Wuthivet Vetchabutsakorn

SVP, Group Head of Finance at ONYX Hospitality Group

Wuthivet Vetchabutsakorn is Senior Vice President and Group Head of Finance of Onyx Hospitality Group, affiliated under ITALTHAI group, a leading regional hospitality management company, with a wide portfolio of properties across the region and operating diverse brands of 50 hotels and serviced apartments across Asia. Wuthivet is responsible for all financial and accountancy , procurement, treasury , Information technology, shareholder relation, and including business transformation, overseeing strategic investments, developing financial strategies, and leading the group finance team. He has led the company transformation strategy and played a pivotal role in the success of the Group as the company continues to execute its expansion strategy, which is driving the growth of the company's hotel portfolio across Asia.

Alvin Liew Voon Siong

Chief Financial Officer Thailand at PCS Security and Facilities Services Ltd. Thailand

Alvin Liew is a global citizen with a firm belief that investment into education uplifts , transforms and grows societies. Today, he is CFO of PCS Security & Facilities Services Thailand, part of private equity owned OCS Group. Alvin has a global finance career footprint across South Africa, India, Malaysia, Thailand & Vietnam across industries such as facilities management, telecommunications and education. Outside of work, he’s an avid reader, footballer, F45-er and teaches finance professionals on managing a finance career abroad (https://maven.com/financecareerabroad/alvinliew-klpibp/preview/25aa47).

Steven Siew

Group Chief Financial Officer at KWI Public Company Limited

Steven Siew joined KWI Group (Thailand) on 1st October 2021. He is Singaporean and graduated from Griffith University in Australia with a bachelor’s degree majoring in Accounting and Finance. Results-driven senior accounting and financial management executive with more than 20 years of progressive experience in finance and commercial operations management. He is responsible to set up group finance reporting structure, streamline overall entities finance organization structure, develop shared services structure with One Finance organization for improvement of efficiency and cost effectiveness, and support on strategic initiatives set the Group CEO and its affiliate companies. Previously he was the VP, CEO office of BTS Group Holdings Public Company Limited assisting and advise Group CEO in all new projects development and expansion within the Group on all backoffice functions aspect such as financing, merger & acquisition, system application implementation, project finance and treasury. He was also assigned by Group CEO of BTS Group Holdings to work as Executive Director (Overseas Investment) at Master Ad Public Company Limited (associate company of BTS Group Holdings) and appointed as the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Director.

Abhishek Sinha

Chief Financial Officer at Jardine Schindler Thai

Abhishek is the Finance Director at Jardine Schindler Thai. He is a Chartered Accountant by qualification with an industry experience of over 23 years. Abhishek has worked across businesses that include automotive and chemicals prior to his current occupation. In addition to his responsibilities towards driving business success, Abhishek’s passion is in furthering digitization and innovation across the key organizational processes.

Jessica Doehring

Chief Financial Officer at Siemens Mobility Ltd. Thailand

Jessica Doehring has over 20 years of experience in Finance management, and has been with Siemens since 2001 when she joined the company through the dual education program. Since then, she has held various roles across Germany and Southeast Asia.

In 2004 Jessica took on her first finance role as a R&D controller at Siemens Mobility's headquarters, subsequently gaining international project experience during the construction of the Airport Railink project in Bangkok in 2008. After a stint in Munich, where she worked in controlling for carve-outs and other businesses under Corporate Finance, she moved to Singapore in 2013. There, she led FP&A for Siemens Mobility's Asia-Pacific division and was also the commercial bid manager for large rail infrastructure projects in Singapore. Since 2021, Jessica has relocated to Bangkok to become CFO for Siemens Mobility Thailand, drawing on her extensive experience. Jessica graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and holds a Masters degree in Accounting & Finance.

Ratiporn Ratcharoen

Chief Financial Officer at East-West Seed, International Limited

Ratiporn is an internationally-minded Thai CFO and a member of the Executive Management team who has come through a number of pedigree consumer-oriented organizations such as PepsiCo and Diageo and recently works for East-West Seed, the leading tropical vegetable seed company. She assumes strategic financial management, performance measurement, tax planning, compliance, and internal control. Ratiporn is an experienced Finance leader who has worked for top-tier firms in several industries. She takes pride in making a positive impact on the business, organization and people. She has been instrumental in driving changes ranging from the development of organizational strategy, GoToMarket strategy, Performance Management, people management, systems and technology, and the successful implementation of those initiatives.

Saowaluck Limsila

Head of Accounting and Finance at Digital Asset Company Limited

As a CPA in Thailand, I have amassed extensive experience in finance and accounting. I currently hold the position of Head of Accounting and Finance at a digital asset Company.

Prior to current position, I served as Vice President of Finance, Accounting, and Administrations at ERX Company Limited, which operates a digital asset exchange platform. During my tenure, I managed all finance, accounting, administrative, and HR functions. Additionally, I have held key positions in multinational companies where I successfully prepared consolidation financial statements, performed financial reporting and analysis, and managed financial reporting under U.S. GAAP , IFRS and TFRS.

