VIETNAM
SPORTS FORUM
2022

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Multiple Offshore Champion Diego Testa, born in Naples on January 24, 1959, is an Italian Powerboat Racer and manager of events related to the Italian Powerboat Federation for both Offshore and Watercraft.

He has won the Italian Offshore Championship 8 times in the 3/2-liter class, with 6 Silver, 3 Bronze at the Italian Championship and 1 Gold at the European Championship.
In the World Championship he has won 5 medals including 3 Silver and 2 Bronze. He also has to his credit 1 title in the Italian Endurance Championship in 1996 and 2 Centomiglia del Lario.

Since 2018 he has been racing in Endurance Pro 150 with his son Maximilian, and he won bronze at the European Championship.

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Ivan is an ambitious and talented sports management expert with a Masters in Sports Management from The Johan Cruyff Institute, and is a double degree holder of Business Administration and Sports Management from Ramón Llull, a prestigious university in Spain. He has over 15 years of experience in the Sports Industry, with the past 12 years being in Asia. He has succeeded in different roles in FC Barcelona, Sport SG, and agencies like Dentsu and Red Card, and is currently heading the regional office for SEA, Aus, Japan; S.Korea. His extensive experience also included helping global brands such as Toyota, Panasonic and General Motors navigate the intricacies of sports marketing.

He is crazy about sports, where he first developed himself as a professional athlete and later in the areas of Sports marketing, events and sponsorship. He was a former professional ice hockey player and captain of the Spanish National Team, having represented Spain at the World Cup level

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Greig Craft has enjoyed a successful career in business, public service, and philanthropy, and is an international expert in road safety. He has received numerous awards for his global work in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. His innovative solutions to improve global road safety has had a significant impact in reducing road crash fatalities and injuries in the developing world, especially for children. His creation of a lightweight ‘tropical’ helmet for children in 1999 has been hailed as a “silver bullet” in child injury prevention.
He received the Order of Friendship Medal – Vietnam’s highest honor for foreigners in Vietnam from President Nguyen Minh Triet in 2011. The Friendship Medal acknowledged his innovations and contributions to road safety, culminating in Vietnam’s national helmet-wearing law in 2007. This milestone has since helped prevent 846,476 head injuries, save 25,762 lives from motorcycle crashes, and saved the country $6.2 billion in social savings.
Craft has been twice awarded the Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards by HRH Prince Michael of Kent, and the Royal Order of Sahametrei by King Norodom. He serves on the Board of Advisors of the Nationwide Hospital Child Injury Prevention Alliance, Columbus, Ohio, and the Vietnamese American Non-Government Organization (VANGO).
As president of AIP Foundation, Greig Craft has provided expertise and guidance to governments, businesses, and civil society organizations throughout the developing world. He is a member of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC) and the Swedish Government Planning Committee for the 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Stockholm in 2020. Since 2008 he has organized and carried out genital reconstruction surgeries, Thien Nhan & Friends, for poor children in Vietnam. To date, the program has provided free surgeries for 560 girls and boys throughout the country.
Greig Craft is the Founder and President of AA Vietnam, an FIA Automobile Club providing road safety interventions, roadside service, insurance, and tourism throughout Vietnam. In 2020 he was elected President of the FIA Region II Asia Pacific. The Region has 21 clubs and 35 million members in 19 countries.
After the normalization of US – Vietnam relations, Craft served as Senior Advisor to Fortune 500 companies in their Vietnam establishment of operations, including Ford Motor Company, Motorola, Occidental Petroleum, Dresser Industries, Raytheon and Rockwell International.
As co-founder of the American Chamber of Commerce Vietnam, Craft was a long-time member of the AmCham Board of Directors, and also served as Vice Chairman for Washington Relations of the Asia- Pacific Council of American Chambers of Commerce (APCAC), representing 29 countries in the region.

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Born in Naples – Italy, he has received his education between Italy, UK and US. Since 1998 he has collected several work experiences in different fields such as Textile Industries, International Trade, Media Communication, Real Estate, Design and Interior Design holding the following roles : Marketing Specialist, Logistic Management, Sales Management, Buying and Merchandising and General Management, which is the role that he currently covers at Gentex General Textiles Spa.

