Le Diep Kieu Trang, the new director of Facebook Vietnam (Photo: tuoitre.vn) Hanoi (VNA) -Social networking site Facebook has confirmed the appointment of Le Diep KieuTrang (Christy Le) as director of Facebook Vietnam. She will work at thecompany’s headquarters in Singapore.
According to Kenneth Bishop, Facebook’s managing director for Southeast Asia,with over 60 million Facebook users in Vietnam every month, the company isinvesting heavily in resources and workforce to better support the community,including local businesses, partners and marketers. He said with her extensiveexperience, Christy Le would help businesses in Vietnam to develop and succeed.
Born in 1980, Trang won a scholarship to the UK’s University of Oxford andMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States.
After leaving MIT, Trang worked for strategic consulting firm McKinsey. Later,she and her husband, Sonny Vu, founded Misfit Wearables, a start-upspecialising in healthwear and body-measuring equipment.
In 2015, Misfit Wearables was acquired by Fossil Group for 260 million USD, butTrang continued as the CEO of Fossil Vietnam. She unexpectedly resigned onMarch 9 this year, following which she was offered the position of director ofFacebook Vietnam.-VNA
