Deputy Executive Director, Mr. Suksoir involves in strategic planning and formulating new financial support mechanisms to promote innovation project development. He also undertakes a leading role in driving new wave industries, including bioplastics, cellulose ethanol and oleochemical industries in Thailand. Advising local and international companies on business development and management of innovation and initiating and enhancing connections/collaborations with local and international (business/technical) partners in key industries, such as bio-ethanol production from cassava pulp (Sapporo Breweries Ltd., Iwata Chemical Co., Ltd., Yamaguchi University and Eiamburapa Co., Ltd ), production of L-D lactic acid using new microbes (Musashino Chemical Laboratory Ltd., EiamHeng Tapioca Starch Industry Co., Ltd. and Chulalonglorn University) are the key tasks of Mr. Suksoir.

Strategic Tech Advisor, Angel Investor, Startups’ Founder, Ecosystem Builder, Head Coach at SPARK & Corporate SPARK accelerators, Mentor in various accelerators and institutes, a Tech regional expert with a wide network and an entrepreneur at heart. Born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, traveled throughout the world’s continents, holds 3 degrees in Law, Business and Diplomacy and Security.

Served in the Israeli Air Force and years later in the Government of Israel as the Head of the Economic and Trade Mission at the Israeli Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, covering Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia. Held various positions in the private sector, from strategic consultancy and investments in global markets, ICT and Medical technologies and IP, Antitrust and Commercial Agreements.

Barak has various interests from Innovation and Entrepreneurship to International Relations and Defense as well as extreme Sports.

Ruby is a Deal maker with a proven track record in initiating, leading and executing +30 strategic transactions (investments, M&As, divestitures and revenue generating partnerships) at global, industry leading companies (Hyundai Motor Company, Amdocs and NICE Systems). Enjoying to support tech geeks to disrupt conventional industries for over a decade, serving as BoD member, BoD observer and strategic advisor to multiple growth companies. Characterized as highly networked in the Israeli tech scene as well as worldwide corporate investors, with a deep understanding of communication, enterprise software and autotech technologies.

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As Marketing Director, Google APAC, Nicolas leads consumer and brand marketing across Search, Assistant and Maps for more than 17 countries in the region - stretching from India to Japan to Australia.

With more than 20 years experience in the region, mainly focused on Greater China, he has been at the forefront of digital, retail and ecommerce innovation since 1998, when he founded one of the first digital agencies in Shanghai.

He has driven the digital marketing and ecommerce strategies for large multi-nationals such as Nike, been on the leadership team of China’s leading ecommerce player, Baozun, and built and run successful start-ups.

Surawat (Sam) Promyotin is Director of the Sustainability and Entrepreneurship Center at the Sasin School of Management, Executive Director of Bangkok Venture Club, and former Board Member of the Thai Venture Capital Association..

He has more than 20 years experience as a high-technology executive in both Silicon Valley and Thailand. Along the way, he managed a $100M global semiconductor product line, Co-Founded Groupon Thailand, and won the global Sales Director award at a 27-country MNC.

He has advised, taught, and mentored at startup accelerators such as Sprint, DVA, Spark, KMUTT Hatch, Plug N Play, Topica Founder Institue, DTAC Accelerate, True Incube, and MIST, and in corporate innovation projects at SCG, Toyota, Mitr Phol, Bank of Thailand, Kubota, PTT, TMB, Tesco Lotus, CIMB, and more.

He graduated from UC Berkeley with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and from Sasin Chulalongkorn Graduate Institute of Business Administration with an Executive MBA.

Yael is responsible for building a sturdy business bridge between Israel’s tech ecosystem and specific targeted markets, currently focusing on Texas and Michigan states in the US, and Thailand and New Zealand in Asia. Among the initiatives developed in these bi-lateral bridges are the Global Finder Network and the joint initiative with the Texas Israel Technology Partnership (TITP) to create a landing pad for Israeli innovators into Houston’s healthcare market. Start-Up Nation Central is a Tel Aviv-based independent non-profit that connects business, government, and NGO leaders from around the world to Israeli innovation.

Grace is an experienced Project Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting industry. Started to work with AGW (Thailand) Co. Ltd in early 2017 as a project coordinator for SPARK Global Acceleration Program, which is a collaborative global acceleration program of National Innovation Agency (NIA) and Israel’s AGW group aimed at accelerating the potential in Thai start-ups and enhancing their competitiveness for global expansion.

Within a year, she was promoted as a project manager for SPARK Global Acceleration Program batch 2, which in charge of all aspects of project management, from setting timeline, workflow and KPIs of the project; detailed budget analyses, delegate suitable works for subordinates, performance reviews of startups in the program and media PR planning, to coordinating directly with partners and sponsors.

Ariel is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 20 years of sales, business development and marketing management expertise, Ariel has led two companies to M&A, and has extensive experience with building a sustainable cloud & SaaS operation. With deep product & industry knowledge, Ariel brings a strong business track record in international markets.

-Over two decades developing and deploying advanced intelligence systems and cyber information security products

- Former CTO and Head of R&D at Daimler AG, Lockheed-Martin, Israeli Air Industry and Motorola

- Fields of expertise span across advanced cybersecurity and big data analysis solutions, (IoT), (SCADA/ICS), ML and AI applications

- Elite military intelligence unit

- M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Business Management

Ex-Israeli Air Force Alumni (Ofek), Intelligence sector (Missile Defence Systems). Expert at building communities and networks - both online and offline.

Recognized Google Developers Expert, co-founder of "Big Things" - one of the largest big data communities - and of Israel's Google Developer Group for Cloud.

Demi has over 16 years of experience in building various systems both from the field of near real time applications and Big Data distributed systems.

Renowned international speaker, presenting big data solutions and distributed and scalable systems to both technical and management teams.

Shaun(Shahar) Klamka is the founder and CEO of King Kong New Media, a fast growing marketing consultancy in the Israel and Thailand market.

Shaun opened his first internet marketing agency in 1999 and specializes in innovative marketing solutions.

Billy has experience in sales, recruitment and talent development. He has trained for many corporations but mainly financial services and technology.

Billy passion is training people at all levels and he has coached top executives as well as operational staff.

He has professional experience with both Thai and multinational organizations in the recruitment, training, and on-line marketing industries.

Billy functions cover across recruitment, CSR projects, employee relations, organizational development, and speech coaching.

As a Founding Partner at TPAR Law firm, she has an outstanding record of broadly expertise in Corporate and Commercial work, Due diligence, Investment, Contracts, Litigation and Arbitration. Throughout her service over 10 year, she has been representing clients in a variety of sectors such as Tech Start-Up, Health Care, Food, Energy etc. She also has extensive experience with Foreign Investment and Legal Consult.

Ms. Teewara graduated from University of Aberdeen, UK where her main focus was International Commercial Law. She is also a member of Thai bar association, holds Thailand lawyer lecturer in International Law in University. Ms. Teewara has been appointed by International Advisor, The Netherlands to be sole representative in Thailand.