Nguyen Dang Quang

Nguyen Dang Quang belongs to the wave of Vietnamese students who studied in Russia and Eastern Europe in the 1980s, after the Vietnam War. He returned to Vietnam and worked for Vietnam's Academy of Sciences before joining the private sector in the 1990s. He invested in commercial bank Techcombank in 1993 and later founded Masan Group with business partner, Ho Hung Anh, in 2004.While Ho Hung Anh, who is chairman of Techcombank, is in charge of the bank, Nguyen focused on building Masan Group. Nguyen is now chairman of Masan Group.Masan Group has interests in a wide range of consumer and food product businesses, ranging from animal feeds to food processing.