Human Resources (HR) Committee

Yen Pham, HR Manager, Intel Products Vietnam

Yen Pham is the Human Resources manager at Intel Products Vietnam, she has more than 22 years experiences in HR, Yen specializes in HR roles in Manufacturing, focus on employee engagement and Employee relation. She has a strong believer in the power of positive thinking in the workplace.

Co-Chair

Phuong Nguyen, Country Business Development Manager & Human Resource Partner, Dow Chemical LLC

Phan Vu Hoang, Tax Partner & Chief Talent Officer, Deloitte Vietnam

Hoang is the Tax Partner and Chief Talent Officer of Deloitte Vietnam. Hoang has 25 years of experience in international tax planning, tax advisory, tax controversy, tax compliance, as well as strategic finance and business advisory services to the needs of multinational businesses operating in Vietnam in a wide variety of industries such as consumer, banking and financial services, trading, real estate, manufacturing, oil & gas, and telecom.

Hoang has led various tax initiatives for MNE’s operations in Vietnam, as well as group structuring and due diligence for foreign investors and foreign invested entities in Vietnam.

Hoang actively contributes comments and recommendations to the Ministry of Finance regarding draft tax regulations via the Vietnam Business Forum, Vietnam Tax Consultants Association (VTCA) and other organizations. Hoang regularly speaks at Tax Dialogue event alongside a representative of the Minister of Finance and leaders of the Ho Chi Minh City tax authority.

Hoang is a faculty member of the Deloitte University Asia Pacific and conducts various leadership programme facilitation for Deloitte leaders in the SEA and Asia Pacific.

Phong Luc, Associate, Baker & Mckenzie

Board Liaison

Le Thi Thanh, Special Counsel, Baker & McKenzie

Thanh is a Special Counsel based in the Ho Chi Minh City office of Baker & McKenzie Vietnam. She is a core member of the corporate / M&A practice group, and is focused on mergers and acquisitions, and foreign direct investment, into Vietnam. She has extensive experience advising multinational companies from a wide range of industries, private equity houses, on cross-border investments and divestments, joint venture and fund raise, and the establishment of business and operations in Vietnam. Being a transactional lawyer, she is particularly strong in dealing with market entry advice, deal structuring, legal due diligence, and negotiations over transaction documents.

Before joining Baker & McKenzie, Thanh spent four years working at the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City (the “DPI”), being the government authority that is in charge of foreign investment in Ho Chi Minh City. At the DPI, Thanh worked as a consultant/ governmental expert and had consulted, advised on and examined more than 300 investment projects from foreign individuals/organizations in Ho Chi Minh City.

She was also a member of the team at the DPI that contributed opinions to Project 30 launched by the then Prime Minister for the purpose of reducing administrative procedures by 30%. This was part of the regulatory reforms to modernize public service and simplify the regulatory environment for businesses from 2009 to 2010 in Vietnam.