A Unique Network of Expertise and Experience
Our executives have spent most of their professional careers involved with the region, recognising many years ago the importance and potential of this area of the world. We believe that no other company brings together the same depth of multi-disciplinary expertise and practical business experience.
Our Directors, Advisors, Associates and Staff have varied commercial, technical, business, educational and real life experiences. All have worked in both large and small corporates and are committed to make a difference allowing our clients to change, expand and grow. The academic, business and financial backgrounds of the people assisting you, as well as their life and work experiences are provided as part of our services.
We have an independent 'Talent Pool' of additional recognised business people who add value to our organisation and who contribute further business accumen, contacts and skill sets to our clients.
Sumet Grachangnetara, Chief Executive Officer, AFG Venture Group (Thailand) Co. Ltd.
Sumet has over 35 years of business advisory/management experience and expertise having worked for various multinational corporations in Thailand and the UK focusing on marketing management, business development, corporate strategic planning and value-adding organisational improvement activities in several industry/business sectors.
Sumet has held various senior management positions at a number of Fortune 500 firms and was a senior-level management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Thailand, where he gained extensive business advisory experience and valuable insight in dealing with a wide variety of industry sectors and their specifically unique business issues. Most recently Sumet has been an independent Management Consultant and Business Advisor (since 2000), undertaking projects for various multinational corporations and local companies.
Sumet was educated in both the UK and the USA, graduating from Boston University, USA (in June, 1970) and Ashridge Management Development College, UK (in 1982). He has completed a Good Corporate Governance practices course (in 2001) as well as a Chartered Directors Course (in 2007) with the Thai Institute of Directors (Thai-IOD).
In 2009, Sumet was appointed an honorary Advisor to the Thai Parliaments' House Standing Committee for Money & Banking Affairs and Financial Institutions Activities.
Ronachai Krisadaolarn (Ron Cristal) - Managing Director, Bangkok Focus Limited
Ronachai is the Managing Partner of Bangkok International Associates, a well established Thai law firm in which Asean Focus Group is a shareholder. He is also Managing Director of Asean Focus Group’s advisory affiliate, Bangkok Focus Group. Ronachai has over 30 years of professional practice as a lawyer and adviser; almost all of which have been spent in Thailand where he has specialised in Thai taxation, joint ventures, corporate matters and loan documentation. He was formerly a Judge Advocate of the US Air Force and the Head of the US Foreign Claims Commission in Thailand. Ronachai is also a part-time professor at the Bangkok University and has published numerous articles on Thai law, coins and medals. He has been decorated by the King of Thailand for his contributions to Thai culture and became a Thai citizen in 1998.
Stephen Frost - Non Executive Director, Bangkok Focus Limited
Stephen Frost is a lawyer and business consultant who has spent the past 12 years working in Thailand. He has advised many foreign companies in takeover transactions or setting up joint ventures in Thailand. He has written extensively on the aspects of Thai law that are of concern to foreign companies investing in Thailand. In addition, he has also worked in the Business Development Division of a listed Thai company and in market research for an export-import company. He has built up a strong and detailed knowledge of the Thai economy, its business sectors and major private and listed Thai companies.
