Thanapong Boontaeng

Position

Head of Technical Labs, Research and Development

Company

SCB 10X

Thanapong joined SCB 10X in 2024 as Head of Venture Builder.
Thanapong is an experienced technical leader who has begun his career in AI industry as a data scientist at Sertis since the beginning of data science gaining popularity in Thailand, back to 2016-2017. He has a wide variety of background in a consultant/AI research startup, a data-tech subsidiary, and corporate companies: in the retail, import-export, banking, and energy sectors. He has a proven track record of building a talent tech team from scratch. He has led multiple teams of engineers and research scientists at Technology Innovation Lab & Decision Intelligence (TILDI) at CJ Express.

Thanapong previously worked as a reservoir engineer at Chevron and PTTEP, where he developed a number of innovative tools to increase oil and gas production using quantitative methods (numerical simulation, network flow optimization). He also served as a professor of petroleum engineering at Chulalongkorn University from 2010 until 2011.

He graduated with a Petroleum Engineering degree with 1st Class Honors from Chulalongkorn University, and an MSc in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University.