Vietnam Innovators

While the market and companies of beauty focus on branding the founders, building strong sales and consulting teams, Lixibox’s way of approach is very different from other competitors. Specifically, Lixibox focuses on building an authentic online shopping customer experience through self-selecting checkout and receiving products; building database to understand customers better.  Lixibox starts wi...

In 1994, Vietnam’s very first ceramic tiles were produced in the Viglacera Hanoi tile factory, using the technology from Welko – a leading Italian ceramic manufacturer. The advent of this high-quality product raised the domestic standards for building material production. At that time, the first products made from that plant were the first hand-baked clay bricks on the market. These bricks, howeve...

In Vietnam, Standard Chartered’s history can be traced back to 1904 when the Bank opened its first branch in Saigon (now is Ho Chi Minh City). With over 115 years of operation, Standard Chartered Bank (Vietnam) is one of the oldest international banks in the country. Standard Chartered Bank brings their international expertise and experience to Vietnam, building a broad business that helps to deve...

Founded in 2013, Cốc Cốc is a browser and search engine for Vietnamese. For many years, Cốc Cốc has ranked 2nd in Vietnam, competing with the "giant" Google. With the goal of becoming the best gateway to the internet for Vietnamese people, Cốc Cốc always puts the user experience at the heart of all innovation practices, process optimization and continuous upgrading of their product. In t...

Nowadays, female entrepreneurs are becoming a driving force in the global economy. Despite this fact, researches have shown that female business leaders tend to suffer financial biases and unequal access to funding. This is where HSBC stepped in and launched the dedicated HSBC Female Entrepreneurs Fund. Along with financing, HSBC Female Entrepreneurs Fund offers access to its international network...

In this episode of Vietnam Innovators podcast, host Hao Tran have a talk with Mr. Mamoru Morota - General Director at Fujifilm Vietnam. Talking about Fujifilm, people will always think of film photography products that have been very popular with photography enthusiasts for many years. However, in the era of digital transformation, with company motto - "value from innovation", Fujifilm&a...

For business in general, digital transformation and innovation are two important goals in the process of development and growth. And in that journey, one of the core factors are the resources and talents of enterprises. In Vietnam, KPMG is known as a reliable partner on the digital transformation journey of leading enterprises from many industries, such as agriculture, banking, telecommunications,...

Digital transformation in the finance industry is now an uphill race among many banking services and financial enterprises. To conquer the top, all participants in this race are required to give lots of innovative effort in order to provide such simple, secure and seamless digital experiences that meet the increasing demand of customers for online banking and mobile banking. In this episode of Vie...

Launched in 2012, the Golden Visa Program has many incentives that makes it especially attractive to business people from emerging markets like Vietnam: the option to relocate the extended family to Portugal; the possibility (but not the obligation) of obtaining citizenship at the end of 5 years, with a dual nationality option; no worldwide taxation; and the option to join the program via the purc...

Carson Block is the investor and founder of Muddy Waters, an American appraisal-based private investment firm that conducts investigative research on public companies.  Muddy Waters is named after a Chinese proverb “muddy waters makes it easy to catch fish”. The firm is known for exposing accounting problems and fraud at several companies in China, Europe, Canada and the United States.  Block regu...

In this Vietnam Innovators episode, we will meet up with Bryan Carroll – CEO & Co-Founder at TNEX - the first digital-only banking platform  in Vietnam. Before TNEX, Bryan was an experienced specialist in the fields of Digital Banking, Data Science, Digital Marketing, Information Security and Technology Architecture. Supported by Vietnam Maritime Commercial Joint Stock Bank (MSB), TNEX 4.0 is...

In this Vietnam Innovators episode, we will meet up with Haina Xiang - Marketing Director at Duolingo. She represents the team behind the unique promotional campaigns of this famous language learning app. Duolingo is a startup with a very special success story. Before its first promotional campaign in 2019, Duolingo had already had 300 million users. Despite spending very little on marketing, Duol...

 Mr. Thue Quist Thomasen is currently CEO at YouGov Vietnam, an international research data and analytics group headquartered in London.  YouGov provides syndicated data solutions, including YouGovProfiles and YouGovBrandIndex platforms, allowing customers to track their brand index to respond to the needs of the market.  YouGov Vietnam partners with Decision Lab - a leading digital media tracking...

