Chavapas Ongmahutmongkol (Joe) is a founder of Quadriga Private Equity and Quadriga Advisory, a leading strategic and financial advisory firm advising Boards and C-Suite officers on various top-management issues.

He is one of Thailand’s leading management consultants and for the past 20+ years, has been advising a range of clients ranging from General Motors, Temasek (NOL/APL), PTT PLC, PTTGC, ThaiOil, Intouch, Siam Cement Group, Thai Airways Catering, Bangkok Aviation Fuel Services (BAFS), Tipco Foods, ThaiWah, Siam Commercial Bank, Krung Thai Bank, Osotspa, Singha, Dusit Thani, Airports of Thailand, BTS, Sharp Corporation (Thailand), Marubeni Corporation, Prudential Insurance, etc. He is also a founder of PrimeStreet Advisory Group, PrimeStreet Consulting, and was a former consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

Chavapas serves on various public and private Boards including Karmarts PCL, B-52 Capital PCL, Jakpaisarn Estate PCL. He previously taught Management Consulting at the Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy at Chulalongkorn University for over 10 years.

He is also a founder of the Bangkok Venture Club, Thailand’s largest active angel investor group, and a founding member of the ASEAN Angels Alliance, a partnership of angel groups across 8 ASEAN countries. His personal investments have included start-ups in the fintech, marketplace, health & beauty sectors. He is also a co-founder of the HBS Alumni Angels, Thailand Chapter.

Chavapas has served as an advisor/mentor/judge for various business plan/case competitions including the 1st DTAC Accelerate, UnLtd Thailand by ChangeFusion, Banpu Champions for Change, Magnolia’s iCare creative social business contest, Climate Cool by British Council, Ashoka’s Youth Venture, Thailand Social Enterprise Office (TSEO), Chulalongkorn International Case Competition (CICC), Thammasat University Business Case Competition (TUBC), MAI Bangkok Businss Challenge @Sasin, Hong Kong PolyU Innovation & Entrepreneurship Global Student Challenge, Topica Founders Institute (Vietnam), Korea Venture Capital Association, Tigers@Mekong, etc.

He received his MBA from the Harvard Business School on a Fulbright Scholarship and currently serves on the global Harvard Alumni Association Board, and as President of the Harvard Club of Thailand and Vice-President of the Harvard Business School Association of Thailand. He formerly served as President of the Thai Fulbright Association and on the Board of the Thailand-U.S. Educational Foundation (TUSEF).

Choedpong is a Principal at Quadriga Private Equity. Choedpong is a Stanford graduate and was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company (USA).

Choedpong’s expertise is in finance and strategy of technology-based businesses, innovation-led growth strategy, venture building, and perspectives from digital transformation. Choedpong was previously also a Program Manager at Microsoft in Redmond, WA, USA; a Product Director at Kaidee.com, Bangkok, Thailand; and a tech startup entrepreneur at Phuket Application Co. Ltd., Phuket, Thailand. Additionally, Choedpong runs venture building programs and innovation capability building programs for many well-known clients, including AP, PEA, ThaiCom, GECS, PTT GC, Gulf, etc.

At McKinsey, Choedpong developed expertise in operations optimization of large commercial banks, having crafted strategies that delivered hundreds of millions of dollars. At Microsoft, Choedpong drove new product bring-ups with hardware partners often with non-traditional revenue models, driving hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue growth from new product features. At Kaidee, Choedpong led the transformation of the product team from project-based to product-led, imbuing it with innovation practices, and led the design and creation of platform-wide revenue-generating features. At Phuket Application, Choedpong built a tourism platform startup from scratch, which matches independent travelers with local boat operators for extraordinary experiences.

Besides his professional responsibilities, Choedpong serves as Vice President and Treasurer of the Stanford Alumni Club of Thailand, created a course in Product Management at Thammasat University, occasionally teaches at KMITL, MFL, PSU, and other universities on the topics of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial finance, negotiation; and runs an AI research project creating a new core technology for smart city solutions.

Hardy is a Principal at Quadriga Private Equity. He is a graduate of Columbia University and the Wharton School (MBA), University of Pennsylvania. Hardy was a Senior Principal, Asian Industrial Goods Practice at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and a Principal in A.T.Kearney’s Asian Automotive Practice.

Hardy’s expertise is in industrial goods, automotive, and supply-chain logistics. Later, he served as a Member of the Global Account Management Leadership team in Asia Pacific for TNT Express Worldwide N.V. He then joined DKSH (Thailand) as the Executive Business Director for FMCG Logistics and Supply Chain. Hardy later formed TVS Logistics Siam as a management shareholder and served as Managing Director and was concurrently Vice President, South Asia of TVS Asianics Supply Chain Solutions based in Singapore.

Most recently, Hardy headed up the Commercial Operations of Thai Yarnyon Intersales, a multi-billion (revenue), leading luxury van converter based in Bangkok, Thailand.

Supachai was previously a senior consultant at AON Consulting and holds an MBA from the University of Maryland at College Park.

Prior to joining Quadriga, Supachai was a marketing professional with over 20 years of experience in FMCG, retail, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, biotechnology, and insurance.

His areas of expertise include Marketing Strategy, Marketing Research, Brand Management, Sales Promotion Management, Trade Marketing, Network Marketing, Advertising, and Consumer Research.

Supachai was a marketing executive at Kao Commercial (Thailand), where he doubled the market share of Feather Shampoo in 1994.

Supachai is also a holder of the Certified Professional Marketer from Asia Pacific Marketing Federation as well as a Fellow Chartered Financial Practitioner from Asia Pacific Financial Services Association.

