• ABOUT HER

    Tram is an entrepreneurial non-executive director and former Fortune 50 C-level Executive with 28 years of leadership in technology-driven industries across five continents. Educated in Western and Anglo-Saxon environments, she has also nurtured a strong Asian cultural legacy that makes a difference in the boardroom. Sheis recognized for connecting the dots and bringing fresh international interdisciplinary collaboration and market expansion lenses powered by a diverse global network, governance, and market intelligence skills.

    The breadth and depth of her experience come from having served in executive, advisory, and board leadership positions for varying-sized organizations, public and private, mid-sized family-owned businesses, and startups. As an inclusive leader, she has been interviewed and featured in four chapters of “The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Leaders: Unleashing the Power of All of Us,” a book released by Korn Ferry in 2020.

     

    Tram currently serves on a few public and private company boards, committed to advancing preventive healthcare with SaaS and deep technologies. She has also engaged as an Independent Director Affiliate member of the LPEA Luxembourg Private Equity Association adding governance insights to Private Equity-backed portfolio companies as well as continuously refreshing her directorship education with the PDA Private Directors Association and the NACD National Association of Corporate Directors.

    As the founding chair of her private investment and acceleration holding Vitanlink, Tram has for the past 10 years, co-invested in pre-seed and supported SaaS and AI-driven companies as an advisor, board member and/or investor up to the post-seed and scaling stages in partnerships with accelerators, single family offices, VCs and PEs. She has consistently obtained a mentor rating of 9+ out of 10 from Endeavor Global Network of scale-ups CEOs.
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    PRIOR BOARD EXPERIENCE

     

    Tram previously served as an executive member of the board of directors with an AI-powered wealth tech company. She was instrumental in recruiting a new CEO, repositioning the company from a B2B to a B2C AI product model, and led the company’s board decisions during the acquisition and transition into Synthetic Neural Labs Inc in 2021. She served as an independent lead board director for another emerging growth AI startup for the vision, where she helped the board connect to and acquire a Fortune100 listed US Group’s offer within 4 months

    Tram added value as a member of the EMEA Executive Board for Welch Allyn Inc. mid-cap wholly owned by the Allyn family and since 2021 by Baxter International Inc (NYSE: BAX). She transformed the market, products, and channel models and closed an initial acquisition of the French entity by a European distributor that paved the way for future acquisitions.

    Tram began her career as an auditor with EY, where she opened key offices in Vietnam and Cambodia before moving to J&J (NYSE: JNJ) Ortho-Clinic Diagnostics. She was awarded twice the Johnson & Johnson standards of leadership awards and she assumed increasing levels of P/L accountability, ultimately serving as a member of the EMEA management board. She expanded the international footprint for the $3 Billions JNJ’s IVD division.

     

    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 and Private Equity Portfolio Governance from the PDA, and the Financial Times Non-Executive Director Diploma.

  • Core Assets & BUSINESS IMPACT

    INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP 

    Featured in Korn Ferry A. Tapias 2020 book: “The 5 Disciplines of Inclusive Leaders: Unleashing the Power of All of Us.”

    J&J Leadership Awards 2002 and 2005
     
    Top Mentor with an average rating of 9 out of 10 with Endeavor Global  Network's Companies CEOs (Endeavor Global Chair Edgar Bronfman Jr, CEO Linda Rottenberg, Catalyst Chairman  Reid Hoffmann)
     

    CREATING OPPORTUNITIES

    Founding Vitanlink and leading each Portfolio Company to success
    (I) AI health company selected top 5 in SXSW out of 2000 contenders, received a transaction offer $5 M from listed Fortune 100 MedTech and 20% stake within 4-month of incorporation.
    (II) Award-winning co-founded AI fintech company sold to US holding and subsequent oversight of the new organization's global ecosystem of 6 continents and risks post-sale


    Regional Distribution Model change for a $2B family-owned business, paving the way to the future acquisition by a buyer.
    Enabled $70M opportunities detection for J&J OCD in China

    BOARDS

    Public companies

    Non-Executive Advisory Member, TenderHut SA (WSE: THG)

    Fmr Executive Member, Johnson & Johnson OCD Regional EMEA Board (NYSE: JNJ)

     

    Private companies

    Chair, Vitanlink, France

    Non-Executive

    Board Member, Yoni Solutions, Switzerland

    Advisory Member, The Sabi, Netherlands

     

    Fmr Advisory Member, Thais Health Inc. US 

    Fmr Advisory Member, Droon France 

     

    Fmr Director DreamUp Vision, France 

    Fmr Executive Director, AI Fintech QuantsUnited  

    Fmr Executive Board Member, WelchAllyn Inc Regional EMEA Board, US family-owned business

     

    Non-Profit Organizations
    Fmr Non-Executive Advisory Member, EU Commission

    Anti-Superbugs PCP Project

    BOARD ASSETS & SECTORS

     

    International Channel & Market Expansion

    Entrepreneurship

    Culture turnaround

    Corporate & Advisory Board Governance

    Data-driven Technology

    Revenue & EBITDA growth

    P&L Management

     

    Fintech

    Wealth Tech

    Digital Health

    MedTech

    Venture Capital and Private Equity

    Family Offices

    Professional Affiliations

     

    LPEA Luxembourg Private Equity Association

    BCFL Business Club France Luxembourg

    DDI Director Diversity Initiative
    Ascend Pan-Asian Leadership Network

    EY Alumni France

    Financial Times NED Club

     

    NACD National Association of Corporate Directors

    PDA Private Directors Association

    • New York Chapter Education Committee Member,
    • Diversity Equity and Inclusion Advocate NY Chapter

    IPEL Ivy Plus European Leaders

    Technology

     

    Software-As-A-Service

    AI Deep Learning

    AI Machine Learning

    IoT

    Blockchain

    Cybersecurity

     

  • testimonials

    The word around town

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    Xavier Urtubey

    Co-Founder & CEO

    Thaïs Health Inc

    'Tram brings a fresh differentiated perspective in collaborations with fast access to the right people, companies in target growth markets'

    Washington DC, US, 2017

     

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    Guillaume Sarkozy

    Chairman

    Single Family Office

    'When Tram Trinh sits on a Board she is always active in providing solutions, ideas to support companies’ growth.

    I highly recommend her'

     

    Paris, France, 2020

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    David Somekh

    Network Director,

    Health Futures Forum

    'Tram is an inspiring thought leader and an excellent facilitator'

     

    London, UK, 2020

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    Joaquin Azpilicueta

    Board Member, Former Corporate Senior VP

    'Tram has all the personal values that I live by: passion for what she does, full commitment with truth and reality, integrity, loyalty, [..] and a serving leadership vocation'

    Lausanne, Suisse, 2020

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    Innovation Officer, Embassy of Canada

    'Not only she is passionate about developing entrepreneurial communities [..] but also she is excellent at leveraging her network to generate meaningful opportunities' Paris, France, 2017

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    Desmond Marshall

    Managing Director, Rouge International

    'Tram’s dedication to developing, encouraging, and providing exposure for her portfolio companies as an entrepreneur, investor, advisor, and board member is unparalleled' [..]
    Hong Kong, HK SAR, 2022

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    Bernard Castells

    Hospital MD, President

    'I have been working with Tram for more than ten years during which we shared complex situations related to the healthcare sector. What I always appreciate is her ability to think globally and locally [..]'

    Bordeaux, France, 2022

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