Contrary to what’s widely in the media, Dominic’s first love and career was actually in watches at the age of 21. Upon making a half-year long researched decision about which watch at what price he would pour his life savings into, he spent most of his time on watch forums and organizing meetings between other passionate watch collectors. When he graduated, the newspapers wrote about him as one of Singapore’s youngest watch collectors and aficionados – and was subsequently headhunted to join the watch industry.

Dominic eventually worked in brand management for the world’s biggest Girard-Perregaux distributor, and later became a watch journalist writing for many of the world’s top watch magazines, including Revolution magazine’s very first issue. He eventually took on contributing editor, editorial director, editor-in-chief and shareholder roles for various magazines such as Prestige’s Tic Talk, Real Time, and the world’s first online luxury magazine Goldarths.com.

It was in 2006 that he trained as a watch expert at the world’s biggest watch auction house, Antiquorum. Under the watchful eyes of world famous watch experts Osvaldo Patrizzi and Etienne Lemanager, Dominic spent several periods of the year in their offices in Geneva, Hong Kong and Shanghai, appraising and authenticating watches for international clients and auctions. He even had a chance on the hammer, successfully auctioning off a watch at more than six times the starting price at an Antiquorum / Omega gala dinner in Shanghai. It was no ordinary watch of course; it was the first production piece in the Omega Iris collection and the watch was worn by none other than the lady standing next to him on stage – Nicole Kidman.

It was during his first trip as a watch journalist to the watch fairs of Basel and that he was given his first camera for his 28th birthday,. He would go to photograph more than a 150 celebrities, including a spending a week photographing the Dalai Lama, and was given a royal warrant for photography and watch related services to HRH Prince Hakeem Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei Darussalam

A prolific watch collector and investor himself, Dominic has been featured on television several times including CNBC, Bloomberg and Channel News Asia. A seasoned public speaker, he has helped organise watch events and personally given talks for companies such as The Hour Glass, UBS, OCBC and Hermès.

Now 44, after 23-years of watch collecting and investing, it’s already 10 years for Dominic as founder of a world first: WatchFund. The first structure in the world that seeks absolute returns from professional investment in investment-grade timepieces in a private individual managed account, and also the only in the world that allows investors town and hold their investments themselves from day one. Currently the world’s largest watch investment vehicle, WatchFund has handled more than a nine-digit price of watches –and it’s been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, Financial Times and other international media on numerous occasions. Nominated against the likes of UBS and HSBC for Alternative Investment Manager of the Year for the past 7 years in a row, WatchFund finally won the coveted titles in 2020and crowned winner: ‘Collectibles Advice Provider’ at Wealth Briefing Asia awards 2021. Notable clients include Liverpool FC CEO Peter Moore, and Brazil’s Roberto Firmino

Dominic has now purchased shareholding positions in Swiss watch manufactures, distributors, luxury retailers (Berluti) and Antiquorum, where it all began for Dominic. In the luxury tech space, Dominic is co-invested with Paris Hilton and Bill Ackman in Origyn Foundation, a Swiss company that handles bleeding edge authentication technology for watches and art on the blockchain.

After Moon Entertainment, a company in Korea that owns the rights more than 300Broadcast Jockeys (BJ) is one of Dominic’s investments in the entertainment space. AE launched the first album for girl group We Girls with an impressive 18th place debut on the K-pop charts, and AE Singapore’s idols Y.uuno and Rurusama9 have the most followers for Singaporean females (under the age of 21) on Instagram, and the most followers for Singaporean females (all ages) on Tiktok respectively.

Dominic was the youngest ever recipient of the Singapore National Heritage Board’s “Patron of Heritage” award, and currently endorses Vertu mobile phones, Tumi luggage and John Lobb shoes internationally. He came a close second in the Nominated Member of Parliament (Arts) position in 2012, named as a creative advisor the Japan National Tourism Organisation, and his art gallery 28th Février staged events for the likes of
Bentley, Bottega Veneta, Céline, Christie’s, and the Guo Pei trunk show in 2019. It was also the organizer of South East Asia’s biggest street dance battle – Juste Debout. Being Asia’s premier urban art gallery – it held the first Asian solo show for internationally
renowned graffiti artist Kongo, and is also where the world’s most famous photograph, Bliss, currently resides.

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Ambassador Tay has held various leadership positions, including the 17th Executive Director of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC); Director-General of ASEAN Singapore. He was awarded the Singapore Public Administration Medal (Silver) and bestowed with the honour of ‘Patron of Art of the Century’ by the International Welfare Fund of Russia, in 2006. For his significant contribution to the humanitarian ties between Russia and Singapore, he was awarded with the Pushkin Medal in 2011.

In 2005, he had commissioned a major Russian composer to compose a symphony called “SINGAPORE”, which had a transformative impact on the nature of Russia-Singapore relations. He is a Founder of Sing Jazz, an annual international jazz festival in Singapore and has established the Foundation for the Arts and Social Enterprise as a framework for his long-standing work in the arts.

Mr. Korsak establish Panyapiwat Technological College and the Panyapiwat Institute of Management, where he acts as a Council Chairman of the executive committee at Suksapiwat Co Ltd.

Mr. Korsak Chairasmisak is the President of the Go Association of Thailand.

Mr. Korsak holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Thammasat University, Honorary Doctor of Business Administration in Management from the Sripatum University and a certificate in Commerce from Assumption Commercial College. An avid reader since he was young, Mr Korsak looks for lessons about life, management and leadership on the printed pages. He starts penning down his learnings and later became the Author of Eastern philosophy books such as Oriental CEO and The Asian CEO in Action.

His other positions include President at World Chinese Wei Qi Federation, First Vice-Chairman and Executive Director at Siam Makro Public Co. Ltd., CP All Public Co. Ltd., Chairman of Panyapiwat Association, President of Thai-Korean Friendship Association and Bavarian-Thai Academic Cooperation Center.

Despite his busy schedule, Mr Korsak manages his time effectively by taking his wife and three children to conferences abroad, so that at the end of the day, they can enjoy some quality time together. He believes it is important to use every minute and every hour in life very wisely, since we have such limited time with so many things to do in this modern time.

Mr. Korsak Chairasmisak is currently the President of the Thai Watch Lovers Club.