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Founding GTM

I take AI-native products from zero brand to first paying enterprises.

Dossier
01 · 2026
From
Pham Thi Van Anh
Role
Founding GTM · BD Lead
Base
Hanoi · Singapore
Sales & Business Development/Partnerships & Go-to-Market/CRM & Sales Tools/Analytics & Data/Digital Marketing/AI Productivity Tools/Sales & Business Development/Partnerships & Go-to-Market/CRM & Sales Tools/Analytics & Data/Digital Marketing/AI Productivity Tools/
[ 01 ]Business Project Management

From building ideas to shipping.

Founding GTM. Growth scaling. Brand repositioning. Four projects where I owned the strategy, the execution, or both.

[ 02 ]Operator's Note

I build ideas. Then I sell them.

Long before the title, the muscle is built from character, curiosity, and the discipline of relationships.

I started in project management — building marketing strategies for brands, running campaigns, shaping launches, turning rough concepts into things customers would actually pay for. Each project was a new pitch, a new story, a new room to convince.

Then one day it clicked: I'd been doing this my entire life, long before I had a job title for it. The product kept changing, but the muscle was always the same. Selling was never the side skill. It was the whole skill.

At fourteen, I cold-pitched the CEOs of English centres as an unknown teenager — with a deck and a story — and turned that pitch into a recurring annual free summer camp for 100+ disabled and disadvantaged children. At sixteen, I founded the first Model UN conference in Vietnam's mountainous provinces: VND 50 million in sponsorship, 100 paying delegates, 10,000+ community in year one. At eighteen, mid-pandemic, I built an IELTS coaching practice that served 100+ students — entirely on referrals.

Looking back at every project, every pitch, every late night — I realised the pattern wasn't marketing. It was building from zero.

Today, I'm finishing my Master in Management at INSEAD, sharpening the same instinct in a global room.

I'm not just a PM coordinating teams. I take the brand, the strategy, the product — and ship until it scales.

[ 03 ]Career, in six chapters

Six rooms. One operator.

Diplomacy, enterprise tech, retail discipline, founding-team execution, and continuous marketing craft. Each room taught a different way to read the same problem.

i.
2019 / 2023

Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam

B.A. International Communication & Culture — Top 5% · GPA 3.62/4.0 · IELTS 8.0

Learned political and cultural foundations — how to build marketing proposals with depth, vision, and influence through cultural and behavioural understanding.
ii.
2022 / 2023

Dell Technologies APAC

Sales & Digital Marketing — OEM Solutions · Singapore & Vietnam

Learned the bridge between enterprise sales and digital marketing — and the cadence of working with global B2B customers.
iii.
2023 / 2024

UNIQLO Manager Candidate

Operations & Team Leadership — 54-person retail floor · Japan & Vietnam

Learned corporate discipline — the balance between people management and generating revenue inside a global business.
iv.
2024 / Present

Business Project Management

DarkHorseStocks · ShinobiData · SimpliDeliver · Ferrero

Founding GTM on two AI products — Singapore & India. The room where strategy collapses into shipping.
v.
2025 / 2026

ESSEC Business School

Master in Marketing Management and Digital — Singapore & France

Building businesses holistically across marketing, operations, logistics, and entrepreneurship, and how they link together.
vi.
Online

University of Pennsylvania

Business & Marketing — Wharton frameworks for brand, pricing, and growth

Continuous marketing craft — sharpening the canonical frameworks behind brand strategy, customer value, and pricing.
[ 04 ]Marketing Project Proposals

Brand, market, and positioning.

Strategic concepts spanning luxury retail, beauty editorial, FMCG entry, financial services, Web3, and cultural awareness — each selected for the depth of the playbook, not the logo on the cover.

2022Young Lion · Top 3 / 1,200

AB InBev

Market entry strategy for a global beverage portfolio launching in Vietnam. Built segmentation logic, channel activation playbooks, and retail execution across both modern and traditional trade.

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2022HTKD · Top 3 / 1,400

MB Bank

Financial services campaign concept. Designed the digital customer journey, engagement architecture, and conversion activation targeting a younger banking demographic.

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2022Web3 Brand Strategy

NFT Eazy Empire

Launch positioning for a Web3 collectibles platform. Designed the creator activation framework, tokenomics narrative, and a first 10,000 holder community playbook for early stage Web3 growth.

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2022Cultural Awareness

Violent Communication

Awareness campaign reframing the language of digital conflict by translating Nonviolent Communication theory into culture forward, short form content native to Gen Z platforms.

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2026Luxury Retail · Concept

Chanel

Mystery shopping benchmark across Chanel, Dior, and Guerlain, decoding the rituals of luxury service, brand value delivery, and the behavioural signals that turn experience into willingness to pay.

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2026Editorial Beauty · Concept

L'Oréal

Editorial beauty campaign direction. Built the launch storytelling, branded experience planning, and creator partnership architecture for premium category entry in a saturated market.

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2026Premium Lifestyle · Concept

Soirée by Sephora

Nightwear collection launch concept. Designed the moodboard direction, brand narrative, and event architecture for a premium evening ritual targeted at urban Gen Z.

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2026Brand Vision · Concept

Filé

Multi page strategic marketing concept spanning positioning, content rollout, campaign architecture, and brand vision for 2026 launch. Built end to end from brand foundation to go to market roadmap.

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[ 05 ]Recognition

A few commendations.

Selected from a decade of competitions, summits, and academic distinctions across Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, and France.

2024Japan Youth Summit — Sustainable Business Idea SummitSustainability strategy trackBest Delegate
2017Kaohsiung International Invention & Design ExpoTaiwan · International fieldBronze Medal
2022Vietnam Young Lion — Student LeaguesMost prestigious marketing competition · 1,200 entrantsTop 3
2022Hanh Trinh Kinh Doanh — Business Case StudyNationwide · 1,400 entrantsTop 3
2021International Communications — Diplomatic Academy of VietnamMA cohort · 200 studentsTop 2
[ 06 ]What I Run

The operator's surface.

The three domains that compound when I take a product from zero brand to first paying enterprise.

Go-to-Market

  • Zero-to-first-customer playbooks
  • Outbound pipeline construction
  • C-suite discovery interviews
  • BANT qualification frameworks
  • Pipeline velocity & conversion
  • Multi-country GTM motions

Product & Partnerships

  • Product-market fit validation
  • Founding-team operations
  • Strategic partnership building
  • Cross-cultural enterprise (Asia ↔ EU)
  • Pricing & deal structuring
  • Roadmap-to-revenue coordination

Marketing & AI

  • Brand positioning & narrative
  • Multi-channel campaign architecture
  • Analytics, attribution, dashboards
  • AI workflow design (Claude, GPT, Cursor)
  • Content systems & editorial direction
  • Community & subscription growth
[ 07 ]End of Dossier

Tell me what you're building.

Emailvananhcindy02@gmail.comLinkedInpham-thi-van-anh ↗Phone+65 8158 6466
BasedHanoi · Singapore
LanguagesEnglish · Vietnamese · French (working)