Pinyapa (Aime) has extensive experience in advising multinational corporations and local companies across various industries on project financing, Foreign Direct Investment, corporate structuring and restructuring, the establishment of business in Thailand and cross-border transactions matters.

With years of experience, in both legal and business practices, I have a pool of knowledge and great understanding in business model concept and the existential needs for successful and sustained business and investment.

After graduated my Master’s Degree in International Trade and Commercial Law from Durham University, United Kingdom, I moved back to Thailand in 2015.

As of now, I am a Managing Partner of TWLS Company Limited, Thailand branch office of TWL Law Group.

TWL Law Group, which is headquartered in Taiwan, has successfully assisted with innumerable multi-jurisdictional projects and transactions of Southeast Asia.

We have offices and affiliate teams in Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia, Taiwan, Singapore, Philippines, Cambodia and India.

I was honoured to serve BCCT as a BCCT Director from 2018 to 2024. During such time, I co-founded BCCT Young Professionals Working Group and also actively involved with BCCT Legal & Taxation and Women in Business Working Groups.

Giving a BCCT members’ business support has always be one of my passions and key commitments, in 2022, I co-founded and Chair BCCT Advocacy Working Group.

As a voice and on behalf of BCCT members, Advocacy Working Group has been actively engaged in public private dialogue and private sector advocacy to influence government policies, laws, regulations, and administrative arrangements, which are or possibly affecting BCCT members.

I will continue my active involvement in BCCT working groups, events, and contributing to the agenda, the promotion of the Chamber and members as well as bringing further diversity and dynamic into BCCT to adding value to our members.

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Gareth is a Digital Innovation Specialist with a background in development, consultancy, and startups.

He has worked with many companies, from large enterprises to start-ups. Using his technological expertise to help businesses grow, reach new customers, and find new ways to improve, he empowers businesses to become leaders in their field.

Gareth was one of the original founders of Tavolos, a data oriented start-up providing services to the F&B industry in Asia.

Before this, he set up Fluxus in Asia, an enterprise focused digita l agency and UX consulting firm. Prior to moving to Asia, Gareth was a UX and product consultant for Fluxus in London. Gareth is an active member of the Global Technology scene and is a regular speaker at conferences around the world on Smart Cities, Internet of Things, AI, and software Development. Having been a member of the BCCT for over 4 years, and a director for one, Gareth and Fluxus are looking to continue offering digital expertise to both the BCCT and its members to help them make the most out of digital, offering an advisory role to anyone looking to invest in their technology.

Gareth helped to organise and participated in, multiple technology briefings and panels for the BCCT’s technology group. As a director, Gareth has helped the chamber with its digital strategy - helping to plan for 2019 and beyond.

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Nattinee currently Head of Corporate Affairs Thailand and Board of Director, joined Unilever Thailand in 2019 as Head of External Affairs and Media Relations, leveraging her extensive government relations experience.

Following a reorganization in February 2022, she assumed a pivotal role in corporate affairs and sustainability, driving partnerships to advance the company's purpose-driven agenda.Throughout her tenure, Nattinee served as Unilever's spokesperson at prominent conferences, earning recognition for sustainability achievements such as driving EPR, the UN Women's WEP Award and LGBTQI+ advocacy.

Prior to Unilever, she played a key role in Thailand's trade and investment landscape, contributing to negotiations of various FTAs and many other Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements.

In 2007, Nattinee was appointed Consul at the Royal Thai Consulate-General in Germany, tasked with promoting investment from Northern Europe to Thailand, highlighting her diplomatic and investment promotion expertise.

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A successful General Manager in the HORECA sector who has consistently added value to businesses Internationally, currently into year 7 at the British Club Bangkok.

My current role includes working closely with many embassies, chambers, international schools, hospitals, and a cross section of all expat businesses in Thailand. The British Club Bangkok currently has over 3,500 members made up from 48 different nationalities, this makes my social and business network one of the largest in Thailand.

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Ann is a seasoned C-suite leader with a strong technical background and extensive experience in Business Transformation and Business Integration. Her industry knowledge and leadership skills are broad and deep, and she is highly adept at operating at scale and across complex businesses.

