tram trinh

Tram Trinh is a multicultural, internationally minded entrepreneurial C-level operating executive, board director with 25+ years leadership experience in Health Tech, Med Tech, Devices & Diagnostics, Food and Wellness powered by AI and SaaS technologies across North America, Europe and Asia,

She demonstrated success in international growth and expansion, P&L management and preservation, spearheading innovative product launches in new markets.

Proven track record of transforming organizational culture and of fostering strategic cross-border commercial partnerships.

She knows how to translate corporate vision and mission into division-level, regional strategy within fast-paced, complex matrix and regulated environments, ranging from public Fortune 50 to private midcap and SME companies.

She blends an entrepreneurial optimistic energy of a repeat AI tech company co-founder, all three business management, financial and legal skills, and a relentless talent to build strong relationships with every stakeholder at all levels, which makes a difference on the company and boards that she serves.

As an inclusive leader, she has been interviewed and featured in four innovation chapters of “The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Leaders: Unleashing the Power ofAll of Us” a book released by Korn Ferry in 2020. As a mentor, she has consistently received an average rating of 9+ out of 10 by Endeavor Global network scale-up CEOs. Educated in Western and Anglo-Saxon environments, she is a lifelong learner capable of stepping out of her comfort zone.

She is passionate about inclusion and giving back to the next generations and currently serves as an independent non-executive member of

- GCRI Europe Leadership board: GCRI is a Non-Profit Civil Society Organization, Global Center for Risk and Innovation, member of World Bank and IMF, which also holds a Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to mitigate water, food and energy security risks through technology and industry multilateral partnerships.
- Asterion Ventures, a community of successful exit entrepreneurs who invest together with multi-generational European families in the most promising early-stage climate tech startups in Europe.

- IBA International Bar Association's Environment, Health and Safety's Committee, as Health & Safety Officer.

- LPEA Luxembourg Private Equity Association iNED committee member

- The Sabi.co Advisory Board

 

She joined in September 2024 the pool of independent Mediators on Dispute Boards - ICC International Chamber of Commerce Centre for ADR

A decade ago, she founded Vitanlink, a private investment and acceleration holding dedicated to co-founding, co-investing, launching and scaling SMEs from the ground up in MedTech, HealthTech and AI SaaS IoT technology fields. She provided strategic advisory, investment, board-level leadership services to 50+ CEOs and Boards. During vitanlink's journey, she built a strong interdisciplinary& international partners’ network from research, academic to industry, accelerators (Canada Trade Agency e-Health, Eyefocus, Endeavor Global, Mobile World Foundation e-Health, EPFL Innovation..) or NGO (EU Commission PCP projects, Unesco Telemedicine.) , private equity, venture funds and single family offices to guide portfolio companies at critical inflection points at the operational or at the board level.
 

PRIOR EXPERIENCE

 

As the French subsidary’s CEO of the Welch Allyn Family-owned group (NYSE:BAX) and a member of the EMEA Executive Management Board, Tram orchestrated the preparation, sale and transition of an entire subsidiary into a new distribution structure, ultimately paving the foundation for the later $2B value acquisition by Hillrom then Baxter.

As an Executive EMEA Board-level member, she drove the profitable growth of the $3 Billion JNJ’s OCD IVD division by increasing the global Gross Profit through designing and implementing new global pricing strategies and launching new high margin lean six-sigma consulting solutions across Europe, which helped strengthen the equity story for the later successful spin-off to Carlyle. She was awarded twice in 2002 and 2005 the Johnson & Johnson standards of leadership achievement. In her early career, she was an auditor at EY in Vietnam, Cambodia and France.

Tram holds an MBA from McGill University, an active US Certified Public Accountant license (CPA New Hampshire State Board of Accounting], a certification in Private Company Governance from the PDA, and the Pearson Financial Times Non-Executive Director Diploma. In addition to her King's College London LL.M (Master of Laws) in International Financial and Commercial Law, which enhances her risk management and corporate ESG governance skills, she regularly attends board director training and continuing education with US PDA, NACD and the FT NED Diploma Alumni or the Female Board Pool Europe headquartered in Luxembourg. She has maintained since 2000 continuing Certified Public Education to ensure an active CPA license and relevant financial knowledge.

Tram, born as a French national has lived and worked in 15 cities globally and currently resides in Paris. She speaks French, English, Vietnamese and German.