
Mr. Arapat Sangkharat has more than 24 years’ experience in financial services and management consulting in Asia and the United States. He joined the Company in August 2020 as Deputy Chief Executive Officer and as Regional Head of Transformation, Maybank Kim Eng Group and was subsequently appointed as Chief Executive Officer effective from 31 August 2021.
He is an executional strategist with expertise in business strategy, digital transformation, merger & integration and execution of innovation blueprints. He worked with more than 20 financial services institutions including Siam Commercial Bank, Bank of NY Mellon, American Express and Citigroup over the span of his career with Deloitte and PwC.
He holds a Master of Business Administration in Financial Investments from the University of Southern California.

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2017 - Present |
Chief Operating Officer: Maybank Securities (Thailand) Plc |
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2013 – 2021 |
Regional Head, Operation, Maybank Group |
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2007 – 2013 |
Vice President, Head Stock broking Operations, Mayban Securities Sdn Bhd. |
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2005 - 2007 |
Head, Risk Management, Mayban Securities Sdn Bhd. |
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2002 - 2005 |
Head of Organization & Methods, Mayban Securities Sdn Bhd |
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2001 - 2002 |
Assistant Manager, Compliance, Mayban Securities Sdn Bhd. |
1989 - 2001 | Stock Broking Operations, Mayban Securities Sdn. Bhd. |

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Chief Information Officer |
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Mar 2002 – Dec 2005 |
Head of Information Technology Department |
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1999 – 2001 |
Head of Information Technology Department |
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1997 – 1999 |
Chief Operation Officer |
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1993 – 1996 |
Information Technology Department Manager |
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1990 – 1993 |
Assistant Vice President – Information Technology Department Securities One Plc. |

He previously sat as Acting Managing Director on Infinity Wealth Futures Co., Ltd. in charge for Rubber Futures Trading. He was also the Vice President of Marketing of Classic Gold Futures Co., Ltd. In terms of experiences in securities brokerage firms, he worked for OSK Securities (Thailand) Co., Ltd. in the position of Senior Vice President of Risk Management, Vice President of Risk Management of KTB Securities (Thailand) Co., Ltd. Apart from experiences in Risk Management area, he has more than 10 years of experience in the marketing team of retails equities Kim Eng Securities (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (2002- 2007), Yuanta Securities (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (1998 -2002). Pacific Finance Securities (1994-1997). Previous to his work in retail equities, he worked as Head Section of Marketing at Multi Credit Corporation Co., Ltd.

Sombat has been working with Maybank Securities (Thailand) since 2018 leading debt capital market and fixed-income businesses, to expand Maybank’s product offering to serve Thai and MNC corporate funding needs, as well as to increase investment opportunity to Thai institutional and individual investors.
Before joining with Maybank, Sombat has successfully initiated and expanded businesses for leading financial institutions such as Standard Chartered Bank, Nomura, KT Zmico and HSBC from 2009 to 2018 and before that he was a Treasury Product Specialist and a derivatives credit trader at Siam Commercial Bank between 2006-2009. He also has 8 years of experiences working with international credit rating agency Moody's Investors Service in Structured Finance teams in New York, London and Hong Kong.
Sombat holds an MBA from Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College in New York and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Thammasat University. He also receives certified training for executives, major in Mergers and Acquisitions from Booth School of Business, the University of Chicago, and Private Equity from Said Business School, the University of Oxford.