Bhurima joined MDD Forensic Accountants’ Singapore office at the end of 2011 and relocated to Thailand to set up and manage the firm’s Bangkok office in 2016.
Her forensic accounting expertise spans a wide range of practice areas, including business interruption, advance loss of profits/delay in start-up, commercial disputes, construction defect/delay, employment litigation, fraud and investigations, and stock & contents losses. She also has experience in the catastrophe services area, providing economic damage assessments during natural disasters such as the 2011 Thailand Floods.
She has worked across many industries, such as manufacturing, power plants, chemical processing, refineries and hotels. Bhurima has testified as an expert witness in various courts in Thailand such as the civil, labour and provincial courts.
Bhurima is well-known and respected in the Thai insurance market and leads our MDD Academy in Thailand, giving numerous presentations to insurers, brokers, the Thai General Insurance Association, and law firms. She is an associate member of CIArb, a member of ArbitralWomen, and has served as Honorary Treasurer for the Insurance Law Association Singapore (ILAS).
Bhurima received her Bachelor of Business Administration degree (BBA), majoring in Finance from Thammasat University, Thailand. She also spent one year as an exchange student at Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. She is fluent in Thai and English and has basic knowledge of spoken Mandarin.
Nattakarn joined MDD Forensic Accountants’ Singapore office in 2013 as a Senior Accountant. She is now a Senior Manager at the firm’s Singapore office.
Fluent in Thai, English, Mandarin and Japanese, Nattakarn has worked on various economic damage quantification cases across Asia, Africa and Europe. Her expertise includes advanced loss of profits/delay in start-up, business interruption, business valuation, catastrophe services, contingent BI & extra expenses, and stock & contents. In addition, she has provided litigation accounting services to MDD clients and has been active in catastrophe services, quantifying damages that occurred as a result of the 2011 Thailand Floods.
Nattakarn has been engaged on numerous assignments in the automotive, manufacturing, hotels and resorts and telecommunications sectors. She has extensive experience in the Energy sector which includes oil & gas, power generation and distribution and mining & refining.
She has presented seminars and training sessions to industry professionals on various topics including business interruption, power generation losses and refinery & petrochemical losses.
Nattakarn received her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting (First Class Honors) from the Chulalongkorn Business School in Thailand. She also spent one semester at Japan’s Akita International University in the Global Business Faculty. Nattakarn is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA).
