Vinh Vuong
Founder & Managing Partner
Vinh Vuong serves as Chairman and CEO of his holding company, VUONG Holdings, where he partners with companies in advanced technologies, energy, and natural resources to provide capital allocation. Currently, Mr. Vuong is focused on crypto & decentralized finance (DeFi), artificial intelligence, and rare earth minerals.
An entrepreneur since his teens, Mr. Vuong has transformed ideas and prototypes into disruptive, high-valued companies through operational discipline, effective business development, and meaningful public relations. The most notable ventures that exited, include an algae biofuel company and a mobile ordering software.
In addition to his role as Chairman and CEO of VUONG Holdings, Vinh Vuong is the Managing Partner of VUONG Global, a crisis and reputation management firm he founded in 2015. Under Mr. Vuong’s leadership, VUONG Global has been transformed into one of the world's most trusted communications and issues management firms by Fortune 500 companies, innovative startups, governments, nonprofits, and high-profile individuals.
Mr. Vuong oversees major consulting initiatives across industries with deep expertise in financial, natural resources, private markets, public service, and technology. He also leads crisis and issues management assignments for select clients.
At just 18 years old, Mr. Vuong took his data-driven, digital and social media expertise and began delivering more than a dozen winning political campaigns at the local, state and national levels. This was all before social media became a vital communications tool in politics. From there, he exited his first agency and founded VUONG Global, where Mr. Vuong continued working with public leaders and began guiding corporate boards and executive teams through high-stakes issues, including corporate litigation, Supreme Court cases, shareholder proxy fights, high-profile scandals, and other crisis situations.
Mr. Vuong graduated from Penn State's Smeal College of Business with a bachelor's degree in management where he also played football under Joe Paterno and on the rugby team. Mr. Vuong also completed the executive programs at the Harvard Business School and The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
An entrepreneur since his teens, Mr. Vuong has transformed ideas and prototypes into disruptive, high-valued companies through operational discipline, effective business development, and meaningful public relations. The most notable ventures that exited, include an algae biofuel company and a mobile ordering software.
In addition to his role as Chairman and CEO of VUONG Holdings, Vinh Vuong is the Managing Partner of VUONG Global, a crisis and reputation management firm he founded in 2015. Under Mr. Vuong’s leadership, VUONG Global has been transformed into one of the world's most trusted communications and issues management firms by Fortune 500 companies, innovative startups, governments, nonprofits, and high-profile individuals.
Mr. Vuong oversees major consulting initiatives across industries with deep expertise in financial, natural resources, private markets, public service, and technology. He also leads crisis and issues management assignments for select clients.
At just 18 years old, Mr. Vuong took his data-driven, digital and social media expertise and began delivering more than a dozen winning political campaigns at the local, state and national levels. This was all before social media became a vital communications tool in politics. From there, he exited his first agency and founded VUONG Global, where Mr. Vuong continued working with public leaders and began guiding corporate boards and executive teams through high-stakes issues, including corporate litigation, Supreme Court cases, shareholder proxy fights, high-profile scandals, and other crisis situations.
Mr. Vuong graduated from Penn State's Smeal College of Business with a bachelor's degree in management where he also played football under Joe Paterno and on the rugby team. Mr. Vuong also completed the executive programs at the Harvard Business School and The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.