CEO · Board Director · Growth & Transformation Strategist

Kumpol
Buriyameathagul

(Dr.A)  ·  Ph.D.
Bridging technology, business, and
human behavior — shaping adaptive growth
in the future era.

Executive leader and board director of SET / MAI-listed companies, with 20+ years of cross-border experience across the United States, United Kingdom, and Thailand. I help organisations design adaptive, future-ready growth — applying AI, Blockchain, and OTT through a human-centered lens across health, media, telecom, hospitality, and property.

Kumpol Buriyameathagul (Dr.A), Ph.D. speaking on stage

Three principles that shape
how I lead.

A focused articulation of where I create value, the standards I hold, and the kind of future I am building for the organizations I serve.

01

Listed-Company Stewardship

Executive leadership and board governance for SET / MAI-listed companies, grounded in disclosure discipline, fiduciary integrity, and long-term shareholder trust.

02

Digital & AI Enabler

Positioning at the intersection of technology, social dynamics, human behavior, and psychology — helping organizations scale through OTT, AI, and Blockchain across media, telecom, hospitality, and beyond.

03

Multidisciplinary by Design

Recognized as a multidisciplinary leader with the agility to adapt, govern, and create value across diverse industries and emerging technologies — built for what comes next.

A bridge between
capital, technology & people.

I am an executive leader, board director, and digital transformation strategist with over 20 years of experience driving business innovation across media, telecommunications, hospitality, and emerging technology sectors.

With a Ph.D.-driven foundation that integrates technology, human behavior, psychology, and digital society, I specialize in enabling organizations to evolve through AI, OTT platforms, blockchain, and next-generation digital ecosystems.

My career spans engineering in Chicago, consulting at Reuters in the UK, senior consulting at Thomson Reuters in Bangkok, and executive leadership at Digital Synergy — before transitioning into a portfolio of board and advisory roles across publicly listed and high-growth private companies.

My Vision

To build future-ready businesses, bridge technology with human-centered innovation, and create sustainable growth through strategic transformation.

$180M+
Aggregate Company Value Under Board & Executive Supervision
20+
YEARS EXPERIENCE
10
BOARD & ADVISORY ROLES
3
COUNTRIES (TH · UK · USA)
Ph.D.
IT — FIRST-CLASS HONOUR

Leading a listed platform
and a multi-industry board portfolio.

As CEO of VIBE Synergy Group, a SET / MAI-listed platform spanning Food & Beverage, Health & Wellness, and Digital Technology — alongside an active portfolio of board and advisory roles across Telecom, Hospitality, Property Management, and other strategic industries.

VIBE Synergy Group
Flagship Executive Role
Listed on mai — Market for Alternative Investment, Stock Exchange of Thailand Ticker VIBE
CEO & Board of Directors
2021 — Present  ·  formerly Health Empire Corporation

VIBE Synergy Group Public Company Limited is a Thailand-based listed platform integrating Food & Beverage, Health & Wellness, and Digital Technology into a single connected group.

Through intelligent connectivity, data-enabled platforms, and partnership-driven innovation, VIBE turns fragmented industries into collaborative networks that enhance engagement, unlock new opportunities, and create long-term value for businesses and society.

Listed Public Company Food & Beverage Health & Wellness Digital Technology
— Combined Industry Coverage: CEO + Board + Advisory —
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Food & Beverage
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Health & Wellness
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AI & Digital Technology
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Pharmacy Retail & Wholesale
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Telecom
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Hospitality
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Property Management
— Additional Active Board & Advisory Roles —

Next Better

Board of Directors 2021 – Present

Tailor-made OTT (Over-the-Top) digital In-Room services for hospitals and hotels — embedding digital experience as a native layer of hospitality operations.

HOSPITALITY · DIGITAL IN-ROOM / OTT

QPM

Board Advisor 2020 – Present

Digital transition and adoption for a Thai-owned property management firm with over 30 years of heritage — now modernized on a digital-first operating backbone.

PROPERTY & LIVING · PROPTECH

NTiBUZZ

Board Advisor 2018 – Present

Building OTT, telemedicine, and Digital-as-a-Service offerings on top of National Telecom (NT) — advancing digital equality and competitive national infrastructure.

TELECOM · OTT · TELEMEDICINE

Synature Technology

Board of Directors 2024 – Present

Board oversight for a Retail Technology platform — point-of-sale (POS), inventory, and order management systems serving restaurants, hotels, and warehouses.

RETAIL TECH · POS · INVENTORY

Mediwell

Board of Directors 2023 – Present

Board governance for an investment firm focused on health and wellness businesses across the ASEAN region.

HEALTH & WELLNESS

Genesenn

Board of Directors Present

Board governance for an integrative medicine and modern wellness ecosystem operator — bridging clinical care and preventive lifestyle.

INTEGRATIVE PREVENTIVE & MEDICAL WELLNESS

Herbal Tech

Board of Directors Present

Strategic governance for a research-led venture commercialising Thai herbal heritage at industrial scale through modern extraction and formulation technology.

HEALTH & WELLNESS

Karaboon Wellness

Board of Directors Present

Board oversight for a consumer-facing wellness brand bringing curated herbal formulations to modern lifestyle, retail, and hospitality channels.

