Supachai Kid Parchariyanon

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 2005. In 2007, he started ITEUS - one of the first Healthcare IT consulting company in Thailand serving both public and private hospitals nationwide to adopt Health Information Technology and became Thailand’s first certified HL7 CDA specialist. In 2011, he founded MCFIVA, a digital advertising agency which manages multi-million advertising campaigns for Fortune 500 companies in Thailand and Southeast Asia. In 2013, D2C Inc (Japan) - NTT Docomo Group of companies acquired a sizable stake in MCFIVA and invested into the company to expand into SEA. In 2016, he founded RISE - Corporate Innovation Powerhouse to work with over 400+ large conglomerates and governments in SEA to innovate faster through its unique corporate accelerator and intrapreneur programs. RISE is now one of the largest accelerators in SEA with 2,000+ startups having graduated from the program and combined valuation of over $2Billion. In 2018, he launched SeaX Ventures - A US-based, DeepTech VC Fund investing in exponential startups globally. Recently Band Protocol, one of his portfolio companies' valuation exceeds $1Billion. Kid holds MS in Biomedical Informatics from Oregon Health and Science University and MD from Mahidol University. He is also the former President of 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 honorees of The Futurist 2020 and Gen.T 2020 by The Tatler and also TEDx Speaker. Kid is an avid marathon runner and globetrotter. He lives in Bangkok with his wife and a 3-year old daughter.