Michael H. Nguyen
Executive Vice President

Michael H. Nguyen is primarily responsible for the development of Masan Group's transaction and business execution platform to support the company's subsidiaries and the company's growth in new sectors. He has functioned as "Chief of Staff" to the CEO in executing the transformation of Masan from a food company into a leading private sector group. Michael has contributed to the build out of the transaction and business execution platform by helping to raise over US$500 million in capital for the company.

Before joining Masan Group, Michael helped build out JP Morgan's Vietnam investment bank execution team and worked on M&A, capital markets and privatization transactions with financial, real estate and consumer clients. Prior to Vietnam, Michael advised and provided structured solutions to multinational clients at JP Morgan in New York.

He graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Sociology.

Preetinder S. Panjrath
Senior Vice President

Preetinder S. Panjrath leads Masan Group’s Business Intelligence Unit and plays a senior role in Masan’s new business initiatives. He is responsible for investment analysis of M&A opportunities and assessing the viability of potential business initiatives. He is also responsible for monitoring and analyzing the financial and operating performance of Masan’s current businesses as well as in-house financial forecasting of these businesses. Preetinder has been instrumental in building the market intelligence unit at Masan that performs competitive analysis as well as macro-economic analysis for business risk management.

Prior to join Masan Group, Preetinder worked as a Technology Analyst at Deutsche Bank, New York, and prior to Deutsche Bank, Preetinder worked at Oracle where he built the ilearing.oracle.com business from the ground up into a multi-million dollar business.

Preetinder holds an MBA from INSEAD, France and a Bachelors of Engineering from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India.

Samresh Kumar
Senior Vice President

Samresh Kumar is responsible for business building, execution of capital raising and M&A transactions and identifying new areas for growth. He has played a key role in establishing and strengthening our relationship with the International Finance Corporation and led our transaction and partnership with global investment firm KKR. Samresh played a critical role in the business transformation of Masan Consumer from a packaged food company into a broader consumer company, including enhancing its environment, health and safety practices.

Samresh has more than ten years of previous corporate experience, including, in private equity and strategic investments at Sun Group, management consulting with Accenture and an entrepreneurial stint in investment banking. He has worked in India, Middle-East, Russia and United Kingdom.

Samresh graduated with a PGDM from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

Nguyen Bich Ha Nguyen
Senior Vice President

Nguyen Bich Ha Nguyen joined Masan in 2000 and is a senior executive responsible for our local execution efforts and key relationships. He has raised local project finance for Masan Resources and plays a leading role in de-risking the Nui Phao mining project post-acquisition.

Prior to joining Masan Group, he worked for the Department of Planning and Investment Services in Binh Duong Province, in charge of the province's investment activities such as sourcing, appraising and implementing transactions.

Nguyen graduated from University of Ho Chi Minh where he majored in Planning and Investment. He also holds an MBA.

Scott Tan
Senior Vice President

Scott Tan is responsible for Masan Group’s Strategic Initiatives Unit. He is primarily focused on our business development and new business initiatives from a strategic human capital perspective. Scott was also instrumental in building Masan Group’s pioneer business execution team, and currently oversees our Singapore representative office.

Before joining Masan Group, Scott was a founding partner of, a successful global boutique executive search firm based out of Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo specializing in the financial markets. Prior to that, Scott was the Head of Business Development and Management Consultancy in an international investment advisory firm in Kuala Lumpur and Seoul. Scott has also previously owned several businesses. He was also a News Anchor for an Asian TV channel and radio personality.

Scott holds a B.S. (Hons.) in Information Technology majoring in Management from the University of Malaya, Malaysia

Hanh N. Huynh
Vice President

Hanh N. Huynh is responsible for developing and managing Masan Group’s corporate operations and support platform and executing on strategic corporate initiatives. Hanh leads our executive recruiting efforts for Masan Group and our businesses and has established our overseas operations, including our representative office in Singapore.

Before joining Masan Group, Hanh was an equity research associate for five years at global multi-billion asset management firm AllianceBernstein in New York and San Francisco, where she performed fundamental and quantitative research and analysis in technology sector.

Hanh graduated magna cum laude from the University of San Francisco with a BA in Business Administration.

Danny Le
Vice President

Danny Le has built out our corporate communications platform and played a critical role in the transformation of Masan Consumer from a packaged food company into a larger consumer company, including helping to form a partnership with global investment firm KKR. He continues to play a key role in developing Masan Consumer growth strategy and, at the group, manages our 3rd party relationships.

Prior to joining Masan Group, Danny advised financial institutions at Morgan Stanley, New York, working with multinational clients to execute M&A, capital markets and privatization transactions.

He graduated from Bowdoin College with a BA in Sociology.

