MANAGEMENT
Kevin Whitcraft
Chief Executive Officer, RMA Group
Executive Director Clipper Board Holdings Limited
Kevin Whitcraft is an influential figure in the automotive, equipment, and distribution sectors in Southeast Asia. In the early 1990s, he expanded RMA Group beyond Thailand and established RMA Cambodia, which grew to become the largest automotive, agricultural and industrial equipment distribution, sales and service business in the country.
Under Kevin’s leadership, RMA’s vehicle modification and parts distribution and fleet operations grew rapidly in the 2000s. RMA established itself as a top ten supplier to the US Army’s TACOM, delivering over 43,000 modified vehicles to the Afghan National Security Forces.
Kevin took RMA’s manufacturing facilities beyond Thailand to Turkey, Indonesia, Myanmar, South Africa, Australia and Dubai. To date RMA has delivered over 300,000 vehicles globally, including the fulfilment of long-term contracts with the United Nations, NGO’s and Governments.
Ford Global Fleet Sales headquartered in the US, cemented itself as Ford’s Global Export Distributor. It has access to nearly Ford’s entire product line and access to over 100 markets.
Kevin has been instrumental in expanding the business to include engineering operations (Comin Asia), heavy and agricultural equipment distribution, food franchising of well-known international food brands and food delivery (Express Food Group), and financial services (Bank South Pacific and DEVCO).
Kevin is a graduate of the American University in Washington and Harvard Business School.
Kevin is a graduate of the American University in Washington and Harvard Business School.
Kevin Whitcraft
Chief Executive Officer, RMA Group
Executive Director Clipper Board Holdings Limited
Christian Wiedmann
Senior Vice President RMA Group and Managing Director Automotive
Christian Wiedmann joined RMA Group as Senior Vice President RMA Group and Managing Director Automotive in 2023. He supports the overall management of the Group and consolidates all automotive related activities (outside of Cambodia) under one leadership.
Christian Wiedmann is an automotive and finance professional who started his career with AIG Private Banking and PwC in Switzerland, before joining the BMW Group in Germany in 2001. At BMW Group, he served various senior management functions within the Corporate, Financial Services and BMW Automotive Divisions, largely as COO, CFO and CEO of BMW legal entities in many regions across the globe, including Germany, Japan, Austria, Greece, South Korea, Australia and Thailand.
Christian is an MBA graduate from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Christian Wiedmann
Senior Vice President RMA Group and Managing Director Automotive
Harjeet Drubra
Chief Financial Officer, RMA Group
Harjeet is the CFO of RMA Group and provides comprehensive support to the Group’s multitude of diverse companies and business units. Harjeet has extensive multinational business experience ranging from technical accounting to investor relations, mergers & acquisitions and strategy, through to business start-up, performance turn-around and joint venture management. He spent two decades of his career in various roles with Tesco Group, in the UK, India, Hong Kong, Japan and Thailand. Most recently Harjeet was CFO at OCS Group based in Bangkok before joining RMA Group in 2020.
Harjeet Drubra
Chief Financial Officer, RMA Group
Ngorn Saing
CEO/Country Manager, Cambodia
Ngorn Saing has been CEO of RMA Cambodia since December, 2014. Saing joined RMA Cambodia as an intern in 1996 and progressed rapidly through the organization thereafter, holding senior positions in accounting and finance. Saing was appointed Deputy Country Manager and CFO of RMA Cambodia in 2007. Saing has helped grow the business and supported its diversification from a primarily Automotive and Power Generation business, into serving the needs of customers in Cambodia. Saing is a graduate of the Royal University of Law and Economics in Phnom Penh, with a degree in Economics and an MBA in International Business, from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. He was also the first Cambodian national to attend the Harvard Business School General Management Program.
Ngorn Saing
CEO/Country Manager, Cambodia
Michael Chick
Managing Director Express Food Group
Michael Chick joined EFG on August 1st 2024, having moved from Domino’s Pizza, where he was the CEO for the combined Singapore and Cambodia businesses, a position that he has held since 2020. From 2017-2019 he was the General Manger for The Coffee Club International based in Singapore and was instrumental in bringing the brand to EFG. Prior to this, he has worked with the Minor Group since 2008, launching The Coffee Club into Asia and the Middle East both as franchisor and franchisee based in Thailand and Abu Dhabi.
Michael is Australian and a graduate of Griffith University. He is based at the RMA Group Head Office in Bangkok.
