About Us
Who are We?
We have a vision to alleviate relative poverty by technologically enabling the underserved and unbanked communities in Thailand and Greater Mekong sub region to be connected to knowledge and wealth. We will provide these communities with access to affordable finance by building an ecosystem which will enable them to seamlessly connect, engage and interact.
What will we stand for?
We are a for profit organisation, doing business with the highest amount of integrity and fairness. We strive to improve lives through knowledge. Thus our core values are: Integrity, Fairness and Learning.
Committed to Access
We will create a digital platform for accessible finance to those who are well deserved and attracting borrowers who want to , continuous learn and connect to pools of wealth by using technological advance and alternative methods.
Our Key Team
Lyn Kok
Ray Duggins
Ray Duggins
Lyn has over 30 years of banking experience, across 9 countries. Her last posting was as President & CEO of Standard Chartered Bank (Thailand) from which she oversaw 5 countries, ie. CLMV and Thailand. A passion to make a difference, she has initiated market entry into several new markets and products for Standard Chartered Bank. More recently she is an investor and advisor to several tech starts ups.
Ray Duggins
Ray Duggins
Ray Duggins
Ray has 30+ years experience in consumer lending. Ray worked at American Express, Standard Chartered Bank and GE Capital's consumer business. At both GE Capital and Standard Chartered, Ray was Global Chief Risk Officer. More recently he is CRO with Octane Lending, a disruptive power sports financier in the USA.
Mark Archer
Ray Duggins
Phisit Sucharitsopit
Mark has over 30+ years experience in consumer lending risk. He has served as Standard Chartered Bank Global Chief Operating Officer, Consumer Banking Risk. Previously, as Senior Vice President at Morgan Stanley/Discover, he oversaw collection operations, authorization risk and fraud strategy across a multi-billion dollar credit card portfolio. He has also spent more than 20 years at General Electric, his last posting as Chief Risk Officer, Asia.
Phisit Sucharitsopit
Phisit Sucharitsopit
Phisit Sucharitsopit
Phisit has over 25 years of experience in financial services sector, with focused expertise in IT systems and transactional banking products at IBM, Citibank, JP Morgan, Standard Chartered and CIMB. At Citibank and JP Morgan, Phisit coverage expanded across Asia Pacific and most latterly, Phisit had a management role as Head of Transaction Banking Group at CIMB (Thai) and Head of Cash Management Services at Standard Chartered Bank (Thai).
Jarumanee Nakasiri
Phisit Sucharitsopit
Jarumanee Nakasiri
Jarumanee (Cherry) has over 20 years of banking experience. After obtaining MBA from Darden School of Business, University of Virginia under BOT scholarship, she spent 7.5 years in Reserve and Risk Management at BOT. In the last 13 years, Jarumanee experience span covers corporate and business strategy and planning both at Standard Chartered and Siam Commercial Bank, covering all segments including retail, SME and corporate. She was also the project lead for Standard Chartered's Financial Crime Risk Mitigation Programme in Thailand, Myanmar, Laos & Cambodia.
Bruce Ogden
Phisit Sucharitsopit
Jarumanee Nakasiri
Bruce has close to 30 years of retail banking experience, including 16 years in retail risk management. Bruce has worked across 3 geographies, with Standard Chartered Bank, Citibank and American Express. His expertise are in areas of risk data analytics, risk management and collections strategies. Most recently Bruce was at UOB (Thailand) where as Head of Risk and Decision Management, he was responsible for performing analysis, segmentation and modelling for the retail and SME lending portfolios, which included leveraging internal big data and third party data sources to maximize opportunity for predictive risk decisions.
Ittichai Kojorntanakit
Ittichai Kojorntanakit
Ittichai Kojorntanakit
Ittichai (Itt) was most recently a strategic investment manager at Siam Commercial Bank. A graduate of University of Chicago with a Masters of Science, Financial Mathematics and Thammasat University, Itt, a talent for Siam Commercial Bank has spent the last 9 years in various roles, starting as a management trainee at Siam Commercial Bank.
Key Advisors
Banphot Hangthong
Banphot Hangthong
Banphot Hangthong
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 P
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
Banphot Hangthong
Banphot Hangthong
Simon is currently Red Planet Hotel Group Executive Chairman and previously founded Evolution Capital PLC, listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand. Before founding Red Planet, Simon was 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 J
Simon is currently Red Planet Hotel Group Executive Chairman and previously founded Evolution Capital PLC, listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand. Before founding Red Planet, Simon was 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
Banphot Hangthong
Keng Teik Koay
Keng Teik Koay is currently Chief Financial Officer at JustCo, Asia’s leading premium co-working space operator where he led multiple fundraising rounds and M&A efforts across the region – including the strategic partnership and joint investment of US$177 million with GIC and Frasers Property as well as a combined investment of US$74 mi
Keng Teik Koay is currently Chief Financial Officer at JustCo, Asia’s leading premium co-working space operator where he led multiple fundraising rounds and M&A efforts across the region – including the strategic partnership and joint investment of US$177 million with GIC and Frasers Property as well as a combined investment of US$74 million from Daito Trust in 2019. More recently, he was appointed Special Advisor to CXA, a leading regional insuretech and Asia’s first employee ecosystem platform for better health, wealth and wellness choices. Before joining JustCo, Keng Teik had over 20 years of investment banking and management consulting experience, including Managing Director and Head of Southeast Asia Financial Institutions Group Investment Banking for Standard Chartered. Keng Teik also held senior roles with Bain & Company, Boston Consulting Group and Credit Suisse. He was previously a founding member of Growasia.com; Asia’s first on-line investment bank. He holds an MBA (Dean’s List) from Columbia Business School, New York and 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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