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Sieng van Tran
Profile picture Sieng Van Tran.jpg
Born
(1975-04-30) 30 April 1975 (age 43)
Vietnam

Occupation
entrepreneur, inventor
Known foriLearn.To, UNHCR
TitleSieng Van Tran

Sieng van Tran (born 30 April 1975) is a British entrepreneur and Prominent Refugee [1] who came to the UK in 1981.[2] He founded eLearning company iLearn.To, the first profitable UK internet learning company in 1999.[3][4][5] iLearn.To delivered over 500 on-line courses from Harvard, McGraw-Hill and the BBC for Business. It was initially backed by Alan Watkins, former MD of Cisco.[6]


Identified by the UNHCR, Sieng van Tran is on a List of famous refugees [7] took part in a 50th anniversary video campaign alongside other Prominent Refugees such as Madeleine Albright.[8] The video lip sync to Respect by Aretha Franklin also featured human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú Tum.[9]


In 2007 he sold AuctionAssist an eCommerce facilitator to AIM listed Company ArgetnVive Plc for £2.6 Million.[10]


On 27 March 2008 Sieng filed for a patent on a new method for eCommerce with the United States Patent Office,[11]


Sieng also founded the Egg Accelerator in Vietnam [12] which was initially started to help people from his home town a fishing village to develop technical skills and work in technology. In 2014 Egg Accelerator was invited to join the Hanwha Dreamplus Alliance [13] a US$100 billion Korean conglomerate.


In 2018 Sieng was appointed as President of the Dragonchain Academy, a foundation project designed to develop Blockchain competency. Dragonchain was developed as a private blockchain at Disney. [14]





References




  1. ^ [1] Prominent Refugees


  2. ^ [2] The story of refugees in Britain


  3. ^ [3] Learning the Best


  4. ^ [4] Guardian coverage


  5. ^ [5] BBC coverage of Sieng van Tran


  6. ^ [6] Independent coverage on Sieng Van Tran


  7. ^ [7] UNHCR 50th Anniversary


  8. ^ [8] 50th anniversary video


  9. ^ [9] UNHCR celebrates 50th anniversary


  10. ^ [10] Samedaybooks Plc wins internet auction company


  11. ^ [11] Patent Pending 20090248517 Systems and methods for distributed commerce platform technology


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  13. ^ "Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem". www.techinasia.com. Retrieved 2019-02-08.


  14. ^ "Dragonchain: How The Blockchain Vendor Began At Disney, Sold Minority Stake To Cogint". finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2019-02-08.









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