Management Team

Thai Tran (M.Sc.) - Director

Thai was born in Vietnam and lived in The Netherlands for over 20 years. Since he obtained an MSc in Econometrics, Thai has been working in the Netherlands, Hong Kong and Vietnam. After having worked for several years as an IT manager for one of the biggest IT consultancy companies (Logica CMG) in The Netherlands, Thai established his own business in the stock market and real estate. Thai moved back to Vietnam in 2004 and became active in the identification of investment opportunities in the stock market and real estate, and founded a factory producing Vietnamese handicraft for export to Europe. Thai is fluent in English and Vietnamese and has a profound understanding of Vietnam, its economy and the challenges faced by project developers. Thai has Dutch nationality.

Casper van der Tak (Ph.D.)- Founder and General Manager, Global Operations CvdT group 

Casper is an experienced development and environmental economist with work experience in China, Costa Rica, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Kuwait, Mongolia, the Netherlands, Saudi-Arabia, Tajikistan, the United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan. His main areas of expertise are evaluation and monitoring, development cooperation project related services (identification, formulation, inception, and implementation), development of CDM projects and climate change, policymaking, and economic (computer-based) modeling.