Mr Pote Videt | Managing Director
Lombard Investments, Inc.

Pote Videt is a Managing Director of Lombard based in Bangkok.  Lombard is a leading international private equity investment manager with offices in Bangkok, Hong Kong and San Francisco, and extensive working relationships in Ho Chi Minh City, Manila, Shanghai and Taipei. Formed in 1985, Lombard has made more than 90 minority growth and control investments in Asia and North America. The firm's investors include some of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, major pension funds and corporations, as well as family offices in Asia, Europe and North America.

Prior to joining Lombard in 2002, Mr. Videt was Managing Director of Credit Suisse First Boston responsible for Southeast Asia, and Managing Director of Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong.   In 1997, Mr. Videt  served as Deputy Minister of Commerce in the Thai Government, and was appointed to  the Council of Economic Advisors to the Prime Minister of Thailand in 2001.

Mr. Videt sits on the Boards of several companies in Southeast Asia, as well as on board of the Asian Corporate Governance Association.  He is President of the Harvard Club of Thailand and trustee emeritus of the Asia Society - New York.  Mr. Videt graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University with a B.A. degree and holds an M.B.A. with distinction from Harvard Business School.