Bancha Ongkosit, founder and chairman of KCE Electronics.
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As global car sales rebound with the easing of lockdowns, so is demand for printed circuit boards (PCBs) made by KCE Electronics, a leading supplier to the automotive industry. Automakers are not only packing cars with more electronics, last year saw accelerating sales of electric vehicles (EVs), a segment KCE already serves.
A worker inspecting a circuit board inside a quality control room at a factory of KCE Electronics in … [+]
A more than threefold surge in KCE’s stock price over the past 12 months has driven up the net worth of its founder and chairman, Bancha Ongkosit, 69, to $970 million, putting him back on the list after a three-year hiatus.
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