Our People
Vietnamese and foreign professionals cover all significant asset classes (public and private equity, fixed income, resources, property and clean development); with extensive skill sets (portfolio managers, economists, analysts, originators, traders, lawyers and client managers).
Relationships
Excellent relationships underpin
everything we do. The encouragement to participate, the lack of
restrictions on ideas, and the strict absence of hierarchical
boundaries sets Dragon Capital apart in the world of investment
management.
Ownership
By fostering a sense of ownership
throughout the business from daily operations to long term company
strategy, we continue to attract and retain exceptional people, in
order to maintain outstanding results. Team spirit within
Dragon Capital drives our success. Despite high turnover within the
industry, Dragon Capital has retained all key members who have
joined the firm and is majority owned by employees.
Senior Management
Dragon Capital's senior management
comprises of:
Dominic Scriven, OBE
CEO
Dominic Scriven, OBE graduated in Law and Sociology from Exeter
University in 1985. In over twenty-seven years of investing
throughout Asia, he has worked for M&G (UK), Citicorp (HK), and
Sun Hung Kai (HK). He moved to Vietnam in 1991, spending two
years at Hanoi General University, before co-founding Dragon
Capital in 1994. A Vietnamese speaker, he is a Director of a
number of publicly listed companies, and an active advocate for
financial market development. He was awarded the OBE in 2006,
and resides in Ho Chi Minh City. His external interests range
from sustainable tourism, through art and propaganda, to the
illegal wildlife trade.
Alex Pasikowski
Deputy CEO
Alex has over
twenty-eight years experience in the securities
industry, mostly based in Asia. He joined Morgan
Stanley London as an analyst in 1984 before moving to Morgan
Stanley & Co New York after which he relocated to Asia and from
1985 to 1991 was based in Japan and Hong Kong for Morgan Stanley
and responsible for Morgan Stanley's proprietary trading books in
Australia, Pacific and South East Asia. In 1991 he joined Swiss
Bank Corp Hong Kong as an associate director with responsibilities
for establishing SBC's Thailand operation. In 1993, he relocated
back to Hong Kong as a senior vice president of Lehman Brothers
responsible for all Asian cash trading
ex-Japan. In 1996, Alex joined Deutsche Securities Hong Kong as a
director and was seconded to Bangkok where he was responsible for
equity capital markets. He joined Dragon Capital Group in February
2001.
Phan Minh Tuan
Deputy CEO, Chief Representative in Hanoi
Tuan graduated from Kharkov Civil Engineering University
(in the former Soviet Union) in 1976 with an honors degree in civil
engineering, gaining a U.K. M.Sc. in 1982 from Delft Institute.
From 1976 to 1989, he worked as a technical project consultant and
manager in a number of projects in Vietnam. In 1989 he joined the
Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry ("VCCI") as project
manager. He was seconded by VCCI as office manager to BHP from 1991
to 1994. In 1994, he joined Peregrine Capital Vietnam as
general manager of the Hanoi branch. He joined Dragon Capital Group
as one of the founders in December 1994 and
officially joined full time from 1997.
Le Anh Minh
CFO
Minh handles Dragon Capital's
corporate finance activities. He is a former Fulbright Scholar and
graduated from Vietnam's Banking University in 1991. He then went
to work for Peregrine, where he completed the country's first
M&A deal with the take-over of Dai Nam Commercial Bank. He was
instrumental in restructuring the bank and was then seconded to run
its business development and credit activities. During 1996-1998,
Minh earned an MBA from Wharton, and returned to Vietnam to work
for Coca-Cola as regional financial services manager. He sits on
the Boards of many Vietnamese Corporates, including Vinamilk and Ho
Chi Minh Securities Company. He joined Dragon Capital in 2002.
Bill Stoops
CIO
Bill Stoops graduated from Brown University in 1978 (BA
History). He has been working in emerging markets since 1980,
starting in Hong Kong, where he was a journalist and political risk
consultant. In 1983, he joined Schroder Securities as an
analyst on conglomerates. He moved to Seoul in 1985 with
Citicorp, to open Korea's first brokerage rep office. In
1989, Bill was recruited by Baring Securities in London to run its
North Asian equity sales team. Barings transferred him to New
York to establish a "New Emerging Markets" sales desk for the firm
in 1993. He went on to specialize in Emerging Europe, and in
this capacity also worked for Deutsche Bank and HSBC in
1998-2006. In 2006, Bill moved to Vietnam as a Director of
Dragon Capital with responsibility for Research and Capital
Markets. He was appointed CIO in 2009.
Dr. Le Hoang Anh
Managing Partner, Private Equity
Hoang Anh received a PhD in futures trading from Budapest
University in 1998. He returned to Vietnam as a financial
expert at the HCMC Department of Investment. He joined Dragon
Capital in 2000 as senior analyst and rose via steady promotion to
Head of Research. Hoang Anh represents Dragon Capital on
several investee boards, and holds a fund management certificate
from the State Securities Commission. He has participated in
practically all investment decisions since 2000, was instrumental
in the build-out of research capacity, and is the first Managing
Partner of Dragon Capital's private equity businesses.
Tom Vaizey
Senior Legal Counsel
Tom graduated from Oxford University. He has spent nearly
twenty-two years living and working in Asia, initially with Baker
& McKenzie, then JSM, in Hong Kong. He then spent 18 months
working as legal counsel with Standard Chartered Bank in India. He
rejoined JSM in 1998, working in their Vietnam and Thailand offices
before moving back to the Hong Kong office where he became a
partner in the firm's commercial department. He joined Dragon
Capital in June 2007 as senior legal counsel.
Beat Schuerch
COO
Beat spent around twenty-one years
living and working in Southeast Asia, initially with Landis &
Gyr's energy management division in Singapore in charge of license
and joint venture projects in Asia. He then joined DKSH, a Swiss
trading company, as country manager based in Vietnam where he was
responsible for the company's Vietnamese and Cambodian businesses
in healthcare, chemicals products, and consumer products.
Thereafter he was the representative of Lanamatic based in Thailand
responsible for developing the company's Asian machine component
business and then joined Synovate Thailand Ltd as the head of their
business consulting division. In 2006 he returned to Vietnam to
work with Indochina Capital where he initially assumed the role of
CFO of the Indochina Capital Group and later was promoted to CEO of
Indochina Capital's equities division. In 2010 he moved to Dragon
Capital where he assumed the role as COO. Beat has a masters degree
in economics from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Tran Thanh Tan
CEO of VietFund Management
Tan was granted a master's degree in management from the
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB, Belgium). He has more
than 15 years' experience in building and expanding the Vietnam
securities markets. He started at Peregrine Capital Vietnam,
then became a co-founder of Dragon Capital Group in 1994. He
has provided consultation on the equitization process for over 20
state-owned enterprises, of which many are now listed in the
Vietnam Stock Market. In 2003, as a representative of Dragon
Capital, he established VietFund Management ("VFM") and has been
the CEO ever since. Since the commencement of Dragon
Capital's engagement in VFM, he has overseen the development of VFM
as the most successful fund management company in Vietnam. At
present, he is a member of VFM Board of Directors and Chairman of
the Vietnamese Fund Management Club.