Mr TRAN THANH TAN
Vice Chairman & CEO
Tran Thanh Tan (Mr.) was granted a master’s degree in Management from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB, Belgium). He obtained nearly 20 years experience in investment analysis, equitization consulting, equity market development and enormous contribution in building and expanding the Vietnam securities market.
At the early of his career, he started at Peregrine Capital Vietnam, one of largest Asian investment bank in the decade 90s. He had done research in various investment project of equity market and started to build Vietnam securities market model.
He then became a co-founder of Dragon Capital Group in 1994 and served as Investment Director from 1994 to 2003. He has provided consultation on the equitization process for over 20 state-owned enterprises, of which many large firms were listed in the Vietnam Stock Market at the very first stage, such as Ree Corporation (REE), Gemadept Corporation (Freight and Forwarding), Long An(Lafooco) Corporation and other private enterprises. In addition, he as well holds several senior managerial positions in many equitized companies. He is currently a Partner of Dragon Capital Group which managed more than USD1.5 Billion, investing in private equity and privatized enterprises.
In 2003, as a representative of Dragon Capital, he established VietFund Management and has been the CEO ever since. During 5 years of operation, he has guided and brought VFM to become the most successful fund management company in Vietnamoffering avariety range of products, diversified financial services. Hewas been awarded “Vietnam Outstanding Entrepreneurs Honored” and “Saigon Outstanding Entreprenuers Honored by the Ho Chi Minh city People of Committee over the past years.
He is a standing member of Listed Companies Club and the Vietnam Association of Securities Business. He is also the President of Fund Management Club.
Since February 2010, Mr. Tran Thanh Tan has been the Vice Chairman and CEO of VietFund Management.