Team
Network of Cooperation.
Origins is built and stewarded by a core team working in close cooperation with the farmers of the Wanakaset Symbiosis Network and guided by expert researchers and practitioners — bridging regenerative practice, cooperative governance, citizen science and ethical market development.
Cofounder · Farmer learning & network coordination
Kamolpatara “Pookie” is a Wanakaset farmer and educator with 20 years of experience working with farming communities in Thailand, specialising in farmer-centric learning, crop diversification, participatory guarantee systems, value-added processing, and network coordination.
Cofounder · Regenerative development & ethical trade
Luke has 20 years of experience working in regenerative design and development, ethical trade, and multi-stakeholder engagement processes. He has worked extensively with indigenous and peasant farming communities in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia, and with brands across the food, beverage, cosmetics, and fashion industries from startups to Fortune 100s. He has been co-lead of the Regenerative Rubber Alliance since 2022.
Cofounder · Collaborative landscape design, research & supply systems
Michael has worked alongside smallholder communities across Thailand and Southeast Asia for over 20 years, supporting regenerative landscape design, supply system development, research, extension, and monitoring, reporting & verification (MRV). Co-lead of the Regenerative Rubber Alliance since 2022.
Cofounder · Governance, finance & technology
Will is a governance-focused strategist who helps mission-driven organisations navigate complexity, scale responsibly, and steward long-term value. Over 15+ years he has co-founded and led institutions across nonprofit, cooperative, and public-benefit structures — with depth in board leadership, capital formation, executive transitions, and institutional design — working at the intersection of climate, finance, governance, and public purpose.
Our network
The Wanakaset Symbiosis Network
The core team works in long partnership with — and in service to — the Wanakaset Symbiosis Network — Thailand's first Community Enterprise Network, founded by five community enterprises in the Songkhla Lagoon Watershed of southern Thailand. Over two decades these farmers have turned rubber monoculture into biodiverse, multistrata agroforest, and it is their land, knowledge, and yields that the Origins platform carries to market.
Advisory board
Guided by farmers, scientists, and the cooperative movement
Origins is counselled by people who hold the threads the platform must weave together — the grower's reality, the field science behind the claims, and decades of cooperative enterprise.
Chorthip Prabpree
Advisor · Farmer & cooperative perspective
A farmer cooperative leader in the Wanakaset Symbiosis Network, tending a biodiverse agroforestry farm in the Songkhla Lagoon Watershed. She keeps Origins grounded in the lived reality of the growers the platform serves and a vital connection to the Why of our work.
Dr. Uraiwan Tongkaemkaew
Advisor · Field science, sustainable agriculture & outcome verification
Researcher at Thaksin University specialising in regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, soil health, biodiversity, and carbon assessment. She has led peer-reviewed research documenting the Wanakaset Symbiosis Network's environmental and livelihood outcomes, providing robust scientific evidence to support Origins' regenerative agriculture and impact verification.
Akkanut Wantanasombut
Advisor · Cooperative governance & solidarity economy
Researcher at Chulalongkorn University's Institute of Asian Studies and a leading Thai voice on platform cooperativism and the social and solidarity economy. Founder of the Tamsang-Tamsong platform cooperative and principal investigator for Fairwork Thailand.