Meet the real Deals
Bansari Vyes
Director, Product Marketing, APAC Regional team

Bansari Vyes
Director, Product Marketing, APAC Regional team
About
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology.

Kosuke Sogo
Co-Founder & CEO

Kosuke Sogo
Co-Founder & CEO
After graduating from university in 2010, Kosuke Sogo wanted to travel around Southeast Asia and South Asia before starting his professional career. During this time, he saw the potential of the region and how technology would drive future growth across populations in Asia.
That is why Sogo started his career in the technology space, joining CyberAgent-owned MicroAd, and became the company’s youngest managing director. In 2012, he was tasked to lead the company’s expansion into Southeast Asia at just 25 years old.
In 2016, he co-founded AnyMind Group and took the role of Chief Executive Officer. In 2021, Sogo was appointed as an Endeavor entrepreneur, joining the ranks of this prestigious global network of high-impact entrepreneurs.
He has also been recognized in Forbes Japan’s “Japan Startup of the Year” ranking for three consecutive years, landing within the top 20 entrepreneurs for 2020 and 2021, and top 10 entrepreneurs for 2022.
About
Founded in April 2016, AnyMind Group is a commerce enablement company that provides individuals and businesses with solutions for business analytics, manufacturing, e-commerce, logistics and marketing. To date, AnyMind Group has raised funding of US$62.3 million, from investors including (but not limited to) LINE, Mirai Creation Fund, VGI, Japan Post Capital and JAFCO Asia. AnyMind Group has over 900 staff across 17 offices in 13 markets, including Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan, India and the United Arab Emirates.

Punsak Limvatanayingyong
Country Manager, Thailand Managing Director Creator Growth

Punsak Limvatanayingyong
Country Manager, Thailand Managing Director Creator Growth
As AnyMind Group’s country manager of Thailand, Punsak Limvatanayingyong is responsible for the company’s business and operations in Thailand.
In addition to his country manager role, Punsak also leads the company’s Creator Growth business unit globally, which provides content creators and influencers with one of the widest offerings in Asia for the creator economy.
Punsak is also the founder of Moindy Digital, a Thailand-based influencer network that AnyMind Group acquired in 2019. Prior to starting Moindy, he held roles in Universal Music Thailand and Cementhai.
About
Founded in April 2016, AnyMind Group is a commerce enablement company that provides individuals and businesses with solutions for business analytics, manufacturing, e-commerce, logistics and marketing. To date, AnyMind Group has raised funding of US$62.3 million, from investors including (but not limited to) LINE, Mirai Creation Fund, VGI, Japan Post Capital and JAFCO Asia. AnyMind Group has over 900 staff across 17 offices in 13 markets, including Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan, India and the United Arab Emirates.

Chase Buckle
VP Trends, GWI

Chase Buckle
VP Trends, GWI
TOPIC : Fetch the Info: Making Sense Out Of The Market Insights
Chase is VP, Trends at GWI, a target audience company helping the world’s largest (and smallest) brands, marketing agencies and media organizations to stand out and understand their audience. The Trends team are the data storytellers at GWI, digging through GWI’s datasets representative of over 2 billion internet users to unlock the most up-to-date understanding of the modern digital consumer.
About
GWI is the consumer data your marketing needs. Their insights and analytics help the clients understand what their consumers want and how to target them.

Laura Connell
Consumer Trends Manager, GWI

Laura Connell
Consumer Trends Manager, GWI
TOPIC : Fetch the Info: Making Sense Out Of The Market Insights
Laura is Consumer Trends Manager at GWI. A fashion enthusiast with a passion for sustainable solutions, she monitors global trends to pull unique and timely stories from the GWI platform. With a background in design and trend research, Laura brings a unique skillset that allows her to stitch together seamless and creative narratives. She holds a BA from. Nottingham Trent University in addition to her certificates in mathematics, sociology and design.
About
GWI is the consumer data your marketing needs. Their insights and analytics help the clients understand what their consumers want and how to target them.

Carroll Kee
General Manager, SEA - Partner

Carroll Kee
General Manager, SEA - Partner
TOPIC : Competitive Intelligence Arena
With over a decade of experience in media, tech and digital, Carroll has spent the bulk of her career leading brands into the digital space. She is now the General Manager in Southeast Asia at Similarweb, the world's leading market intelligence company.
About
Similarweb is the ultimate competitive digital intelligence tool for a complete 360-degree view of your industry, competitors, and customers.
Access website traffic and key metrics for any website, including engagement rate, traffic ranking, keyword ranking, and traffic source. Similarweb’s free ranking data and digital intelligence goes much further than Alexa’s Traffic Rank extension.

