Supachai “Kid” Parchariyanon

Co-founder/CEO, RISE

Industry : Business

Better known as Dr Kid, Supachai is the co-founder and CEO of RISE, a regional corporate innovation powerhouse with an ambitious mission boost GDP for Southeast Asia by one per cent. RISE works closely with leading corporations and government agencies across the region to help them to become more innovative through its corporate accelerator intrapreneur university, venture building services and experiential conferences. As a 19-year-old whiz kid, he developed and sold the first mobile stock trading application for the Stock Exchange of Thailand. He is proud of having helped drive US$1 billion in economic impact through various initiatives, which is equal to 250,000 jobs created in the past year. Despite the setbacks of Covid-19, Supachai has successfully expanded to a fourth country— Indonesia—after Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia. Aside from his interests in technology and innovation he is a serious runner and one of his goals is to complete the six World Marathon Majors with Tokyo, New York and Berlin already run and Chicago, London and Boston to go.