Ann joined PCS as CEO early 2021 to spearhead the transformation of the business. Her resilient and positive leadership steered the business during the Covid period, and with vision and drive takes the business to a new level focusing on increased social mobility, technology, digitalization, sustainability and governance.

She has recently led a successful integration of 2 businesses under the new ownership of OCS Group. Ann has been a BCCT Board Director since 2022.

Before joining PCS, Ann was with Tesco Group for 32 years, latterly as the Chief Operating Officer for Tesco Lotus in Bangkok. With Tesco, she held the positions of Country CEO, International HR Director and leadership positions in the UK, Ireland, Turkey, and Hong Kong.

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HSBC was established as the first bank in Thailand in 1888. Headquartered in London, the HSBC Group is one of the world’s largest financial services organizations with an international network located in 62 countries and territories. In 2023, HSBC was named Asia’s ‘Best Bank’ and Asia’s ‘Best Bank for Sustainable Finance’ by Euromoney. In addition, HSBC Thailand has been recognized as the ‘Best International Bank’ in Thailand by both Asiamoney & FinanceAsia for the last three years.

Giorgio Gamba was appointed CEO of HSBC Thailand in August 2021. He joined HSBC in 2001 and prior to Thailand has held various roles in Wealth, Risk, and Global Banking across the UK, India, Hong Kong, and Korea. He holds an MA and LLB degree in Law from the University College London.

Giorgio is a strong advocate of promoting investment and trade between Thailand and the UK which aligns with BCCT's own mission as well as being focused on the development of sustainable finance and the digital economy in support of the Thai national plan. With the BCCT he has been actively engaged with the Advocacy working group and represented the Chamber in engagements with the UK’s Trade Commissioner for Asia Pacific, Thailand’s Minister of Commerce and Minister of Finance as well as the Ambassador of Thailand in the UK. Giorgio also contributes to the BCCT CSR initiatives, including taking an active role in the mentoring programme.

HSBC was one of the first companies to join the BCCT upon its establishment in 1946 and has been a sponsor of BCCT since 2007. In addition, HSBC sponsored key BCCT events throughout 2023 and intends to continue doing so in 2024 and beyond.

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Since first joining the BCCT Board in 2019, I have remained an extremely committed member. During my tenure, I played an active role in ensuring the success of in-person events, even throughout the challenges of the pandemic.

I previously served as Vice Chair of the Chamber and chaired both the Tourism and Events Committees.

During my required year off the Board in 2024, I remained dedicated to the Chamber, continuing to assist with major BCCT events and maintaining close engagement with members. My ongoing commitment is to support the Events Committee in ensuring BCCT events remain the best in Thailand.

Outside of the Chamber, I am the General Manager of Lancaster Bangkok, a role I have held since 2016. Prior to relocating to Thailand, I spent over a decade in London as a General Manager with both InterContinental Hotels Group and Whitbread Hotels. Having built my career in the UK, it was always my ambition to live and work in Thailand, sharing this experience with my wife and two sons.

Serving on the BCCT Board has been an honour and a privilege. I commit to maintaining a high level of engagement, activity, and enthusiasm to further strengthen the Chamber’s impact. The Chamber has evolved a lot in the last five years; I support the BCCT in its continued growth, and ensuring our events remain the best in Thailand.

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Rachel is Head of Admissions at Bangkok Patana School, Thailand’s oldest and largest British international school. She has been serving as a BCCT Board Director since 2022.

Bangkok Patana School has maintained a strong partnership with the British Chamber of Commerce in Thailand for over 20 years, including seven years as a Sterling level sponsor. This enduring collaboration reflects the school’s deep engagement with the BCCT community.

Over two decades of working in Thailand, Rachel has established close ties within both the expatriate and Thai community, making her an effective representative of the British business community in Thailand. Her role as a BCCT Board Director has allowed her to actively support and advocate for the interests of British businesses.

Rachel is a strong advocate for fair and inclusive practices across all sectors. Her active participation in the BCCT Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) working group highlights her commitment to promoting diversity and equal opportunity, and to supporting BCCT member companies with their work in this area.

