Pollyanna Chu

She is Hong Kong's most prominent woman entrepreneur and billionaire. She cofounded publicly traded Kingston Financial Group in 1992.She has tapped her personal network, the city's proximity to China and a more liberal stock market regime to build Kingston into a financial powerhouse.She chose to bet on the region's growing capital markets, instead of stepping into her family's hotel and casino business.Chu went to university in San Francisco, where she also met her husband and worked as a real estate investor. She returned to Hong Kong in 1992.