Our People

Mr. Noppadol Pringvanich is the Chief Executive Officer of BearCat AEL Co. Ltd, an international aviation consulting and training firm based in Bangkok, Thailand. He is serving as the national technical expert on Communications, Navigation, and Surveillance (CNS) for the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand. He is also a Member of Thailand Technical Working Group on Unmanned Aviation System Integration, the Thailand Liaison for the Advanced Air Mobility Institute, and a technical advisor for International Coordinating Councils of Aerospace Industries Associates (ICCAIA) to ICAO.

Before establishing BearCat, Noppadol served as the Head (global) Air Traffic Management Engineering and Aviation Spectrum for International Air Transport Association (IATA), Montreal, Canada, where he was responsible for IATA global policies on air traffic management engineering, related avionics and aviation uses of frequency spectrum. He also served as the first Chief, Asia-Pacific Regional Sub-Office (RSO) for the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) where he established and led the ICAO office in Beijing, China.

From 2020-2022, Noppadol also served as the Chairman of ICAO Communications Panel, responsible for developing and amending various ICAO technical Annexes. He had also served as a Member of ICAO Navigation Systems Panel, Surveillance Panel, and Frequency Spectrum Management Panel and led IATA delegation to ITU World Radio Communication Conferences.

Prior to his international career, Noppadol served as AEROTHAI’s first Director of Flight Procedure and Airspace Development. Noppadol received his Bachelor and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, USA. He can be reached via emailing ceo@bearcat.co.th.