Digital Ventures names new chairman of exec committee

In his new role, Orapong will lead the company’s mission to invest in start-up businesses that have the strongest potential to help SCB raise standards for digital banking and uplift Thailand’s financial-services industry.
As a respected veteran of the software and management consulting industries, Orapong is outstandingly qualified to guide Digital Ventures’ mission to nurture Thailand’s nascent fintech ecosystem and support innovations that will elevate SCB’s digital banking standards, the company says.
He will be responsible for fostering both start-ups and new financial-technology operations at existing firms, helping them work together with the bank to develop innovative products to serve customers’ changing requirements, and speeding SCB’s transition to the digital era.
With his background in engineering, Orapong emphasises systematic thinking, so as to reach optimal decisions based on analysis and reasoning, the company says. Moreover, he taps broad and deep international experience at world-class organisations, having worked for more than 25 years in information technology and manufacturing as well as management consulting on behalf of leading telecommunications and financial-services companies.
Before joining Digital Ventures, Orapong served as general manager of Microsoft (Thailand) Co, where he led its mission to help organisations achieve their goals through the adoption of modern technology having highest security.
He also contributed crucial know-how in helping boost Thailand’s national competitiveness and helping Thai small and medium-sized enterprises use technology to compete in the global arena.
He spent 16 years working with Accenture, a top global professional-services and management-consulting company, handling customers around the world in |a variety of industries.
During this time, he helped guide the reorganisation of several large Thai corporations to respond to changing business conditions and needs.
His last role at Accenture was as managing director of its Thailand operations.
Orapong graduated from King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology in Bangkok with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree as well as a Master of Science in manufacturing systems engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
He began his career at such leading companies as Caterpillar, Boeing and the Iacocca Institute, before moving on to Accenture and Microsoft.
He attributes his success to his “readiness to adapt to change, and approaching work as a source of both challenge and fun”.