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Thorman has most recently held managerial positions for retailers catering to the Vietnamese-American community in California, and from 1993-1994 was Vice President of Vinusa Investment & Holding Company. In that position, he developed international markets for Vinusa and planned its foreign investment strategy, advised U.S. companies making investments in Vietnam and managed the implementation of import-export and wholesale distribution strategies.
Thorman was a Professor with Vietnam’s University of Finance, serving as Chief of the Mathematics Department, recruiting math instructors and teachers’ assistants, preparing curricula and texts for the Department and teaching applied mathematics in such economics and business disciplines as advanced calculus, statistics and probabilities and operations research. From 1970 to 1975, he was an economic specialist at the Cabinet level for the Vice Prime Minister’s Office for Economic Development and a Banking Specialist with the Agricultural Development Bank. He prepared and appraised economic development projects for Vietnam that were financed by the World Bank, the IMF, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and other international financial institutions. These included a $200 million World Bank beef cattle project, a $150 million Asian Development Bank fisheries development project, a $250 million ADB agricultural mechanization project for 16 provinces in Vietnam and a $200 million grain storage and facilities project funded by Kreditanstalt Bank of Germany.
Thorman earned his MBA in the United States and a Master’s Degree in Economics and Bachelor’s degrees in philosophy, economics and mathematics in Vietnam. | 