Vietnam Innovators

Miro Nguyen, a Vietnamese-Slovak business growth expert, will be the first guest in Vietnam Innovators season 3 (English version). Currently the VP for Global Affairs at FPT, Miro will bring his fresh perspectives over Vietnamese market to the very first episode hosted by Hao Tran. Miro will be the co-host on the Vietnamese edition. Also, there is a small surprise waiting for you in this episode....

Stephanie Betant is Country Head of Wholesale Banking at HSBC Vietnam. Stephanie is responsible for all corporate client groups, including multinationals, large local corporates and state-owned enterprises. Stephanie has more than 15 years’ experience in the Financial Services industry and has held senior positions with HSBC Commercial Banking in France, Hong Kong and mainland China. A global citi...

Kevin Doak is the General Manager in Consumer Healthcare (CHC) at Sanofi Vietnam and Cambodia, a healthcare cooperation that has received multiple major marketing awards in addition to providing high-quality pharmaceutical products for consumers’ health.  In this podcast, Mr. Doak discusses how Sanofi has established an ideal working environment for those who are passionate about the pharmaceutica...

Loic Gautier is the former Co-Founder and CEO of Leflair, a well-known e-commerce site in Vietnam that sources products from sought-after brands and offers them at a fraction of their retail price. In 2020, he became the Chief Growth Officer of Maison Vietnam and is currently the Chief Marketing Officer at Society Pass (SoPa). Discussing Leflair’s acquisition, Mr. Gautier admits the event changed...

Pham Minh Tuan is the CEO of FPT Software under FPT Vietnam Corporation – the leading technology company in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Throughout the 25-year journey accompanying FPT, he has held multiple positions, from Chief Technology Officer of FPT India (1999) to Vice President of FPT Software (2006-2010). Undoubtedly, Mr. Tuan’s contribution to FPT’s rapid development and successfully putti...

Maybe you didn’t know that Thuy Minh is the Content Director and Guy Truong is the Co-Founder of Vietcetera. As soon as joining Vietcetera, Thuy Minh has boldly developed new podcast series, and immediately become the mainstay of Vietcetera’s content system. And behind the production of popular podcasts like Have A Sip, Coi Mo, and Vietnam Innovators is the integral support and direction of Guy Tr...

In this Vietnam Innovators episode, here with us are Khiem Ho (Head of Client Solutions at TikTok Vietnam) and Aniq Syed (Deputy Managing Director at Publicis Media) to decipher the TikTok phenomenon and how this video app has transformed the field of brand communication. Since officially launched in Vietnam in 2019, TikTok has quickly become one of the most popular social platforms among young pe...

Caila Litman is a Podcast Producer and Audio Business Development Consultant. She worked as Senior Manager in Vox, Integrated Marketing Manager in The Week, Mental Floss and now she has been General Manager in Condé Nast. Having been involved in podcast production since this form of content was still new and rarely exploited, Caila believes that audio storytelling is a trend that will grow spectac...

Abhishek Mathur, VNG’s Deputy General Director of Human Resources, has more than 20 years of experience working in large multinational corporations such as GE Capital or Johnson & Johnson. Mathur decided to work for VNG because he is impressed by the respect this unicorn corporation has for its employees. The working environment VNG pursues is always aligned with its human-centric strategy. Ho...

An important factor for a business to succeed lies in the mindset of its leaders. According to Mr. Pramoth Rajendran, Head of Personal Finance and Wealth Management Services at HSBC, Borderless Mindset is a concept that helps us seize the “golden” opportunities in our business and achieve unexpected successes. What is the Borderless Mindset concept and how can you apply it to your business? What b...

Entrepreneur Nguyen Trung Tin has just released SIPHER, a blockbuster blockchain game that acquired $6.8 million in capital funding from the world’s leading investors not too long ago.  SIPHER’s initial 10,000 characters were sold out within 15 minutes, propelling it into the top 20 most-traded NFTs on OpenSea at the moment, demonstrating its widespread appeal in the international scale. How big t...

Alexander Koch has more than 24 years of management experience in the beer industry and currently holds the position of Managing Director of HEINEKEN Vietnam.  Over the past 30 years, HEINEKEN has been continuously providing Vietnamese consumers with a variety of innovations such as Tiger Crystal, Heineken Silver, Heineken 0.0, Bia Viet, Tiger Platinum and so on.  With its enormous effort of addre...

