Banphot Hongthong is a businessperson who has been at the head of 5 different companies. Currently, Mr. Hongthong holds the position of Chairman for Exotic Food Public Co. Ltd., Chairman at Dhipaya Life Assurance Public Co. Ltd. and Chairman for Chumporn Palm Oil Industry Public Co. Ltd.  In the past Mr. Hongthong held the position of President at Royal Automobile Association of Thailand, Member of National Legislative Assembly, Independent Board member of Standard Chartered Bank (Thai) Public Co. Ltd., Director General-Export Promotion Department and Intellectual Property Department at Thailand Ministry of Commerce, Director General of Office of Insurance Commission, Director-Renovation Project at Thai Pueng Thai Foundation and Member of Rajamangala University of Technology Isan.  Mr. Hongthong received an undergraduate degree and a graduate degree from Northeastern University.​

Simon Gerovich is currently Chairman of Red Planet Hotels and previously founded Evolution Capital PLC, a real estate private equity firm listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand. Simon is also Founding Partner of MMXX Capital Limited, a digital asset investment management firm. Simon has been active in private equity and real estate ventures in South East Asia and in this regard he served on the boards of several listed public companies in Japan and Thailand. Being a fluent Chinese and Japanese speaker, he has spent his entire professional career in Asia. Simon was formerly an Equity Derivatives Trader at Goldman Sachs in Tokyo from 2000 to 2005. He graduated with a BA, cum laude, in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 2000.

Keng Teik Koay is Chief Financial Officer of BasisAI, a leading artificial intelligence company in the region, funded by Temasek and Sequoia, where he is responsible for fund raising, finance operations, business development and investor relations. Before joining BasisAI, he was the CFO at JustCo, a leading co-working company in Asia with 40 co-working sites in 7 countries, where he helped JustCo to raise US$250M funding from GIC, Frasers Property and Daito Trust, and spearheaded its geographic expansion from 3 countries to 7 markets. Prior to this, Keng had an investment banking and management consulting career spanning more than 15 years.  He was Managing Director with Standard Chartered Bank, responsible for origination and execution of M&A and capital market transactions for financial institutions in the region.  Keng had also held senior roles with Bain & Company, Boston Consulting Group and Credit Suisse. He was also previously an important member of the founding team of Growasia.com; Asia’s first on-line investment bank.

Keng Teik holds a MBA from Columbia University, New York, a Master of Science in Economics and Bachelor of Science in Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

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Ashish Sharma has over 20 years of experience in financial services and management consulting across several functions and geographies including the US, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia.  Ashish’s prior experience includes Strategy Consulting at McKinsey & Company and equity research at Sanford Bernstein and TIG Advisors.  More recently, he was head of Commercial Banking in Thailand for Standard Chartered Bank and Head of Transformation at Techcombank (Vietnam) .   Ashish holds an MBA in Finance from New York University Stern School of Business and a BS in computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

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  MICHAEL LEE is currently an advisor and board member to several early-stage technology-based startups in the areas of AI, Digital Mammography, enterprise field services, and digital media.

Previously, as Founder and General Partner of Rogers Venture Partners, Michael led the creation and was responsible for building out the Palo Alto, CA based venture capital fund for Canada’s largest telecommunications and media company. During this time, Michael led early-stage investments in the blockchain identity, mobile identity, content marketing, fintech digital payments, video communications, next generation television ad tech, autonomous vehicle, and mobile marketing spaces.  His previous roles at Rogers Communications spanned across technology, business development, product development, product management and ultimately he became Chief Strategy Officer for the $10B USD revenue company. Prior to joining Rogers Communications, Michael was technical co-founder for two companies in the web development and financial marketplace spaces. Michael holds a BSc from the University of Toronto specializing in Computer Science and Statistics.

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