Jason Pee
Director

Jason Pee
Director
Jason is highly experienced in business development and Go-To-Market strategy. While his main function in all his previous engagements has been the pursuit of revenue, Jason did this by guiding brands and agencies in their navigation of media. Jason is now the head of business of Similarweb in Southeast Asia.
About
Similarweb is the ultimate competitive digital intelligence tool for a complete 360-degree view of your industry, competitors, and customers.
Access website traffic and key metrics for any website, including engagement rate, traffic ranking, keyword ranking, and traffic source. Similarweb’s free ranking data and digital intelligence goes much further than Alexa’s Traffic Rank extension.

Nuttapon Boonpinon
CEO & Managing Partner

Nuttapon Boonpinon
CEO & Managing Partner
TOPIC : ASEAN Case Study: Scaling eCommerce and Beyond Thailand
About
N-Squared is the leading ecommerce enabler and strategic business partnership operator. Their goal is to unlock businesses and brands to its full online potential by providing tailor made strategy for each partner.

Thammapas Chanpanich
Associate

Thammapas Chanpanich
Associate
TOPIC : PDPA Implementation: Checklist / PDPA - Everything you need to know to be compliant
Thammapas Chanpanich is an associate in Tilleke & Gibbins’ corporate and commercial group, specializing in matters related to technology, media, personal data protection, finance and capital markets, and insurance. She advises and assists both international and local clients on complex and developing legal issues surrounding person-to-person (P2P) lending, crowdfunding, fintech, e-commerce, online payment gateways, personal data protection, electronic business transactions, capital markets regulations, and insurance. In addition, she advises clients on business partnerships and corporate structuring across a range of industries.
At Tilleke & Gibbins, she frequently collaborates with the technology industry group, where she has built up her expertise and experience in regulatory regimes affecting today’s cutting-edge business tools. She regularly writes articles on legal developments relating to technology and media, personal data protection, finance and capital markets, and insurance.
Thammapas is a member of the Thai Bar Association and a lawyer licensed by the Lawyers Council of Thailand, and a qualified notarial services attorney. She is also a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) recognized by the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
About
Tilleke & Gibbins is a regional law firm in Southeast Asia, with offices in Bangkok, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta, Vientiane, Phnom Penh, and Yangon. The firm's core practices are commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, dispute resolution, litigation, and intellectual property law.

Nopparat Lalitkomon
Senior Associate

Nopparat Lalitkomon
Senior Associate
TOPIC : PDPA Implementation: Checklist / PDPA - Everything you need to know to be compliant
Nopparat Lalitkomon is a senior associate in Tilleke & Gibbins’ corporate and commercial group in Bangkok, specializing in digital, privacy, and technology matters for clients in high-tech industries. He is a trusted legal advisor to domestic and multinational companies alike, advising clients across industries on a wide range tech-focused matters, including cryptocurrencies and digital assets, cybersecurity, data privacy, e-commerce, e-payments, e-transactions, fintech, and insurtech. Nopparat also advises clients on general corporate and commercial matters in Thailand including foreign investment, investment promotion, labor and employment, tax, banking regulations, direct marketing, mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures.
Nopparat graduated with an LLB from Thammasat University and an LLM in International Competition Law and Policy from the University of Glasgow. He is a member of the Thai Bar Association, holds a notarial services certificate, and is fluent in Thai and English.
About
Tilleke & Gibbins is a regional law firm in Southeast Asia, with offices in Bangkok, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta, Vientiane, Phnom Penh, and Yangon. The firm's core practices are commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, dispute resolution, litigation, and intellectual property law.

