BOARD OF MANAGEMENT

Tran Trong Kien

Group CEO

Tran Trong Kien has been known as a pioneer in many adventure tours in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. He ran local tours to fund his medical studies before establishing his own tour operator in 1994. Over the past 25 years of establishment and development, Kien has lead his business to become Thien Minh Group – one of the biggest travel and hospitality groups in the region. Kien is also current chairman of Vietnam Tourism Advisory Board (TAB), Hue Tourism Advisory Board (HTAB), Vietnam Tour Guides Association (VTGA), trustee of Fulbright University Vietnam, Vietnam Tourism Association (VITA), board member of Vietnam Institute of Directors (VIOD), member of the Private Sector Development Research Board (IV Board) of the Advisory Council for Administrative Procedure Reform and ex-member of Asia Commercial Bank (ACB), VP Bank and Vinaland.

Nguyen Trung Cong

Deputy General Director & Group CIO

Nguyen Trung Cong has been in the IT industry for almost 20 years, focusing on software product development and technology-based businesses. He spent 2 years working for NTT-data, one of the largest software firms in Japan. During his 3 years with TMA, one of Vietnam’s leading software companies, he was responsible for serving major clients including Nortel, Lucent and NTT. Cong was also a founder of VNIT, a software outsourcing company that served customers from Japan, USA and Italy.

Tran Hang Thu

Deputy General Director & Group CFO

Tran Hang Thu was an Audit Partner of KPMG Limited with more than 14 years of in-depth experience. She engaged in working with foreign-funded projects, NGOs, energy, manufacturing, industrial, trading and construction clients. She is a member of the UK Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and Vietnam Association of Certified Public Accountant. Thu is responsible for corporate finance and risk management to ensure the sustainable development of the Group.

Christopher Farwell

Director of Europe & Managing Director of Vivu Journeys

Chris started his career in finance with PwC in Canada and Australia for 9 years where he became a Canadian CPA, CA. He moved into the travel industry with Flight Centre for 2 years in the Global Financial Reporting team. Next, he moved to Singapore to take on the role as Group CFO for Buffalo Tours for 5 years. Chris is now based in Portugal and is responsible for TMG’s European Investments along with being the Managing Director globally of our ViVu Journeys DMC.

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