In this biography
Quick facts
- Born
- Not publicly documented
- Birthplace
- Not reliably established
- Country
- Thailand
- Nationality
- Thai
- Known for
- KCE’s PCB operations, production planning and risk-management responsibilities
- Engineering studies
- Computer engineering and electrical engineering, UC Riverside
- Management studies
- MBA, Cornell University
- Early KCE work
- Sales and production planning strategist, 2005–2007
- Executive appointment
- President and CEO from 2013
- Board appointment
- 29 April 2014; separate from the CEO start date
Why this life matters
His career connects engineering education and factory-level planning with executive leadership in Thailand’s automotive-electronics supply chain.
Timeline
Key moments
Production planning
The CV records sales and production-planning work at KCE.
Investment-banking internship
Worked as an intern at Phatra Securities.
Deputy managing director
Held a management role before becoming CEO.
President and CEO
The director CV dates the executive appointment to this year.
Board and risk committee
The separate board appointment is dated April 29.
Enterprise risk policy
The corporate record includes an enterprise-risk-policy committee role.
Engineering and management education
Pitharn Ongkosit studied computer engineering and electrical engineering at the University of California, Riverside, followed by an MBA at Cornell University’s Johnson school. KCE’s director profile lists the engineering qualifications separately rather than describing them as a single general business degree.
That combination is relevant to the production setting in which he developed his career. A printed-circuit-board manufacturer must connect technical requirements with scheduling, customers and costs. His early employment record shows work in that interface before the later executive titles.
From production planning to executive office
The CV records sales and production-planning work at KCE in 2005–2007, an investment-banking internship at Phatra Securities in 2008 and deputy-managing-director responsibilities in 2009–2012. These were different stages, not a claim that he became chief executive immediately after university.
KCE dates his president-and-CEO role to 2013. The board appointment followed on 29 April 2014. This distinction is especially useful when reading corporate biographies: the most prominent appointment date on a director page need not be the date on which that person first began running the business.
The product behind the automotive connection
KCE manufactures printed circuit boards, including increasingly complex multilayer boards. Its corporate history identifies automotive electronics among several end-markets. The connection with vehicles is therefore through electronic components and their supporting circuitry, rather than the assembly of complete cars.
A bare PCB, an assembled electronic board and a packaged semiconductor are different products. Understanding which stage the company performs makes Pitharn’s industrial role more precise and provides a useful connection to the wider electronics businesses operating in Thailand.
Sources for this section: [4]
Management and risk oversight
The corporate-governance record identifies Pitharn as chief executive and chairman of the risk-management committee, with a separate enterprise-risk-policy committee role. It identifies Bancha Ongkosit as chairman of the board and executive board. The two executives’ titles should not be merged.
The CV also records later training in automotive quality-system risk, information security and carbon accounting. Those entries describe professional development in an industrial business, not a claim that a training course certifies every product or that Pitharn personally invented the technologies manufactured by the group.
Quick answers
Frequently asked questions about Pitharn Ongkosit
- Who is Pitharn Ongkosit?
- He is the KCE executive identified as president and CEO, with engineering and business qualifications.
- When did Pitharn become KCE CEO?
- The corporate CV records 2013. His 29 April 2014 board appointment is a separate date.
- What did Pitharn study?
- KCE lists computer and electrical engineering studies at UC Riverside and an MBA at Cornell.
- Is Pitharn the same person as Bancha Ongkosit?
- No. KCE identifies Pitharn as president and CEO and Bancha as board and executive-board chairman. Their biographies and responsibilities are separate.
Keep exploring
Lives connected to this story
- Bancha Ongkosit
Read the KCE chairman’s earlier career separately from Pitharn’s executive route.
- Richard David Han
Compare PCB manufacturing with another executive’s electronic assembly and semiconductor-test business.
- Yeap Swee Chuan
Connect automotive electronics with tooling and mechanical component supply.
Sources and further reading
Explore the evidence
These references support the biography and offer further reading. Official records, first-person accounts and independent reporting provide different perspectives; image records document attribution and licensing.
- 1. KCE · director CVQualifications and the 2005–2014 career sequence
The 2013 CEO appointment is not overwritten by the prominent April 2014 board date. Dated ages are not converted into an exact birthday. Inconsistent duplicated entries for another subsidiary are not used to extend a role beyond the separately listed period.
- 2. KCE · 2024 structured corporate disclosureDirector background and appointments
A bounded Commons/public-licence review did not clear a commercially reusable portrait. The user approved completing the content with the photo pending permission. No publicity portrait or invented image licence is substituted.
- 3. KCE · governance recordCEO, chairman and risk-committee distinctions
Names and responsibilities are kept distinct from Bancha’s. No family relationship is inferred only from the surname, and no personal investment return is inferred from corporate growth.
- 4. KCE · manufacturing historyPrinted circuit boards and customer industries
KCE’s PCB activity is distinguished from PCBA and chip fabrication. Undated market-share and capital figures are omitted.
