About Us

Maison Chance USA is organized in three major functional areas:

The Executive Branch consists of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee.

The duties of the Board of Directors are to establish goals and policies, approve plans and budgets, review and direct the activities of the administrative staff to assure compliance with budgets, goals, policies and plans, and assist in fund raising activities.

The Executive Committee consists of the President, the Vice-President, the Secretary, the Chief Editor and Fundraiser and the Treasurer. The duties of the Executive Committee are to supervise, direct and control the daily operations of the organization, and to report to the Board of Directors.

The duties of the Board of Advisors is to provide their expertise and knowledge to the organization as needed and to assist in raising funds and resources to enable Maison-Chance USA to achieve its mission.

All members of the Board of Directors and the members of the Executive Committee are unpaid. Volunteers is currently staffed with the following members:

Wendy Hoa Vo
President

Mrs. Wendy Hoa Vo

Wendy Hoa served as President of the Union of Vietnamese Student Associations of Southern California and was Treasurer of the Vietnamese Student Association at California State University, Northridge. She also helped organized many fund raising events for non-profit organizations.
She is currently the Controller for a steel manufacturing company in Houston, TX. Prior to joining that company Wendy Hoa held various management positions in the private & public sector.
Wendy Hoa graduated from California State University, Northridge, CA with a B.S. degree in Accounting.

Ashley Barkakati
Treasurer



Ashley Barkakati currently attends the University of Maryland, College Park as an honor student. She is part of the Robert H. Smith School of Business and she is majoring in Finance.
Starting 2008, during summer and winter, she has worked at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as part of the Deputy Commissioner of Operation and Support team. She received a Special Act Award from the Deputy Commissioner of Operation and Support of the IRS in August 2008 for her outstanding effort, involvement and commitment to accomplishing the goals and mission of the IRS.
During Fall 2007, she worked at the World Financial Group. Before that she worked for LNB Software, Inc.

Cuc Nguyen
Internal VP


Cuc has more than 15 years of experience as a chemical engineer for various companies. During her time with the DuPont Company, she had served as a co-chairwoman for the DuPont Asian Group, where she had planned, organized and led several seminars and conferences on Asian cultures and issues.
Cuc also works actively with many Vietnamese communities in the Philadelphia and Delaware areas. Her most recent involvement includes being in the Organizing Committee for the Maison-Chance fund-raising event in Philadelphia in October 2007.
Cuc graduated from Drexel University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and from Hahnemann Medical College with a B.S. in Nursing.

Victoria Tran
External VP/ Fundraising Director



Charity work has been Victoria´s biggest passion. She has been working with many non-profit organizations in the United States for more than 25 years, especially for children in need.
As an International business major, she currently is Export Manager for an International Freight Forwarding Company. Prior to this, she was the owner of a big Day Spa for many years.

Thuycam Nguyen
Graphic/Web Designer


Thuycam graduated with Bachelor of Arts, emphasis in Graphic Design at Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design from Georgia State University. She has an interest in volunteering to help increase awareness of Maison Chance's meaningful missions through her skills and knowledge in graphic design.
She has worked as a freelance graphic designer and she is volunteering to help non-profit organizations design newsletters, fliers, evites and redesign websites.

Cam Hong Hoang
Secretary

Cam Hong's Photo

Cam Hong graduated with B.S. majoring in Human Development at University of California, Davis. She resides in Elk Grove, California where she lives with her beloved husband and two children. With her love towards children, Cam Hong initiated the Home Preschool Program, where she is currently teaching bilingual children (English & Vietnamese) in the age ranged from 2 to 5, preparing for them to enter kindergarten. She is also tutoring the primary pupils in helping them with their homework after school. Besides her daily work, Cam Hong likes to participate in musical activities of Vietnamese community in Sacramento. Cam Hong's dream is being able to open a center for teenagers where they can participate in activities during their spare time.

Board of Directors

Michael Hiep Cao
Washington DC

Mr. Michael Hiep Cao

Michael Hiep has been working with many non-profit organizations in the US, Canada, Vietnam and some African countries for the last 25 years.
He is currently the President and CEO of 3-DO Telecommunications headquartered in McLean, VA and Montreal, Canada. He has held various senior positions within large companies and was posted overseas in Latin America, Africa and Asia. He has extensive experience in finance and accounting working both for profit and non-profit organizations alike.
Michael Hiep is a graduate from HEC Finance, Lausanne, Switzerland; MA & Ph.D., University of Ottawa, Canada and a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) from McGill, Canada. He is fluent in French, English, Vietnamese, Spanish and do speak a little bit of Mandarin and Japanese.

Vo Tran
Washington, DC

Julie Vo
Houston, TX

Dien Duong
San Jose, CA

Tim Aline Rebeaud
Chairman of the Board


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Tim is the founder of Maison-Chance in Vietnam in 1993 and has since resided in Vietnam managing the operations of Maison-Chance and the Take Wings Center which currently hosts about 70 orphans and disabled and provides education camps and training for some 200 abandoned kids and disabled.
While on a trip to Asia, she unexpectedly met a poor kid abandoned in the street of Saigon and faced with the decision either to continue on her journey or put some time to take care for that kid. She chose the latter. With no organization and with only the money raised from the sale of her paintings, she managed to take care of that kid and soon many more abandoned kids joined Tim’s family.
Tim is a native of Switzerland and speaks and writes fluently both French and Vietnamese. She is an artist, educator, nurse, mother, fund raiser and manager combined into one big heart.