Champ Suthipongchai

General Partner

2016

We back problems worth fighting for. Because our entrepreneurs believe they are worth dying for. We identify critical global-scale challenges and fund companies with breakthrough technologies that address these problems. We believe in rigor, in taking chances without taking a chance. We believe in finding the most compelling of all problems. Because problems create markets. Markets create successes. Our process helps us find them. We hope you find yours too.

Official Member

2021

Chief Strategy Officer

2015 - 2018

I'm a satellite CSO. I don't sit in the office. I go out and look for actual, tangible opportunities that help inform the strategic direction of the company. Rather than sitting in front of the whiteboard, I traverse the globe and look for exciting, world-changing technologies that our company can adopt. Then at night, I come home and get on Skype with my team. You see, strategy is about 5% of what I do. Real strategy work has 5% to do with "strategizing" and 95% to do with "implementing." That's how I spend my time: implementing the strategy. I help my teams at all level implement. I help think of the smallest possible pilot program we can do to leverage the technology I found. I help them find resources and change policies. I am a cure to an innovator dilemma. I protect the baby world-changing ideas with my life, and groom her until she's ready to take over the world.

Board Member

2015 - 2016

Helping Lioness transform women sexual health, one female at a time.

Business Development

2015 - 2016

Identified B2B customer needs and pain points and validated market opportunity by building and selling MVPs to existing and new customers. Defined, built, and tested enterprise features for the world largest design marketplace. Created a pre-vetted community of top-tier designers for B2B customers and built internal tools to drive refund and repeat improvement for high-value customers.

Business Designer

2014 - 2014

Collaborated with an interdisciplinary team of designers to identify business opportunities, redesign business model, and propose go-to-market strategy for a Fortune 500 CPG planning to launch connected device. Constructed consumable-durable business model and recommended pricing, channel, and partnership strategy for new product launch.

MBA Consultant

2014 - 2014

Conducted user research and identified needs and pain points around user experience of a physical wallet. Built and tested "social wallet" paper and lo-fi prototypes with 12 early adopters. Presented product concept and high-level roadmap to PayPal management team.

Senior Manager of Corporate Transformation

2010 - 2013

Lived the pain of users to learn their problems. Architected a large scale solution to reinvented SHARP's management practice through technology and software. Built new and useful products that transformed supply chain operations and significantly improve performance. Reengineered business process and built more tools to help company visualize their performance and improve them. And then transferred that into brand equity through new product launch and rebranding activities. In short, combined start-up mentality with best practices from Fortune 500 company to reinvent a privately owned, conservative Asian company.

Associate Supply Planning Manager

2009 - 2010

Drove on-time launch of new sanitary napkins product in Asia Pacific by leading 2 teams of engineer to perform unprecedented quadruple testing of temperature and pressure. Served Asia Pacific by offering sanitary napkins and liners to the continent. Ensured that people who wants the product get it 97.5% of the time.