He is also a lifetime member at Marketing Association of Thailand (MAT). He has been awarded the Marketing Excellence Award for his outstanding achievement at Abbott Laboratories.

Dr. Pichawadee Kittipanya-ngam (Gate) is a Principal at Quadriga Private Equity and Quadriga Advisory, a leading strategic investment firm that focuses on high-growth SMEs and startups. She is also an associate professor at Thammasat Business School and has been lecturing for 10+ years.

She has many years of experience in management consulting and investment banking and advises a range of clients in industries from education, hospitality, property, and technology. In addition, she also oversees and executes M&A projects for private equity funds in education, property, and green energy platforms.

Her primary area of expertise and interest lies in the education sector where she advises clients regarding strategy, corporate transformation, fund raising and M&A. Acknowledged as an expert in education, she sits on various sub-committees in the House of Parliament and the House of Senates of Thailand regarding children and youth development, and national education policies. With her passion for education, she founded a school, Arkki, a Finnish Creative School, in Thailand. In addition, she is an editor of a translated book called “Phenomenal Learning from Finland”, providing Thai teachers access to proven advanced teaching pedagogies used in Finland. Aspiring to improve education equality in Thailand, she also founded the Future Leaders Foundation and currently serves as the President of the foundation.

She received her PhD from University of Cambridge on a Cambridge Overseas Trust Scholarship and was the President of Cambridge University Thai Society. She serves as a research affiliate at the Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, and also a board member of Thai-Finnish Chamber of Commerce (TFCC).

Mr. Ng Kwan Kiat (Kelvin) is a Principal at Quadriga Private Equity and Quadriga Advisory, a leading strategic investment firm that focuses on high-growth SMEs and startups.

He has many years of experience in management consulting and investment banking and advises a range of clients in industries from fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), fintech, education and agriculture. In addition, he also oversees and executes M&A projects for private equity funds. Kelvin previously has had management experience at various large multinational companies such as Proctor and Gamble (SG), British Petroleum (UK), and Linkedin (US).

Kelvin has regularly been invited to lecture at Thammasat, Chulalongkorn, Kasertsart and the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce in Thailand for the past 14 years, teaching various subjects such as business consulting, strategy, marketing, and sustainable business. Kelvin earned his MBA from the University of Cambridge.

Pisakwalee is an expert in marketing and has held various CEO/Managing Director positions at various leading enterprises.

Pisakwalee’s role covered a vast expanse of countries including over 15 countries for Malee and the U.S.A, China, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia markets for Osotspa.

Pisakwalee has extensive experience managing and growing leading consumer brands. His career has seen him venture through Colgate Palmolive, Osotspa, DKSH.

He was former Managing Director of Malee Enterprise, instrumental in the company’s turnaround.

Pisakwalee was also former Managing Director at Seagram (Thailand) Co., Ltd., EGV Cinemas, Media of Medias. In the past couple of years, he has been an advisor and consultant to several leading corporate CEOs and companies.

Pisakwalee graduated from the California State University, Long Beach, USA.

Piyapong is an expert in digital marketing and retail development.

Piyapong has extensive experiences in the retail sector where he has held several top management positions including the Director in Digital Business Development and Strategy at T.C.Pharmaceutical Industries (Red Bull), the Associate Director in Business Development & Strategy at Siam Makro (Public), the Director of Business Development at Big C Supercenter (Public), and the Head of Retail Services at Ek-chai Distribution System (Tesco Lotus).

He also brings board experiences in the field of banking and credit where he was the First Vice President of business development at Kasikornbank, Vice President of marketing at AEON Thana Sinsap (Public), Vice President for Marketing for Citibank Ready Credit, and Senior Manager for Marketing and Client Management at GE Capital (Thailand).

He has also held head of business segment marketing/market development posts at TRUE (TA Orange) and Kodak. Piyapong holds an MBA from the USA.

Naoe is the Quadriga Head of our Investment Banking and M&A, Japan. Naoe brings to Quadriga a distinctive perspective on cross-border strategic collaboration and deal making between Japan and Thailand, leveraging his background in consulting and rich entrepreneurial experience. Naoe is currently Quadriga’s principal representative in Japan.

Naoe previously oversaw the integration of new technologies and designs while actively bridging the gap between the United States and Japan. He also launched and managed several startups before transitioning to the field of design consulting at IDEO Tokyo.

Naoe is an innovation business consultant and acts as a bridge between Japan and Southeast Asia with clients ranging from conglomerates to SMEs in diverse industries such as agriculture, F&B, manufacturing, medical, and energy. Naoe’s expertise spans vision setting, team and culture building, operational excellence, problem-solving, product development, customer acquisition, and establishing strategic partnerships.

Additionally, Naoe serves as a JETRO Bangkok Business Advisor, aiding businesses in their overseas expansion efforts between Japan and Thailand.

Naoe holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University in the United States and an MBA from the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration at Chulalongkorn University.

Tatporn is an expert in market research and organization management. Tatporn has over 20 years advisory experience with various leading consulting and market research firms.

Her consulting experiences include corporate strategy, marketing research, and organization development.

Clients have included public, private and non-profit organizations. Tatporn has served various industries including retail banking, property, energy, FMCG, retail, F&B, health care, trading and logistics.

She has also been qualified as a trainer for Gallup and Dale Carnegie. Prior to Quadriga, she had worked with Gallup, TNS and Primestreet. She also spent years at the Bank of Ayudaya where she specialized in marketing strategy. Prior to that, she was a senior analyst at the Thai bond market association where she was responsible for bond market analysis and model development.

Tatporn holds a Ph.D., Public Administration, Political Science, from Ramkhamhaeng University and has degrees in MSc., Operations Research from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and a BSc., Economics from Chiang Mai University.