Casper Sermsuksan is the author of The Startup Mindset and the Executive Vice President of Strategy & Global Expansion at Thai Startup. Sermsuksan is a serial entrepreneur, and citizen of the world. He founded Edaf a venture accelerator and community builder, focusing in market expansion, social impact and emerging market ecosystem development. The firm operates in Bangkok, Singapore and Jakarta. Edaf works with startups and partners in each market to give access to KNITT (knowledge, network, investment, talent & tools).
Through Edaf, he also became the Chief Strategy Officer of Tellscore, a leading influencer marketing automation platform in Southeast Asia. With over 30,000 influencers on the platform, Tellscore is innovating in the new space of marketing, and recently expanded into Indonesia.
Sermsuksan also co-founded and was previously the CEO of Kulina.id, a marketplace for food catering and delivery service based in Jakarta. Kulina is part of Google Launchpad San Francisco portfolio, and won multiple awards such as Mobile DNA and Blackbox Scholars.
He previously led Product & Growth team at Product Madness in San Francisco and London, generated over $200M in revenue a year, and was acquired by Aristrocrat. Prior to that, he served multiple roles at Amazon, Sony Pictures, Deloitte and Belkin in Seattle, Los Angeles and Singapore.
Favorite quote:
“Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
-Joshua J. Marine