Truong Gia Binh

Trương Gia Bình is a Vietnamese businessman. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman and CEO of the Vietnamese technology company FPT Corporation. Binh is also the Vice President of The Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organization (ASOCIO), Chairman of Vietnam Software Association (VINASA).

Truong Gia Binh was born in 1956. His father, Truong Gia Tho, was a doctor in Hanoi. Binh attended Chu Van An highschool in Vietnam, and then went to the Soviet Union for college. He graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1978. He obtained his PhD in 1982 from the same university. In 1991, Binh was recognized as an Associate Professor by the State of Vietnam.

On September 13, 1988, Binh and 12 Vietnamese scientists founded the Food Processing Technology company, the predecessor of FPT. He became the head of the Corporation for Financing and Promoting Technology, Vietnam's earliest information technology firm, in 1990.

In March 2002, after the equitization of FPT, Binh became the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of FPT Corporation. 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.

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. 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 trillion ($164 million; 5,117,280 shares at VND525,000), according to the company's own prospectus. Bình himself is reportedly "tired" of the rumours.

On July 16, 2012, Truong Gia Binh was appointed to a member of the National Council for Sustainable Development and Competitiveness Building. The council, chaired by Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan, is tasked with developing strategies and key policies to set orientations and a legal framework for the country’s sustainable development in the next decade.

Truong Gia Binh was first married to Vo Hanh Phuc. She's the daughter of General Vo Nguyen Giap, a Vietnam People's Army general and politician. Giap was VPA's Commander-in-Chief (1944-1976), Minister of Defence (1946-1980), Deputy Prime Minister (1954-1991). Being the deputy prime minister in charge of science and technology from 1982 to 1991, Giap lent a lot of help to Binh in founding FPT.

The couple had one daughter. After the divorce with Phuc, Binh married Nguyen Tuyet Mai.

In February 2010, Binh was voted by the Post Newspaper, the voice of the Ministry of Information & Communications and ICT journalists from over 30 popular newspapers in Vietnam as one of the Vietnam's Top 10 ICT Persons of the Decade (2000-2009).

In 2013, Truong Gia Binh was awarded Nikkei Asia Prize 2013. Dr. Truong is the first Vietnamese entrepreneur to be honored by Nikkei Inc. in 18 years. Binh received the award in the category of regional growth for having contributed to the development of his own company but also to the development of IT business in Vietnam. He set up a software industry organization and a university to foster IT experts.