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Model Corporate Citizenship

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Get The Most Out Of Your Assets

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Facilities management companies like RCR Vietnam play a critical role in managing and maintaining an organization’s physical property, such as its mechanical and electrical systems and utilities, as well as meeting its environmental and sustainability goals. Ensuring health and safety requirements are met and offering specialist soft services providers are an additional added value to RCR’s core services. Full-service delivery, compliance management, and supporting our customers’ values and targets is our promise. When managing the technical engineering working environment, there are numerous priorities to deal with, from ensuring zero interruptions to services and production to cleanliness, security, catering functions, and..
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Meet Our Member – Sophie Lien Dinh

Sophie Lien Dinh CEO, Co-Founder & Entrepreneur Member Since 2020 Sophie, raised in a small town 30km north of Hanoi, is a purposeful entrepreneur whose ultimate goal is to create sustainable development and social impact on a large scale through exciting succession plans. Professionally, she has 16 years of experience in startups, branding, and event planning around Asia, and currently co-owns and operates two companies: EDEEC, the leading Green and Energy Efficient Building Design consulting firm in Vietnam, and MARKE360, a 4-branch marketing agency in Southeast Asia. Her next startup is an innovative solution for a better world where purpose..
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Become a Member

The Business Executive Network was launched in 2017, and since then has welcomed hundreds of executives to our events in both Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to our functions, and so we take great care to keep our events fresh, remain open-minded, and listen to what our members enjoy and genuinely find helpful. Some of our most popular event formats are: PEER GROUPS Members are divided into smaller support groups that consist of other executives who are running businesses of similar sizes. These groups meet several times a year in a professionally..
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Meet Our Member – Brad Kelly

Melbourne raised Brad Kelly first joined Mercedes Benz Australia/New Zealand in 2008 and became the company’s Director of Sales in 2014. During this tenure he helped grow sales from 28,000 to almost 40,000 passenger vehicles in Australia and New Zealand. In 2019, Brad became the General Director and CEO of Mercedes-Benz Vietnam. He describes Vietnam’s market as “exciting and youthful”, and with one of the lowest car ownership per capita rates in the world and a rapidly growing middle class, he sees it as a huge opportunity for the luxury car market. While living in Australia, Brad was the Captain..
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Meet Our Member – David Laizans

David Laizans first joined SGS in Australia back in 1998 and has since worked with the company in Bangladesh, Thailand, and now Vietnam. He arrived in Ho Chi Minh City in 2018 and is currently SGS Vietnam’s Managing Director. SGS are multinational industry leaders when it comes to providing testing, inspection, certification, and verification services from raw materials to the final products which helps to enable international trade. David describes himself as a person who enjoys challenges, uncertainty, and disruption and is passionate about developing the next generation of leaders and building professional, productive, and customer-focused teams. In his spare..
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Meet Our Member – Loan Luong

Loan Luong is a cultured professional with over 20 years’ experience within FMCG and specialty store brand distribution. She is a respected leader who is enthusiastic about empowering and motivating her employees. Loan is currently the Managing Director for Aria Cosmetics. With subsidiaries in Vietnam, Dubai, and Malaysia, she supports a comprehensive international operation of 10 high-quality mass-market brands for both female and male consumers that include L’evinia and XXIS. Loan told us that in her spare time she enjoys hosting dinner parties and enjoying good food and wine with her close friends. She also enjoys traveling and playing golf...
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New Environmental Protection Laws

Vietnam is entering a period of a sea change when it comes to environmental law, including its implementation of several international trade agreements that have strong new environmental commitments, as well as domestic decrees on planning, investment, energy, and most of all its centre piece Environmental Protection Law itself. The pending changes in this area merit attention, mostly because of the unexpected consequences that can arise when new implementing rules based on well-intentioned law backfire or are taken advantage of for the wrong reasons. The National Assembly of Vietnam recently adopted the new Law on Environmental Protection following the proposal..
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Central Bank Digital Currency

He current transformations brought about by blockchain technology and digital currencies have caused a disruption in many areas of the economy However, it remains exciting under which exact conditions digital money will establish itself and what forms the competition will take. This is where Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) come into play. However, not all CBDCs will be based in only DLT systems like blockchain, several remain based in conventional central bank infrastructure. Hence, CBDCs are to be clearly distinguished from non-state currencies such as Bitcoin, Etherium or Ripple, which are created by blockchain technology. China is, according to experts,..
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Less Haste, More Speed

Whenever I sit down to write this column, I start by thinking about the things I’d like to talk to the most senior people in my clients’ firms about over a coffee—so, grab one and let’s chat. There is an adage that good creative work is a trade-off between time, quality, and money. You can have two out of three: fast and good but not cheap, cheap and good but not fast, or fast and cheap but not good. In my experience, particularly here in Vietnam, clients are prepared to pay a little more or even sacrifice quality but never..
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Get The Most Out Of Your Assets

Facilities management companies like RCR Vietnam play a critical role in managing and maintaining an organization’s physical property, such as its mechanical and electrical systems and utilities, as well as meeting its environmental and sustainability goals. Ensuring health and safety requirements are met and offering specialist soft services providers are an additional added value to RCR’s core services. Full-service delivery, compliance management, and supporting our customers’ values and targets is our promise. When managing the technical engineering working environment, there are numerous priorities to deal with, from ensuring zero interruptions to services and production to cleanliness, security, catering functions, and..
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Adding Value To Your Search

One of the things that can frustrate clients about recruitment is time, because they can’t afford to waste it. Many recruiters apply quantity over quality, matching keywords from job descriptions to CVs in their database, then sending as many as they can to their client in the hope that one hits the target. Sometimes, they get it right of course, but it’s a low conversion rate and their client must evaluate dozens of CVs themselves, which is not cost-effective, in all meanings, particularly if they are hiring for several roles. A good executive search firm will only need to recommend..
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The Danger of Hubris

In ancient Greek tragedies, hubris represented a kind of pride that caused mortals to defiantly believe they could match or exceed the Gods. In the Odyssey, the epic poem about the story of Odysseus’ return home after the Trojan War, the hero’s hubristic displays incur the wrath of the Gods, making the journey more eventful than needed. His expectation of receiving hospitality in the cave of the man-eating Cyclops Polyphemus, dismissing the warnings of his men, resulted in Polyphemus digesting several of Odysseus’ crew. After plotting an escape that included blinding the Cyclops, Odysseus could not resist taunting his wounded..
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Bright Future for Wealth Management in Vietnam

Vietnam’s economic transformation over the last 20 years has been nothing short of stunning. It has led to an emerging and expanding middle class and increasing numbers of high-net-worth individuals, who are now looking for new ways to increase and diversify their assets. Traditionally, that has meant investing back into their family-run businesses, buying real estate, gold, or parking cash in high-interest bank accounts. The investment opportunities beyond those asset classes have been limited and not grown commensurate with the wealth that has been generated in Vietnam. Restrictions on investing capital outside of Vietnam or accessing global funds have further..
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