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Company management
Mark Chewter,
Managing Partner
Mark has been a Partner of CSL since November 1998. During his time with CSL, he has worked with clients in industries as diverse as retail, adventure tourism, distribution, manufacturing, agribusiness, logistics and Internet applications. Mark has concluded many buy side and sell side mandates, raising equity, raising debt, restructuring balance sheets for private and listed companies.
Before joining CSL, Mark worked for 12 years in the equity research and sales divisions of such leading international investment banks as Union Bank of Switzerland, Swiss Bank Corporation and Deutsche Bank and has been stationed in Thailand, Singapore and the United Kingdom. His experience has afforded him an understanding of the requirements of international investors in both mature and emerging markets.
Mark was the CFO of Cobra International, a Thai company which is the world's largest advanced composites manufacturer, from 2005 until 2009, taking the company through an extensive strategic and financial refocus and of Jim Thompson, the internationally renowned Thai silk company, from 2012 to 2017 leading the traditional company’s transition to professional management. Mark is presently the CFO at SpiceRoads, Asia's largest specialist bicycle adventure company, and at Panpuri, Thailand’s leading natural, organic wellness products and services company.
Mark holds an MA (Hons) from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He is a Fellow Member of the Thai Institute of Directors with confirmation of his Chartered Director status pending, and has served variously as Director, as Chairman and as Audit Committee Chairman for many private and public companies.
Mark is married with 2 daughters, is a committed Chelsea fan and a reluctant triathlete.