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 graduated in 1985 from Exeter University with a combined
honours degree in law and sociology and was awarded an O.B.E. in
2006. In 1985 he started working with M&G Investment Management
London before moving to Hong Kong to work for Sun Hung Kai and Co
in 1986, and then Citicorp Investment Bank. In 1991 he moved to
Vietnam, spending two years enrolled at Hanoi University, before,
in 1994, co-founding Dragon Capital Group. A Vietnamese speaker,
Dominic sits on the boards of numerous Vietnamese and
non-Vietnamese companies, including five companies listed on the
Vietnam Stock Exchange. He resides in Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam.
Alex Pasikowski
Deputy CEO
Alex has 27 years
experience in the securities industry, the last
25 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 financial
services manager. He joined Dragon Capital in 2002.
Bill Stoops
CIO
Bill graduated from Brown University in 1978 with a BA in
history. He has worked in emerging markets since 1980, starting in
Hong Kong as a journalist and then, in 1983, as an analyst with
Schroder Securities. In 1985 he opened Korea's first foreign
brokerage representative office, for Citicorp. In 1989, he
joined Baring Securities in London to run its North Asian equity
sales team, then moved to New York in 1993 to establish a "New
Emerging Markets" sales desk. He went on to specialise in Emerging
Europe, and from 1998 also worked for Deutsche Bank and HSBC in
this capacity. Bill joined Dragon Capital in
2006.
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 20
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 over seventeen 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 managing over
450 staff across 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. 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. During seven years of operations, 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.