S2#5 Jimmy Pham, Founder & CEO, KOTO (Know One Teach One)

Jimmy Pham is a humanitarian and restaurant owner. He is renowned as establishing the Know One, Teach One (KOTO), a leading not-for-profit social enterprise based in Vietnam and KOTO Hanoi, a 120-seat restaurant. KOTO provides at-risk and disadvantaged youth in Vietnam an opportunity to undertake a 24-month holistic hospitality training program to end the cycle of poverty. 

With the endless passion of improving the lives of kids in Vietnam, he was recognised as a World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leader in 2011 and was featured on CNN, BBC, LA Times and The New York Times. However, For Jimmy, the greatest award is helping and changing disadvantaged lives. Tune in to this podcast episode with host Hao Tran, CEO Vietcetera to find out Jimmy’s empowering journey and his opinion about the outlook of tourism and hospitality industry in the future. 

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