Our Team
The People Behind Every Project
Kaina A. is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of KainaCorp Design-Build (Canada & Thailand Division) and the Co-Founder & CEO of Ying Ao Sauce & Grill | Ying Ao Mookrata. He is an internationally experienced construction and operations leader with a career built from hands-on field execution through to executive-level delivery of complex projects across Canada, the United States, Qatar, and Thailand. With a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Université de Moncton (Canada) and extensive industry certifications, Kaina is known for his rare combination of technical construction leadership, high-pressure execution capability, and entrepreneurial business strategy.
Kaina’s foundation was shaped in Fort McMurray, Alberta — one of North America’s toughest industrial environments — where he worked in oil sands mega-projects under extreme conditions and strict safety and production standards. Over time, he progressed through roles including operations leadership, site supervision, training & development management, and project management, gaining deep experience in workforce leadership, productivity, scheduling, cost control, and operational excellence. He later expanded into international EPC project environments in Qatar during the FIFA 2022 construction boom, where projects demanded strict documentation, compliance, multi-stakeholder coordination, and high standards of professionalism.
In Vancouver, Canada, Kaina built a strong reputation delivering major commercial tenant improvement (TI) and institutional projects in demanding downtown environments — including fast-track banking renovations and multi-floor corporate office builds. His portfolio includes high-profile work such as WeWork developments (555 Burrard & 333 Seymour), Zurich Insurance HQ (200 Granville), Nicola Wealth HQ, AME/Entuitive, Cadillac Fairview sites, and other complex downtown projects requiring careful logistics, night work planning, high coordination of multiple trades, and strict quality control.
More recently, KainaCorp was contracted in the U.S. to manage a large-scale food processing plant construction and equipment integration project for NuProduce / Gordon Food Service in Bowling Green, Ohio — reinforcing Kaina’s ability to lead industrial builds involving specialized processing lines, MEP integration, commissioning coordination, safety systems, and stakeholder management.
In 2025, Kaina expanded KainaCorp into Thailand to deliver Canadian-level design-build and construction project management standards in a rapidly growing industrial region (Rayong, Chonburi, Pattaya, and EEC zones). His leadership is focused on structured execution, schedule discipline, lean planning, strict cost control, and transparent client communication — ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and with dependable quality. His motto and execution philosophy remain simple and consistent: “Your vision, our expertise.”
Outside of work, Kaina is highly growth-driven and values learning, networking, continuous self-improvement, and disciplined personal performance. He enjoys golf, kayaking, travel, business strategy discussions, and building scalable systems that empower teams to operate at a world-class standard.
Sukunya Phromsuk is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Ying Ao Sauce & Grill and Ying Ao Mookrata, and also Co-Founder & CEO of KainaCorp Thailand Division. She is a highly disciplined executive leader known for operational excellence, people leadership, and scalable execution — bringing corporate-grade systems and structure into the hospitality and food production industries.
Before stepping fully into entrepreneurship, Sukunya spent more than a decade in senior manufacturing and operations leadership roles in Thailand, including long-term executive responsibility at Eagle Ottawa (Thailand). Her professional background is rooted in high-volume production operations, where performance is measured through efficiency, quality, safety, compliance, and team discipline. She has led large teams, optimized workflows, and implemented continuous improvement methodologies such as Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, and Six Sigma principles — driving measurable gains in productivity, consistency, and cost control.
As the original founder behind the Ying Ao brand, Sukunya grew the business from its early foundation into a multi-location restaurant group with a clear brand identity and strong customer loyalty. Under her leadership, Ying Ao Mookrata expanded into 5 locations, while simultaneously developing the next stage: a centralized production facility that supports standardization, quality control, supply stability, and future retail/wholesale scaling.
Her strengths include operational structuring, training systems, SOP development, staff performance management, hygiene standards, vendor control, and ensuring that customer experience remains consistent across every location. She leads with high standards while maintaining the warmth and hospitality that customers associate with authentic Thai dining. Sukunya’s ability to balance people leadership and strict operational discipline is a major reason the brand has maintained quality through rapid growth.
Outside of work, Sukunya is family-focused and strongly connected to Thai food culture and community. She believes that great food is not only about taste — but also cleanliness, discipline, service, and creating a place where customers feel cared for and proud to return.
