Dr. Kid is a medical doctor and serial entrepreneur who, at the age of 19, developed and sold the first mobile stock trading application for the Stock Exchange of Thailand (now #1 stock trading app in the country) in 2005. Later he founded MCFIVA, a digital advertising agency which manages multi-million advertising campaigns in Southeast Asia and was acquired by D2C Inc – an NTT Docomo company in 2013.
Now he’s spearheading RISE – a Corporate Innovation Startup with the goal to drive 1% of GDP for Southeast Asia by working with over 400+ large conglomerates and governments to innovate faster through its unique corporate accelerator and intrapreneur programs. RISE is now one of the largest open innovation platforms in SEA with 2,000+ startups graduated from the program and combined valuation of over $4 Billion.
In 2018, he launched SeaX Ventures – a US-based, DeepTech VC Fund investing in exponential startups globally. His focus is on Medtech/Biotech, Blockchain and AI. Recently Band Protocol, one of his portfolio companies’ valuation exceeded $1.5 Billion.
Dr. Kid holds an MS in Biomedical Informatics from Oregon Health and Science University and an MD from Mahidol University. He is also the former President of the Digital Advertising Association Thailand, Stanford’s GSB Alumni and fellow and member of a number of professional associations in the US and Asia.
He is one of the honorees of The Futurist 2020 and a Credit Suisse Gen.T 2020 by The Tatler and also a TEDx Speaker.
