Thirty years of board-level leadership across Food & Consumer, Health & Life Sciences, and Emerging Industries spanning North America, Europe and Asia at their most critical chapter. Builder and connector by nature, she aligns board strategy with shareholder interests, driving value creation, while mitigating legal and financial risks.
Tram Trinh operates in three distinct capacities: board-level interim executive, independent board director and Certified Chair™ board advisor across publicly traded, family-owned, PE-backed and venture-backed environments
in Food & Consumer, Health & Life Sciences and Emerging Industries / AI.
Today, she helps B2B health & tech companies maximize their value ahead of their key event: sale, transition, international acceleration by building, securing, and transferring value. A dual perspective: an executive who has founded companies and expanded market reachfor subsidiaries of large corporate groups, backed by financial, legal, and governance's oversight, hinsight and foresight.
She has driven international P&L growth, aligned corporate governance with growth strategy, and led turnarounds, exits and ownership transitions, from public Fortune 50 corporations to family-owned mid-caps and SMEs.
As CEO France and EMEA Board Director at Welch Allyn (then a family-owned group), she prepared, sold and transitioned the subsidiary and positioned the business for its $2.05B acquisition by Hill-Rom (later Baxter).
As an EMEA Management Board Member at Johnson & Johnson Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, she drove the pricing and operational strategy that laid the groundwork for the $4.0–4.15B divestiture to The Carlyle Group.
She was twice awarded the J&J Standards of Leadership (2002, 2005).
A decade ago she founded Vitanlink, a co-founding, co-investing and operating-partner platform, through which she has guided 50+ founder-led and PE/VC-backed companies at board and operating level, contributing to €100M+ in value created. She has been rated top mentor with a 9+/10 rating from the Endeavor Global Network's CEOs.
She holds an MBA (McGill), an LL.M in International Financial Law (King's College London), an active US CPA licence (New Hampshire), the Financial Times/Pearson Non-Executive Director Diploma, the Private Company Governance certificate (PDA) and the Certified Chair™ credential from the Advisor Board Centre.
Born French, she has lived and worked in 15+ cities and resides in Paris. She speaks French, English, German and Vietnamese.
