Lan Nguyen
Managing Director
Seeking out high-impact, game-changing talent, Lan Nguyen is a passionate advocate dedicated and determined to bring companies talent that matters. Lan is a member of both the Professional and Technology Services and the Financial Services practice groups at ZRG. She works with clients across insurance, banking, investment and wealth management, consumer finance and specialty lending, Fintech, and beyond in related market infrastructure, data services, and professional and business services as well as private equity-backed portfolio companies. Lan has experience recruiting across multiple functions, building out entire teams as well as placing executives at the board and management committee levels.
Prior to joining ZRG, Lan was a Partner at a global executive search firm. Before that, she was leading financial services searches with a female-owned boutique firm.
Earlier in her career, Lan was a lawyer in Washington, DC, serving clients in complex disputes including trials and investigations, antitrust matters, and damages, particularly those involving the federal government.
Lan has demonstrated success in solving business challenges, excelling where a sophisticated understanding can bear on increasingly technical, emerging, and esoteric roles that conjoin components of risk, analytics, data, or digital. She brings expertise in finance, legal, risk, regulatory, and privacy functions that also touch on data and security issues. Lan has a superior track record of promoting diversity and inclusion, as reflected in her candidate presentations and placements. Clients value her thorough due diligence, agility, deep approach to problem-solving, and advisory skills.
Lan's areas of expertise include Professional and Technology Services, Financial Services, Diversity, Social Impact, Enterprise Risk and Analytics, Legal and Compliance Officers, and Marketing and Growth Officers
Lan holds a JD from the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle and a BS in International Relations from Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
