INTHEBLACK July 2025 - Magazine - Page 31
Huy Chung FCPA is a refugee
success story: a professional
with the ability to steward
companies through emerging
markets.
He is now part of a logistics
team at SPX Express that
is helping to drive the
growth of e-commerce
services in Asia.
As a business leader,
Chung focuses on people
development and setting
a vision that gives employees
purpose and direction.
LEADERS AND INNOVATORS
A dream
come true
With a mantra of “making today better than yesterday”, Huy Chung FCPA
is drawing from his own inspiring career to support future leaders in
the Vietnamese finance sector.
Words Cameron Cooper
Photography Mott Visuals
AS CAREER JOURNEYS GO, IT IS
hard to beat the story of Huy Chung.
The finance industry veteran left
Vietnam in 1978, aged 7, on a boat
bound for “anywhere”. After landing on a
Malaysian island, his family was eventually
processed to immigrate to Brisbane
in Australia to start a new life. Chung
returned to Vietnam 30 years later —
flying business class — to take up a CFO
role with Coca-Cola.
“I was among the first set of boat people
who arrived in Australia back in the 1970s
after the war,” says Chung. He leads
a diversified team supporting corporate
services and distribution in Vietnam
for SPX Express, a leading e-commerce
logistics company that is part of the
Shopee network.
His tough start in life included losing
his biological father, who died at war,
and then having to pick up the pieces as
a refugee in a foreign land with his mother
and stepfather. “I did all my education
and schooling in Australia and, seeing what
my parents went through as refugees and
starting all over again in Australia, it gave
me real motivation to get ahead.”
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