About
Dola Pham is a licensed lawyer whose entire career has run through organisations that process personal data at national scale. At VNG Corporation, Vietnam's first technology unicorn, he headed legal for Zalo Group: the messaging, payment and digital-entertainment ecosystem serving more than 70 million users. His portfolio covered the full span of digital products: platforms, social networks, online games, e-commerce, advertising, cloud and data centers, payments and e-wallets, fintech, IoT, copyright and telecommunications.
Four responsibilities defined that tenure: leading personal data protection for the whole VNG Group; leading litigation and dispute resolution; corporate restructuring across the Zalo ecosystem; and drafting internal policy while commenting on related legislative drafts, which gives him a working read of the regulator's intent behind the text. He currently serves as Associate Director of Legal & Compliance at one of Vietnam's leading listed conglomerates (consumer–retail), coordinating compliance across multiple legal entities and tens of millions of loyalty customers.
Experience
Associate Director, Legal & Compliance
Group-level legal and compliance across multiple subsidiaries; data governance for tens of millions of loyalty customers.
Legal Manager · Head of Legal, Zalo Group
- Led personal data protection matters for the entire VNG Group.
- Legal charge of digital products end-to-end: platforms, social networks, online games, e-commerce, ads, cloud/DC, payments and e-wallets, fintech, IoT, copyright, telecommunications.
- Led litigation and dispute resolution for VNG Group; corporate restructuring of the Zalo ecosystem enterprises.
- Developed internal policies and commented on related legislative drafts.
Legal Specialist → Legal Manager · Assistant to Chairman & CEO
Corporate legal foundations in manufacturing and enterprise governance.
Education & credentials
Master of Economic Law
University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH)
Lawyer — HCMC Bar Association
Licensed practitioner, member of the Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association
Certificate of Law Practice
Judicial Academy, Hanoi — professional lawyer training
Bachelor of Laws
Ho Chi Minh City University of Law