Dr. Lee G. Lam
Chairman & Independent Director

• Chairman - Hong Kong, and Senior Advisor - Asia, of Macquarie Capital Advisers (the investment banking business of Macquarie Capital).
• Chairman - VinaSecurities (Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam
• Managing Director, COO and Vice Chairman, Investment Banking Division, Bank of China International Holdings.
• President and CEO, Vice Chairman of the Board - Chia Tai Enterprises International Ltd. (CP Group).
• Executive Director - Singapore Technologies Telemedia.
• President and CEO, Millicom International Cellular Asia Pacific.
• Managing Partner - Greater China, A.T. Kearney.
• General Manager - Cable & Wireless/Hong Kong Telecom.
• BSc in sciences and mathematics, MSc in systems science, MBA from the University of Ottawa in Canada, post-graduate diploma in public administration from Carleton University in Canada, post-graduate diploma in English and Hong Kong Law and LLB (Hons) in law from Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK, LLM in law from the University of Wolverhampton in the UK, PCLL in law from the City University of Hong Kong and PhD from the University of Hong Kong.
• Board Member of the East-West Center Foundation. 
• Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors and Member of its Corporate Governance Committee.
• Member of the General Council and the Corporate Governance Committee of the Chamber of Hong Kong Listed Companies.
• Vice President of the Hong Kong Association for the Advancement of Real Estate and Construction Technology.
• Founding Board Member and the Honorary Treasurer of the Hong Kong-Vietnam Chamber of Commerce.
• Fluent in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Vietnamese.

Dr. Kathryn Vagneur
Independent Director

• Director - Durant, a private investment fund.
• Director & Chairman, Audit & Risk Committee - The Foresters Friendly Society, a British mutual insurance company. 
• Finance & Performance Committee - The Royal United Services Institute, the defense and security think-tank.

• Chief Operating Officer – Tribune Capital Partners, investment management of a media sector focused venture fund.
• Director – PricewaterhouseCoopers in London, consulting to the financial services sector, developed investment banking strategies, evaluated acquisitions including deal structure, forensic due diligence and restructuring strategies. Contributor to the redesign of PwC’s audit methodology used globally.
• Founder of Vagneur & Firth, Certified Public Accountants, Colorado.
• Developed courses in strategy implementation and management control, corporate governance and internal governance at London Business School and Edinburgh Business School.
• Built a financial decision model for US Department of Justice while at Carnegie-Mellon University.
• PhD in Management, London Business School.

Howard Golden
Independent Director

• Chairman - The Worldwide Opportunity Fund (WWOF).  
• Partner of Terra Partners Group, an investment management company with $135 million AUM.
• Chairman - Romanian Investment Fund and Reconstruction Capital II.
• Former Chairman - Kazakhstan Investment Fund.
• Former Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Slovak RIF, the largest Slovak closed-end fund, the Slovak Restitution Investment Fund.
• Former Board Member of Beta Vietnam Fund and Framlington Bulgaria Fund.
• Lectured on closed-end funds in London and Prague and at various business schools (Harvard University, University of Chicago).
• Quoted as an expert in capital markets and corporate governance in The Economist, The Financial Times, The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, Newsweek, Prague Business Journal, and Business Central Europe.
• Practiced law in Chicago, New York and Israel.
• BA, JD, and MBA from University of Wisconsin.
• Fluent in English and Hebrew, knowledgeable in Czech.

Louis Nguyen
Executive Director

• Current Chairman and CEO of Saigon Asset Management.
• Managing Director - VinaCapital, a fund management company based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
• Founding General Partner - IDG Ventures Vietnam, a fund management company based Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
• Vice President - Intelligent Capital, a mergers and acquisitions firm based in San Francisco, California.
• Partner - Osprey Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California.
• Held management positions in finance and manufacturing operations at NEC and Apple Computers in California.
• Audit and management consulting experience at KPMG in San Jose, California.
• Member of the board of directors of various listed and private companies based in Vietnam.
• BS in Accounting, San Jose State University, California.
• Fluent in English and Vietnamese.