For almost 8 years, I worked as an auditor at EY Office Limited, culminating in my last position as audit manager. I conducted group audits of financial statements, managed multiple audit engagements, and developed and maintained staff through effective coaching and mentoring. I excel in primary accounting frameworks and am highly experienced in several sectors, including manufacturing, consumer products, and retail. In addition, I have also developed a proficiency in advanced data analytics tools, IT audit, financial due diligence, and fraud risk assessment processes. Overall, I bring a wealth of knowledge and experience in the field of finance and accounting, particularly in the finance technology sector, making me an ideal speaker for the DigitalCFO event.

Geert Warlop

Chief Data Officer and Chief Technology Officer of BTS Group Thailand at BTS Group Holdings Public Company Limited

Geert Warlop is the Chief Data Officer and Chief Technology Officer of BTS Group Thailand at BTS Group Holdings Public Company Limited. He has over 25 years of experience in data, digital, FinTech, telecom, technology strategy business development, technology sourcing, planning, and implementation. He is a dynamic professional with solid experience managing multi-disciplined teams in high profile operations, engineering, IT, and business projects. Geert is a flexible, hands-on Roll-out manager, from planning, sourcing, implementation, decision making to launch and post-launch evaluation. As an all-round commercial entrepreneur, he possesses excellent marketing, product, project, and program skills. He is self-motivated, methodical, a very highly dedicated professional determined to complete every project successfully before the given timeframe and budget. Geert is an effective communicator who can convey and present ideas concisely at management and board level. He is proven to work in multicultural, quick-changing environments in Asia. Geert's specialties include data, digitalization, startup, FinTech, cross-functional, strategy, regulatory, technology, marketing, people and program management, and blockchain. Before joining BTS Group Holdings Public Company Limited, Geert Warlop was the CEO of Inception Technology Co., Ltd., where he established nine Inception companies across Asia and four Inception Operations with a total of 130 staff. He also served as the Country Manager of TrueMoney Indonesia and Chief Operating Officer for TrueMoney International at True Corporation Thailand.

Wayne Williams

Chief Financial Officer at Minor Hotels

Wayne Williams is Chief Financial Officer for the Minor Hotel Group.

He has more than 20 years' experience working in Thailand and has been with Minor International for more than 16 years. In that time the Hotel Group has grown from having 10 hotels, to now having over 530 hotels in more than 50 countries with a turnover in excess of USD$4billion this year.

Prior to joining Minor, Wayne held a number of senior finance roles in hotels and hospitality businesses in Thailand, Australia and the Pacific. Wayne was previously President of the Australian-Thai Chamber of Commerce here in Thailand, is currently Vice President of the Advance Australia Council of Thailand and is a Board member of the Hands Across the Water charity foundation.

He is a Commerce graduate from the University of Queensland and has been Australian CPA certified for over 20 years. He sits on a number of industry panels and was recently voted by peers as a Top 10 Global CFO in the annual Icon Awards in the US.

Pat – Pacharawipa T.

Country Sales Manager at CCH Tagetik Thailand, Wolters Kluwer

Pat is an experienced sales professional with over 10 years of expertise in Enterprise Solution sales, specializing in Corporate Performance Management (CPM), ERP, and Analytics. As the Sales and Business Development leader for CCH Tagetik in Thailand, she drives the successful digital transformation of the Office of Finance by delivering innovative solutions that empower finance teams to enhance their performance.

Jay Boyle

Managing Director at Decision Critical

Jay Boyle is the Founder for Decision Modeling Systems Limited and Founding Partner for ECFO Services. Responsible for the overall direction and strategic management of the firm, he takes an active role and interest in all the services and projects in the ECFO service offering. Jay has over 30 years of hands-on experience in startups and firms in transition in the USA and China. He has held positions in start-up, general management, finance, production, sales and marketing across a wide range of industries.

Jay came to China as a manager for Dura-Line Corp, the world’s largest telecom pipe provider and a portfolio company of Jordan Industries, a Chicago-based private equity fund. While at Dura-Line, Jay was responsible for startup and then managing their China greenfield manufacturing operation. Jay has been working in Asia since 1996.

Since ECFO’s founding in 2001, Jay has provided ongoing advisory to hundreds of companies on their China launch and growth plans through his oversight of ECFO’s turn-key accounting back office, dealing with issues including IFRS / US GAAP compliance strategy, corporate structuring, financial controls, costing, budgeting and financial strategy. Jay has led ECFO in its work on over 40 transactions in Asia, including buy-side acquisitions, sell-side private placements and turnaround management in foreign-invested JVs and global companies’ China subsidiaries.

Jay holds an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. He also holds a Bachelor of Science from State University of New York at Fort Schuyler and a US Merchant Mariner’s Third Mate’s Unlimited Oceans Tonnage License.

Sanpetch Tangasawapark

Finance Director - Executive Office, Siam Motor Group

Professional Corporate Finance specialist with over 25 years experiences across various industries including the Automotive industry / FMCG and Healthcare, covering start-ups, M&A and business turnaround.

Former CFO of Nissan Thailand group of companies and former VP of M&S Strategy of Nissan Thailand. Having also worked as a regional director covering ASEAN and also worked as a Global Financial analyst at the HQ of Saint-Gobain a fortune 500 company. Former VP Industry promotion (non-profit) Electric Vehicles Association of Thailand (EVAT).

Personal interest covers a broad range of topics such as Economy and Economic developments, Psychology, Biotechnology, Neuroscience, Fintech and AI.