HOME ABOUT US OUR FUNDS AFFILIATIONS VIETNAM CONTACT Investor login HomeAbout UsOur People ‹ Back to listing 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, we continue to attract and retain exceptional people, thereby ensuring our ability to maintain outstanding results. Team spirit within Dragon Capital drives our success. Despite high turnover within the industry as a whole, Dragon Capital has retained all key members who have joined the firm and is majority owned by employees. Dragon Capital Group's Senior Management Dragon Capital Group's senior management comprises of: Dominic Scriven, OBE CEO Dominic Scriven is British, was educated at Winchester, and graduated from Exeter University in Law and Sociology. His 30 years of investing have ranged from London to Hong Kong, but have been concentrated in Vietnam. He studied at Hanoi General University for two years before founding Dragon Capital in 1994. Dragon Capital is active in investment management, capital markets, and microfinance, and runs capital in the region of US$1.5bn. A Vietnamese speaker, he is an active advocate of financial market development and governance, and is a director of various Vietnamese public companies. He was appointed OBE by the British Queen in 2006, and awarded the Labour Medal by the Vietnamese President in 2014. His external interests range from Vietnamese art, propaganda, for which he was made an Honorary Member of the Vietnamese Heritage Association; to biodiversity and reduction of the illegal wildlife trade. Alex Pasikowski Deputy CEO Alex has over 31 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 2001. 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 Companies, including Vinamilk and Ho Chi Minh Securities Company. He joined Dragon Capital in 2002. Bill Stoops CIO Bill 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. Beat Schuerch COO Beat spent around 24 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. Tom Vaizey Senior Legal Counsel Tom graduated from Oxford University. He has spent nearly 26 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. Dragon Capital Group's Board Members Dragon Capital Group's Board Members comprises of: Dominic Scriven, OBE CEO Alex Pasikowski Deputy CEO Le Anh Minh CFO 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. Phan Minh Tuan Non-executive Director 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 in 1997 responsible for relations with regulators. Farida Khambata Non-executive Director Farida Khambata holds a Masters degree in economics from the University of Cambridge and a Masters from the London Business School. She joined the World Bank in 1975 where one of her assignments was to manage the non-US assets of the World Bank Group's pension fund. In 1986, Mrs. Khambata joined the IFC where she held a number of positions including being in charge of Treasury Operations, Vice President for Portfolio and Risk Management and Vice President for South and East Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean. She was also a member of IFC's senior management team. In 1992, she coined the term Frontier Markets to describe a subset of emerging markets. Mrs. Khambata is currently the Global Strategist at Cartica Capital, an asset management company investing solely in emerging markets. Want to contact us? We would be pleased to hear from you regarding any investment query. Talk to Client Group Funds & Performance Investing across a range of asset classes, our funds have performed well along with Vietnam. (Currency - US$) Bid Offer NAV VEIL 2.72 2.80 3.47 NAV as at 24/09/2015 VGF 17.80 18.30 22.35 NAV as at 24/09/2015 VEUF - - 1,284.04 NAV as at 24/09/2015 VDeF-B 1,494.06 1,494.06 1,494.06 NAV as at 31/08/2015 VPF 0.50 0.55 0.81 NAV as at 31/08/2015 Last updated 01 October 2015 Dragon comes from the verb δρακεῖν (drakeîn) "to see clearly". Careers For a list of current available position(s) at Dragon Capital, please go to the career page. Affiliations We strive to bring international providers of capital together with Vietnamese users Our Funds info@dragoncapital.com The Vietnamese Flag The five-pointed yellow star represents the unity of workers, peasants, intellectuals, traders and soldiers in building socialism Top of page © Dragon CapitalLegal DisclaimerSitemap