Jakkapan Rattanapet
Group Chief Executive Officer, ULTR Group
Jakkapan Rattanapet has built his career from the service desk upward, which is unusual for someone now running a technology platform — and is the reason WRS works the way it does.
He began in 2007 as a concierge at Four Seasons Resort Chiang Mai, taking the requests himself. From there he moved through the operating side of the industry — Dusit International, The Erawan Group and Sansiri — before joining the international lifestyle-services companies that define the global concierge market: Quintessentially Thailand, Aspire Lifestyles and Consortio Singapore. That period gave him a rare vantage point: he has seen how the world's largest privilege programmes are sold, and how they perform once a client is actually waiting.
In 2013 he left to build his own venture, on the conviction that the model was upside down — that service quality could not be licensed in, and that the technology behind it had to be owned rather than rented. In 2018 he rebuilt the business as a technology company under World Reward Solutions, moving it from manual fulfilment to an API-first platform serving banks, airlines, telecoms and corporates.
Today he is Group CEO of ULTR Group — Urban. Lifestyle. Travel. Rewards. — a Bangkok-based holding company operating six businesses across privilege technology, concierge membership, yachting, hospitality, media and lifestyle, including World Reward Solutions and Robb Report Thailand.