Michael Chick
Managing Director Express Food Group
Ivan Keogh
CEO, Comin Asia
Ivan Keogh is the CEO for Comin Asia since 2022. Ivan is an Irish national and holds a BE (Civil) from University College Dublin. Spending the last 24 years in Asia and the Middle East, Ivan most recently worked for one of the world’s leading engineering, design, and architecture consultancies, Ove Arup & Partners, based in Vietnam, heading its infrastructure practice for East Asia.
Before Ove Arup, he was Executive Director with Arcadis Asia, SVP & Managing Director for Asia Operations for Louis Berger, Regional Manager, India & Bhutan for SMEC International, and held several roles at Royal Haskoning (including a period in Cambodia).
Ivan is based in Cambodia at the Comin Asia Head Office in Phnom Penh.
Ivan Keogh
CEO, Comin Asia
Peter Lawson
Vice President Global Manufacturing and Quality
As Global Technical Director of RMA Group, Peter Lawson is responsible for Global Technical Operations and overall profit and loss performance of RMA Automotive in Thailand, South Africa, Turkey and Minecorp Australia. Peter began working with RMA in 2014 as Country General Manager of South Africa. He brings with him 37 years of experience in the automotive industry, having run several large plants and as Vice President of Manufacturing and Operations for Ford Motor Company. He has developed extensive knowledge in manufacturing engineering, production, program launch and manufacturing business. Peter also has in-depth experience in lean manufacturing from his time as global Director of Ford Motor Company’s Lean Manufacturing System (Ford Production System). He has a proven track record of delivering transformational change, leading to major quality and cost improvement.
Peter Lawson
Vice President Global Manufacturing and Quality
Stuart Daniels
Vice President Human Resources
Joining RMA Group in August 2013, Stuart Daniels brought with him a wealth of expertize in Human Resources and applied it to his business objectives. He spent the majority of his career prior to RMA with Ford Motor Company and has undertaken assignments and postings in the US, UK, Germany, China, India and Southeast Asia. Originally from the UK, Stuart is a graduate of the University of Swansea, UK and the H.R. Institute of Personnel and Development Management at The University of Glamorgan.
Stuart Daniels
Vice President Human Resources
Chris Manley
CEO Global Fleet Sales
Chris Manley was appointed as CEO of Global Fleet Sales in 2023 based in the United States. He is an experienced operations manager with a demonstrated history of delivering exceptional value to shareholders, partners and customers while bringing a wealth of leadership experience. Prior to this appointment, Chris was RMA Group’s Chief Operating Officer based in Thailand overseeing RMA’s country operations in Asia as well as RMA Group Purchasing, Logistics and Trading and leading the relationship management with RMA’s original equipment manufacturing partners notably Ford, JLR, Mahindra and John Deere. In 2015, Chris became the Country Manager for RMA Myanmar and Managing Director of Capital Automotive – retail distributors for Ford, JLR and John Deere. Chris joined RMA Group in 2009 as Head of Business Development based in Bangkok and became Country Manager for RMA Lao in 2011, the position he held until moving to Myanmar.
Chris founded the Committee for the American Chamber of Commerce in Laos and was Vice President of the American Chamber of Commerce Myanmar. Prior to joining RMA, Chris worked in various operational and management roles for Accenture, Johnson & Johnson and DFDL. Chris completed his Engineering undergraduate degree at North Carolina State University and his MBA and a Juris Doctor at the University of North Carolina.
Chris Manley
CEO Global Fleet Sales
Arthur van der linden
Head of Mergers & Acquisition
Arthur heads the Mergers & Acquisitions at RMA Group having joined the company in 2008. He is a business minded engineer with a passion for Finance and Economics and is experienced in developing and executing business plans for large multinational companies as well as for smaller more entrepreneurial ventures, in a variety of industry sectors. Arthur is passionate about technology and as an engineer strikes a healthy balance between analytical problem solving and finding practical solutions. He started his career in Business Development at Dow Chemical after which he joined entrepreneurial ventures in San Francisco, New York and Amsterdam. Arthur holds a Master of Science (Chemical Engineering) from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University in New York.
Arthur van der linden
Head of Mergers & Acquisition
Roberto Da Silva
Director Automotive Distribution
Roberto Da Silva was appointed as Director Automotive Distribution in 2023. In his role Rob has responsibility to grow and strengthen RMA Group’s automotive distribution businesses across the entire organization and in collaboration with all relevant brand owners in Southeast Asia.
