Who is Thai billionaire heiress Nualphan Lamsam, Hermès distributor and football lover who runs a US$98 billion empire and has over 2 million followers on Instagram and Facebook?
‘Madam Pang’ was educated at Boston University, is the chairwoman of the Thai premier league team Port Football Club and her clan founded Thailand’s Kasikorn Bank – no wonder her family name is a Thai word for ‘rich’
Though she is a fifth-generation scion of the powerful Thai-Chinese Lamsam family and her family name, “Lamsam”, has become a Thai colloquialism for “rich”, Nualphan “Pang” Lamsam, 54, has charted her own paths to success across many wide-ranging passions.
The Lamsam family founded Kasikorn Bank, or KBank. As one of Thailand’s largest lenders, it has US$98 billion in assets and a sizeable portfolio that includes major insurance companies.
Pang’s cousin, Kasikorn Bank CEO Banthoon Lamsam, and his family are listed by Forbes as the 31st richest in Thailand with a combined net worth of US$860 million. Pang’s two younger siblings are also accomplished in their own ways too – Wannaporn Phornprapa runs her own landscape and design studio with projects throughout Asia and Europe while Sara Lamsam runs Muang Thai Life Assurance.