Amarit Charoenphan
ASEAN Director, Impact Collective, Chief Connection Officer & Cofounder, Techsauce
Amarit is the ASEAN Director of Impact Collective, a community-driven investment & acceleration project for impact-driven startups focusing on opportunities in Asia that invests in, supports, and connects startups that are solving global challenges to accelerate the positive impact in the world.
He is best known as the Co-founder and Former CEO of HUBBA, Thailand’s first coworking space and community that is the only Google for Startups Partner Hub in Thailand. He is also Chief International Officer and Cofounder of Techsauce, one of Southeast Asia's leading technology media and events company. His passion for the startup community and to help entrepreneurs grow has led him to angel invest in many of the top Thai startups and actively coaches over 1000+ different startup founders over the past decade. He is also a Fellow of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF) and has been named as one of Forbes Asia 30 Under 30: Enterprise Technology, and Thailand Startup Enabler of The Year 2016.
He has been an active Startup Weekend Global Facilitator for the past 8 years, organizing and facilitating over 20+ Techstars related event such as the 1st community-led Startup Weekend in Thailand, Startup Next, Thailand Startup Week, and hosting the Techstars APAC Community Leaders Summit. He has been involved at an early stage with more than 20 ventures during the past 8 years as an angel or advisory capacity. He has also coached and consulted ecosystem hubs and leaders in over 30 cities on how to build tech communities.
He also loves to travel, meet interesting people, attend conferences and look at new coworking spaces. Being outside of his usual environment recharges him with more energy to dream bigger, provides fodder for new ideas and inspiration, and gets him excited to get back to start building again.
His passion and life's work is to create a better world where people work with passion, meaning, and purpose while actively supported by an inspiring community and ecosystem.