Donald Lemon, Manager
Donald Lemon is an international business lawyer formerly based in Hong Kong, Hanoi, Bangkok, and Vienna, Austria over a 16 year international career. As the Chief Representative for Credit Lyonnais Securities in Hanoi from 1988 to 1992 he established the investment banking function for the bank for the Indochina region. He was instrumental in obtaining the second foreign commercial banking license issued by State Bank of Vietnam on behalf of Credit Lyonnais, and secured the first investment fund license. In 1992 he became the in-country Executive Manager of the Vietnam Fund Management Company, the fund manager of the Vietnam Fund, a $65 million pre-listing green field investment fund. In two years the Vietnam Fund made 11 investments after reviewing and completing due diligence on more than 400 investment proposals.

In 1994, because of his language and Vietnam experience, the Fund asked him to work directly in some of the Fund investments in order for the Fund to have a more active role in the development of the companies. He served as the deputy director responsible for legal and local partner relations of the Tate and Lyle Sugar Company project in Nghe An, Vietnam building an $85 million green field 6000 MT/day sugar mill that processed cane for 30,000 farmers on the Lao Vietnam border. He was the executive director of a light manufacturing plant for Advanced Lighting in Ho Chi Minh City, and was the executive responsible for a Ho Chi Minh City $150 million municipal water bid for a consortium of American companies including CH2MHill and O.M.I.

In addition to facilitating investment for European and American companies in Asia, his responsibilities included serving on the management boards for the start up or the operations of the investee companies. He also expanded various companies operations into Cambodia, Thailand and Laos.

Upon his return to the U.S. in 2001 he established a small private immigration law practice in Avon CO. Mr. Lemon is also the manager of The Mountain Foundation, a small family funded 501c3, as a vehicle to handle pro-bono immigration work and develop medical and sustainable economic development projects for mountainous regions around the world. In 2005 Mr. Lemon invested in the first pollution free dry cleaning service in Vail and handles the financial and administrative chores. Don served on the Planning Commission in Eagle County CO, volunteers with immigrant aid programs, and is on the Vail Valley Theater Company board. Having grown up in Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia from the age of 4 until 18, he speaks, reads and writes Vietnamese and has previously been conversational in Mandarin, Thai and Malay.