Launched in 2018, our vision is to create a platform equipped with the knowledge, skills and capabilities to become real experts in key segments Material, Food, Pharma and Life Science. Our mission is to provide our customers with the right expertise and solutions and to enable our partners to grow and expand their business in the region.
We currently have offices in 16 markets including Australia, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. We have 19 demonstration labs worldwide to support us customers in segments including Inspection, verification, testing and certification companies, laboratories across various industries, government agencies, hospitals, research institutions and universities.
Marco Farina joined DKSH in February 2016 as General Manager, Business Line Scientific Instrumentation, Business Unit Technology. He oversees global business development and has spent the last ten years developing and growing business in different emerging markets in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia. He now lives in Bangkok with his wife and two kids.
Potchara Sungtong joined DKSH Thailand in 2021 as Director, Food and Beverage overseeing the Asia Pacific region. With a background in food science and in microbiology, he brings with him over 20 years of experience in research and development, sales and marketing, channel management, and business development in food and beverages. Potchara has extensive knowledge in food safety, customer requirements, laboratory workflows, and lab efficiencies.
Sam Chien joined DKSH in 2022. With more than seven years of experience in commercial and channel management of lab chemicals and life science consumables, he brings extensive experience in these areas. Sam is now the Senior Manager for laboratory consumables to help grow and expand the Life Science portfolio in the APAC region.
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Gabriela is based in Zurich and has been with DKSH for seven years helping the company to expand their business in Asia. She has previously worked with several international brands in the life sciences sector and has vast experience developing strong relationships with customers and business partners worldwide.
James Hsu joined DKSH in 2019 as Business Development, DKSH Technology. In this role, he is responsible for growing the life sciences and scientific instrumentations business. His previous experience was accumulated in the bustling Asian genomics and proteomics sector, where he worked on bringing a digital PCR startup to market. James graduated from the University of California, San Diego.
Alan Boey has been in the X-ray analytical instrument business for the past 14 years, servicing various industries from minerals and mining, metal manufacturing to electronics and semiconductor businesses. Alan is now engaged with DKSH as a regional product manager for South East Asia region, specializing in X-ray analytical instrument and providing solutions to fulfill market requirement in material analysis with X-ray diffraction techniques as well as elemental determination via X-ray fluorescence methods.
Chalanda is the Thermal Analysis Specialist for DKSH Management overseeing the Asia Pacific region. In her PhD thesis, she developed and characterized polymer membranes for fuel-cell application. She has over 10 years of experience in Thermal Analysis Instruments and their applications. She also supports the thermal analyzer customers in South East Asia.
Ruethaitip Tiratrakulvichaya has been with DKSH in Thailand since 2009. As the Application Manager for the Malvern Panalytical product range, she is responsible for technical and application support across Southeast Asia. With a background in food science and agroindustry, she is experienced in delivering training to both internal colleagues and external customers on how to operate and obtained the best data.
Ruethaitip has extensive working knowledge in material characterization techniques including laser diffraction, dynamic light scattering, micro-calorimetry, size exclusion chromatography and morphological property.
Sakuna is the Regional Product Manager for Binder at DKSH Technology. In this role, she collaborates closely with local markets and the Binder team to expand and grow our business, with the objective to pave way for DKSH to become Binder’s Master Dealer in the Asia-Pacific region. She started her career at SPC and brings with her more than 20 years of invaluable experience in sales, marketing, and product management within the General Lab Equipment sector.
As one of the leading research universities in the country, we are delighted to collaborate on the DKSH Center of Excellence at the Faculty of Science, Mahidol University. This Center of Excellence aims to synergize the close collaboration between academia and industries to ultimately serve the goal to increase output of research and innovation.
Assoc. Prof. Sittiwat Lertsiri, Dean of Faculty of Science, Mahidol University
DKSH is the leading Market Expansion Services Group with a focus on Asia. We help companies who are looking for a reliable outsourcing partner to grow their business in new or existing markets. Headquartered in Zurich and publicly listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange since 2012, we blend Swiss reliability, professionalism and best practice corporate governance with 150 years of uninterrupted business presence in Asia.
We operate in 870 business locations in 36 countries – 850 of them in Asia. With more than 32,000 employees, we provide our business partners with sound expertise, on-the-ground logistics and tailor-made services based on a comprehensive network of unique size and depth.
We offer you one-stop-shop and customized technology solutions. Operating as a trusted link between suppliers from Asia, America and Europe and customers in Asia, we provide you with access to products from around the world. Our services cover the entire product life cycle including installation and commissioning, final acceptance testing, production start-up support, training maintenance, after-sales services, repair spare parts and consumable supply, as well as refurbishments and trade-ins.
Other than food safety solutions, we also offer total solutions in areas such as hospitality, industrial materials and supplies, infrastructure, precision machinery, scientific instrumentation, semiconductor, photovoltaic and electronics, specialized industrial applications as well as textile machinery. We operate in 18 countries from 85 business locations with over 1,500 specialized staff, including 650 service engineers.