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ABFT is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Associated British Foods, a diversified, multinational food and retail conglomerate listed in London (FTSE100). As part of a wider portfolio of brands including Ryvita, Pataks, and Kingsmill, as well as our retail arm, Primark, we focus on our Twinings and Ovaltine brands here in South-East Asia.

Last year, we proudly celebrated Ovaltine’s 90th Anniversary in Thailand, as well as 35 years of local manufacturing. I have been with the ABF group for 18 years, the last five being in Thailand. I live here with my wife and two children, and Thailand is the sixth country in which I’ve lived. In my role I have accountability for our end-to-end supply chain in the region, from R&D, through sourcing, and manufacturing, up to the handover with our distributors.

My intention in standing for election to the board is to deepen my involvement with the Chamber, and to try to give back by playing an active role in helping to foster the opportunities for others from which I have already benefitted.

The first event that I attended was a seminar which really helped in building my initial understanding of life and business in Thailand, and I continue to find such events incredibly useful and a time-effective way to be briefed on new legislation and business opportunities. We have hosted Manufacturing Working Group events at ABFT to share our environmental initiatives, and I believe this is a great way of finding common ground and building meaningful connections between our multinational and SME members.

I will work to drive these events further, as well as supporting new members to navigate their initial network building. I will ensure that BCCT continues to generate these purpose-led connections and truly informative insights through its member events and working groups.

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Waraporn has 24 years experience in the Thai insurance industry and currently handles group employee benefits insurance for large corporate clients. Her responsibilities also include oversight of LawtonAsia’s insurance ethics and compliance, and she is the company’s main liaison with the insurance regulator.

LawtonAsia is Thailand’s leading British-Thai independent insurance broker and takes an active part in the local business community. They were heavily involved in the setting up of the Irish-Thai Chamber and the EABC — European Association for Business and Commerce — and have representation on each of their Boards.

While pursuing her career in insurance Waraporn has found the time to bring up a family — a daughter who recently graduated from Cambridge and a son currently attending college in America on a golf scholarship. In her spare time she has actively organized charity events for LawtonAsia, raising money for Sister Louise’s Good Shepherd Foundation for young underprivileged women in Thailand.
Now that her children have both left home Waraporn is eager to become fully involved with the Chamber and to use her energies to help drive the Chamber forward and promote its activities, especially to those in the Thai business community and international companies where she has extensive contacts as a result of her work with LawtonAsia.

Waraporn is a member of The Chartered Insurance Institute as well as the Thai Insurance Brokers Association.

Education: Bachelor of Media & Communication Arts from the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce
Work experience: Waraporn worked for both French and Korean multinational companies in Bangkok before co-founding LawtonAsia Insurance Brokers in 1997.  Her drive and initiative have helped the company grow into what it is today.

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David Norcross is Founder & CEO of Lexicon: Thailand’s leading digital storytelling agency. Originally from Manchester, England, David has been living in Thailand for around 20 years. Prior to founding Lexicon in 2015, David worked as a journalist, as well as in communication roles for KPMG Thailand & PKF International.

He has been serving as a BCCT Board Director since 2022 and is Vice Chair for the 2022-2024 period

David is an active board director and is Chairman and founder of the BCCT Marketing & Communications working group, having previously acted as Chairman for the BCCT Digital Technology group.

His presence on the board provides a healthy counterbalance to the larger multinational corporations on the board and allows him to use his independent voice to advocate for expanded ways that the BCCT can help small businesses and business in the digital space.

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"Excited to continue to change, learn, and evolve with ongoing opportunities to lead, share and build / grow manufacturing businesses – Ethically, Safely and with exciting, winning teams".

Working across Australasia (Australia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines) for now over 20 years & currently based in Thailand, with a global perspective, always willing to embark on new challenges while remaining strongly committed to maintaining a "Global Center of World Class Operational Excellence;" across Asia.

