Chatri SITYODTONG

Chatri SITYODTONG
Domain of expertise : Startup, Entertainment, Media,
Finance, Sports, Hedge Funds
Job title / Company : Founder and Chairman of ONE
Championship
Country : Thailand
Chatri Sityodtong is an entrepreneur and martial artist from Thailand.
A self-made multimillionaire and Harvard MBA entrepreneur, Sityodtong's business holdings
include companies in sports, media, technology, and real estate industries. His businesses
have been featured around the world on CNN, Wall Street Journal, ESPN StarSports, Reuters
News, Yahoo!, Bloomberg TV, Fox Sports, Channel NewsAsia, New York Times, Men's Health,
Shape, EuroSport, China Post, Times of India, Business Times, Straits Times, Sherdog, MMA
Weekly, and many other publications.
Sityodtong is currently the Founder and Chairman of ONE Championship (www.onefc.com),
Asia's largest sports media property with a global broadcast to over 1 billion homes in 70+
countries. He is also the Founder and Chairman of Evolve Mixed Martial Arts (http://evolvemma.com), Asia's top martial arts organization. Sityodtong is also Chairman of Evolve
University (http://evolve-university.com), the world's largest online university for martial arts.
He is also Chairman of Indiabulls Properties, a SGX publicly listed company with S$1.5 billion
in net assets. Additionally, Sityodtong is involved in several other companies as an investor. A
retired hedge fund manager, Sityodtong launched and ran a US$500 million global long-short
hedge fund after serving as a Managing Director on Wall Street.
Sityodtong also plays an active role in the community. He serves as an advisor, speaker, and
mentor to the National University of Singapore Entrepreneurship Center. He is also an advisor
and guest lecturer to the Singapore Management University Entrepreneurship Center.
Through one of his companies, Evolve MMA, Sityodtong also works actively with Boys Town
Home, Singapore's home for orphans and troubled kids. Additionally, he sits on the Board of
Directors of Project Sunshine, the largest volunteer organization in the world focused on
terminally-ill children with HIV, cancer, etc. A motivational speaker, he has given speeches to
senior executives at Fortune 500 companies such as Citigroup, Bloomberg, Fidelity
Investments, etc. He has also been a featured speaker on TED and other elite business
conferences.
Sityodtong holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Tufts University.