Meet Our Team

Santi is the Managing Partner at Smart Search Recruitment and has been in the executive search industry for almost 20 years. With an impressive and diverse portfolio of client success across sectors, Santi has a proven record of setting up entire management teams for organizations entering the Thai market.

Arparat is one of the firm’s most experienced talent professionals, assigned to the firm’s management level mandates in the marketing, finance and technical division as well as being responsible for the firm’s business development and strategic growth. Aparat’s solid foundation of Thailand’s labor market and high degree of intelligence allows her and the firm to work successfully on not only very challenging placements, but ensuring the growth and services of the firm are matched to the firm’s key clients.

Pattarporn is responsible for recruitment mandates within the firm’s management level and C-Level placement divisions including but not limited to the FMCG, Professional Services and Technical sectors. Pattaraporn is fluent in several languages including Italian, English and Thai and plays an invaluable role in the firm’s sourcing and research divisions.

​Praepilai is responsible for the firms accounting and finance division and processes and also manages the payroll management of the company. Praepilai comes to the firm with a previous Big Four and corporate accounting experiences and is an impressive graduate from a prestigious European university.

​Chananchida a key player in the firm’s accounting and payroll division as well as managing the financial systems and HR services in the firm’s HR Outsourcing division. Chananchida came to the firm from a Big Four auditing firm and an honors graduate of a top university in Thailand

Nichananan is responsible for the management of the company’s complete human resources business practices and people including the firms Staff Outsourcing division. She had acquired years of human resources experienced with a Big Four professional services firm as well as working within one of Thailand’s largest retail groups. Nichananan was educated in one of Thailand’s best’s universities and went on to earning her graduate degree in a well know European business school.

Proychaya works in a Marketing and Recruitment Advisory role within the firm working on C Level and challenge search assignments as well as being responsible for the firm’s outreach and marketing activities. A graduate of one of Thailand’s most prestigious universities and high schools, Proychaya stated as an Intern and then returned to the firm after working at one of South East Asia’s most successful eCommerce organisations.

​Aphichaya was welcomed into the firm as an intern just after graduating from Chulalongkorn University and the University of Queensland in Australia. Aphichaya has worked since the start of her entrance into the firm in all aspects on the company’s business operations to include talent acquisition, payroll processes, accounting as well as the firm’s ongoing marketing activities. She has been exposed to all part of the firms business as well building strong HR foundations to ensure her success in a career in Human Resources.​

​​Sirikorn was welcomed into the firm after graduating from Chulalongkorn University with honors and also a graduate of one of one Thailand’s most well regarded International high schools. Sirikorn has worked since the start of her entrance into the firm in all aspects on the company’s operations across a diverse range of sectors to build strong foundations in her future success in the APAC Talent Acquisition sector. Her high degree of intelligence and willingness to learn gives her a fresh look on the APAC Talent Acquisition Sector and one of the future starts of the firm.