Nguyễn Đăng Quang (born 23 August 1963) is a Vietnamese

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businessman. Quang is the co-founder and chairman of

Masan Group Masan Group Corporation, (), is among the top three largest private sector companies in Vietnam in terms of market capitalization. The group was founded and is headquartered in Ho Chi Minh city. Its subsidiaries include Masan Food (consumer stapl ...

, a consumer goods company best known for selling fish sauce, instant noodles, chili sauce, sausages, and animal feed.

Early life

Quang earned an MBA from the

Plekhanov Russian University of Economics The Plekhanov Russian University of Economics (russian: Российский экономический университет имени Г. В. Плеханова) is a public university, public research university in Moscow, Russia. It was fou ...

in Moscow, followed by a doctorate in technical sciences from the

National Academy of Sciences of Belarus The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB) ( be, Нацыянальная акадэмія навук Беларусі, russian: Национальная академия наук Беларуси, НАН Беларуси, НАНБ) is ...

Career

Quang founded Masan in the 1990s. Quang and his wife own 49% of the company's share, and his co-founder Hồ Hùng Anh, the vice chairman, owned 47.6% as of September 2015, although his holding as of January 2018 was not known. Following a doubling of the share price in the six months to January 2018, Quang had a net worth of US$1.2 billion, according to

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He became Vietnam's third billionaire.

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1963 births Living people Vietnamese billionaires Vietnamese company founders Vietnamese businesspeople Plekhanov Russian University of Economics alumni People from Quảng Trị province {{Vietnam-business-bio-stub