Brand Guardian
MONSINEE NAKAPANANT
Co-President of Ascend Money Co., Ltd.
The operator of TrueMoney
Monsinee Napapanant joined Ascend Group as the Chief Operating Officer in 2014 and was promoted to be Co-President of Ascend Money in 2018.
Today, Monsiness leads Ascend Money and her strengths lie in leadership skills and ability to implement successful market operation. Highly motivated with excellent problem-solving skills, Monsinee has a deep understanding in the components that go into running and overseeing the operations of a successful fintech business.
In less than four years after joining Ascend Money, she has successfully expanded the company’s business to six countries (Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia), while building up human capital and establishing a scaled agile operational practice across the region.
Monsinee received a Bachelor’s degree with a first-class honour in Engineering from Chulalongkorn University. She was also awarded a Fulbright scholarship for her Master of Business Administration degree at Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
In 2019, Monsinee received the Innovation Leadership Achievement Award at The Asian Banker Leadership Achievement Awards. Recently, she was honoured as one of Tatler Asia’s Gen.T X Credit Suisse Social Impact Awards 2022, the definitive list of leaders of tomorrow who are shaping Asia’s future.
Brand Guardian
TANYAPONG THAMAVARANUKUPT
Co-President of Ascend Money Co., Ltd.
The operator of TrueMoney
Tanyapong Thamavaranukupt has been Co-President of Ascend Money since October 2016. He is responsible for expanding and driving the growth of TrueMoney’s financial products in Thailand and across the Southeast Asia region.
Tanyapong has extensive experience in the financial industry for over 15 years. He had held various senior executive positions in various leading financial institutions. He is a successful business leader with a consistent track record of performance in building and turning around organisations.
Tanyapong received his Bachelor of Engineering from Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand before completing his MBA at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester in the United States.
In 2019, Tanyapong was appointed a board committee member of National Digital ID Co., Ltd. (NDID). The establishment of NDID was initiated by the The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society to enhance Thailand’s digital economy by building trusted digital identity, data sharing platform and the country’s infrastructural digitisation to provide services to the people and business sector efficiently.