HEALTH & WELLNESS

Asia Food Solution

Board of Directors Present

Board oversight for a Food & Beverage brand spanning retail, franchise, and snack-box businesses across the region.

FOOD & BEVERAGE

Where I have created
measurable value.

Selected initiatives where I was proud to be part of the team — transforming industries through digital innovation, partnerships, and brand value-up.

Sport · National Industry Value-Up

Muaythai & "ONE Lumpinee"

$470M
Economic Value Created

Proud to be part of the team that elevated Muaythai (Thai Boxing) toward sustainable growth — through a strategic collaboration between ONE Championship, one of the world's largest MMA organizations, and Lumpinee Stadium.

The result — "ONE Lumpinee" — has become the most successful Thai boxing program by far, dominating popularity ratings both online and offline, and creating an estimated USD 470 million of value-up impact to the Thai economy.

Partnership Strategy Brand Value-Up National Soft Power Sports Industry
Media · OTT Transformation

Media Industry Value-Up — One31 OTT

OTT
Platform Transformation

Helped uplift the Thai media industry through the OTT (Over-the-Top) transformation of One31 TV — bringing one of Thailand's leading broadcasters into the streaming era with a modern, scalable digital distribution model.

Architected the pivot from linear broadcast to on-demand digital distribution — unlocking new revenue streams through subscription, advertising, and audience-data monetisation, while delivering a unified multi-screen experience across mobile, smart TV, and set-top box. The model reframed One31 from a traditional broadcaster into a content-led digital platform engaging viewers wherever they choose to watch.

Why OTT matters now — OTT is the foundation layer for every direct-to-consumer media, telemedicine, education, and hospitality experience of the next decade. It decouples content from channel, audience from geography, and value from broadcast slot — turning every screen into a personalised, measurable touchpoint.

OTT Platform Linear → On-Demand Multi-Screen Distribution Audience-Data Monetisation Broadcaster Digital Pivot
Telecommunications · Live Sports Streaming

Premier League National Rollout

10M+
Subscribers Reached

Helped lead the national rollout of the English Premier League broadcast in Thailand for the 2016–2018 seasons — scaling the service to over 10 million subscribers and redefining how Thai audiences consume live international football.

Premier League Subscriber Scale-Up Live Streaming Telco Distribution
10M+
Subscribers
2016–18
EPL Seasons
#1
Live Football in Thailand
Health Care · Integrative & Cannabis Medicine

Medical, Integrative Health & Wellness

Hub
Thailand Medical Tourism

Engaged as a speaker, advisor, and convener supporting Thailand's emergence as a regional medical, integrative health & wellness hub — contributing across innovative medicine and medical cannabis business communities.

Integrative Medicine Medical Tourism Medical Cannabis Public Speaking
Public Speaking · Academic Engagement · Policy

Thought Leadership Across Industries

4
Speaking Domains

Regularly invited as a keynote speaker, panellist, and guest lecturer across Thailand's most consequential industry and policy conversations — translating executive experience into actionable insight for regulators, operators, and the next generation of leaders.

Actively contributing to the advancement of Thailand's national OTT regulatory framework for streaming and digital broadcast services — working at the intersection of policy, technology, and the public interest.

Other speaking and advisory engagements span Digital & AI Transformation, Property Technology (PropTech), and Executive Leadership. Forums include industry conferences, regulatory roundtables, and master's-level programmes such as Bangkok University International College (BUIC), bridging academic theory with practical executive insight.

Keynote Speaker Guest Lecturer Panel Discussion OTT Policy & Regulation PropTech Executive Leadership
Sustainability · ESG · Human Wellbeing

Building Sustainable, Human-Centered Business

ESG+
People · Planet · Wellbeing

Champion of a sustainable, human-centered approach to business — where environmental responsibility, social impact, and human wellbeing are inseparable from long-term value creation. Active thought leadership and advisory engagements on Sustainability & ESG within the property sector — promoting greener developments, responsible governance, and ESG-aligned investment frameworks — and on Wellbeing & Integrative Medicine, advocating preventive health, holistic medical care, and a balanced quality of life as the foundations for thriving organisations and communities.

ESG Sustainability UN SDGs Green Property Wellbeing Integrative Medicine Quality of Life

Selected past experience.

Health Up Group (HUG) logo → Subsidiaries Health Network — Pharmacy Retail DN Center — Pharmacy Wholesale XServe Fulfillment — Pharmacy Fulfilment
Pharmacy · Retail · Wholesale · Fulfilment

Health Up Group (HUG)

2022–24
Board & Signatory

Served as Board of Director and authorisation signatory for Health Up Group (HUG) — providing governance across the Group's pharmacy operations, delivered through three specialist subsidiaries: Health Network (pharmacy retail), DN Center (pharmacy wholesale), and XServe Fulfillment (pharmacy fulfilment).

Under HUG's governance, we pushed the Thai pharmacy industry forward — expanding retail reach and building the most advanced robotic and largest wholesale pharmacy warehouse in the country.