Thistaya Maekai Thamaphattaranate (Kai) is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) across all group companies, overseeing financial strategy and governance for KainaCorp Design-Build, Ying Ao Sauce & Grill, and Ying Ao Mookrata. She is a seasoned finance professional with a strong multi-discipline background spanning accounting, financial planning, investment advisory, and insurance/financial risk management.
Kai’s role is far beyond bookkeeping — she functions as the financial strategist and control center for a multi-business group operating across construction, hospitality, and manufacturing. She leads budgeting, forecasting, cash flow structuring, internal controls, financial reporting, and compliance, while supporting executive decision-making with data-driven analysis. Her leadership ensures each company can scale with financial discipline, protected margins, and clear accountability.
She is known internally for her accuracy, reliability, confidentiality, and ability to bring order and clarity to fast-moving business environments. Kai has been involved closely with ownership since early stages of company growth and is considered one of the closest trusted executives to the owners — helping build stable financial foundations, improving cost control systems, and supporting strategic expansion.
Outside of work, she is passionate about financial literacy, investment strategy, and helping teams and entrepreneurs understand how money flows through a business — not just to track it, but to control it.
Panung is the Logistics, Receiving & Documentation Lead — responsible for one of the most critical control points in the entire group: receiving and verifying goods, documenting condition and quantities, and ensuring every item is tracked properly from arrival to final destination. In fast-scaling businesses, a huge amount of money is lost through missing items, unclear records, supplier disputes, and “nobody knows what arrived” situations — Panung’s role prevents that. Panung is the person who makes sure shipments, deliveries, and internal transfers are handled with discipline, evidence, and clean records.
Panung’s day-to-day responsibilities include receiving deliveries at HQ and sites, checking packing lists against actual quantities, identifying shortages or damage immediately, taking clear photo evidence, labeling and organizing items by destination (restaurant vs factory vs office), and maintaining a traceable documentation trail that leadership can rely on. This is especially important during large container unloads and multi-site distribution — where Panung ensures items are sorted correctly, counted properly, and handed over with accountability.
Panung is highly detail-oriented and structured. Strengths include strong documentation habits, accuracy under pressure, inventory and warehouse organization, and the ability to coordinate with drivers, restaurant managers, and site teams so deliveries do not become chaotic. Panung also supports purchase follow-up by providing clear receiving confirmations, which helps accounting and procurement close loops (what was ordered vs what arrived vs what is missing). The result is tighter control, fewer disputes, and faster resolution when something is wrong — because Panung always has the evidence and the facts.
Outside of work, Panung is known for being calm, reliable, and focused. Panung is the kind of person who prefers doing things the right way — organized, labeled, and properly documented — and that personality is exactly what makes Panung so valuable in logistics and receiving control.
KanokkanTriosoth (Kao) supports the group’s marketing execution and content production with a unique combination of administrative discipline and creative capability. She brings over 5 years of experience in structured operational environments — including process engineering support, quality coordination, and administrative roles — while also having a strong personal passion for content creation and social media storytelling.
In her professional career, Kao worked as a Process Technician at Canadian Solar Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd., where she supported process stability, standard procedures, production performance monitoring, and documentation discipline. She contributed to troubleshooting and experiment support alongside engineers and supervisors, and her efforts were recognized when she was honored as Employee of the Year (2023) for improving efficiency outcomes through collaboration and problem-solving. She also holds training in ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems and ISO 50001 Energy Management Systems, reflecting her structured approach and strong awareness of standards.
Alongside her technical and operational background, Kao has developed real-world creative content experience through social platforms like TikTok and Lemon8, and has participated in brand campaigns with well-known Thai consumer brands including Doi Kham and others. She is skilled in CapCut, Canva, and creative styling, and also takes freelance projects such as graphic design, image styling, and presentation video editing.
Her strengths include:
• Structured and disciplined execution mindset
• Content creation and short-form video editing
• Creative graphic design and visual styling
• Strong admin background and documentation accuracy
• Cross-functional coordination and learning ability
• Ability to blend operational thinking with marketing execution
Outside work, Kao is naturally creative and enjoys learning new things, producing content, and improving her skills continuously. She brings positive energy, modern content awareness, and “execution-first” reliability — making her a strong support for both brand presence and internal production output.
