Lê Viết Lam

Lê Viết Lam was born in 1969 in Hoằng Quang commune, Hoằng Hóa district, Thanh Hóa province.

In 1987, after studying for a year at the Faculty of Textile Energy Engineering at Hanoi University of Science and Technology, he was sent to Russia to study and obtained a master's degree in 1992.^[1]

In 1993, he and Phạm Nhật Vượng, together with a group of young people, established the Barabarosha market.^[2]

Later, Lam and Vượng founded Technocom company.^[3] Initially, the company sold instant noodles under the brand name Mivina. Technocom then became a market leader in dehydrated culinary products in Ukraine,^[4] before being sold to Nestlé in 2009.^[1][5]

While Vượng remained with Technocom for a while before returning to Vietnam to found Vingroup, Lam and a few partners soon left the company to establish Sun Group in 2007.^[1]

• Phạm Nhật Vượng