Being an entrepreneur is hard. Being a successful entrepreneur in a foreign and developing country, in a heavily regulated and complex sector such as healthcare is even harder, if not bordering crazy. That’s the kind of challenge that Mr. Attila Vajda likes to take on. In just over 3 years of operations under his leadership as CEO, CarePlus International Clinics became one of the trusted healthcare brands for individuals and corporations in Ho Chi Minh City.

Mr. Attila Vajda is from Transylvania, was raised in a small town in a blue collar family and obtained his bachelor in Economics at the University of Oradea. During his student years he joined AIESEC, the world’s largest youth and leadership development organisation. His management and leaderships skills have been greatly developed during these formative years while he was rising in the ranks to become part of AIESEC’s global leadership team, overseeing the development of over 100 countries.

His Asian experience started in Singapore, where he worked 3 years in various regional roles, before joining ACB Securities in Vietnam, after he fall in love with the country as a tourist. Here he built an award-winning Institutional Sales & Trading team that became one of the top market players in Vietnam. He was instrumental in enabling Vietnamese market access for leading global investment banks and investment funds, as well as helping them navigate through the volatile recovery period that followed the Global Financial Crisis. Having sufficient business and investment experience, in 2014 he decided to work with a few selected partners on a few selected projects, in a more entrepreneurial role. Out of these projects CarePlus has been founded, and shortly transformed the healthcare landscape in Ho Chi Minh City.

Mr. Attila believes that as an entrepreneur you will face a battle each and every day. Some battles you will lose, some you will win. But as long as you don’t give up and your ‘winning days’ outnumber your ‘losing days’, you will sooner or later succeed in your endeavour! Thus, entrepreneurial and business success is as much about resilience and determination, if not more, as it is about having a great vision or being an inspirational leader. While a visionary, resilient entrepreneur may be the “soul” of a business, cashflow is the “blood” of a business, and one should always keep an eye on it, just like one keeps its own blood pressure in check. Mr. Attila always emphasizes that offering great value to customers, building strong internal systems and an outstanding culture to do the things right, will ensure sustainable cashflows and growth.

Also, he shares that ethics and values are the “connecting tissue” between a business and its customers, employees and the community. If you want to be successful in long term, you can never compromise in doing the right thing. Also, he shares that ethics and values are the “connecting tissue” between a business and its customers, employees and the community. If you want to be successful in long term, you can never compromise in doing the right thing. Mr. Attila points out that as a healthcare service provider, they are also much aware of CSR activities that caters towards the responsibility to patients and communities. Despite facing many difficulties at the beginning (such as licensing, getting the right doctors onboard, training the staff in customer service, etc. ), the company got involved in community activities from the very first days of its operations.

CarePlus conducts various educational, disease prevention and lifestyle advisory programs in the form of seminars, workshops and consultations for qualified daycares, kindergartens, schools, NGOs and other organisations. It also donates to charities and provides complementary healthcare services for the underprivileged. The Company is adhering to the highest professional and ethical standards, wor

CarePlus’s Vision is to be the first choice and most trusted clinic chain not only in Vietnam, but across Southeast Asia. Mr. Attila puts emphasis on the aim to safeguard and improve patients’ health & wellbeing by providing uniquely patient-centric, high quality, affordable outpatient healthcare services with best-inclass professionals and equipment.

In addition to working on developing their physical network of general and specialist clinics, the Company is currently designing a telemedicine platform to ensure that in the future customers can reach a CarePlus doctor anytime and from anywhere.

Besides, CarePlus is continuing to launch new specialist services, such as Oncology or Orthopaedics, as well as continuously enlarging the list of services offered under the current specialties available. Mr. Atilla and his team of dedicated professionals constantly look out for new innovations, the latest developments and evidence in medicine, with the aim to quickly, safely and effectively bring these to our patients at the earliest time possible. The growth strategy of CarePlus also includes acquisitions and the team constantly evaluates such opportunities available in the sector. The core growth driver of the company however is its continuous development of the employees. In order to continue achieving great medical outcomes and providing an excellent patient experience, their investments will continue to be focused on further growing their best-in-class professionals!