PONGSAKORN SAMERTON (PETCH) is the Creative Media Specialist and Video Content Creator supporting the company’s digital presence across all brands. His role is execution-heavy and built around producing high-volume, high-quality content that captures the real energy of our brands — including restaurant atmosphere, food storytelling, staff culture, behind-the-scenes production, and promotional campaigns.
His scope includes short-form video production (Reels, TikTok, Shorts), filming and editing vertical/horizontal formats, caption writing, publishing across assigned platforms, and maintaining an organized media file system. He supports weekly and monthly content calendar execution, ensuring consistent output aligned with promotions, campaigns, and overall brand direction.
His strengths include:
• Strong short-form video storytelling
• Fast, consistent production output
• Professional editing quality (CapCut / Premiere Pro or equivalent)
• On-brand visual consistency and campaign alignment
• Organized file and content management systems
• Social execution discipline and engagement monitoring
Outside work, Petch naturally enjoys creative media, filming, editing trends, and building storytelling through visuals. He is highly motivated by creativity and results, and his role is critical in translating the “real experience” of our businesses into content that drives awareness, traffic, and customer engagement.
WijittraWongyen is the Accounting Officer supporting all group companies and plays a key operational role in maintaining accuracy and control in day-to-day accounting administration. She is known for being highly organized, quick to learn, and dependable under multi-tasking environments — a strong fit for a fast-scaling multi-business group.
Before joining us, Wijittra worked as an Administrative Assistant / Coordinator at CAMLY (Thailand) Company Limited, where she handled essential financial and operational documentation including Purchase Orders (PO), Purchase Requisitions (PR), Delivery Orders (DO), Withholding Tax (WHT), receipts and invoices, billing documentation, payment follow-ups, and structured filing systems. She also supported import shipment coordination, work permit documentation/renewals, and travel booking administration — giving her strong exposure to multi-department coordination and time-sensitive administrative execution.
She also gained valuable industrial documentation experience through her internship at Dexon Mechanical Solutions (Rayong), where she assisted with man-hour logging, timesheets, attendance, expense claims, and hydrotest documentation support — gaining early exposure to structured engineering documentation, reporting, and internal control environments (including systems like SAP fundamentals).
Her strengths include:
• Accounting admin execution (PO/PR/DO/WHT/invoice/receipts)
• Payment tracking and follow-up discipline
• Document filing systems and structured organization
• Strong adaptability and teamwork mindset
• Microsoft Office (Excel/Word), Canva, and Peak system familiarity
• Positive work attitude, communication skills, and growth mindset
Outside of work, Wijittra is continuing her university education (English major) and is actively committed to personal development. Her personality is positive, open-minded, and improvement-driven — the type of team member who grows fast, accepts feedback well, and becomes stronger over time.
Anuwat (Jojo) is a key operations and logistics coordinator supporting the day-to-day execution across KainaCorp Design-Build (Thailand) headquarters as well as site operations. Jojo is the type of team member who keeps the engine running behind the scenes—coordinating the movement of goods, supporting construction site needs, and ensuring that urgent tasks are handled quickly, correctly, and with full accountability.
In a multi-location business, consistency comes from systems—but speed comes from people who can execute, communicate clearly, and solve problems in real time. Jojo brings that execution mindset.
Jojo’s experience is rooted in operational coordination: managing task lists, following up with teams, aligning priorities between construction sites and HQ, and supporting procurement and delivery schedules. Jojo is trusted for being dependable under pressure—the person you can assign a complex, time-sensitive job to and know it will be completed with updates, proof, and closure.
This includes supporting vendor coordination, tracking deliveries, assisting with inventory movement, and helping restaurant teams close operational gaps quickly (repairs, replacement items, urgent supplies, and on-site troubleshooting support).
Strengths and skill set include strong organization and follow-through, fast communication across Thai/English environments (as applicable), vendor and driver coordination, basic construction material inventory tracking discipline, and an “ownership” mentality—meaning Jojo doesn’t just report problems; Jojo actively pushes to solve them.
Jojo supports the leadership team by reducing execution load, keeping details from slipping, and creating operational stability across multiple moving parts.
