Closing Vietnam’s leadership gap — and helping build the institutions that will define its next decade.
Vanguard is the platform for successors, founders, senior executives, and returnees committed to building stronger companies, more capable leadership, and institutions that last.
Vietnam is racing toward a $1 trillion economy — but our leadership infrastructure is lagging. Founders are aging, successors remain untested, and professional managers aren’t scaling with growth. This is Vietnam’s single greatest strategic risk: the leadership gap.
Vietnam Vanguard exists to close that gap and prepare the leaders who will carry the country into its next era.
WHO WE SERVE
Successors — The next generation of leaders stepping into Vietnam’s family businesses and conglomerates.
Professional C-Suites — Senior executives responsible for scaling companies, systems, and performance.
Entrepreneurial Builders — Founders moving from hustle, instinct, and founder dependence toward real institution-building.
Returnees — Overseas Vietnamese and global executives bringing outside experience back to Vietnam with long-term intent.
Vision
To help shape a stronger leadership class for Vietnam — one capable of building companies, institutions, and ideas with lasting national and international relevance.
Mission
To close Vietnam’s leadership gap by developing, convening, and connecting the leaders who will shape the country’s next phase of growth.
Ambassador Pham Quang Vinh — Vietnam Ambassador to the US (2014 - 2018)
“Vietnam is on the verge of entering a new era of development and growth. The world is changing around us, and we must bridge the generational gap to carry this country forward.”
Leadership
Cuong Dang
Founder, Chairman
Founder, Chairman, Resu Holdings (media, education, consulting, M&A and capital advisory)
Founding CEO Forbes Vietnam.
Founder, former Managing Director, Enterprise Rent-a-car Vietnam
Board of Directors
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Quang Pham (Founding Member)
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Thai Binh Nguyen
Deputy CEO and Board Director
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Harry Hoang Nguyen (Founding Member)
Business Development Director
Rose Villa, Orient Plastic
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Strategic Partners & Supporting Enterprises
It heralds the emergence of a new generation of leaders — pioneers rather than followers, proactive doers instead of mere dreamers, true changemakers rather than mere thought leaders. With the courage to venture into the unknown and fortified by their unwavering belief, resilience, and conviction, they shape, every day, what will become Vietnam’s future identity.
They stand as the Vanguard of Vietnam’s economic and cultural transformation.