Triphon Phumiwasana
Senior Managing Director, Private Banking Business Head
Triphon Phumiwasana, Ph.D. is the Private Banking Business Head at KASIKORNBANK. His main responsibility is to manage and lead private banker teams in order to provide investment advisory service for high net worth clients.
Prior to joining KASIKORNBANK, Triphon was the Chief Executive Officer of Maybank Asset Management (Thailand), where he also took the responsibility of country CIO and the regional head of product. Triphon also had extensive experience in investment management when he was the Director of Foreign Investment and External Fund Management at the Thai Government Pension Fund (GPF). At GPF, he was responsible for global investment and asset allocation as well as external fund management with the fund under management of 4 billion USD. He was the leader in transforming the foreign investment platform to enhance the efficiency and prepare for further foreign investment expansion. Prior to joining GPF, Triphon is the senior economist at the Milken Institute, the global capital market think tank, where he published several research and co-authored The Rise and Fall of U.S. Mortgage and Credit Markets, 2009.
He received his Ph.D. in Economic with concentration in International Finance from Claremont Graduate University, California, USA.