Ep11: Authentic Leadership Podcast - Chris Freund

Chris Freund is the founder and partner of Mekong Capital, an investment company based in Vietnam. Gabrielle has been working with Chris and his team over the last 6 months and Chris is one of the most authentic leaders she has had the pleasure to work with. Chris originally moved to Vietnam in 1994 and has more than 24 years of direct investment management experience, 21 of which were in Vietnam. Prior to forming Mekong Capital in 2001, Chris Freund was a Vice President and Portfolio Manager with Templeton Asset Management, Ltd., the emerging markets arm of the Franklin/Templeton Group. In this podcast you will hear his insights into Authentic Leadership and why he demoted himself as Managing Partner to Partner, even taking a pay-cut! How many leaders would do that? He also discusses what took him from Chicago to Ho Chi Minh and his love of quantum physics when trying to understand the origins of everything. Join Gabrielle and Chris as they converse about religion, language and even 80’s music!