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Dang Thi Hoang Yen

Vietnamese businessman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ5215946 ↗
Source-derived summary

Maya Dangelas (born Dang Thi Hoang Yen) is the Executive Chairman of Tan Tao Group, President of Tan Tao University, Chair of the Vietnam-US Business Forum, Member of ESCAP Business Advisory Council, Member of ASEAN Business Advisory Council, and Member of World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on South-East Asia.

Career

She graduated from the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City. She worked for the Vietnamese Government for 13 years, then moved on to create her first own company in 1993. The company is now known as Tan Tao Group and it grew into the leading Industrial Park & Infrastructure Developer in Vietnam. Tan Tao Group created hundreds of thousands of jobs across Vietnam and provided a solid platform for the country’s rapid economic progress. The Group has 21 subsidiaries across multiple sectors including land development, construction, and media broadcasting. ITACO – the publicly listed subsidiary of Tan Tao Group, promptly became one of nine blue-chip stocks to be established as part of the Global Russell Vietnam Index 10 and the Standard & Poor’s Vietnam 10 Index. According to the 2011 ranking of Vietnam’s top 1,000 companies with the highest corporate income tax contribution conducted by the Vietnam Report Company in coordination with VietnamNet and Tax magazine of the General Department of Taxation, ITACO is ranked 129th and 35th among Vietnam's top 200 private companies with the highest corporate income tax contribution.

In parallel with running successful businesses in Vietnam, she has also achieved success in the establishment of real estate development companies namely US Southern Homes LP and US Southern Corporation in the US. An international tribunal ruled in her favor in a $2.5 billion arbitration lawsuit against the Vietnamese government that lasted from 2020 to 2022.

Personal life

Dang Thi Hoang Yen is the mother of 3 daughters: Nguyen Phuong Anh ̣(b.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Dang Thi Hoang Yen” is vietnamese businessman. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Dang, Hoang and Vietnamese, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2011, 2020, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959-06-01. For this dossier, Dang, Hoang and Vietnamese is the immediate research focus.
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