He is the Managing Director and member of the Board of Gentex, that has over 50 years of experience in Textile and house hold linen. He represents the third family generation of management in the Company. With over 20 years of experience in foreign markets, focusing in Asia Pacific Area, he is recognised as an expert of those markets for different business fields.

With a particular affection for Viet Nam, in the years he has travelled a lot through the Country, having big knowledge of the same and of local mores. Thanks to his background, his very open mind and knowledge of international business, he has built a great network of relations and the achievement of significant career and personal goals.

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Lawyer admitted to practice before Italian High Courts with many years of experience within the field of Corporate and M&A and Sports Law. He joined the International Law Firm “Tonucci & Partners”, Rome offices, in 2000 and is Partner and Head of the Corporate and M&A and Sports Law Department since 2014.

He has provided on ongoing basis assistance to several football clubs as well as sports federations affiliated to C.O.N.I., within which he has held offices in sports judicial bodies.

He has provided legal assistance to numerous national and international clients in extraordinary transactions involving the acquisition and disposals of equity participation of Italian football clubs such as AS ROMA, BOLOGNA FC, BRESCIA, VENEZIA, SPAL, as well as transfers of business branch and structured finance transactions.

He was member of the Board of Directors of A.S. Roma S.p.A. from 2011 since 2020. He is member of AIAF – “Association Internationale des Avocats du Football” and IBA – “International Bar Association”.

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• Commercial Director with strong and extensive experience (20+ years) in strategic business operations including licensing & merchandising, sponsorship & marketing.
• Excellent in scouting new licensees and partners, launching new products, and designing products vision, with proven experience in contracting promotional activities and implementation of sales-oriented marketing strategies.
• Recognized for transforming organizations, innovation and change management enabling complex structures to become more agile while generating top line impacts, growth and unique consumer experiences.
• Successful in researching and reporting the most effective sources of revenue and saving.
• Pragmatic, with strong decision-making capacity tempered by empathy and natural listening skills. Entrepreneurial personality that can guide projects forward amidst shifting priorities and multiple goals.
• I believe in leadership by example and embolden a cooperative, respectful, and result-oriented working team.
• Effective in building both external relationships and a culture of collaboration with internal partners, currently open to considering a position as General Manager or Commercial Operations Director in the fast-moving consumer environment.

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Diana has been with the Red Bull Romaniacs for four years, started as an intern and took over the Marketing full time in spring 2022. She went through all stages of content generation and management and worked closely with the previous head of marketing, Volker Jacob to manage and grow the brand. From day one, she supported the marketing team not only from the desk in the office but also directly from the tracks, accompanying track teams and management into the Romanian wilderness to tell the story of the world’s toughest Hard Enduro Rallye.

Other professional experience include five years of theatre acting (University degree performing arts, Summa cum laude), managing the marketing of a Ski Ressort (2 years) and working in a German call center (5 years, Amazon.de).
Outside work, Diana’s world is also revolving around sports and art: she is interested in painting and photography, actively played Basketball for three years and loves snowboarding, swimming, iceskating, horseback-riding, yoga.

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• Experience in journalism since 1990. Expertise in communication consultancy since 1996.
• Journalist, editor, magazine editor of various magazines. Founder of magazines such as Nha Dep, Dep, TTVH & Dan Ong, and Doanh Nhan.
• Founder of Fansipan TV (Now Giai Tri TV). Prestigious expert in the fields of PR, Marketing and communication. Speaker, lecturer of Public Relations in the Academy of Journalism and Communication (AJC), University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH), and RMIT.
• Founder and Chairman of Creative Entrepreneurs Club. Vice president of the Chief Sales & Marketing Officer Association (CSMO Vietnam). Member of the Advisory Board of the Embassy of Australia. WPI Director AsiaPacific.
• Honorary Degree from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

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• Executive of Media rights sales and licensing. Success in multi level football tournament’s media right distribution , eg COPA AMERICA 2021, Bundesliga, AFF Suzuki Cup 2021, VFF, V Leauges…
• Executive of International Partnership, especially strategic partner with Bundesliga- VFF, VPF, Next Media
• Project Manager of Youth Incubator Project with Bundesliga, VFF.

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• Graduated with high distinction Master of Business Administration from Thailand
• 10 years of consulting for small and medium businesses nationwide
• 5 years of consulting and running businesses in various Southeast Asian countries
• Member of the Vietnam Dancesports Council
• Director of the Institute of Sports Economy

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