CV – Py Piyapong

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Mr. Piyapong ‘Py’ Muenprasertdee

Current location: Bangkok, Thailand

Currently Held Professional Titles:

Co-founder & Director of Educational, Governmental and Overseas Partnership at Fungjai Co., Ltd.;
Head of Group Partnerships at Ookbee Co., Ltd.; and
Co-founder & Creative Engineer at Creative Cup 623 Co., Ltd.

Emails: piyapong@fungjai.com, piyapong@ookbee.com, piyapong@creativecup.co

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/piyapongmuenprasertdee

Mobile & WhatsApp: (+66) 084-162-5928

Personal Website: PyPiyapong.com

SHORT BIO

Piyapong Muenprasertdee or ‘Py’ is a Thai music industry academic and lover of DIY music making. He holds a B.Eng. and MS in Industrial Engineering, and an MBA focused in entrepreneurship.

In 2014, he co-founded Fungjai – a music platform, events organizer and marketing company based in Bangkok, Thailand best known for its indie music community and live events, such as Maho Rasop Festival – Bangkok’s first international independent music festival; Bangkok Music City (BMC) – Thailand’s first international music conference and showcase festival; and ASEAN Music Showcase Festival (to be renamed AXEAN Festival) – Southeast Asia’s first intraregional collaborative music showcase festival. He is passionate about connecting people and networks while also promoting local and regional music artists to the world.

Before his music industry career, he was a consultant in the field of sustainability and climate change with an expertise in carbon footprinting and green buildings. But because music was his true calling, he married his technical background with his passion, and now works studiously for a more sustainable music industry with government agencies, private and non-government organizations and educational institutions to realize his vision.

Lastly, he co-founded an innovation training and consulting company, CreativeCup.Co, while naming himself its Creative Engineer.

CURRENTLY HELD POSITIONS

FUNGJAI CO., LTD.

2014 – Now

Bangkok, Thailand

Fungjai is a music platform, events organizer and marketing company based in Bangkok, Thailand best known for its indie music community and live events, such as Maho Rasop Festival – Bangkok’s first international independent music festival; Bangkok Music City (BMC) – Thailand’s first international music conference and showcase festival; and ASEAN Music Showcase Festival (to be renamed AXEAN Festival) – Southeast Asia’s first intraregional collaborative music showcase festival. H

Position:

Co-founder & Director of Educational, Governmental and Overseas Partnership

OOKBEE CO., LTD.

2022 – Now

Bangkok, Thailand

Ookbee is the biggest conglomeration of Gen-Y & Z focused UGC platforms and companies with more than 11 million active monthly users with headquarters in Thailand. Its platforms range from literature, music and even horoscope.

Position:

Head of Group of Partnerships

CREATIVE CUP 623 CO., LTD

2022 – Now

Bangkok, Thailand

Creative Cup is an innovations training and consulting company that aims to change how “Corporate Innovation” is viewed and practiced whilst adding creativity as the main ingredient!.

Position:

Co-founder & Creative Engineer

Product Engineer: Aircraft Tire Operations – Asia Pacific

Songwriter member

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

SCHOOL OF INTEGRATED INNOVATION, CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY

2020 – Now

Bangkok, Thailand

Position:

Student project mentor

CONCERT ENGINEERING AND MULTIMEDIA, INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, SRINAKHARINWIROT UNIVERSITY

2019 – Now

Bangkok, Thailand

Position:

Special Lecturer

Subjects:

Music Event Management
Introduction to Social Media Technology

FACULTY OF MUSIC, SILPAKORN UNIVERSITY

August – December 2016

Bangkok, Thailand

Position:

Special Lecturer

Subjects:

Sales Promotion Strategies in Entertainment and Music Business (Bachelor Degree)
Web Marketing for Music Business (Master Degree)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE SPEAKER EXPERIENCE

2017

Independent Music Conference @ Bandung, Indonesia
Golden Melody Awards @ Taipei, Taiwan
LUCfest @ Tainan, Taiwan

2018

Trans Asia Music Meeting @ Okinawa, Japan
BAJAFASH – Batam Jazz and Fashion Festival @ Batam, Indonesia
MaMA Festival & Convention @ Paris, France
Seoul Music City Connection @ Seoul, South Korea
EARS on Mumbai @ Mumbai, India
RRRec Fest @ Sukhabumi, Indonesia
Archipelago Festival @ Jakarta, Indonesia
LUCfest @ Tainan, Taiwan

2019

Taiwan Beats @ Taipei, Taiwan
Asia-Pacific Music Meeting @ Ulsan, South Korea
All Of The Noise @ Manila, Philippines

