Ms. KATIE NGUYEN
Representative of Sunwah Group Ho Chi Minh City Office, Deputy General Director of Sunwah Vietnam
Ms Katie Nguyen is currently the Representative of Sunwah Group Ho Chi Minh City Office, and at the same time serves as the Deputy General Director of Sunwah Vietnam – a Hong Kong-conglomerate with more than 50 years of doing business in Vietnam.
With more than 10 years working at Sunwah, she has been actively involved in and now in charge of the Group’s various projects in the areas of property, coffee, technology, and recently, innovation. In 2020, she and her team pushed forward the establishment of the flagship Sunwah Innovation Center Ho Chi Minh City and the Sunwah International Innovation Platform with more than 30 innovation partners from all over the world. Since then, she has served as a judge in several startup competitions in the ecosystem, notably the Creative Ideas Contest of the Information Technology Park under Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, the Startup Wheel of the Business Startup Support Centre (BSSC), and the VNU Startup and Innovation Ideas Competition of the Vietnam National University Hanoi. She also attended other innovation seminars by the University of Economics of Ho Chi Minh City, the University of Hong Kong, and the National Innovation Center as speaker.
Apart from business development focus, Katie also oversees the Group’s corporate relations in Vietnam, as well as the execution of CSR projects in social services, environmental protection, youth development and educational and cultural exchange. Over the years, she has been supporting various overseas delegations from mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea to explore Vietnam market and its potential. Earlier 2024, she is appointed as the General Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Chapter of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Entrepreneurs Alliance with the purpose of fostering the business cooperation between local enterprises and international counterparts.
Katie holds a bachelor’s degree from the Hanoi Foreign Trade University and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Hong Kong.