Outside of work, Jojo is known for being energetic, practical, and team-oriented—the kind of personality that fits operations: calm when things get busy, responsive when things get urgent, and committed to helping the team win.
Kanyanat Srimaung (Kwan) is a highly disciplined and detail-oriented Human Resources and Administration professional with over 14 years of experience across engineering, procurement, accounting, and cross-functional corporate operations. Her background is rooted in structured, process-driven environments within engineering and maintenance organizations, where accuracy, coordination, and accountability are critical to daily operations.
Throughout her career, Kwan has built a strong foundation in human resources management, internal coordination, procurement support, and document control systems. She has held multiple roles including Accounting & Finance Officer, Human Resources Officer, Procurement Officer, and Document Controller — giving her a rare, well-rounded understanding of how organizations function across departments. This multi-disciplinary experience allows her to operate not just as an HR officer, but as a key internal coordinator who ensures alignment between operations, finance, and management.
At KainaCorp Design-Build, Kwan plays a critical role in building structure, discipline, and organization within the company’s growing operations in Thailand. She is responsible for recruitment, onboarding, employee coordination, HR documentation, compliance, and internal communication across teams. She also supports administrative processes, document tracking, and coordination between site teams and office operations, ensuring that workflows remain efficient, organized, and aligned with company standards.
Her strengths include strong attention to detail, structured documentation control, and the ability to manage multiple responsibilities simultaneously while maintaining accuracy and consistency. She is highly effective in environments that require organization, follow-through, and coordination between multiple stakeholders. With a background in engineering-related environments, she also brings practical understanding of construction workflows and operational demands, which enhances her ability to support project-based teams.
Kwan holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Electronics Technology from Burapha University. Her technical education, combined with her administrative and HR experience, allows her to approach her role with both analytical thinking and practical execution.
She is fluent in Thai and has working proficiency in English, enabling her to support both local operations and international communication when required.
Outside of work, Kwan is known for her disciplined and focused personality. She values continuous learning, self-improvement, and maintaining a structured lifestyle. Her professional mindset, reliability, and strong work ethic make her a key pillar in supporting KainaCorp’s operational growth and internal stability as the company continues to expand.
Mr. Hom Saeng-Uthai (หอม แสงอุทัย) is a highly experienced Senior Construction Site Manager with decades of hands-on expertise across mega projects, residential developments, and commercial construction. His career has been built entirely on real-world site execution, making him a deeply knowledgeable and reliable leader in the field.
Throughout his extensive career, he has managed and delivered a wide range of complex construction projects, overseeing all phases from initial site setup to final completion. His broad exposure to different project types allows him to quickly adapt to various construction environments while maintaining strong control over quality, timelines, and costs. He is widely recognized as a “bank of knowledge,” bringing practical solutions and proven methods to every project he leads.
At KainaCorp Design-Build, Mr. Hom plays a critical role in driving site operations and ensuring smooth execution across all projects. He is responsible for supervising daily construction activities, managing site teams, coordinating subcontractors, and maintaining strict oversight of progress on-site. His leadership ensures that work is completed efficiently, safely, and in full alignment with project objectives.
One of his strongest assets is his people management capability. With years of experience leading construction crews, he understands how to organize teams, maintain discipline, and drive productivity. His direct and structured leadership style allows him to get the best performance from workers while maintaining accountability and clear communication across all levels on-site.
He also brings strong expertise in interpreting construction drawings and translating them into accurate execution. His deep understanding of plans and technical details allows him to identify potential issues early, resolve them efficiently, and ensure that construction aligns precisely with design intent.
Mr. Hom places strong emphasis on speed of execution without compromising on quality. He understands the importance of delivering projects on time and within budget while maintaining high construction standards. His focus on cost awareness and efficiency helps minimize waste and optimize resources throughout the project lifecycle.
His presence on-site brings stability, experience, and confidence. Having managed numerous challenging projects over the years, he provides steady leadership and practical decision-making in fast-paced construction environments.
At KainaCorp Design-Build, we are fortunate to have Mr. Hom as part of our team. His experience, discipline, and commitment to execution add significant value to our projects, making him a key contributor to the successful delivery of our work.
