Minh Q. Tran

SoLoMoCo est une holding incubatrice dans les domaines du «SOcial media, LOcal Ads, MObile Services & COmmerce Platforms».

Elle opère comme un incubateur business qui co-investit avec des Business Angels ou des fonds de capital risque dans des start?ups innovantes à fort potentiel qui ont de fortes synergies entre elles et les aide à fédérer leurs moyens.

Ces start-ups pourraient être amenées à travailler ensemble par la suite en raison de leurs synergies
dans les services mobiles.

Pour plus d'informations, visitez www.solomoco.com

Smile&Pay est le premier opérateur français de transactions de paiement par « carte » sur mobile et tablette à proposer une offre complète de services destinés aux marchands soucieux de réactivité, mobilité et sécurité.

Utel est une société innovante dite "boutique publisher" dans le Mobile. Ses perspectives de croissance sont à trois chiffres grâce à son fort potentiel l'International, ainsi qu'à la convergence de ses applications sur Tablets, TV connectées et Web et la société devrait générer plus de 7 millions de chiffre d’affaires en 2011. P

Tekora est éditeur d’une plateforme en mode Saas de création de sites et services pour téléphones mobiles et smartphones. La société propose un service complet de CMS mobile en ligne comprenant les outils, la technologie, l’hébergement (mode locatif Saas) pour créer, gérer et déployer rapidement un site internet pour des téléphones mobiles et smartphones.

Looking for investment opportunities in Online and Mobile Services.

Truffle Capital is a leading independent European private equity firm originally set up for investing in spin-offs from companies active in Information Technologies, Life sciences and Energy.

The mobiletag decoder is the tag decoding technology used by mobile phone operators and manufacturers.

Mobiletag allows shooting or capturing tags integrating services and/or multimedia contents (music, videos, photos), the Internet (WAP, WEB portals) or mobile phone functions (contacts…)

This technology has been developed for all platforms in order to reach the entire European mobile phone base. With over 7 years' experience of in-factory embedded computing, our developers are each specialized in a particular mobile platform.

The “Nokia AdService” venture is bringing to market a solution that connects global advertisers with mobile publishers.

My management responsibilities cover Sales, Marketing, User Experience, Business Development, Product Marketing, Financial modelling, Business planning, and Team leadership.

My geographical coverage is: EMEA (with teams in UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Russia, Scandinavia), APAC (China, SEA) and LATAM (Brazil, ...)

2005-2006 Venture Partner
- Invest and manage venture portfolio to develop new emerging opportunities for Nokia
- Expertise in designing user experience in wellness, location-based services, mobile media and internet-based software.

2004-2005 Corporate Strategist
- Led initiatives on mobile advertising (future of advertising, social games, location based services, ...)
- Search disruptive trends in user, business and technology innovations. Contributed in Nokia Worldmap.

- Free TV: Monitored operational improvements of all European RTL TV stations resulting in EBITA impact of +$20m.
- Pay TV: Formulated the strategy of Bertelsmann US to partner NBC in acquiring a cable network.
- Radio: Involved in the turnaround of RTL radio in Paris.
- Non Ad Revenues: Managed 6 French business deals to leverage M6 TV brands in non-ad revenues for launching new magazines, music publishing, books, internet & mobile services and theater production.
- Production: Developed the integration plans of Fremantle Media into RTL Group in early 2002.
- Magazine publishing: Structured operational improvement of the magazine division in US, Europe and Asia.
- Book publishing: Sales forecasting model for Random House. Designed monitoring system with key retailers.
- Music recording and publishing: Post-merger integration for BMG-Zomba. Coordinated the integration of 17 countries outside the US (about 300 employees) resulting in an EBITA impact of $16m.

- Started regional headquarters in Malaysia. Formulated market-entry strategies in Asia region. Conducted market analysis by product category. Advised management on strategic alliances. Coordinated 10 joint venture deal agreements. Helped to set up two regional low-end pen manufacturing facilities in Malaysia and China.
- Managed the online business division with a sales force of 30 people. Led branding activities, marketing and promotional initiatives. Negotiated deals with 100 regional corporate accounts ($20m). Redesigned supply chain using e-sourcing procedures with factories across Asia, Europe, US, and Australia.

- Implemented corporate strategy and managed daily operations with a team of 40 local managers and 150 sales representatives. Turnover: $6m with +250% growth in 3 years.
- Managed physical distribution of 1200 accounts, coordinated advertising campaigns and retail promotional activities (> $1m), and supervised inventories in 12 local sales and distribution branches.

- Assigned to a French company named Charbonnages de France to handle finance in project management.
- Controlled a $120m project in CdF-Coal India Ltd JV (Calcutta). Managed 6 people.

Private Equity firm looking at Investment Opportunities in Vietnam. I analyzed an opportunity in hospitality services