Summary
Vu-anh Nguyen is a seasoned technology and business leader with 11 years of experience scaling digital products and fintech operations across emerging markets. As CEO of Cốc Cốc he leads Vietnam’s second-largest browser and search engine, driving local product-market fit for 30 million users while previously serving as Deputy CEO and Strategic Development Director. He has deep experience launching and scaling fintech ventures—leading Vietnam operations for Oriente and Meed—and a strong background in banking strategy from roles at Techcombank and Natixis. Trained in computer science and telecommunications with an MBA from INSEAD (and a Wharton exchange), he blends technical fluency with strategic vision. Known for building cross-functional teams and partnerships at scale, he moves between product, regulatory, and corporate-development challenges with ease. Unobvious but telling: his career spans both hands-on telecom/voice-recognition program work and large-scale bank transformation programs, underscoring rare breadth across engineering and finance.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Telecommunications, Master of Science (MSc), Telecommunications at Ecole nationale supérieure des Télécommunications
M Sc, Computer Science, M Sc, Computer Science at Polytechnique Montréal
Classes Preparatoires, Classes Preparatoires at Lycée Hoche, Versailles
MBA, Singapore / United States / France, MBA, Singapore / United States / France at INSEAD
MBA Exchange student, MBA Exchange student at The Wharton School