Advisory Boards
Board Of Directors
Australia
Dr Kim-Trang Hoang: Chief Representative in Australia
Dr Trang Hoang, left Viet Nam in late 1980s for Melbourne, Australia. Trang earned a degree of Bachelor
of Medical from Monash University. She has been practicing in several hospitals before joining Dr
Trung-Hieu Dinh in operating the For Life Medical Clinic in Australia. Apart from being a very experience
and charming physician, Dr Trang Hoang is also a very talented musician. She can play 6 different musical
instruments. Besides Trang also has a gifted voice which attracts the audiences in every single concert she
participates. Trang is a key member of TCF in Australia, she also goes to Vietnam to carry out the TCF
medical mission for the tribal people in the high mountain of Viet Nam
Anh-Dung Nguyen: Chief Operating in Australia
Mr Dung Nguyen earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics at Melbourne
University, Australia. He currently works at  Salmat Pty Ltd as  IT Infrastructure and Operations
Manager. At childhood Dung often helped his mother in pursuing the humanitarian works in Viet
Nam. Inspired by his mother works and spirit, Mr Dung and his family members are heavily
involved in The Compassion Flower missions. Mr Dung Nguyen is also a key member in the band
playing for TCF fundraising concerts.
Thuong Huynh: Australia Representative
Thuong Huynh is a Vietnamese Australian, who is one of the founders of The Compassion
Flower.  She has been a great member as well as a great donor of TCF in the last 19 years.
Thuong also travels to Vietnam  to carry out the mission of The Compassion Flower.
Thanh-Thuy Nguyen: Assistant Treasurer
Mrs. Thuy, Treasurer Assistant, has 18 years experience in Academic environment; Thuy earned a
Bachelor degree of Science at Swinburne University, Melbourne Australia. She is now working at
Taylor's College, Melbourne Australia. Thuy has been helping Ngoc Nguyen to manage the fund
accountancy for TCF in the last 10 years efficiently. Thuy joined Ngoc to carry out the disaster relief
mission of The Compassion Flower in Viet Nam late 2007 and early 2008
Huan Pham: Fundraiser Team

