Tos Chirathivat is CEO of the Central Group and head of one of Thailand’s leading family business groups. The Central Group owns mega-sized department stores and shopping malls in every major city of Thailand.[1] He and his family are among the richest families in Thailand. Tos earned an economics degree from Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1985 and received his M.B.A. from Columbia University in New York in 1987.[6] He spent a year of high school studying at a private school in Miami.[3]