About us

“Act locally, think globally” is the guideline and philosophy that Ms. Tieu Yen Trinh, the founder and CEO of Talentnet Corporation has constantly followed over the decade since the establishment of Talentnet after separating from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in 2007.

Being an entrepreneur with a bold vision and charismatic leadership style, she has led Talentnet successfully in cooperation with Mercer and ADP Streamline. Her experience in advisory Boards and C-Suite has helped build human capital agenda and strategies on many levels with an unparalleled depth of understanding of the Vietnamese labor market. This has resulted in strong relationships with top HR professionals, industry leaders, and other key contacts within this field. One of the biggest milestones in her life was when she founded Vietnam HR Awards in 2014 – where the best HR strategies and practices are comprehensively evaluated and awarded.

2019 marks her significant milestone by being in the top 10 of the Red Star Awards – celebrating excellent young entrepreneurs nationwide for marvelous business success and contribution to social activities. In early 2020, she was listed as an Outstanding self-made leader by Forbes Vietnam.

Ms. Trinh is currently the Vice President of Hawee (HCMC Association for Women Executives & Entrepreneurs) and VNHR (Vietnam Human Resources Association), a member of AHDO (ASEAN Human Development Organization), and a member of the Advisory Board of SMU Singapore.

Ms. Thanh Huong took the key role in setting up Talentnet’s Human-Capital Solutions. Her strong and insightful knowledge of the local Labour Code; Payroll trends, HRIS, HR Operation, Rewards strategies, and workforce planning help her provide efficient, cost-effective, and legally compliant solutions and excellent services to her distinguished clients in various industries.

Since 2018, Ms. Huong has been serving also as the Deputy CEO of Talentnet, overseeing Corporate’s strategic objectives and goals.

With her expertise in taxes, labor codes, insurance, and payroll services in Vietnam labour market, she has led many projects related to HR restructuring, HR operation, HR assessment, and rewards optimization. She is also the guest speaker for many foreign & local events about HR strategy development.

Work history:
– 2021 – now: Deputy CEO and Human Capital Solutions Services Director
– 2018 – 2021: Deputy CEO and Payroll & HR Capital Solutions Services Director
– 2007 – 2018: Payroll & HR Outsourcing Services Director

Mr. Jack Nguyen has over 25 years of international executive accounting,finance, and investment experience. Also, he has worked in Canada, the United States, and Vietnam, in both publicly listed and private companies. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Honours, co-operative program, Chartered Accountancy Studies in 1995 from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He has both Canadian CPA and Vietnam CPA professional designations.

Mr. Jack started his career working for Big4 accounting firms for 12 years in Canada, the US, and Vietnam. He then held successive senior finance executive roles at the large publicly listed real estate company in Canada, a high-tech health care company in Canada, after which, he returned to Vietnam in 2012 to join one of the biggest firms in the country as the Fund CFO.

Before joining Talentnet, Mr. Jack was a partner and Head of Business Development for an international accounting firm. Before that, he was the Managing Director and Country Head at a leading global business process outsourcing firm, responsible for setting up the strategic business direction of the Vietnamese market (including offices in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi).

Mr. Tony Tuan has more than 18 years of experiences with PricewaterhouseCoopers including more than 8 years with PwC Singapore and more than 10 years with PwC Vietnam. As a partner, he is the head of Private Business Services, Capital Market Services and Accounting Consulting Services. Over 18 years with PwC, he is also responsible for the audit of more than 500 companies comprising top multinational companies as well as top domestic companies in Singapore as well as Vietnam.

Mr. Tony Tuan also has more than 10 years of experience as Vice Chairman cum Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operation Officer for Viet-Uc Seafood Corporation, C.T Group and Nam Mien Trung Group. He successfully transformed Viet-Uc Seafood from a family-owned business to a leader in the seafood industry.

With over 28 years of experience, Mr. Tuan has unique blend of local understanding, international best practices, regional regulation understanding, and investor network. He joins Talentnet with the inspiration to transform Talentnet becomes a regional Total HR Solutions to support the the growth of Vietnamese enterprises as well as foreign companies invest in Vietnam and in the region.

Ms. Ngoc Tran is accountable for leading the growth of Talentnet’s HR Outsourcing Services and the day-to-day management of professional and effective service delivery.

She is fluent in labour & workforce-leasing regulations, and best practices of outsourcing solutions in Vietnam market with more than 20 years of experience. Her strong and insightful knowledge about business set-up, human capital management, HR outsourcing service, HR activities, and workforce management helps her provide efficient, cost-effective, well-tailored, comprehensive outsourcing solutions and excellent services to clients in various industries.

Ms. Ngoc Tran is also known as a guest speaker for events about human capital management, workforce development, HR outsourcing solutions.

With her key role as Finance Director & Hanoi Branch Director at Talentnet, Ms. Phuong Nguyen has been involved in several corporate projects and facilitated the commercial evaluation for all corporate investments.

Her strong background and solid experience in Finance and Commercial in Vietnam, UK and US have given her in-depth knowledge of Global Finance Management, Commercial Evaluation, Auditing and Compliance; Internal Function Integration and Operation Transformation.

She had extensive experience working with leading local and multinational companies across industries such as Banking, Finance services, Energy & Power, etc. in the areas of auditing, due diligence and financial consulting. Ms. Phuong Nguyen also has experience working with state-owned companies and regulators across countries, which helps her enjoy working with different people in different cultures and disciplines.

Graduated from Foreign Trade University with a high-achieving ranking in top 3 of the school, Ms. Ha Nguyen has shown her strong can-do spirit together with an entrepreneurship mindset thanks to some honour national and provincial prizes during her university time.

While most of her peers nail their career paths at big and foreign corporates, Ms. Ha Nguyen has found her intensive desire in serving the growth of local companies after her first few years working at several MNCs. “Why not Vietnam?” has become her motto to serve her inner call of making the made-in-Vietnam brand as premium as the foreign ones.

In 2007, Ms. Ha Nguyen together with some colleagues set up the very first Vietnamese company in the HR consulting industry – Talentnet, which is now a leading professional services provider in the market. Embarking on the branding journey for nearly 20 years, she presents herself as an innovative yet result-driven branding strategist with an endless desire to contribute to the new image of marketing for B2B in the professional services sector in Vietnam.
Being the youngest BOD member of the company, Ms. Ha Nguyen is now in charge of not only the branding direction but also strategic transformation projects. She is the initiator of Vietnam HR Awards, the most prestigious HR award for the leading companies in Vietnam and got herself the regional silver award in Best Use of Relationship Marketing B2B, Southeast Asia Market.