Ex-president of the Thailand Stock Exchange joins board of aCommerce

Thailand-based ecommerce enabler aCommerce announced the appointment of three independent non-executive directors to its board as it prepares to list on the country’s stock exchange.

The new independent board members of aCommerce / Photo credit: aCommerce

The company has roped in Kesara Manchusree, the first managing director of the Thailand Futures Exchange and the former president of the Stock Exchange of Thailand. She has also been appointed as a chairman and board director of other listed companies and social enterprises.

Oranuch Apisaksirikul also joins the company as the chairperson of the board of directors, bringing with her years of experience in IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, and executive leadership mentoring. In the past, she has served as the chairperson of the executive board of financial services firm Tisco Financial and was an advisor to companies including Tisco Bank, Tisco Securities, and Amata VN, among others.

Natasak Rodjanapiches was also appointed after previously working at Oracle, where he was the regional managing director for Southeast Asia. He is also an independent director at CIMB Thai and is the vice chairman for the digital economy subcommittee at Thailand’s Board of Trade.

“The appointed independent members will play a crucial role in constituting the central committees of the company that make up its governance framework, which in turn drive much of the internal workings, constitution, reporting, etc.,” the company said in a statement. As aCommerce scales, the appointed members will also be involved in “all material operational and strategic issues.”