AmCham Vietnam
Manufacturing Committee

Co-Chair

Giovanni Rojas, Senior Managing Director Sourcing & PSQA SEA, Target OBS

Senior Managing Director, South East Asia; Target Global Sourcing. Currently lead Sourcing and Product Safety and Quality Assurance and Innovation capabilities. 17 years of career experience in Global supply chain leading Target Owned Brands Sourcing Strategy in China, South East Asia & Latin America.

Career experience

Current Role: Senior Managing Director Vietnam Cambodia & Thailand leading 2 Functions: Sourcing & Quality Assurance

Offices: HCMC, Hanoi, Bangkok Cambodia

Product Categories: Apparel and Accessories, Home & Hardgoods.

Responsibility: 200 Factories, US$ 1.7 Billion imports from Vietnam Owned Brands

2015 – 2020: Senior Managing Director, Product Safety & Quality Assurance Greater China and SEA

Led the Transformation and Modernization of the Quality & Engineering Function inclusive of Regulatory and Compliance, Product Safety and Performance.

Product Categories: Home & Hardgoods, Apparel & Accessories, Soft-Home, Beauty & Essentials

Responsibility: 1,500 Factories

2011 – 2015: Senior Director South East Asia – Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia & Philippines

Led the Sourcing Strategy and Region growth, especially for Vietnam Apparel. Key work was focused on raw materials & investments to enable yarn-forward Rules of Origin.

Co-Chair

Andrew Lien, VP & GD of Asia Manufacturing, Wanek Furniture

Andrew is the Vice President of Asia operations for Wanek Furniture Company and subsidiaries. Wanek Furniture started operations in 2008 and has since grown to be the largest furniture manufacturer in Vietnam. Wanek is currently exporting products sold in 20,000 storefronts, and 155 countries around the world. Prior to moving to Vietnam, Andrew spent 17 years working for Ashley Furniture in the United States, giving him a total of 22 years of experience in managing manufacturing global supply chains.

Giang Vu, Nike

Le Dinh Dzung, P&G

Daniel Fitzpatrick, IESC

Ngo Viet Hoa, Kimberly-Clark Vietnam

Le Na Nguyen, Mondelez

Board Liaison

Uyen Ho, Director of Public Affairs, Intel Vietnam and Malaysia

Uyen Ho leads a regional Public Affairs team for Intel Vietnam and Intel Malaysia. She is the first local senior manager sitting on the Site Steering Committee for Intel Vietnam. Her priorities are to ensure licenses to operate for Intel Malaysia and Vietnam sites with public policy advocacy from local to central government levels, support Intel business growth, and drive Intel reputation with communities to promote Intel RISE2030 goals for Corporate Social Responsibility. Uyen has been with Intel since 2006 as one of the pioneers involved in the setup of the $1B Assembly and Test factory of Intel investment in Vietnam. Intel is the largest high-tech US investor and the first mover of this industry into Vietnam. Prior to joining Intel, Uyen worked for Nike Inc Vietnam in its early establishment for over 10 years as the Director of External Relations.

Uyen has a strong passion to support female leadership and female engineering students to promote a diverse and inclusive skill-based talent pool for Intel and Vietnam. Under her leadership, the Public Affairs team has worked with academic partners to launch programs that fill these goals; Higher Engineering Education Alliance (HEEAP), Intel Vietnam Study Abroad program (IVSA), AmCham Women Engineering Scholarship (AWES), and Dariu Foundation Scholarship (awarded over a thousand young students to study in Vietnam, USA and Australia). Uyen has been a key contributor to various prestigious recognitions, including the Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) by the US Secretary of State and the Intel Achievement Award for her efforts to transform the diverse workforce for Intel Vietnam factory.

Uyen holds a general MBA from the Columbia Southern University (CSU) and a BA in English from the HCMC Teaching University.

Board Liaison

Ciprian Bota, Director of Operations, Universal Alloy Corporation Vietnam

Ciprian currently leads the manufacturing operations at Universal Alloy Corporation Vietnam, a company of Montana Aerospace AG group. UACV had the groundbreaking ceremony for its Da Nang facility in March 2019 and has been in operation since January 2020. UACV provides the aviation & aerospace industry with aluminum alloy components.

Ciprian has over 13 years of experience in Aerospace manufacturing industry and participated in leading and developing fast growing projects in Europe, US California, US Georgia and currently in Vietnam ASIA. As a Director of Operations, Ciprian oversees daily production process with extensive involvement in continual improvement activities and business expansion, sharing a high passion for teams and people development.

Under Ciprian’s leadership, UACV has achieved significant milestones and progressively becoming a benchmark plant in the aerospace manufacturing. The project has been highly valued by the Da Nang authorities for its completion commitments and being ahead of the scheduled targets. Da Nang authorities have highlighted the success of UACV’s project to attract more international high-technology manufacturing investment in Danang.