Orapim Milindasuta, who became the first Thai and the first woman to head Procter & Gamble Thailand as managing director in July 2003, perished while vacationing on the Thai coast.
The 13-year P&G veteran had only returned to Thailand 18 months ago after spending two years at the consumer goods company's regional headquarters in Singapore. Milindasuta was 39 years.
Accor Asia-Pacific's Shanghai-based senior vice-president for Greater China, Reggie Shiu, also perished with his wife and two sons at Khao Lak.
Said Accor Asia-Pacific chairman David Baffsky: "Reggie not only grew the Accor hotel portfolio, he built relationships with some of China's leading hotel and travel groups. He was a master at developing and building relationships, and he was widely respected throughout China and the whole Asia Pacific region."
In Indonesia, more than 80 journalists from Banda Aceh's only daily newspaper Serambi are missing and presumed dead from the killer quake and tsunami.
Serambi has since resumed circulation in the nearby town of Lhokseumawe and a slimmed down version of the paper is being handed out for free.
Published by Jakarta-based publishing group Gramedia, Serambi has been Aceh's main paper for 16 years. The paper's printing equipment was found up to one kilometre from its headquarters, a two-storey building which was almost completely destroyed.
With a circulation of 40,000, Serambi is known for its hard-hitting coverage of the political confrontation between the central Jakarta Government and the Acehnese separatist movement.
"Serambi played an extraordinary role in Aceh, not only in providing information and education on the conflict but also in brightening the minds of the Acehnese people," Eddy Suprapto of the Alliance of Independent Journalists told Editor & Publisher, a publishing industry journal.