Board Director & Signatory Health Network · Retail DN Center · Wholesale XServe · Fulfilment Robotic Warehouse
2021 – 2023
Comanche Inter Public Co., Ltd (COMAN)Listed on mai — Market for Alternative Investment, Stock Exchange of Thailand
Board of Directors · NRC · RMC · CG — Digital Technology
2014 – 2020
Digital Synergy
Chief Customer Officer — Bangkok
2013 – 2014
Ploenjit Media
Director of Service Management — Bangkok
2007 – 2013
Thomson Reuters
Senior Consultant — Bangkok, Thailand
2005 – 2007
Reuters, United Kingdom
Senior IT Consultant — London, UK
Rebuilt & upgraded the Dockland Technical Centre data centre — Reuters Data Feed & Workstation real-time market distribution
2001 – 2005
M.P.R Engineering Corp
Technical Project Manager · Network Engineer — Chicago, USA
Contract engineering for BP Amoco, Canon USA, Motorola & the Royal Thai Consulate-General, Chicago

Three countries.
One executive perspective.

A career built across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Thailand — bringing global frameworks to local execution.

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8
Years of Experience
United States
Chicago — Engineering & Master's
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3
Years of Experience
United Kingdom
Reuters · BBC Academy
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12+
Years of Experience
Thailand
Board · CEO · Advisor

Intellectual Foundations.

Ph.D. Dissertation · 2013
Characteristics of Culture in the Context of Thai Society and Virtual Communities
Bangkok, Thailand  ·  Ph.D. in Information Technology  ·  First-Class Honour  ·  First Prize Research Award

Long before AI dominated boardroom conversations, my research asked a question every modern executive must now answer at global scale: as our work, our teams, and our customers increasingly live inside digital spaces — what parts of human identity and culture endure, and what parts quietly fade away?

The finding is now more urgent than ever: digital and AI systems don't just change how we work — they reshape what we feel, how we trust, and how we lead. Some human values translate effortlessly into digital environments. Others quietly weaken. The organisations that will thrive worldwide are the ones that understand the difference — and design for it.

A Blueprint for Leading the Future Organisation
The most successful organisations of the next decade will be those that bring humanity, culture, and trust into their digital and AI experiences.

That principle now shapes how I lead and govern at the board level — applied across every market I operate in:

  • AI assistants that feel locally relevant — wherever the user lives, works, and speaks.
  • OTT and digital platforms that respect how people actually behave — across languages, cultures, and generations.
  • Hybrid workplaces where culture survives the screen — across time zones and continents.
  • Cross-border teams and partnerships — turning cultural diversity into competitive advantage.

The technology will keep advancing. The human and cultural foundations are what determine whether it succeeds — anywhere in the world.

Future of Work AI-Era Leadership Digital Transformation Human-Centered Design Cross-Border Strategy Global Leadership

Education & Certifications.

Ph.D.
Information Technology
Bangkok, Thailand
2013
★ First-Class Honour · First Prize Research Award
M.S.
Telecommunication Management
Chicago, USA
2003
B.E.
Computer Engineering
Bangkok, Thailand
2000
Executive Certifications & Programs
IOD · Director Accreditation Program (DAP) Thai Institute of Directors
Chulalongkorn University (CU) · DeFi & Blockchain Bangkok, Thailand
George Washington University · IT Risk Management Washington D.C., USA
BBC Academy · Digital Communication Birmingham, UK
Reuters · ITIL Service Management London, UK
Medical Cannabis Industry Business & Workshop Las Vegas, USA
Awards & Recognition
National First Prize · Doctoral Research Award
Ministry-level recognition, Thailand  ·  2014
First-Class Honour & Gold Medal — for research on culture, society & virtual communities.
"Above & Beyond" + "EXCEED" Awards
Thomson Reuters  ·  2011 – 2013
Highest performance rating, three consecutive years — Fortune 500 NYSE / NASDAQ-listed organisation.
Market Recognition Program
Thomson Reuters  ·  2009
Recognised for advancing customer service excellence across Europe & Asia trading-floor clients.

The interests that sharpen the work.

Outside the boardroom, the curiosity is the same — only the playing field changes. These are the pursuits that keep perspective fresh and decisions grounded.

Golf & Soccer

A long-standing pursuit of golf — where many of the best executive conversations begin — and a lifelong love of soccer for teamwork, strategy, and resilience.

Longevity & Preventive Wellness

Blending the wisdom of natural living with the precision of modern medicine — one preventive philosophy for more energy, sharper judgement, and decades longer.

Psychology & Multi-Cultural Studies

Continuing the curiosity that began with the doctoral research — how culture, behaviour, and identity shape the way people lead, follow, and trust across borders.

Investment & Macro Economics

An active personal investor reading central-bank moves and global capital flows — the lens that keeps every business decision financially grounded.

Technology Adoption & Future Transformation

How AI, automation, cloud, robotics — and the early signals of quantum computing — actually take root inside real organisations and reshape every industry over the next decade.

Let's build what's next.

Open to board appointments, strategic advisory, keynote speaking, and partnerships at the intersection of digital transformation, AI, and human-centered business.

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Based In Bangkok, Thailand