Pattapon (Tay) Kasemtanakul, deep tech VC fund manager at SCG, is one of our top 50 Emerging Leaders in corporate venturing for 2026.
Pattapon Kasemtanakul was part of the team that started the deep tech corporate venturing activities for Thailand-based cement-building materials, chemicals and packaging company SCG in 2018.
“We were shifting into cleantech to offset our emissions and thought CVC could be one of the ways to bring in new technologies from all over the world to Southeast Asia,” he says.
Since then, the venturing team at SCG has invested in more than 15 portfolio companies, with Kasemtanakul managing the cleantech portfolio. Investment areas include clean energy, energy storage, clean cement, recycling, circular economies and other technologies that can create new business lines for the company.
Kasemtanakul has years of experience across the full CVC lifecycle under his belt, including scouting, investing, negotiating and portfolio management. His engineering background helps him in assessing complex technologies and identifying the most suitable business models.
“You have to create value from your investments when you are in CVC. You get into this loop of finding new things, making an investment case, doing due diligence and closing it – and then the hardest part is creating value from it”
He is highly effective at bridging the gap between portfolio companies and the parent company. His stakeholder engagement approach ensures smooth collaboration between the two, while strengthening long-term strategic partnership and demonstrating strong stakeholder management skills.
Kasemtanakul describes his job as “fun”, explaining that it goes beyond simply finding new things and investing in them. “You have to create value from your investments when you are in CVC. You get into this loop of finding new things, making an investment case, doing due diligence and closing it – and then the hardest part is creating value from it.”
At the same time, he says it is important to realise that a lot of things can change quite quickly in corporate venturing, even if the work largely remains the same.
“Be flexible and learn to embrace the curves that come with the job. That is where the real learning is.”
The Emerging Leaders are mid-career corporate venture professionals who are making an outstanding contribution to their teams and the industry.
See the full list of Emerging Leaders here.
