Madam Nguyen Thi Nga 59 (Vietnam)
CHAIRMAN, SEABANK, BRG, INTIMEX
She is one of Vietnam’s richest women, thanks to her interests in banking, real estate, resorts and retail. Since 2007 she has been chairman of SeABank, a closely held retail bank with assets of $3.6 billion in which French bank Société Générale has a 20% stake.
Madam Nguyen Thi Nga
She founded and controls BRG, a holding company with 3 golf courses in Vietnam, most notably Kings’ Island Golf Resort and Ruby Tree Golf Resort. She owns 2 hotels in Hanoi that are managed by Hilton Hotels Worldwide, and then there’s Intimex, a trading and retail company more than 30%-owned by her family. All told her businesses raked in revenue of more than $435 million last year.
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