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, 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

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

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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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