Dr Sampan Silapanad

Vice President, Chief Thailand Business Strategist Western Digital Storage Technologies (Thailand) Ltd.

Dr Sampan joined Western Digital since 2007. His expertise and experience have been in the field of Electronics and HDD manufacturing for 40 years.

During this period, he has initiated several projects related to linking the industry with skill development for Thailand’s manpower and has been actively involved in such projects, connecting with the government, the societies and all stakeholders as a representative of Western Digital.

Presently, Dr Sampan is a board member in 9 ministries covering works in the areas of education, society, health, science and technology and environment. He is also President of Thailand’s Electronics and Computer Employers Association (ECEA), and Co-chair of the World Association for Cooperative Education (WACE). With effective implementation of Cooperative Education in industry for 14 years, almost 2,000 students joined the program including several hundred of foreign students from more than a hundred oversea universities, he received many awards from both domestic and international organizations on his effort and achievement in raising quality of education system and addressing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).