Senior Network Mentor

Tibadee “Toey” Suraswadi
Mr. Tibadee Suraswadi specialises in Big Data Analytics for business impact. His experience includes roles such as Head of Client Solutions with Facebook, Head of Analytics Solutions as well as Head of Product Management with True Digital Group, and Head of Customer Analytics & Business Intelligence with SCB. His education background is in Economics where he earned an MSc Economics degree from University College London and BA Economics degree from Chulalongkorn University.

Radtasiri “Best” Wachirapunyanont
Radtasiri, as a Reginal Innovation Hub Manager, is leading Water and Energy for Food (WE4F): South and Southeast Asia Regional Innovation Hub to support over 40 innovators and reach at least 1 million smallholder farmers across the region. Prior to joining WE4F, Radtasiri was part of New Energy Nexus, USAID’s Green Invest Asia, Low Emissions Asian Development Program, Asian Development Bank (ADB), and Environmental Resources Management (ERM) where he worked on clean energy technologies, sustainable agriculture, climate finance, climate resilience development, smart city and startups acceleration. He was also a Mentor for Microsoft Imagine Cup’s award-winning startups in the theme of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation and climate change.
Radtasiri’s training has centered around environmental economics and public policy. He holds Bachelor of Economics degree from Chulalongkorn University and Master in Public Policy (MPP) degree from Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (NUS).

Pahrada "Mameaw" Sapprasert
Mameaw is a Thailand Partner of 500 TukTuks – a thematic fund from 500 Startups focused on promising Thai and CLMV startups in seed to Series A stage and named the most active investor in Thailand. Other than making investments, 500 TukTuks also empowers startups with best of Silicon Valley’s education, thinking, talent to provide unfair advantage in the local market. Mameaw is also listed as Forbes 30 Under 30 Honoree 2018 and Generation T by Asia Tatler 2019 as one of the influential Venture Capitalists in Asia Pacific. Previous to joining 500 TukTuks, Mameaw was a Money-Market Dealer at Bangkok Bank and graduated from Imperial College London with MSc Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Management and BA in Economics, Chulongkorn University.

Parith "Firm" Thiengtham
UpSolution Team
Parith is the CEO & Co-Founder of Edsy, an AI-powered online platform that mobilizes impact-driven Millennials as tutors to help democratize access to high-quality English learning beyond international schools. Prior to founding Edsy, Parith was a strategy consultant at Central Group (Group Strategy & Group CEO Office) and Roland Berger Southeast Asia. He also has some experience in the venture capital industry, having worked with Golden Gate Ventures, Gobi Partners, and 500 Startups (APAC). Parith obtained his MBA from Yale University School of Management and BA in Economics from Thammasat University.