Tim Evans is the Chief Executive Officer of HSBC Vietnam - one of the largest foreign bank in the country with more than 150 years of development. Since 1993 when Tim Evans first joined HSBC, he has held many important positions such as Regional Head of Global Trade and Receivables Finance, and Chief Operating Officer of HSBC’s Commercial Banking. Tim Evans has been closely monitoring Vietnam’s gr...

Binh Tran is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Ascend Vietnam Ventures and 500 Startups Vietnam. He is not only a respectful mentor for many startup generations around the world but also the one who persuaded Hao Tran, who then becomes CEO of Vietcetera, to return to Vietnam. Binh Tran became well-known when Klout, his platform using social media analytics to rate its users, was even registere...

Serving as US Ambassador to Vietnam from 2014 to 2017, Ambassador Ted Osius made significant contributions to Vietnam-US relations. Ambassador Osius earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. In October 2021, he published “Nothing is Impossible” - a book about the 20-year journey of efforts to e...

Steve Ang is the head of customer relationship management at Keppel Land Vietnam Retail - a pioneer and one of the largest foreign real estate investors with a quality portfolio mainly in Ho Chi Minh City such as Saigon Centre, The Estella, and Sedona Suites. Mr. Ang has been with Keppel Land for 10 years, holding various positions and carrying out many projects. At Keppel Land, talent acquisition...

Mr. Nguyen Xuan Hiep “Peter” is the co-founder of Buymed, an online pharmaceutical distribution company through Thuocsi.vn. With a foresight and a strategy to simplify the pharmaceutical supply chain, Buymed has successfully raised more than $8 million in a series A funding round. In competition with other major players such as Pharmacity and Long Chau in the healthcare market, what makes the valu...

Mr. Nguyen Tuan Hong Phuc is a Partner, Consulting, Head of Customer & Operations at KPMG in Vietnam. He has over 16 years of experience in management, digital transformation, and operation consulting. Before joining KPMG Vietnam, he was Senior Manager in Advisory Services and Performance Improvement for Ernst & Young, as well as Director of CEL Consulting. An expert in customer experience...

Ngo Thuy Ngoc Tu is the Chairwoman of YOLA education company and helped start ELSA in the early days together with the cofounders' team, an English pronunciation coach application. Being renowned in the industry with great achievements, Ngoc Tu was featured in Forbes “30 under 30” in 2015. She is also the Co-founder of Touchstone Partners, which announced the first close of its inaugural US$5...

Angus Liew is the General Director of Gamuda Land, which is the property development arm of Gamuda Berhad - one of the leading infrastructure groups in Malaysia. With over 20 years of experience in construction, infrastructure development and real estate, he has a wealth of knowledge about construction management, business development, and housing demand of customers. His vision and talented leade...

For many years, Dutch beer brand Heineken has become the beer of choice for celebrations of Vietnamese people. Do you know Heineken, Tiger, Larue, Bia Viet, Bivina or Strongbow are all products of HEINEKEN Vietnam? To explore more about HEINEKEN Vietnam, chat with HEINEKEN Vietnam Corporate Affairs Director, Ms. Holly Bostock. With an MA degree from the University of Edinburgh, she used to work as...

As an experienced higher education administrator, Robert McClelland is currently Professor and the Deputy Dean of the School of Business Administration at RMIT University Vietnam. He is also a fellow of the Royal Statistical Systems Association with a Ph. D. in virtual and integrated learning for business. His research areas are in business learning and evaluation in public projects (especially in...

Nguyen Tuong Huy, a German-born Vietnamese, is the Regional Lead Growth Businesses at Facebook with a focus on Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Graduating with a M.A in Media Science from Philipps-Universität Marburg University and an MBA from IESE Business School, he used to work as a strategy consultant for big corporations such as Bain & Company, Booz & Company, and Delta Partne...

Ms. Emmanuelle Gounot graduated with a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Harvard University. She has held senior roles in big global tech corporations from Uber as Head of US Local Marketing Strategy, Lazada as Head of Transformation Projects, to Amazon as Senior Vendor Manager in Sports and Outdoor. Currently, she is the CEO of Intrepid Vietnam - a company providing business support...

Jimmy Pham is a humanitarian and restaurant owner. He is renowned as establishing the Know One, Teach One (KOTO), a leading not-for-profit social enterprise based in Vietnam and KOTO Hanoi, a 120-seat restaurant. KOTO provides at-risk and disadvantaged youth in Vietnam an opportunity to undertake a 24-month holistic hospitality training program to end the cycle of poverty.  With the endless passio...