Cindy Jia heads ING’s Sustainable Solutions Group for the Americas region, providing tailored advisory and financing solutions to support clients’ sustainability projects and goals and to scale up new sustainable technologies and markets.
Cindy is a seasoned industry professional with a career spanning across project finance, technology development, and business strategy. Prior to joining the team, Cindy led a start-up developing advanced heat exchangers and reactors for industrial applications and helped the company and its partners win multiple awards from the US Department of Energy. Cindy was also first inventor of a novel heat exchanger that was selected for funding by the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy, one the DOE’s most selective programs sponsoring transformational research, alongside the likes of MIT, GE, and Boeing.
Cindy has a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from the St. Francis School of Law. She is admitted to the California Bar.

