Women in Leadership Committee

Co-Chair

Eva Szurminska Jaworska, Partner, PWC

Eva is a partner with PwC Legal Vietnam at Ho Chi Minh City.

She has over 20 years of professional experience with 8 years spent with the PwC Legal services in Europe and 2 years with ILC Legal in the Washington D.C. Eva was managing partner of PwC Legal in Poland and PwC CEE Legal Leader. She was also a partner with ILC Legal, an independent law firm that is a member of the PwC network.

Eva’s principal areas of interest are mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, banking and finance as well as commercial and regulatory litigation. She advised companies from real estate, consumer goods, financial and retail sector. Eva was also advising on the various financial transactions including debt financial transactions. Separate Eva’s specialization encompasses commercial and regulatory litigation. Eva was leading counsel creating the strategy and led litigation in various causes related to unfair competition, patent litigation, commercial and employment matters’ litigation.

Eva holds Master of Laws degree from Georgetown University, Washington DC and Master Degree in Law from Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. She is a member of the Polish Bar of Legal Attorneys and is licensed as a Special Legal Consultant in District of Columbia Bar, Washington D.C.

Co-Chair

Irene Ohler, Co-founder, Lightpath Consulting Group

Irene founded Lightpath Leadership drawing on her 20+ years experience in leadership development on four continents with leaders from the corporate and government sectors.  Irene has been based in Vietnam since 2012 and has since become a sought-after expert for her work to promote women leadership. Irene has pioneered a number of initiatives to inspire women: she co-authored an awarded book on Vietnamese women leaders, BaTrieu’s 21st Century Daughters. Stories of Remarkable Vietnamese Women, and founded the Women’s Storytelling Salon, an inter-cultural and inter-generational events series, in 2014, which runs in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

LightPath Leadership now offers cutting edge international women leadership programmes tailored to the Vietnamese context.Irene holds a Master Degree in Sinology from Vienna University, Austria, is a certified global executive coach, and has an executive certificate: Public Narrative: Leadership, Storytelling and Action from Harvard Kennedy School | Executive Education.

Vice Chair, Senior Executive Programs

Linh Thai, Investor, Mentor, and Mother

Ms. Linh Thai has over 20 years of experience in finance, marketing, and operations. Her prior roles include CEO of Vingroup Ventures, a corporate venture capital fund; Head of Strategy and Operations at VinaCapital, one of the leading asset managers in Vietnam; and Director of Investments at DFJ VinaCapital, one of Vietnam’s first venture capital funds. Linh is also a “shark” on the Vietnamese version of Shark Tank.

Linh graduated with honors from the University of Southern California and holds an MBA from The Wharton School. Linh grew up in Los Angeles, CA and has called Ho Chi Minh City home for the past 12 years. She is a mother to two daughters ages 4 years and 4 months.

Vice Chair, Entry-Mid-level Programs

Tina Tran Neville, Co-Founder and CEO, Lana Learns

Tina Tran Neville was born in Soc Trang, Vietnam and went to the United States when she was two years old. She grew up in Oklahoma, attended the University of Tulsa and Yale University for graduate school, then joined the U.S. Foreign Service where she worked as a diplomat in Vietnam, Iraq, Pakistan, and Washington DC. After her diplomatic career, Tina became a teacher and afterwards an education entrepreneur with her first company Transcend Academy, which has supported over 20,000 students in U.S. university preparation and was named the Best Education Company in Washington DC for the past two years. In 2019, Tina launched Lana Learn, a corporate English training organization for multinational companies with global teams. Lana Learn’s initial market is Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and will soon be expanding to the rest of Southeast Asia. Tina participated in the May 2019 Global Entrepreneurship Summit in the Netherlands and in September 2019 met with U.S. Senators to promote Women in Business issues. She has received numerous business and government awards, including the U.S Department of State’s Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards, International Business Stevie Gold Award, and Seattle’s “40 Under 40” Business Leaders.

Vice Chair, Enabling Environment Programs

Dr. Astrid Matarrita, Psychologist, Dr. Astrid Saigon Psychology & Co

Dr. Astrid specializes in clinic psychology, psychotherapy and couple’s counseling. With over 10 years of experience as a Psychotherapist and 7 years practicing abroad, Dr. Astrid is currently living and practicing in Ho Chi Minh City. Learn more at www.saigonpsychology.com

Sau Do, AETNA

Board Liaison

Minh Nguyen, Country Manager, Vietnam, Aetna International

Minh Nguyen oversees the Vietnam market for Aetna International in Asia Pacific. In this role, she is responsible for managing relations with fronting partners and reinsurance companies, ensuring operational excellence, ensuring that international standards are provided to valued customers, exploring new market segments, and overseeing business operations nationwide. Prior to joining Aetna in 2015, Minh was with the American International Group (AIG) for nearly a decade. With her broad experience and expertise, Minh has proven to be a strong leader and strategic thinker.

Aetna is a Fortune 50 company and one of the five largest health insurers in the United States, providing 46.7 million people with coverage, information, and resources to help them make better informed decisions about their healthcare. CVS is the largest pharmacy health care provider in the U.S, with integrated offerings across the spectrum of pharmacy care, serving 5 million customers every day. The recent merger of CVS Health and Aetna will result in USD $260 billion in annual sales, making it the second largest corporation in the United States and the seventh largest corporation in the world by revenue.

Aetna continues to rapidly expand across Asia, most recently by licensing in Hong Kong in 2018 and acquiring Bupa Thailand in 2017. In 2016, Aetna launched its Asian Innovation Hub in Singapore, which seeks to develop region-specific health solutions tailored for local markets in Asia. Vietnam is the fastest growing insurance market in the world and has one of the fastest growing ultra-high net worth (UHNW) populations. Aetna has the ambitious vision to bring high quality and affordable healthcare to many more Vietnamese by bringing new options that go ‘broader and deeper’ into the local health care market.