Minh Q. Tran

Founder of management company

AXA Strategic Ventures is a €200 million venture capital fund financed only by AXA Group. The fund will invest in insurance and financial services.

Créé en 2013 et initialement appelé AXA Seed Factory, AXA Factory est un accélérateur business dédié aux startups innovantes à fort potentiel pour les domaines de l’assurance, de l’épargne, de la banque et de la gestion d’actifs (#assurtech, #fintech).

Devisea (nationalchange.com) is in currency exchange delivery, a PayTop company

Entrepreneur / Venture partner in SOcial Media, LOcal Ads, MObile Services and COmmerce Platforms.

Smile&Pay is the 1st French operator of card payment solutions on smartphones & tablets with a one-stop-shop for small and medium merchants looking for a mobile and secure payment solution.

General Manager from 15/2/2013 to 30/9/2013 PayTop is an innovative, integrated and independent payment services business that is positioned as a mobile and web-based payment account operator.

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…)

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.

- 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

- 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.