Ka Yee "Carrie" Wong Perrodo (; born 1950/51) is a Hong Kong-born French

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least 1,000,000,000, one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The ...

heiress and businesswoman. She is the owner of the oil group

Perenco Perenco is an independent Anglo-French oil and gas company with a headquarters in London and Paris. It conducts exploration and production activities in 16 countries around the globe (the North Sea, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Democr ...

, which was founded by her late husband

Hubert Hubert is a Germanic given name, Germanic masculine given name, from ''hug'' "mind" and ''beraht'' "bright". It also occurs as a surname. Saint Hubertus, Hubertus or Hubert (c. 656 – 30 May 727) is the patron saint of hunters, mathematicians, ...

Early life and career

Ka Yee "Carrie" Wong was born in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

and moved to

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

to pursue a modelling career. Later she founded and sold a

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, Carrie's Models, which is still active in Singapore.

Personal life

She was married to French businessman

Hubert Perrodo Hubert Perrodo (25 January 1944 - 29 December 2006) was a French businessman, polo player and art collector. He was the founder and sole owner of the oil group Perenco. Early life Hubert Perrodo was born on 25 January 1944 in Larmor-Baden in ...

(1944–2006), founder and sole owner of the Anglo-French oil and gas company

. They had three children, François Hubert Marie Perrodo (born 14 February 1977), chairman of Perenco, Nathalie Perrodo-Samani (born 1980), and Bertrand Nicolas Hubert Perrodo (born 1984). She lives in London, England.

References

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