Tram Trinh is a multicultural results-driven entrepreneurial C-level executive and independent non-executive board director with over 25 years leadership experience in Health & MedTech powered by AI and SaaS technologies across North America, Europe and Asia. She demonstrated success in driving International P&L corporate growth, strategic initiatives, aligning business objectives with market needs, executing turnaround plans, fostering stakeholder partnerships and constantly improving go-to-market strategies, while balancing innovation and growth opportunities with risk mitigation to protect company's assets, brand and reputation. 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 500 to private midcap and SME companies.

She brings a range of diverse perspectives to the boardroom: corporate governance, deep market trends and customer insights, financial, international commercial law and general management lenses. Tram excels in collaborations, brings holistic data-driven customer voices and market insights to the boardroom, encourages a pro-active board mindset with positive risk governance, balancing new market growth opportunities and risks mitigation to protect company’s assets, brand and reputation.
She owns 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 of All of Us” a book released by Korn Ferry in 2020. As a Healthcare Mentor, she has consistently received a 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

- IBA International Bar Association's Environment, Health and Safety's Committee, as Health & Safety Officer and appointed to the AI Presidential Task Forceto advise on health and safety regulations in AI development.
- LPEA Luxembourg Private Equity Association iNED Club committee

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

A decade ago, she founded Vitanlink, a private angel 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 CEO of Welch Allyn france, subsidiary of 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, restructured operations and positioned the company for a later $2B acquisition by Hillrom then Baxter.

As an Executive EMEA Board-level member, she drove pricing strategy and operational efficiencies across EMEA, laying the groundwork for a
successful spin-off to Carlyle of the $3 Billion division. 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.

She earned an MBA from McGill, an LL.M from King’s College London, an active US Certified Public Accountant license (CPA New Hampshire State Board of Accountancy), a certification in Private Company Governance from the PDA, and the Pearson Financial Times Non-Executive Director Diploma, which equips her with a multidisciplinary perspective on law, finance, business strategy and corporate governance. 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.