BICH PHAM

Managing Director, Head of Corporate Finance Division

Võ Thanh Hòa is a Vietnamese Director and Film Producer. He was known for 13rd Sister: Three Deadly Days (Chị Mười Ba – 2020), A Hundred Billion Key (Chìa Khoá Trăm Tỷ – 2022), Nghề Siêu Dễ (2022), … He is known as a person with a lot of enthusiasm for Vietnamese cinema. In addition to regular filmmaking, he regularly organizes film-making groups to share knowledge and experience, creating an opportunity environment for young people to practice making films.

Thomas J. Vallely is Senior Advisor for Mainland Southeast Asia at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Vallely is also the current director of the Harvard Myanmar Program, which seeks to broaden and deepen the understanding of the development and democratic governance challenges facing Myanmar.

Vallely founded the Harvard Vietnam Program in 1989 and established the Fulbright Economics Teaching Program in Ho Chi Minh City in 1994. Vallely leveraged the Vietnam Program’s research to engage in a candid and constructively critical dialogue with the Vietnamese government about the strategic challenges confronting the country. Under his leadership, the Fulbright School emerged as a center of excellence in public policy research and teaching and a pioneer in the development of new modes of institutional governance in Vietnam.

Prior to founding the Vietnam Program, Vallely was a senior research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, where he worked on strategic and military issues in East and Southeast Asia.

He has worked as a political consultant and was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1980, where he served until 1987. From 2014 to 2017, Vallely served on the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Policy Advisory Board.

Vallely received a B.S. from the University of Massachusetts/Boston and an M.P.A. from the Kennedy School and served with the United States Marine Corps in Vietnam. Vallely served as Senior Advisor to The Vietnam War, an epic ten-part documentary miniseries directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.

Thanh Vu is Deputy Regional Managing Director and Vietnam Chief Representative for the US- ASEAN Business Council. He joined the Council as its first Vietnam Representative in late 2007 when the Council opened its Hanoi office. In this capacity, he has been advising the world’s leading multinational companies on business strategies and government policies in Vietnam and helping them engage directly with key decision makers in both the government and private sectors here. Prior to this, Thanh had worked in various capacities in Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs including Information and Outreach Manager for APEC 2006 Vietnam, as a member of the National APEC Organizing Committee, and Research Fellow and Teaching Staff at the Institute for International Relations (now Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam) in Hanoi. Thanh has over 20 years of experience as a business and political consultant in Vietnam, covering a wide range of issue areas including business, politics, the media, NGOs and social development. Thanh holds a master’s degree from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University where he studied international relations and public policies on a Fulbright scholarship in 2003 – 2005.

Sasha Mai is the Head of Business Development at Kyber Network, one of the world’s leading Decentralized Finance companies, which provides the technology infrastructure for billions of dollars of transactions on multiple blockchain networks. Previously, she worked as a technology and operations management consultant and supplier for factories spanning Southeast Asia.

Lan is currently the Head of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) at Fulbright University Vietnam (FUV). Prior to FUV, she had over 10 years of experience in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation development with various strategic roles including the Head of Startup Ecosystem Development at the National Agency for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (NATEC) under the Ministry of Science and Technology, and recently the Head of Exploration at UNDP Viet Nam Accelerator Lab. Lan was the co-founder and one of the main organizers of the first national startup event – TECHFEST Vietnam – since 2015, attracting hundreds of startups and investors as well as thousands of participants every year. She is one of the main authors of the National Programme to Support Startup Ecosystem in Viet Nam until 2025. In 2018, she made it to the Forbes Vietnam 30 Under 30 list as well as Apolitical’s list of 100 most influential young people in government in the world.

Joseph Mocanu – a Singapore based medtech investor. Joseph is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Verge HealthTech Fund focusing on early-stage healthcare technology companies that make an impact on global health. Prior to this, Joseph was a scientist researching new cancer therapies, a medical device entrepreneur, and a management consultant for Oliver Wyman where he led life sciences and digital health across Asia. He has 19 scientific publications, 3 patents, and has made investments in 27 healthcare technology companies to date.

Joseph has a PhD from the University of Toronto, and an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Janice Trinh – Vice President of Quadria Capital, a leading healthcare PE in the region. With over 10 years of experience in healthcare investment in US and Asia, Janice is responsible for coverage, transaction execution, and portfolio management activities in Vietnam and Southeast Asia at Quadria Capital, one of the largest healthcare focused PE fund in Asia. In addition, she is an Investor in Portfolia, a Venture Capital fund investing in women’s health-focused start-ups and is currently advising many FEMTECH businesses in the region.

Nguyễn Hoàng Hải, sinh năm 1980, tốt nghiệp thạc sĩ tại Đại học Rennes 1 (Pháp), là Giám đốc nội dung (COO) của công ty TNHH CJ CGV Việt Nam, nơi anh đã cùng đội ngũ của mình phát hành hơn 1200 bộ phim tại Việt Nam, từ các studio lớn trực thuộc hiệp hội điện ảnh Hoa Kỳ như Universal, Paramount, Warner Bros, Disney, Fox cho đến các studio độc lập nổi tiếng như Lionsgate, Millenium, A24, Showbox, N.E.W… và đặc biệt từ những công ty sản xuất phim đứng đầu Việt Nam như Lý Hải Production, Chánh Phương Film, ABC, Studio 68, CJHK… Gần 15 năm trong đội ngũ lãnh đạo của CJ CGV Việt Nam, anh đã vận dụng nhiều kiến thức thu nạp từ những nền điện ảnh phát triển như Hoa Kỳ và Hàn Quốc để áp dụng vào thị trường trong nước, mang lại sự thành công cho CGV và đóng góp cho sự phát triển chung của điện ảnh Việt Nam. Năm 2019, anh được bổ nhiệm thêm vài trò là CEO của V Pictures – công ty chuyên đầu tư, sản xuất phim Việt Nam – với kỳ vọng đóng góp nhiều hơn vào sự tăng trưởng của thị phần phim nội địa. Anh luôn mong muốn được chia sẻ kiến thức, kinh nghiệm của mình với các bạn trẻ, những người quan tâm tới điện ảnh thông qua các khóa đào tạo, trao đổi định kỳ tại nhiều trường Đại học. Anh luôn tâm niệm “kiến thức là kho tàng duy nhất mà khi càng chia sẻ, bạn sẽ càng giàu có hơn”.