Sirikarn Sakulrattanasangmanee
Senior Business Development Manager

Sirikarn Sakulrattanasangmanee
Senior Business Development Manager
With Degree in International Business Management and Marketing and 7 years of Marketing experience, Sirikarn is a Marketer and Business Development in Multinational SaaS Company and becomes the one and only Thai lady working for Affable Technologies Pte. Ltd. Sirikarn is a Senior Business Development and Partnership Manager and a Marketer and Business Development in Multinational SaaS Company.
About
Affable is an Influencer Marketing Platform for data-driven marketers. Affable finds relevant influencers, manage campaigns and measure the effectiveness of the influencer marketing campaigns

Matthieu Francois
Associate Partner

Matthieu Francois
Associate Partner
TOPIC : How ASEAN Demographics will affect buiness trajectory
Matthieu is a partner based in Vietnam, with experience serving consumer-goods and retail companies in Southeast Asia.
Matthieu is one of the key consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) experts in Southeast Asia specialized in promotional analysis (trade promotion and consumer promotions) including in data-poor environment; price and assortment optimization (product launches, regional tailoring, tailoring of assortment by store types, and more).
Beyond consumer goods, Matthieu has experience working for retailers across most continents, especially in Vietnam supporting both excellence in traditional business models (store concept, network strategy and category strategy) and innovation (online and online-to-offline formats and integration with digital ecosystems).
About
McKinsey & Company is the trusted advisor and counselor to many of the world's most influential businesses and institutions.

Danielle West
Principal Business Solutions Manager

Danielle West
Principal Business Solutions Manager
TOPIC : Marketing Analytics Done Right
Danielle West has been working in digital since 1999 across analytics, content, customer experience, omnichannel marketing and data strategy in the US, EMEA and APAC regions. She has worked with leading brands such as Disney, Sony, Activision, PayPal, Monster, Unilever, M&S, ANZ bank, Malaysia Airlines, Lazada, Informa, Bauer Media and Timberland to name a few. Having worked client side, agency side and tech vendor side, she offers a comprehensive perspective necessary in understanding the needs and objectives of all stakeholders for digital transformation strategies and personalized customer experience strategies at scale.
Danielle’s current area of focus is around Customer Intelligence which includes Customer Analytics & Data Strategies, Omnichannel (AKA Multichannel) Marketing, CDPs and Holistic Attribution Models which she works with clients and partners to build use cases and deploy within the organization.
About
SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Data Management software and services. SAS is a trusted analytics powerhouse for organizations seeking immediate value from their data. A deep bench of analytics solutions and broad industry knowledge keep their customers coming back and feeling confident. With SAS®, clients can discover insights from their data and make sense of it all. Identify what’s working and fix what isn’t. Make more intelligent decisions. And drive relevant change.

Panern Asavavipas
Chief Business Development Officer (CBDO)

Panern Asavavipas
Chief Business Development Officer (CBDO)
TOPIC : How to use Social Listening to create more engaging Ads
Penern Asavavipas, CBDO of Wisesight (Thailand) Ltd., a leading Social Media Analytics service which was founded in 2007, the same time with the arrival of social media platforms in Thailand, and has been growing strongly every year. With over 14 years of experience, Wisesight is renowned for collecting the biggest sources of market data in Thailand and continuously developing the most high-technology tools for new market opportunities.
About
Wisesight was founded in 2007, the same time with the arrival of social media platforms in Thailand, and have been growing strongly every year. With over 14 years of experience, we now collect biggest sources of market data in Thailand, continuously develop the most high-technology tools, thus, provide a wide range of social data analytics solutions that help consumer brands, agencies, government organizations, and educational institutions to unlock the potential of social media data in order to better take care of your customers and seek new market opportunities.

Devika Sachaphimukh
Business Development Manager

Devika Sachaphimukh
Business Development Manager
Devika is the Business Development Manager at Kaojao, a chat commerce company that specializes in Facebook optimization to get better results for social sellers.
About
Kaojao is a social selling assistant for Facebook pages. Kaojao has comprehensive features to use as Chatbot, which helps reply inbox messages and comments. The feature will support and boost the online sales revenue.

