"Pim Techamuanvivit helms one-Michelin-starred Kin Khao in San Francisco and was recently appointed in May last year to head up the kitchen of Michelin-starred Nahm at the COMO Metropolitan Bangkok. But before she traded the pen for a pan, Techamuanvivit was pursuing a Silicon Valley career, building collaborative work tools for well-known IT companies like Netscape and Cisco Systems." - Rachel Tan