Paritosh Gupta
Vice President

Paritosh Gupta has been instrumental in establishing our resources platform where he led the technical and financial due diligence process for the acquisition of the Nui Phao project. Since the transaction, he has worked closely with Masan Resources management on strategic initiatives to advance the project and helped form a partnership with global investment firm Mount Kellett. He also focuses on analyzing new business opportunities for Masan Group and leads our analysts and associate trainings.

Prior to joining Masan Group, Paritosh worked at Lehman Brothers in its Asia Special Situations Group, a proprietary investment desk.

Paritosh holds a PGDM from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and a B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Nikhilesh Goel
Senior Associate

Prior to joining Masan Group, Nikhilesh was an Investment Manager at Avigo Capital Partners, an India-focused mid-market private equity fund, where he was instrumental in investments across sectors like Infrastructure, Oil & Gas and Media. Nikhilesh has also worked at Oracle and Tata Consultancy Services.

Nikhilesh holds an MBA from Delhi University and a degree in Electronics Engineering from Nagpur University.

Salil Rajadhyaksha, CFA
Senior Associate

Salil Rajadhyaksha is a corporate finance lawyer with experience in capital markets, banking and corporate transactions. He has worked with investment and commercial banks, private equity funds and issuers on Rule 144A and Reg S global offerings, PIPEs, convertible and straight debt offerings, private placements, syndicated and secured bank loans and structured finance transactions. He has also worked on cross-border M&A, joint ventures, securitizations, restructurings and privatizations. Prior to joining Masan Group, Salil worked at Linklaters and Trilegal.

He graduated from University of Mumbai (Government Law College) with a First Class Degree in law and has earned right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Sabrina K. Nguyen
Senior Associate

Prior to joining Masan Group, Sabrina was a corporate lawyer at White & Case with extensive experience in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and capital market transactions. She was instrumental in advising sovereigns and private sector clients across various industries and spearheaded the firm’s pro bono legal projects in Asia, focusing on investments in and transformations of microfinance institutions from non-governmental organizations into regulated financial institutions.

Sabrina graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University with a BSBA in Finance and International Business and holds a Juris Doctorate from Georgetown Law.

Punendu Sharma
Senior Associate

Prior to joining Masan Group, Punendu worked at Trefis.com, a Boston based start-up venture pioneered by IIT and MIT engineers and Wall Street analysts. He was responsible for fundamental valuations of US large-cap stocks across consumer goods, financial services and travel sectors, and frequently had his analyses published on forums such as Forbes, Seeking Alpha and the NASDAQ blog.

Punendu has worked at Procter & Gamble as Finance Manager and as Product Supply Finance Manager at healthcare manufacturing plant in India. He comes to Masan Group with a diverse global work experience, which encompasses private equity at Dubai International Capital, investment banking at BNP Paribas in Paris and corporate finance at Thomson Reuters in London.

Punendu holds a M.S from ESCP Europe, Paris with a major in Finance along with a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Nguyen Thao Anh
Senior Associate

Nguyen Thao Anh works closely our subsidiaries on key business initiatives and has also assisted in building out our corporate communications platform, implementing our monitoring process for compensation and resettlement at Masan Resources and reviewing the logistics operations of Masan Consumer.

Prior to joining Masan Group, she was Senior Analyst at KPMG Corporate Finance in Singapore where advised corporates on M&A, restructuring and financial reporting.

Thao Anh holds an MBA (finance specialization) from Nanyang Business School, Singapore.

Nguyen Dang Hieu
Associate

Nguyen Dang Hieu has contributed to the build out of our management information systems and our analytics and research platform. He currently monitors our existing businesses and evaluates new business opportunities.

Hieu previously worked at Tiger Investment Management (TIM). He graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor degree in Business Administration and is a Certified Financial Risk Manager.

Huynh Tran Vy
Associate

Huynh Tran Vy works closely with our subsidiaries on strategy implementation and, key business initiatives.
Prior to joining Masan Group, Vy was an investment analyst with Blackhorse Asset Management Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based hedge fund.
Vy holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration (Honours) from the National University of Singapore and has passed the CFA Level III exam.

Nguyen Thi Hong Van
Senior Analyst

Nguyen Thi Hong Van works closely with Masan Consumer and assists with Masan Group’s corporate operations and research.

Before joining Masan Group, Van was an investment analyst for Asset Management Consulting AG of Switzerland, where she was responsible for equity, industry, economic and regulatory research.

Van holds a Master degree in banking and finance from French – Vietnamese Center for Management Education (CFVG)

Dang Van Duc
Senior Analyst

Dang Van Duc is responsible for local execution and has been involved with the business development initiatives at Masan Resources.

Prior to joining Masan Group, Duc was an auditor with an accounting services company.

Duc holds a BA degree from the University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City.