CEO & Lead Hustler at ShakeSphere & SoldOutt
Tech Entrepreneur on a mission to take Thai Startups and our incredible talent global. Coach of European Founders. 2-week MVP Builder. Creator of 2023 “Retail App of the Year”. Sales Hacker for Global Tech Conferences like Techsauce and Echelon (e27). AI and ChatGPT Hacker. Virtual Event Platform Pioneer. Innovative Tech Builder. AWS Scout. 25 years in Digital, 20 years in Events. Failed 1 startup, driving growth for 2 thriving ones.
Dave is an experienced Digital Business Expert with 25 years of demonstrated successes in tech, event, marketing and startup domains. He regularly combines creative tech solutions with an understanding of current trends to helping traditional businesses use new tech or help young startups develop MVPs in under 2 weeks with user-centric and result-driven approach. As the CEO of ShakeSphere, he's carried out total platform overhauls and executed highly challenging and innovative Digital projects for big corporates including Minor Group and Central Group in businesses including E-commerce, Food Delivery and CRM.
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Key milestones
- Coached a German Marketer, a French Investor and a Finnish and a Brazilian Dentist and empowered them to build on their startup idea with the right founder mindset and launched the MVP in 2 weeks
- Launched Nomad Dental — a platform for dental health self-assessment, giving access to Nomads their dental history and connecting Nomads to vetted dentists that enables up to 70% savings from their origin country.
- Launched Good Time Ratio — a platform to assess one’s good time and the elements that affect changes in their Good Time Ratio overtime to enable people to live happier and fulfilled lives.
- Launched an AI Sales Agent for the largest Chocolate producer in Thailand for the brand Duc De Praslin during Christmas 2024
- Initiated and launched Thailand’s homegrown Product Community with series of events and meetups happening at least once a month in Bangkok
- Hosted the UX Conference 2024 attended by 1,500 designers, UX researchers and tech professionals with international speakers from all over the world
- Launched the “Chiang Mai Initiative” and successfully put Thais and Digital Nomads in a “Buildathon” working together with Nomad Summit in January 2025
- Built “2023 Retail App of the Year” for Power Buy that includes their entire Mobile commerce ecosystem
- Built the Scan & Shop omni-channel e-commerce MVP app for Power Buy from design to launch in 7 weeks
- Built the first multi-restaurant food delivery platform for Central Restaurant Group (CRG) called FoodHunt offering brands like Ootaya, Mister Donut, Auntie Anne's, Pepper Lunch and over 10 more restaurant brands.
- Founded 3 startups - Dinoza (Gamified Online Shopping), ShakeSphere (Innovative Tech Builder) and SoldOutt (Sales Hacking platform and service)
- Worked on 2 crypto and NFT related projects due to launch in late December 2021
- Recruited as AWS Scout — a representative of Amazon to scout for early stage startups and provide support in form of credits and mentorship
- Built MVP for LifePal, an InsureTech startup in Indonesia that acquired 10 million USD in funding and got fully acquired by Roojai in January 2024
- Built MVP for BuyHive, the Hong Kong-based multi-mullion-dollar sourcing platform that eliminates the need for buyers from around the world to fly down to Hong Kong or China to source new products
- Built Thailand's first mobile ticketing platform with seat selection for Major Cineplex