Overview

Gender

female

Originally from Vietnam and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, Alyssa is the Director and Head of Innovation Acceleration of AIA EDGE, Group Innovation unit in AIA.

With nearly 20 years of global experience, Alyssa has extensive network in Consulting, Banking, and Insurance industry in the region. Her experience spans across multiple disciplines in Analytics, Marketing and Strategy. Prior to her role in AIA EDGE, Alyssa ran Regional CRM for AIG and was the Executive Director of Global Sales Technology at Goldman Sachs Asia. Her career highlights include running the IPO Marketing and Communications Workstream of the AIA IPO, the world’s largest IPO in 2010.

In recent years, Alyssa ventured into the Strategy and Innovation space where she believes will bring the most disruption to the Healthcare and Insurance industry. She set up the AIA Accelerator, Asia’s first digital health corporate accelerator with a goal to accelerate AIA’s innovation agenda. Alyssa is also the Founder and Executive Director of the AIA Emerging Entrepreneur Challenge, a youth innovation program which children age between 8-12 pitch business ideas to change the world.

Alyssa is a frequent speaker at international forum with the most recent keynote address at Clickz Live Hong Kong 2015, panelists at various international conferences and workshops such as the Innovation Leaders panel at the Future of Insurance conference by FST Media, Bank Tech Asia Executive Summit, UX Hong Kong. She also judged at numerous start-ups pitch competitions such as the HKUST Designathon, Citi Mobile Challenge 2015, StartmeupHK Fintech Pitch 2016, etc.

Fluent in English, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese Chinese, and Vietnamese, Alyssa holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and M.S. in Statistics from Georgia Institute of Technology and is currently the candidate of the Strategy and Innovation Diploma at Oxford University Said Business School.

In her free time, Alyssa enjoys reading and investing.