Viet Hai Phan

Vietnamese IT executive and banker. Silver medalist for Vietnam at the 1996 International Olympiad in Informatics. Long career in financial-services technology: IT advisory at KPMG, IT governance/security at Prudential Vietnam, and over a decade of IT leadership at Viet Capital Bank (BVBank), culminating in his 2023 appointment as Deputy General Director in charge of IT and digital banking.

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• Quant employment verification: NOT CONFIRMED. No evidence of any quantitative investment, trading, market-making, hedge-fund, or systematic/algorithmic trading role or internship. His publicly documented employers are Viet Capital Bank/BVBank (commercial bank, IT and digital-banking leadership), Prudential Vietnam (life insurer), KPMG Vietnam (professional-services/advisory), and two Vietnamese government IT bodies (Department of Science and Technology; Department of Telematics) - none is a quant trading firm, asset manager, or energy/crypto trading shop. Identity is supported (LinkedIn + Vietnamese press + IOI record), but the supported roles are IT/banking-technology, not quant. The LinkedIn index lists no quant employer; searches for his name with 'quant', 'trading', 'hedge fund' return only unrelated people.Jun 16, 2023
• Appointed Deputy General Director of BVBank (Viet Capital Commercial Joint Stock Bank) in June 2023, in charge of IT and digital banking - the bank's leadership page lists him among its Deputy General Directors.Jun 14, 2023
• Career path is wholly within banking/financial-services IT: he has spent more than 10 years at BVBank across IT leadership, rising from Head of IT Security & Project Management to Head of IT Infrastructure to Chief Information Officer before the 2023 Deputy General Director appointment.Jun 14, 2023
• Before banking he worked in IT governance/security and technology advisory: IT Control & AMO and Information Security Manager roles at Prudential Vietnam, and Manager/Assistant Manager advisory roles at KPMG Limited.
• Education: bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Griffith University (Australia) and a master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from RMIT University.Jun 15, 2023
• Won a silver medal for Vietnam at the 1996 International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI): score 151, rank 52/220, silver medal.Jul 1, 1996
• In April 2026 annual-report data he is recorded as holding roughly 1.45% of the bank (9,283,861 shares) - a material shareholder, indicating a senior executive stake rather than a rank-and-file technologist.Apr 14, 2026
• Born in 1979, per Vietnamese press covering his 2023 BVBank appointment; this makes him about 17 at the 1996 IOI.Jun 15, 2023
• As Viet Capital Bank IT Director he was credited with the bank's PCI DSS data-security certification - an IT/compliance milestone rather than a trading role.
• His public footprint is corporate/governmental, not editorial: no personal blog, authored articles, GitHub, or X/Twitter account surfaced in web sweeps.