ABOUT OUR TEAM

Jade D. CHASE, Producer/Director

Jade Chase is a documentary film producer/director based in Boise, Idaho, USA. He is a former U.S. Air Force veteran, health care manager, and holds an Executive MBA from Boise State University (USA). The enormous power of storytelling led him to found 18Ninety Creative, an award-winning team of filmmakers and advertisers. He began dabbling in documentary film making after traveling to Hanoi, Vietnam, in 2017, where he was introduced to the stories of Vietnamese nationals who were born during and after the Vietnam War. A veteran of the United States Air Force and a history buff, Jade was interested to learn what happened in Vietnam after the United States left Saigon in 1975. Additionally, Jade's interests involve highlighting cultural changes in populations and learning how, and why, generations communicate stories.

Nancy k. Napier, Executive Producer & Author

Nancy K. Napier is Distinguished Professor Emerita at Boise State University (USA), managed Boise State University’s nine year $8.5 million project that helped develop Vietnam’s first business school, at the National Economics University in Hanoi. She has received two of Vietnamese’s highest honors given to foreigners: the Medal of Honor, for contribution to education (2011) and the Medal of Friendship, for foreigners who help build relationships between Vietnamese and the U.S. (2017). She co-authored an earlier book on Vietnam with Vuong Quan Hoang: What we see, Why we worry, Why we hope: Vietnam Going Forward.

Dau Thuy Ha, Executive Producer & Author

Ms. Dau Thuy Ha is the Chairman of OCD Management Consulting Company and OMT Online Management Training Joint Stock Company. Ms. Ha has nearly 20 years of experience in business development and customer service management at multinational companies such as Daewoo Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, management consulting experience, establishment and business development. Ms. Ha has also been a consultant of solutions and development strategies for TraceVerified since the beginning of the project. She grew up during the American War, studied in Crimea, was one of Boise State’s MBA graduates of 1999, and has continued to startup firms and non-profits, now running one of Vietnam’s largest education related firm, KidsOnline.

nguyen trong khang, executive Producer

Nguyen Trong Khang, MBA, founded MK Group in 1999, which has grown to be one of Vietnam’s top technology firms, working with the government, military and business in Vietnam and with partners all over the world, from Japan and Korea, to Brazil and Russia, to South Africa and France. One of Vietnam’s top entrepreneurs, Khang epitomizes Vietnam’s fast growing and innovative business sector.