Bruno is Chairperson of Eurocham Vietnam, CEO of DEEP C Industrial Zones, one of Vietnam's biggest industrial zone developers. Before DEEP C, he had 25+ years of experience in sales, production, innovation, and strategy management in multinational companies in the chemical, logistics, steel, and oil & gas industries.

Michael Kokalari, CFA, serves as VinaCapital’s chief economist, where he is responsible for providing thought leadership on a wide range of global and local macroeconomic issues. Mr Kokalari has worked in Vietnam for over 15 years, prior to which he was a derivatives trader in Tokyo and London where he ran multi-billion dollar trading books for JP Morgan Chase, Credit Suisse, First Boston, Lehman Brothers and Paribas. He has co-authored the CFA guide to Credit Derivatives, and co-authored Risk Management: Foundations for a Changing Financial World with Nobel Prize winners Myron Scholes of Harvard University and William Sharpe of Stanford University. Mr. Kokalari holds Masters Degrees in Business, Engineering and Mathematics from Stanford University and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at the Harvard Business School.

Maya Nguyen is the pioneering Partner of Page Executive in Vietnam, since 2019. With 12 years of executive recruitment experience across Southeast Asia, including significant time living and working in Singapore, she excels in leadership development and talent strategy. Maya partners with Fortune 500 companies, mid-cap firms, and private equity portfolios, providing tailored solutions for executive search and driving impactful organizational growth.

With extensive experience in shipbuilding and management, Sivert currently serves as the General Director of Vard Vung Tau, a world-leading shipyard delivering highly advanced and specialized vessels for the offshore market, including renewable offshore energy, fishing vessels, heavy lift vessels, and cruise expedition vessels.

Thue is an experienced entrepreneur and leader with a demonstrated history of building strong performance-oriented organization in Asia. He shares a strong passion for branding and concepts development that was spikes when he as a 9-year old tried to open his first burger joint in Hue, in Central Vietnam.
He has 20 years of experience in marketing, research, and consulting – 12 of this from Vietnam where he co-founded and grew first Epinion Vietnam, then Decision Lab.
He is a graduate of international business and politics from CopenhagenBusiness School and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Since 2006, Søren has served as CEO of Julie Sandlau Vietnam, specializing in the sustainable production of high-end jewellery. On the nonprofit side, Søren has been instrumental in developing and promoting Nordic businesses, serving as an Executive Board Member with EuroCham Vietnam and as NordCham Vietnam’s ViceChairman

Christina Ameln has over 20 years experience on creating engagement, project management and impacting change around sustainability, social impact and thought leadership working with corporates; multilaterals and not-for-profit organizations across various markets.

Eric is a Canadian citizen and graduate of the University of Western Ontario with a B.A. in Economics.
Eric came to Vietnam with his family and now living in Ho Chi Minh since 2018.
With more than 20 + years of experience working in the Transport and Logistics industry in Canada, Australia, Taiwan and now Vietnam, Eric is serving as the Managing Director of DSV Air & Sea Vietnam, a leading Freight Forwarding and Logistics service provider with an annual turnover of USD 300M in 2024. Eric is leading a team of more than 300 employees in Ho Chi Minh, Hanoi and Phnom Penh.

Anastacia is the Sustainability and Public Affairs Manager for H&M responsible for Vietnam and Cambodia. In her role she leads the work for climate, water, social and compliance as well as leading the preparation work for the upcoming EU legislations. She is a business and human rights specialist with 16 years of experience working for both the public and private sector across South East Asia primarily Indonesia and Myanmar. Prior to joining H&M, Anastacia worked extensively on disaster risk reduction, dispute mechanisms, worker and community engagement and human rights impact assessments.

- CEO, Copenhagen Offshore Partners (COP) Vietnam, and CEO of La Gan Wind. Responsible for managing & maturing 3.5GW La Gan Wind Project and a pipeline of >10GW fixed-bottom and floating offshore wind projects in north and south Vietnam.
- Particular focus on strategic market entry, early-stage site identification, project development, stakeholder engagement, and instigating execution (EPC) of individual projects and portfolio growth in both developed and emerging offshore wind markets.
- 20 years of development, market and consent experience focused on offshore renewable energy in Europe and Asia Pacific.

With a solid 18 years in the Telecom Industry (~15 at Ericsson), Rita has been witness to and participated in the remarkable technological evolution of the telecom industry. She recently assumed charge as the President and CEO of Ericsson Vietnam and Ericsson’s Head of Global Customer Unit, Telenor.

Samuel Pursch is Director in Vriens & Partners’ Vietnam office where he manages client accounts across sectors with a particular emphasis on tech, energy, and industry. He also leads the office’s public-facing activities, providing briefings on Vietnam’s geopolitical, regulatory and commercial context. Samuel is based in Hanoi where he has lived since joining Vriens & Partners in 2018.