Dave Malhotra
CEO & Lead Hustler

Dave Malhotra
CEO & Lead Hustler
Tech Entrepreneur on a mission to take Thai Startups and our incredible talent global. Sales Hacker for Global Tech Conferences like Techsauce and Echelon (e27). Virtual Event Platform Pioneer. Innovative Tech Builder. AWS Scout. 23 years in Digital, 12 years in Events. Failed 1 startup, driving growth for 2 thriving ones.
Dave is an experienced Digital Business Expert with 23 years of demonstrated successes in tech, event, marketing and startup domains. He regularly combines creative tech solutions with an understanding of current trends to helping traditional businesses use new tech or help young startups develop MVPs in under 2 weeks with user-centric and result-driven approach. He's carried out total platform overhauls and executed highly challenging and innovative Digital projects for big corporates including Minor Group and Central Group in businesses including Food Delivery, E-commerce and CRM.
As CEO & Lead Hustler of SoldOutt - an ROI-focused, data-driven, event and ticketing platform startup that helps leading event businesses around South East Asia (like Techsauce, It's The Ship, e27, WCIT, Creative Talk and many more). SoldOutt’s game is “ticket sales hacking”. While aiming for SOLD OUT events, they’ve managed to hit as high as 90%+ lead-to-conversion rate and 3x sales for various tech conferences.
About
SoldOutt is a sales-focused, white-labeled ticketing platform that hacks ticket sales for tech conferences in Asia & Europe. SoldOutt are a bunch of crazy and passionate people that builds product really fast as long as it generates revenue for event organizers or artists. They launched their online event platform in 2 days are now on track to launch a Gig and Virtual Festival model in less than 2 weeks.

Kewalin Singhakham
Co-Founder

Kewalin Singhakham
Co-Founder
TOPIC : Facebook Performance Marketing in 2022
TOPIC : How to set the right KPI for your online marketing campaign/ how everybody can be data-driven and use data in their business
Kewalin is a passionate storyteller, digital marketer, and the Co-Founder of the digital performance marketing agency Northstar.
Northstar specializes in generating the highest ROI through digital marketing spending for progressive businesses.
Under her strategic leadership, Northstar has generated more than 2 billion THB in measurable online sales revenue by managing 500 million THB on behalf of 300+ businesses.
About
The high performing team generating the highest ROI through digital marketing spend for progressive businesses.

Surasak Lhueng-u-sakul
Co-Founder Director of Planning and Ideas

Surasak Lhueng-u-sakul
Co-Founder Director of Planning and Ideas
Surasak Lhueng-u-sakul is an Entrepreneur, Marketer who loves tech, speaker, special lecturer, advisors for many organizations. With 15+ Years of Marketing Experience and 13+ Years of Digital Marketing Experience, Surasak is now
- Co-Founder & Director of Planning & Idea, BrandBaker (Digital Marketing Agency)
- Co-Founder & Marketing Lead, Treasurist (FinTech Company)
- Chief of Digital Marketing & Technology, Marketing Association of Thailand
About
BrandBaker is the Digital-First Marketing Agency specializes in total digital marketing solution. Their services include Digital Strategic Planning, Campaign, Social Network Management, Influencer Management, Digital Interactive Design & Productions, Media Planning.

Ariya Banomyong
CEO

Ariya Banomyong
CEO
TOPIC: Business Transformation for the Post Covid Era to win in Thailand
Ariya brings over 22 years of experience in digital, technology, business building and transformation, strategy and execution from across Europe and Southeast Asia.
Starting his career at France Telecom, he returned to Thailand to take the role of Head of Customer Management Development at Orange (now TrueMove), before becoming the Chief Commercial Officer at True Corporation. He served as first Country Head of Google Thailand, setting up and growing the company's office from 1 to 50 employees, and driving exponential growth of the business.
Ariya later became Managing Director of LINE Thailand, shifting the company's strategic focus from being a chat app to a platform (or "SuperApp"), scaling monetization, and building LINE's local services, including LINE Man, LINE Today, and LINE TV.
He also served as President of BEC World, with the vision to transform the company from a television business into a major content and entertainment platform.
Ariya currently works as a CEO of CMO Group which is the leading Experience Tech Creator Company in Thailand. Ariya also sits on the Boards of Index Living Mal, Pomelo, and is a Senior Advisor to McKinsey, and the Digital Economy for Society Working Committee.
About
Materialising 10,000+ events in the past four decades, CMO Group has been trusted by hundreds local and international firms in delivering the best-in-class experiences in various forms.
Late 2021, their public listed company has repositioned as an ‘EXPERIENCE-TECH CREATOR’ by boosting CMO’s tech capabilities, ushering in the web 3.0 era for their clients and reimagining the potential of the experience industry.
Their 5 experience business pillars are:
- Events
- Equipments
- Entertainment
- End-to-End 2.0
- Experience 3.0
