant role in establishing Malaysia’s first fully certified modular biocontainment level 3 laboratory (BSL3) and, most recently, the country’s first fully certified mobile BSL3.

Professor Dr. Sazaly obtained his PhD and training in virology at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA. Over the years, he developed a strong research interest in emerging infectious diseases, especially vector-borne diseases. He is also the co-developer of the NYAMOS insect repellent technology.

Professor Dr. Sazaly Abu Bakar

Consultant

Dr. Immo A. Hansen

Consultant

Dr. Immo is a professor at New Mexico State University (NMSU) under the Department of Biology and is the Principal Investigator at The Hansen Lab. He has conducted extensive research in the areas of molecular biology, molecular physiology, signal transduction, and cell biology of disease-transmitting mosquitoes and other blood-sucking arthropods.

Dr. Immo A. Hansen

Consultant

Dr. Liang, Chia-Hua

Consultant

Dr. Liang, Chia-Hua is currently a professor at the Department of Cosmetic Science and Institute of Cosmetic Science, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science (CNU). She has worked on cosmetics application and management, and cosmetics development and application research. Also, she specializes in beauty biotechnology, functional food, product testing, and functional evaluation.

Dr. Liang, Chia-Hua

Consultant