Simon is an experienced and adaptable International Director. Credited with a proven record of accomplishment of driving significant business growth within highly competitive manufacturing sectors. (And now survival following the pandemic occurrences of 2020) These have included; Automotive, Petrochemical, FMCG, Packaging and now Aerospace. Simon values Trust, Fair and True as a unique Motivational, Technical business team Leader, with a strong commercial acumen. Focused on strong governance, business growth, profit, cash generation, and change management against agreed periods; while maximizing the contribution of all individuals towards ecological balance.

Simon is able to share proven capabilities in Leadership, Finance, Technology, Marketing, Risk Assessment, Team building, and Employee Empowerment for established, and within new and emerging markets; focusing on the value of positive results and key long-term relationships both within and external to any business while displaying a willingness to challenge paradigms, communicate honestly and focus on the measured value. He shares a truly international credibility and has worked & network across Europe, America & now Asia. Simon is a Chartered Engineer with the British Institute of Engineering and Technology.

He is a member of both the Australian Institute of Company Directors and The Global Society of Plastics Engineers; holding a Master’s degree in Engineering Business Management from a premium British University and a Bachelor of Science in both Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.

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Miss Ornuthai Na Chiangmai (Khun Orn) is based in Bangkok, Thailand. In addition to her role as CEO / Country Chair of Shell Companies in Thailand, she is also responsible for multiple principal Shell Global roles.

Khun Orn holds over 30 years of experiences across End-to-End functions and various key Shell’s Downstream businesses from Lubricants, Commercial Road Transport, B2B Commercial Fleet, and B2C Mobility Business. She had also led successful organization transformation across 12 countries with diverse cultures in Asia Pacific and Middle East regions. She also held Executive Director position for Shell Oman Marketing and Shell Brunei Marketing.

In her current role, in addition to CEO / Country Chair of Shell Companies in Thailand, she holds Global-level positions of Executive Director of Global Mobility Business, Shell PLC and Shell’s Shareholder Representative of Shell Downstream Businesses operating in South Africa, Ukraine, and Brunei.

In addition to her role at Shell, she is also Vice Chairman of Council of Trustees of The Petroleum and Energy Institute of Thailand (PEIT).

Khun Orn is a caring leader who takes great pride in creating high-performing, collaborative, and diverse team across different disciplines.

She holds a Business Management and Marketing Master’s Degree from University of Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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Phinnipha Suriyong, who has over 15 years of experience in executive search and recruitment team leadership, serves as the Managing Director of APlus Career. Phinnipha's extensive experience in the field of fostering inclusive communities and driving organizational development renders her an asset in her current position.

After three years of active participation with the British Chamber of Commerce, BCCT, Phinnipha is now a member of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) working group and chair of the Women in Business Working Group. Her active participation has had a substantial influence on the endeavors of BCCT, particularly in the expansion of mentoring programs and events. Notably, the Mentoring Program has witnessed a surge in participants from seventeen to 57 in the span of two years.

Her establishment of APlus Career Recruitment Co., Ltd. in May 2022 exemplifies Phinnipha's entrepreneurial zeal. Her independent entrepreneurial endeavor highlights her dedication to the collective achievement of goals, reflecting the collaborative ethos of BCCT.

Furthermore, Phinnipha, in her capacity as a female entrepreneur and proponent of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), is committed to fostering the development and prosperity of entrepreneurs in the BCCT region. She is enthusiastic about utilizing her abilities and enthusiasm to promote BCCT's mission and cultivate an atmosphere that values opportunity and inclusiveness.

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Blake qualified as a chartered accountant in the UK with PwC, prior to moving to Thailand in 2004 and joining Forvis Mazars in 2009. Forvis Mazars in Thailand is a leading audit, accounting, tax, legal, and financial advisory practice, with over 280 professionals combining the benefits of an integrated global partnership and the local experience of the Partners.

Blake leads the Forvis Mazars audit department managing a team of around 100 financial, IT and internal audit specialists and is the Forvis Mazars Partner responsible for firm Human Resources management. With over 20 years of professional experience in auditing and financial advisory services, Blake has a broad knowledge of international and Thai accounting, business regulations and the challenges faced by international companies in Thailand.

Blake is also a member of the Forvis Mazars in Thailand Executive Committee and has completed the Thai Institute of Directors Certification Program and Diploma examination.

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