Nguyen Cat Thao is a lawyer, grew up and studied in Australia and has been working in Vietnam for 12 years now. She is the founder and current CEO of Global Ready - a unit providing services/solutions for human resource training and leadership. Global Ready LLC works in inclusive leadership development and training across Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. The team is composed of professional...

Binu Jacob is CEO of Nestlé Vietnam from 2020. With strong leadership and firm background in the FMCG industry, he is expected to drive more success for Nestlé Vietnam and move the company forward. Having joined the Vietnamese market for 25 years, Netslé is now one of the leading FMCG brands among domestic consumers. Seeing the economic potential in this market, Nestlé aims to turn Vietnam into th...

 Dragan Bozic is the Founder and CEO of Ree-pay, a company that offers a “buy now pay later” technology and services. With the explosive growth of the retail industry, payment methods need to be continuously optimized to quickly adapt to consumer needs. With a “buy first, pay later” model, Ree-pay provides digitally integrated services in shopping and finance to enhance the shopping experience. &q...

Kavi Saglani is currently the SVP Marketing & Communications at Matrixport, which is one of the world’s most trusted cryptocurrency ecosytems. Nowadays, blockchain technology is gradually becoming popular and being widely applied in many fields. However, for many people, cryptocurrency investment is still a concept that is not really familiar and easy to access to. In response to that, Matrixp...

 Chris Sheldrick is currently Co-Founder & CEO of what3words. Before taking the current role, he had more than 10 years of experience in the music industry, managing production for events all over the world. He quickly discovered that in the music world, people are frustrated and struggle with finding and navigating ways to the events. Chris tried distributing addresses and that is how what3wo...

Minh Le is the General Director at Tyme Vietnam. Minh takes his leadership roles in managing and operating the technology team with the mission of designing and building digital multi-country banks. While traditional banks often focus on big enterprises, digital banks target  individual customers. Although there are not many differences between these two types of banking services, the digital bank...

Horst Geicke is known for working in many fields as an entrepreneur, an investor with iconic projects such as VinaCapital, Pacific Alliance Group, Metropole, and more under his belt. Starting his career in Hong Kong, he soon realized that Vietnam was a potential market. Currently, he is the CEO of Deutsches Haus in HCMC. In this podcast episode, Horst Geicke will share with our host Hao Tran his p...

In episode 6 of Vietnam Innovators, host Hao Tran will talk with Markus Bissel - Head of the Energy Efficiency Component/4E Project/GIZ Viet Nam and Klement Leutgeob - Managing Director, E7 Energy Innovation & Engineering - about Vietnam’s renewable energy market and GIZ Energy Support Program (ESP). ESP is supporting the Viet Nam government in developing Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency...

Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. Instead of buying, owning, and maintaining physical data centers and servers, you can access advanced technology services, such as computing power, storage, and databases, on an as-needed basis from a cloud provider like Amazon Web Services (AWS). IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platfo...

Since 1995, Procter & Gamble (P&G) Vietnam has been strongly growing for more than 20 years and has become a leading enterprise in the field of consumer goods. In Vietnam, P&G is known and trusted by consumers through familiar products such as Tide, Downy, Ariel, Pampers... To be able to continuously develop and grow over the past 20 years, P&G always adheres to the principle of fo...

Currently the Vice President, Southeast Asia and Emerging Markets at Meta, Ben Joe is taking leadership roles in building businesses, communities, and partnerships across Southeast Asia and emerging countries in APAC. In episode 3, Ben will talk about Meta’s vision of the metaverse, how metaverse is able to deliver a fully immersive experience to connect users, and the incredible e-commerce opport...

Since joining Amazon at 2015, Gijae Seong has worked in Korea, Singapore and Vietnam. He was one of the first employees to set the foundation for Amazon in these countries. Currently, Seong is working as Amazon Head of Global Selling Vietnam, in charge of program development, seller account management, and seller recruiting for Amazon’s global e-commerce in Vietnam. During two years of the pandemi...