Co-Founder

Michael Doherty

Michael “Mickey” Doherty studied European finance and accounting at Leeds Beckett University in the United Kingdom before working with Joshua Tetley & Sons in breweries and pub development.

Micky has opened pubs, bars, and restaurants in Hong Kong, Thailand, China, the United States, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore.

In 2005, Doherty moved to Thailand to raise a family and has owned, operated or consulted on more than 70 projects in Asia over the past 30 years.

As well as being involved in the day-to-day operations of all Panthera Group companies, Doherty currently is playing an instrumental role in the legal work required for Panthera Group’s mergers and acquisitions and serving as a director and full board member.

CEO OG Retail Company | Co-Founder MMG Thailand

Benjamin Baskins

A graduate of Santa Monica College in Los Angeles, California, Baskins began his career in international trade by opening his first retail store Pale Face in Sapporo, Japan, in 1992. Baskins quickly expanded to six global retail stores, including a thriving wholesale trading business throughout the 1990s with outlets in Tokyo, Los Angeles and Sapporo.

He then expanded into Bangkok, Thailand, in 1999 as the official distributor of Von Dutch and Ed Hardy clothing brands, opening eight retail stores in key department stores and shopping areas throughout Thailand.

In 2005 Baskins started his entertainment and food and beverage businesses in Bangkok, opening his first club named Gazebo on Khao san road, then expanding to Sukhumvit, opening the infamous Gazebo Soi 1 in 2007. During this year, web 2.0 was born, and digital marketing gained popularity with the start of Facebook and Baskins’s commitment to expanding his skillset to digital marketing.

What followed was making a fundamental change through events via the Baskins founded LUSH events. This initiative promotes positive social and environmental change by hosting eight events involving over 20,000 people and raising awareness and funds for social projects in Thailand.

In 2013 Baskins joined Panthera Group as Director of marketing, later becoming CEO of OG Retail Company. The OG Canna Company is a dedicated group of passionate individuals with two primary goals. The first goal is to create a high-quality immersive cannabis experience for customers throughout our uniquely individually branded retail stores in Thailand. The second goal is to supply these outlets with the OG Canna Company’s own genetics in the form of 32 cannabis strains directly from our cultivation facility. The OG Canna Company has additionally partnered with Mahakan Biotech to offer lab-certified cannabis throughout OG Canna Company outlets.

Chief Financial Officer

Atistaphach Kaewyai

Atistaphach Kaewyai joined the Panthera Group as its Chief Financial Officer in 2019 after almost two decades of working as an auditor and senior accountant for significant corporations in Thailand and the United States.

She came to Panthera after a year at Dacon Inspection Services Dacon Inspection Technologies Company Limited Check .and two years as CFO of LCB Container Terminal 1 Co. and its subsidiary. She previously was the accounting manager for the SCG-Dow Group in Thailand.

Atistaphach first began work for the joint venture of Siam Cement Group and Dow Chemical Co. of the U.S. in 2007, first as a cost accountant and analyst and then as an associate accounting manager at Dow’s corporate headquarters in the U.S.

Her experience includes working at JP Morgan Securities (Thailand) and KPMG Phoomchai Audit.

Atistaphach holds a master’s degree in business administration from Chulalongkorn University and a bachelor’s degree in commerce and accountancy from Thammasat University and is a certified public accountant.

Business Development Director

Supachai Kitprapa

With over 30 years of experience in project development and hospitality, Supachai Kitprapa has earned respect as he nimbly navigates his role as business development director for the Panthera Group. Supachai enables and assists foreign investors with leasing, operations, licensing, and business-structure development involving definitions of your business’s framework. Supachai can effectively choose and make effective decisions and work together to achieve strategic goals by defining how the organisation works.

He is also the managing director for Nana Plaza, Panthera Group’s landmark nightlife entertainment complex. He focuses on the property’s development, construction, and operations by focusing on finance, development appraisal, planning, construction, market research and promotion. Additionally, reflecting changes in practice, the environmental impacts of property development, focusing on Sustainable Property Development.

Born and raised in Bangkok, Supachai is a graduate of Srinakharinwirot University, where he studied Applied Linguistics.