2020

Trans Asia Music Meeting @ Okinawa, Japan
Le Bureau Export – virtual @ France
Fukuoka Asian Picks – virtual @ Fukuoka, Japan
SCAPEmusic – virtual @ Singapore
Year In Review 2020 – virtual @ Japan

2021

Screen X Screen, Indie Week Canada – virtual @ Canada
CIMC – China International Music Conference – virtual @ Beijing, China
Global Toronto Music Conference – virtual @ Toronto, Canada
Golden Melody Awards – virtual @ Taipei, Taiwan
TAMA – Taiwan ASEAN Music Action – virtual @ Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
ASEAN Korea Music Festival – virtual @ Vietnam

2022

Vietnam Music Week – virtual @ Vietnam

2023

Music Lane Okinawa @ Okinawa, Japan

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) – ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOCUSED ELECTIVES

2011 – 2012

Hult International Business School, Boston, MA, USA

Certification: Innovation Management Certification Level 2 (Idea Architect) from the Global Innovation Management Institute
Internship: Business Development and Strategy Intern for Indie Ambassador LLC
Action Project: Strategy Consultant Intern in Innovation Project Sponsored by Iron Mountain
Extracurricular: Technical Advisor of Green Businesses for Net Impact Hult International Business School, Boston – Graduate Chapter

MASTER OF SCIENCE (M.S.) – INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

2004 – 2007

West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA

Student Researcher: Industries of the Future–West Virginia (IOF-WV) Project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy
Teaching Assistant: SOLIDCast solidification simulation software
Master Thesis: Solidification Modeling of Iron Castings Using SOLIDCast
Additional Elective: Studio Recording Technology

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (B.ENG.) – INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

1999 – 2003

Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Senior Project: A Study of Positioning and Status Tracking of Ready-Mixed Cement Trucks using GPS and Sensors

INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE

INDIE AMBASSADOR

2012 – 2013

Charlestown, MA, USA

A startup company seeking to become a global leader in career development and management software within the creative industries.

Position:

Business Development and Strategy Intern

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND MINERAL RESOURCES, WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY

2005 – 2006

Morgantown, WV, USA

Positions:

Student Researcher
Teaching Assistant

TOYOTA MOTOR THAILAND CO., LTD.

March-May 2002

Bangkok, Thailand

Position:

Student Intern at Paint Department

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCES

DISRUPT MBA GENERATION 4

September – October 2013

Training by Rungroj ‘Krating’ Poonpol, Bangkok, Thailand

Ideation and Disruptive Thinking
Seductive Design Interaction
Business Model Innovation for Startup
Pitching to VCs
Guest speakers from Silicon Valley and Thai startups

STARTUP WEEKEND BANGKOK 2013

May 2013

54-hour Startup Workshop, Bangkok, Thailand

Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011.
All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote) and then it’s a 54-hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekends culminate with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback.

STATEMENT OF ACCOMPLISHMENT FOR GAMIFICATION

December 2012

University of Pennsylvania’s Online Course Offering

This course provides an introduction to gamification as a business practice, describes relevant psychological and design concepts, and explains how to apply game thinking effectively in a variety of contexts.

BEIJING LANGUAGE AND CULTURE UNIVERSITY

2003 – 2004

Certificate of Mandarin-Chinese language, 1-year program, Beijing, China

AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE (AFS) FOREIGN EXCHANGE STUDENT PROGRAM

1997 – 1998

Hanamaki-Kita High School, Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture, Japan

UNIVERSAL CULTURAL EXCHANGE (UCE) PROGRAM

October 1995

Cullompton, Devon, England, UK

OTHER ACTIVITIES

PIMAN SLY

2018 – Now

A Thai indie band that writes and plays English original songs.

Role: Songwriter, vocalist, rhythm guitarist, bandleader and manager

CIGARETTE LAUNCHER

2006 – 2013

A Thai indie band that writes and plays both Thai and English original songs.

Role: Songwriter, vocalist, acoustic guitarist, bandleader and manager

Achievements:

Nominated for Best New Artist for Fat Awards by 104.5 Fat Radio, Bangkok, Thailand (June 2012)
Number 16 on 104.5 Fat Radio Top 100 annual chart of 2011 (December 2011)
Number 2 on 104.5 Fat Radio weekly chart (May 2011)

OTHER INFORMATION

Languages:

Thai (Mother Tongue); English (Fluent); Japanese (Basic); Mandarin (Basic)

Technologies:

MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access; Keynote, Pages; ARENA; VP Expert; SOLIDCast; Social Media; Cubase; Protools; Google Business Tools