Rob has expansive leadership experience in multi-site, and multi-country retail operations and in regional automotive OEM operations, for a number of leading global brands.
He is highly experienced in Dealer Operations Management, Dealer Network Development, and Dealer Aftersales Support, as well as OEM new vehicle sales and marketing, and OEM new vehicle and parts export distribution and logistics.
Rob previously held the position of CEO Automotive Division at HGB Group in Cambodia. Prior to that he has worked extensively for Toyota Tsusho, where he was Group Vice President and Head of the Automotive Division in the US, in addition to other executive leadership roles in South Africa, Angola and Mauritius.
A British national, Rob holds a Bachelor of Technology and an MBA from the University of Zimbabwe.
Roberto Da Silva
Director Automotive Distribution
Serkan Kuruoğlu
CEO Altinay and RMA Otomotiv
Serkan joined RMA Group in July 2024, and brings with him 29 years of experience in the automotive industry. He was working most recently as the General Manager and Board Member of Feka Otomotiv in Turkiye and in Serbia, where he led a greenfield start up operation. Prior to this, Serkan held the position of Managing Director & Board Member of Varroc Lighting (Saba) in Turkey & Bulgaria and earlier in his career he held senior roles at Thyssen Krupp, EJOT and Autoliv.
Serkan is an engineering graduate of Istanbul Technical University and is based in Gölcük, Türkiye.
Serkan KURUOĞLU
CEO Altinay and RMA Otomotiv
Brendan Londt
Country Manager, RMAA South Africa
Brendan Londt
Country Manager, RMAA South Africa
Maximillian Talcott
Country Manager, Myanmar
As Country Manager RMA Myanmar, Max Talcott directly oversees all the company’s businesses in Myanmar including Avis, RMA Services, Advance Trade Company and EFG (Express Food Group) and he bears on the ground responsibilities for Finance, IT and Human Resources. In his role as Co-CEO of CAL (Capital Automotive Limited) and CML (Capital Manufacturing Limited), he is also responsible for Ford, Jaguar Land Rover and John Deere manufacturing, retail and after sales divisions.
Max maintains strategic governmental and commercial relations with the aim of maximizing the benefits to all RMA businesses in Myanmar, in addition to leveraging synergies between the various RMA businesses. Max has been based in Myanmar since 2012, holding the positions of Director and Managing Director for Four Rivers and Bower Group Asia, whilst also serving as President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Yangon, Myanmar. Max holds a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University.
Maximillian Talcott
Country Manager, Myanmar
Toto Suharto
Country Manager, RMA Indonesia
As Country Manager RMA Indonesia, Toto oversees the Ford, Mahindra and AVIS business. He started his career in Siemens AG in Germany, where had a number of leadership roles spanning the engineering, production, and automotive sectors within Robert Bosch Automotive. He spent 25 years living and working in Germany. Toto also had a role at SKF Indonesia and SKF Industrial in Indonesia as a President Director overseeing plant operations and sales for the Indonesia automotive and industrial market from October 2020 to May 2024.
Toto holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Hagen, and a Diploma of Electrical Engineering from the University of Applied Science Nuremberg – both in Germany.
Toto Suharto
Country Manager, RMA Indonesia
Angus McIntyre
General Manager, Minecorp
Angus McIntyre
General Manager, Minecorp
Trevor Negus
General Manager, RMA Automotive Holdings, Australia
Trevor Negus
General Manager, RMA Automotive Holdings, Australia
Hisham Issa
General Manager, RMA Automotive Middle East & Africa
Hisham heads up the Dubai Modification Center, RMA Automotive’s newest manufacturing and distribution facility in Dubai’s Jebel Ali Free Zone. Hisham, a Turkish national, has worked his entire professional career in the UAE and has a wealth of vehicle manufacturing experience. Prior to joining RMA, Hisham spent over 14 years with a group of companies that are market leaders in fire protection, health & safety and security systems as well as fire-fighting equipment. During this time he was responsible for sales and marketing, design, production, supply chain, quality, after-sales and customer service. Hisham has exceptional and long standing relations with numerous global automotive OEMs.
Hisham completed his MBA through Cardiff Metropolitan University in 2019.
Hisham Issa
General Manager, RMA Automotive Middle East & Africa