User:Tungpham42/Alan Phan

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Alan Phan
NationalityVietnamese American
WebsiteAlan Phan


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Being the first Vietnamese American listing his private firm on the US stock exchange in 1987, Dr. Phan can be considered as a successful businessman in the Vietnamese American community. He has possessed the Hartcourt Group which was valued at 670 million USD in 1999 and then split into 5 firms (SPXP, ETLK, SRRY, ENVI and HRCT) which are still listed.


Alan Phan went to the US in 1963 as a student. Since then, he has achieved his Bachelor of Science in Engineering at Penn State, MBA at American Intercontinental, Ph.D at Sussex (UK) and Doctor of Business Administration at Southern Cross (Australia). Apart from that, he was a Guest Lecturer at several American and Chinese universities which are Colorado, Cal State, Columbia, Fudan and Tong Ji.


Dr. Phan was also the first one to introduce online stock trading and distance learning to China in 1997. In his working life, he has been in many multinational investment banking firms on Wall Street. Recently, he is the Chairman of Viasa Fund and a consultant on emerging markets for several multinational firms.

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