Truong Gia Binh

Trương Gia Bình is a Vietnamese businessman. [cite news|work=Việt Báo|date=2007-08-10|accessdate=2008-01-17|title=Cổ phiếu FPT rớt nhanh : Ông Trương Gia Bình nói gì?|url=http://vietbao.vn/Kinh-te/Co-phieu-FPT-rot-nhanh-Ong-Truong-Gia-Binh-noi-gi/70094256/87/|language=Vietnamese] His father was an electrical engineer in Hanoi. He studied mathematics and physics in the Soviet Union, and later returned to Vietnam, where he married the daughter of Vo Nguyen Giap, a Vietnam People's Army general who rose to fame during the Vietnam War. He became the head of the the Corporation for Financing and Promoting Technology, Vietnam's earliest information technology firm, in 1990; he purchased 10% of the shares when it was privatised. Afterwards, he led the firm in its expansion from its origins as an internet service provider to other areas such as software outsourcing for Japanese companies. [cite news|work=San Jose Mercury Times|title=Commercial communism selling briskly in Vietnam|last=Sneider|first=Daniel|date=2004-08-07|accessdate=2008-01-17|url=http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=2630] In 2006, his company opened FPT University, Vietnam's first private university; he also took up a position as the chairman of its managing board. [cite news|work=Vietnam Economic News Online|publisher=Ministry of Trade, Vietnam|date=2007-07-24|archivedate=2008-01-01|accessdate=2008-01-13|title=FPT's Creativity City|last=Hai|first=Ho|archiveurl=http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:0pKM4L3qu24J:www.ven.vn/English/Default.aspx%3Fnews%3D1531&ct=clnk&cd=70&client=firefox|url=http://www.ven.vn/English/Default.aspx?news=1531] cite news|url=http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Science_Technology/2006/4/47251/|date=2007-04-06|accessdate=2008-01-13|title=First Private University in Ho Chi Minh City to be Established|work=Sai Gon Giai Phong|publisher=Party Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City] He is speculated to be the richest person in Vietnam; as of January 2007, the value of his stake in FPT alone is VND2.6 billion ($164 million; 5,117,280 shares at VND525,000), according to the company's own prospectus. Bình himself is reportedly "tired" of the rumours. [cite news|work=Vietnamnet Bridge|publisher=Vietnam News Agency|title=Who is the richest Vietnamese|date=2007-01-16|accessdate=2008-01-17|url=http://english.vietnamnet.vn/biz/2007/01/654262/]

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