Don Le is the co-founder and CEO of Everest Education (E2), a Ho Chi Minh City-based edtech company that brings blended Math and English enrichment, test prep, and college admissions help to students from Grade 1 to 12. A Stanford economics graduate who started out at Bain & Company and Red Mountain Capital, he moved to Vietnam in 2007 and helped build finance, technology, and consumer businesses, including Highlands Coffee and Pho 24 operator Viet Thai International, before turning to education. Everest has raised about $5.4M, capped by a $4M Series B in 2019, and in 2022 launched a joint venture with Spark Education to localize world-class online learning for Vietnam.
Dr. Christopher Cuong T. Nguyen is CEO and Co-Founder of Aitomatic, a Silicon Valley-based Industrial AI company advancing what he calls 'Knowledge-First AI' - the conviction that decades of human domain expertise must be encoded alongside data, not replaced by it. A Stanford PhD and UC Berkeley summa cum laude graduate, his four-decade arc runs from building Intel's first flash memory transistors to launching Google Apps as founding Engineering Director, co-founding HKUST's Computer Engineering program, and helping connect Vietnam to the internet. Today he leads Aitomatic in deploying Small Specialist Agents for semiconductor, energy, and manufacturing industries, and sits on the Steering Committee of The AI Alliance.
Vietnamese developer and entrepreneur Trung Nguyen is the CEO and co-founder of Sky Mavis, the studio behind Axie Infinity, the blockchain game that turned NFT pets into a global play-to-earn phenomenon. He previously co-founded Lozi and worked at Anduin Transactions before betting on CryptoKitties-inspired game design in 2017.
Chip Huyen is a Vietnamese-American computer scientist, author, and educator who turned a rejection letter from Stanford into a three-year around-the-world journey, two bestselling Vietnamese travel books, and eventually a second application that got her in. She went on to teach at Stanford, build ML infrastructure at NVIDIA and Netflix, co-found Claypot AI, and write two of the most-read technical books on machine learning systems in production - 'Designing Machine Learning Systems' (2022) and 'AI Engineering' (2025). Her newsletter and blog are required reading for anyone building serious AI products.