Huan Pham is a Vietnamese Australian. Huan graduated from Monash University with a degree of
Information Systems  in  1991. She had been working at JBWere now Goldman Sachs for 3 years as
a computer programmer and currently works at Telstra, Melbourne, Australia. Huan loves reading,
crafts work, swimming and table tennis. Huan has been actively working very hard in all The
Compassion flower fund raising events in Australia.
Members:
Phuong Phan
 Steve Russell
 Linh Nguyen
 Phuong Nguyen
 Khang Nguyen
 Katherine  Roan
Tuan Hoang: President
Tuan Hoang is a Vietnamese American who lives in  California. He earned a Bachelor degree at UCSC in
Computer Engineering and has more than 23 years experience on various high-tech companies in Silicon
Valley such as IBM Global Services, Mountain View, a Siemens-Nixdorf/EDS in San Jose, and  
Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto. Tuan  is currently working for a California State Public Transit System
company in the Bay Area CA, as a senior Telecommunications Engineer. Tuan is interested in devoting his
free time to participate and to promote non-profit Vietnamese social activities and  has also shared the
common goals of the other Directors of The Compassion Flower for years. Tuan  enjoys hiking, biking and
golfing at his hometown in San Ramon.
Duyen-Anh Le: Vice President
Miss Anh Le is a Vietnamese Australian who currently lives in Huntington Beach, California. She has a
degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia. Ms.
Le worked as a computer Programmer Analyst in Melbourne for 10 years before moving to the United
States in 2000. She is now an employee of Wachoiva (formerly known as WFS Financial). When living
in Australia, Ms. Le was an active member of a number of Vietnamese associations such as Hoa Nien
Magazine, Victoria Vietnamese Student Association. She was, also for 13 years, a voluntary teacher
teaching Vietnamese, at Richmond Community Center, for students in Primary school. In Huntington
Beach, even though heavily busy with the workload as a Technical Lead and also of a Vice President,
Duyen Anh manages to train and run several Marathons in Long Beach and San Diego to raise funds
for The Compassion Flower.
Ngoc Nguyen:
Co-Founder,Treasurer
 Ngoc Nguyen left Vietnam for Australia in 1981. She earned a degree of computer science from
Latrobe University and a Master Of Business and Information Technology at Royal Melbourne
Institute of Technology University. Upon her graduation, Ngoc worked for several government
departments and private sectors in Australia before moving to San Diego, America in 1998, and
worked for Qualcomm  since. Ngoc resigned from Qualcomm in late  2006 to work as a freelance
information technology consultant so that she can manage her time for her humanitarian pursuits.
Ngoc was inspired by her mother devotion to the underprivileged people since childhood. At 12
Ngoc started her charity works with Red Cross, Girl Scout group for disaster relief efforts. After
1975, she had been supporting the orphans, disable and mental illness people at Kim Long
orphanage (run by the nuns of Kim Long convent) from 1976 till the day she left Viet Nam (1980).
On her first trip back to Viet Nam (1989),  Ngoc was again  struck by the impact of her mother
works for misfortune people in remote villages of Thua Thien Hue, and in the years since, Ngoc,
joined by her friends, has worked to continue similar charitable efforts and has formed The
Compassion Flower (formerly known as The Love Tree) in 1990 to further those endeavors. Ngoc
directly participates in carrying out The Compassion Flower's mission in Vietnam.
Mai Khuong: Secretary
Mai Khuong is a Vietnamese American who lives in Orange County, California. She has a Bachelor's degree
in business from San Diego State University. After graduating, she worked for Merrill Lynch for over a year,
then went on to obtain a Master's degree in education from San Diego University. Upon her master degree
graduation, Mai taught at San Diego County for several years before move to Orange County, California.
Mai often travels to Vietnam to help carry out the mission of The Compassion Flower. Ms. Khuong works
with the Treasurer to manage the budget of The Compassion Flower and helps prepare financial reports. She
also helps prepare various brochures for The Compassion Flower.  Mai sings professionally and also  is an
excellent cook. Mai often prepares food for The Compassion Flower fundraising events.
Thuy-Tram Ho: Liaison Office, Lead of Education Team in Viet Nam
Tram has been doing volunteer work with TCF in the last 10 years. Tram is the key member of TCF in
Viet Nam. Tram is the liaison officer of TCF in Vietnam, she also carries out most need assessment of
all cases and handles urgent situation on behalf of the TCF leading team. Tram loves music and reading,
especially she often spends her spare times to visit the ailing and poor students in remote villages. She is
now in her third year at Hue University. Tram reads, writes and speaks English fluently.
Tieu Hai Le-Quy:  Education & Medical Team Member
Tieu Hai earned a bachelor degree of Science at Ho Chi Minh Agriculture and forestry  university.
Tieu Hai won the Year 2007 Youth Science and industrial prize for her research in Color Generic of
Japanese Fishes awarded by Ministry of Education of Vietnam. Upon her graduation Tieu Hai
returned to Hue to continue on a degree of Medicine in Eastern Oriental Medicine and now is at her
final year. Miss Tieu Hai has just joined TCF in the last 2 years  but her works for the TCF missions
is extraordinary. She is now one of the key members of the TCF medical team in Viet Nam.Tieu Hai
loves studying (she can spend the rest of her life to study:)) and play with children on her break.
Xuan-Mai Vu: Viet Nam Representative, HCM city
Xuan Mai is close friend of Dr Hoang Trang at high school. In late 2006, in responding to The
Compassion Flower call (passed through by Hoang Trang) for Xengsane typhoon disaster relief. Mai
was actively raising significant  amount of money within her company (PV Drilling) and promptly sent
to TCF representative in Hue to support victims in affected areas. Since then Mai has always been
trying to raise fund TCF missions. In September 2008, Xuan Mai flew to Hue from HCM city to join  
TCF for medical and education missions.
Mai is now working as an accountant at PV Drilling. Apart from dealing with numbers at work,  Mai
spares her time for family, church, music and reading.
Members:
Minh-Tam NGUYEN
 Thu-Huong NGUYEN,
 Thu Thuy DANG
 Thuy Phuong HO
 Mien Bui
Giang-Tran HO
 Anh-Triet TRAN
 Phuong-Chi LE
Mrs Mai Tran
Tuyet Mai Tran is a retired business woman in South  Viet Nam, she has been activity involved in several
disaster relief missions for villages along Mekong River Southern of Viet Nam. Apart from dedicating 2
months per year for the humanitarian works, Mrs Mai Tran spends  most of her time in Canada with her
daughter and handsome grandson, Ethan.
Lisa Iavelli
Lisa Iavelli has been working for Qualcomm Inc. as a Systems Analyst for the past eleven years and has
been with the Compassion Flower for the past five years. Lisa's humanitarian work with TCF was
inspired by her friend, Ngoc Nguyen, who worked in the same department with Lisa at Qualcomm.
Even though Lisa  has never been to Viet Nam, her work for TCF in America is very remarkable.  She
has been involved in fundraising, advertising and advising for several TCF events, as well as culture
orientation for newly arrived Vietnamese students. Lisa enjoys gardening and has recently started taking
piano lessons.Her favorite Vietnamese food is Pho and Springrolls
Mr. Le Quy Nguu, a oriental medicine physician, is the Lead all of TCF medical missions in Viet Nam.
Currently, he is practising the oriental medicine at the Duc Loi Y Quan clinic, 44 Hai Trieu street, Hue. Mr  
Le has:
  • Graduated the 2 year course on Traditional Medicine Standardization, Hue University of Medicine
  • - Graduated the Lectureship on Traditional Medicine and Pharmacy, Vietnam Traditional Medicine
    and Pharmacy Institute, Hanoi, 1994
  • Acting as a commissioner of the Board of Executives of Thua Thien Hue Oriental Medicine and
    Pharmacy Association

With more than 30 years of medicine practice and research, he has written and published 25 volumes of  
books and dictionaries which cover all issues from health, oriental medicine to Vietnamese Nom Script (old
Vietnamese language). In addition, he was awarded and won a great number of big prizes such as
  • - Knight of Information technology in Viet Nam, 2005, E-Chip, for his public domain software that
    converts  Vietnamese to Chinese font.
  • - Traditional Medicine and Pharmacy, Hue, first time,  2006
  • -  Scientific and technological creativity in Han Nom characters, Thua Thien Hue, 2007

Also, he enjoys working as a social worker, especially has a deep passion in bringing the Traditional
Medicine to the poor at remote and isolated areas. Also, at Duc Loi Y Quan Mr. & Mrs. Le offer free
treatment to poor patients  and all members of NGOs all over the globe.
Le-Quy Nguu:
Advisor; Medical
Team Lead in
Viet Nam
Dr Trung Hieu Dinh
Dr Hieu Dinh is married to Dr Trang Hoang (The TCF Australia Chief Representative). They now running
the For Life Medical Clinic in Springvale Australia. Dr Hieu Dinh community work started since early
1980s, he was a key member of Vietnamese Australian Youth group, Hoa Nien, in Melbourne Australia.
Dr Hieu earned a degree of Dentistry at Melbourne University. Dr Hieu is also the sound Engineer of The
Compassion Flower Fund raising concert.
Viet Nam
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