Famous Snake-year businessmen in Vietnamese business world

(VTC News) - In the Vietnamese business world, there are many famous businessmen born in the year of the Snake. On the occasion of the Lunar New Year, let's take a look at some famous businessmen born in the year of the Snake. VNG Chairman Le Hong Minh

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Mr. Le Hong Minh, Chairman of VNG Corporation, born in 1977 (Dinh Ty) in Hanoi, is known as a pioneer in the technology field in Vietnam.

In 2001, after graduating with a degree in Banking and Finance from Monash University, Australia, Mr. Minh returned to Vietnam and started his career at PwC - one of the four leading auditing firms in the world, before moving to work at VinaCapital.

Mr. Minh was known to be very passionate about gaming, to the point that he once played games for 48 hours straight when he was a student. In 2003, Mr. Minh and a few friends opened a gaming shop with accompanying business services.

Businessman Le Hong Minh.

From that passion, in 2004, Mr. Minh founded Vinagame Company, laying the foundation for a bold journey in the Vietnamese technology industry.

In 2009, Mr. Le Hong Minh changed the company's name to VNG Corporation, affirming the vision of development beyond the field of electronic games. Starting out as a game publishing company, after only 10 years, VNG has become the leading technology corporation in the field of Internet in Vietnam.

Alphanam Chairman Nguyen Tuan Hai

Mr. Nguyen Tuan Hai - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alphanam Group Joint Stock Company - was born in 1965 (At Ty) in Lao Cai. In 1987, Mr. Hai started his business. Initially, he did business in the gold, silver and hotel sectors with an initial capital of 20,000 USD.

In 1995, Mr. Hai founded Alphanam Company Limited. The company's initial activity was electronics manufacturing. After that, Alphanam gradually expanded into other fields such as real estate, industry, trade... By 1999, Alphanam had increased its charter capital 200 times. The company's number of employees also increased to thousands of people.

Businessman Nguyen Tuan Hai.

From a family business, Alphanam became a public company listed on the HNX in 2007. At one point, the company's shares reached VND100,000/share. This was also an important milestone for Mr. Hai when he owned total assets of over VND1,000 billion. This helped him to be in the list of TOP 10 richest people on the Vietnamese stock market.

Vinamilk CEO Mai Kieu Lien

Businesswoman Mai Kieu Lien was born in 1953 (Year of the Snake) in Paris (France). Her parents were doctors originally from Vi Thanh, Hau Giang province. In 1957, her family returned to Vietnam.


Ms. Lien studied at Trung Vuong School (Hanoi) during the fierce war years. In 1976, she graduated with a major in meat and milk processing engineering from Moscow University, Russia. After graduating from university, she returned to Vietnam and worked for the Southern Milk and Coffee Company.

Businesswoman Mai Kieu Lien.

From August 1976 to August 1980, she worked as an engineer in charge of condensed milk and yogurt production at Truong Tho Milk Factory, Southern Milk and Coffee Company. This was the predecessor of Vietnam Dairy Company. In 1984, Ms. Lien held the position of Deputy General Director of Vietnam Dairy Company (Vinamilk). In 1992, she was appointed General Director until now.

With over 40 years of working with Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company, Ms. Lien and her colleagues have gradually brought the Vietnamese milk brand to great success.

With great contributions to the development of the domestic and regional dairy industry, Ms. Mai Kieu Lien was awarded the title of Hero of Labor in the Renovation Period (2005), the First and Second Class Labor Medals (2006, 2001). She has also been voted many times by prestigious international organizations such as Nikkei and Forbes Asia as one of the most powerful businesswomen in Asia, with outstanding contributions to the economy of Vietnam and the region.

Mr. Do Minh Phu - Founder of Doji Group, Chairman of TPBank

Mr. Do Minh Phu was born in 1953 (Quy Ty) in a family of three generations in business. After graduating from Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Mr. Phu pursued a career in computer science. Possessing professional skills and good English, he was appointed as the director of a foreign gemstone company, then a joint venture company in the same field.

Businessman Do Minh Phu.

In 1994, he left his position as Director of a joint venture company with a salary of 300 USD to establish his own business specializing in gemstones.

In 2007, he built the first commercial center specializing in gold, silver and gemstones called DOJI Plaza in Hanoi. In 2007 and 2008, he changed the name to DOJI, restructured and divided into 6 member companies, acquired companies such as SJC Hanoi, SJC Da Nang, Yen Bai Gemstone and Gold Joint Stock Company. The group's revenue increased from 60 billion (2006) to 30,000 billion VND (2011).

In addition, Mr. Phu is also famous for investing in the banking sector. He was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of TPBank.

Chairman of Viet Steel Do Duy Thai

Mr. Do Duy Thai was born in 1953 (Quy Ty) in Ha Tay (now Hanoi). He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Viet Steel Trading - Production Company Limited and is very famous in this field.

With a degree from the University of Education, Mr. Do Duy Thai did not choose the path of a teacher but turned to a thorny business career. In 1992, Viet Steel was born while few private enterprises dared to do heavy industry. The reason he named the company Viet Steel was because of his desire to build a large-scale company for the country's steel industry.

Businessman Do Duy Thai.

To accumulate more capital and experience, he chose to follow the path of joint venture. In 1995, Viet Steel entered into a joint venture with the Australian company Vingal. At that time, Vingal owned the largest industrial plating factory in Vietnam.

In 1997, Viet Steel joined hands with Taiwanese (Chinese) enterprises at Tay Do Steel, which has the largest steel factory in the Mekong Delta. In 1999, Viet Steel established the Pomina Steel Factory with an investment capital of 1,100 billion VND using modern technology from Italy and Germany.

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