Sieng 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]

Sieng van Tran
Born (1975-04-30) 30 April 1975
Vietnam
Occupationentrepreneur, inventor
Known foriLearn.To, UNHCR, Dragonchain Academy
TitleSieng Van Tran

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.

References
  1. Prominent Refugees
  2. The story of refugees in Britain
  3. Learning the Best
  4. Guardian coverage
  5. BBC coverage of Sieng van Tran
  6. Independent coverage on Sieng Van Tran
  7. UNHCR 50th Anniversary
  8. 50th anniversary video
  9. UNHCR celebrates 50th anniversary
  10. Samedaybooks Plc wins internet auction company
  11. Patent Pending 20090248517 Systems and methods for distributed commerce platform technology
  12. "Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem". www.techinasia.com. Retrieved 2019-02-08.
  13. "Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem". www.techinasia.com. Retrieved 2019-02-08.
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