Quang Tran has volunteered with VietHope since 2007. She co-led creation of the Youth Development Summit in 2009, and was VietHope's President 2010-2012. Quang last visited Vietnam in 2012, when she had a great time participating with 30 Vietnamese college students in the YDP Summit in Saigon. Quang works in product management. She holds a B.A. from Harvard, and a joint MBA and Masters in Education from Stanford.

Quang Duong started as a University Scholarship Program (USP) lead in Fall 2007, overseeing USP’s application review operations and volunteer recruitment. He was Vice President of VietHope 2013-2016, and then President 2016-2018. Quang Duong holds a B.A. from Harvard, an M.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is currently a software engineer at Google in Mountain View, California. Quang has been leading product development at Google Maps and currently at the new division of Google Health.

Sam Nguyen has been a long-term generous donor and supporter of VietHope, and now a member of our Board. He is currently a patent attorney, partner at HDC IP Law LLP, as well as a founder and executive member of several pharmaceutical startups. His IP work deals primarily with prosecuting pharmaceutical based patents and developing novel pharmaceutical products for the treatment of various diseases.

Tue H. Nguyen, PhD is a retired Biotech / Pharmaceutical Development professional. He and his wife Quyen are quite well-known to Viethoper’s in the Bay Area. They have hosted the Appreciation Dinner and other VietHope’s gatherings at their home in Redwood City, and are personal friends of many Viethopers. Tue H Nguyen received his BS in Pharmacy from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Saigon, VN in 1973, and earned his MS and PhD degrees in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of Kansas, USA. He worked for over twenty years at Genentech as R&D scientist, and in various scientific managerial positions. He left Genentech to join a non-profit pharmaceutical organization leading its R&D effort to develop treatments for neglected diseases in developing countries until his retirement.

Uyen-Khanh Quang-Dang, M.D., M.S., co-founded VietHope in 2002, the same year when she received her B.A. from Harvard College, graduating cum laude with honors. She received her M.D. from New York Medical College, and completed both her general psychiatry residency training and geriatric psychiatry fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Quang-Dang currently works as a geriatric psychiatrist at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation in Palo Alto, CA. Dr. Quang-Dang has served as a Board member of VietHope since 2013 and as a Board member of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Foundation since 2015.

Phong joined VietHope as the Executive Director for the period from 2019 to 2022. He has more than 15 years working for INGOs including ActionAid Vietnam, and Room to Read. He is also a guest lecturer at RMIT Vietnam, and a member of RMIT’s Industry Advisory Board.

Phong holds the master’s degree in natural resource management from Twente University in the Netherlands. Currently, Phong is the Country Manager for the Asia Injury Prevention Foundation in Vietnam.

Anh graduated summa cum laude from Bowdoin College with B.A. degree in chemistry and mathematics, and a minor in Economics. Post graduation, Anh spent two years working at Piper Jaffray in the firm’s healthcare investment banking group in New York. Subsequent to Piper Jaffray, Anh joined Tailwind Capital Partners, a middle-market private equity firm based in New York. Anh currently works at P2 Capital Partners, a New York-based hedge fund, as part of the firm’s investment team. Anh joined VietHope in early 2014.