Suphachai Chearavanont
| Suphachai Chearavanont | |
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| Born |
24 March 1967 Bangkok, Thailand |
| Nationality | Thai |
| Alma mater |
Boston University Assumption College |
| Occupation | Chief Executive Officer, Charoen Pokphand Group / Chairman of the Executive Committee, True Corporation Plc. |
Suphachai Chearavanont (Thai: ศุภชัย เจียรวนนท์, rtgs: Suphachai Chiarawanon; Chinese: 謝榕仁; 24 March 1967) CEO of Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group and oversees CP Group's Sustainability, Good Governance and Corporate Communication (SGC) office. He is also Chairman of the Executive Committee of True Corporation Plc, one of Asia's leading telecommunications groups. Born on March 24, 1967, Suphachai is the fourth child of Dhanin Chearavanont, Thailand's wealthiest billionaire, Senior Chairman of CP Group, one of the world's largest agro-industrial conglomerates, and Khunying Tawee Chearavanont. Suphachai Chearavanont graduated from Boston University, United States with a bachelor of business administration in financial management. He is married to Busadee Chearavanont and the couple has two sons and a daughter.
Under Suphachai's leadership, True Corporation grew 1,000% from sales of less than $300 million to over $3 billion within less than 10 years. Since founding the wireless carrier arm in 2003, True saw its subscribers increase from 0 to 24 million under Suphachai's leadership. It also saw subscribers for Pay TV, True Visions, increase from less than 200,000 households, to some 1.6 million households.
While in the US after graduating, Suphachai was an intern at a petrochemical factory in Houston Texas. On his return to Thailand he gained work experience at Siam Makro, a company in which CP Group was then a shareholder. He also gained financial experience by working with Soltext Federal Credit Union in the US and Vinylthai, one of Thailand’s leading petrochemical companies. He joined TelecomAsia Corporation, Thailand’s largest telecommunication company, in 1992 and worked his way up from a Senior Officer to senior management where his positions included chief operations and planning officer, executive vice-president for business, and senior vice-president for planning, project coordination and support.
He also served as chief operations officer of UTV Cable Television and founded a number of subsidiaries for the TelecomAsia Group, such as Asia Wireless Communication Company Limited, a PCT (Person Communication Telephone) operator; Asia Infonet Company Limited, which operates internet businesses; Asia Multimedia Company Limited, a broadband operator; and Wire and Wireless Company Limited, a construction and distribution business.
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