tram trinh

Tram Trinh brings 30+ years of board-level leadership across Food & Consumer, Health & Life Sciences and Emerging Industries in North America, Europe and Asia, supporting companies at their most pivotal moments. A builder and connector by nature, she aligns board strategy with shareholder interests to drive value creation while mitigating legal and financial risk.

She operates in three capacities: board-level interim and fractional executive, independent board director, and Certified Chair™ board advisor, across publicly traded, family-owned, PE-backed and venture-backed companies in health and deep technology. Through Vitanlink, the platform she founded a decade ago, she helps B2B growth companies maximize value ahead of a sale, management transition or international expansion by building, securing and transferring it. Her dual perspective combines an operator's view (founded companies, led P&Ls, expanded market reach at subsidiaries of large groups) with financial, legal and governance oversight.

She has driven international P&L growth, aligned governance with growth strategy, and led turnarounds, exits and ownership transitions, from Fortune 50 corporations to family-owned mid-caps and SMEs.

As CEO France and EMEA Board Director at Welch Allyn (then family-owned), she [led the preparation and transition of the France/EMEA business ahead of] its $2.05B acquisition by Hill-Rom (later Baxter).

As EMEA Management Board Member at Johnson & Johnson Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, she drove the pricing and operational strategy that laid the groundwork for its $4.0-4.15B divestiture to The Carlyle Group.

Through Vitanlink, she has guided 50+ founder-led and PE/VC-backed companies at board and operating level, contributing to €100M+ in value created [state how measured]. Endeavor Global Network CEOs rate her a top mentor (9+/10). She has served as Interim CBO and Interim Country CEO for PE-backed and privately owned companies, and is Senior M&A Advisor at Alantra, Board Advisor at Vivaltes and Advisory Board Member at The Sabi. She also serves on the iNED Committee of the LPEA M&A Club and the EHS Law Committee of the IBA.

She holds an MBA (McGill), an LL.M. in International Financial Law (King's College London), an active US CPA license (New Hampshire), the Financial Times Non-Executive Director Diploma, the Private Company Governance certificate (PDA) and the Certified Chair™ credential from the Advisory Board Centre. She received the J&J Standards of Leadership award twice (2002, 2005).

French-born, she has lived and worked in 15+ cities, is based in Paris, and speaks French, English, German and Vietnamese.