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.