COVER STORY ASIA'S 100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN
CEO of Olayan Financing Company, Lubna
Olayan is one of Saudi Arabia’s most exceptionally
influential businesswomen. She was listed as one of
the top 100 most influential people of 2005 by Time
magazine, and has continued to be on the Forbes
list of most powerful women till 2011 and has
returned to the list in 2014. In 2004, In a country
with many restrictions on women, Olayan was a
keynote speaker at the Jeddah Economic Forum in
2004, which highlighted her as the first woman to
speak at a mixed conference in Saudi Arabia. As
of 2014, she is listed as the 86th most powerful
woman in the world by Forbes. Her persistence,
passion and power to be able to stand up for what
she believed in and made a difference.
LUCY PENG
Citizenship/Residence
Hangzhou , China
LUBNA S.
OLAYAN
Citizenship/Residence
Saudi Arabia
Lucy Peng is arguably Alibaba’s most powerful
woman executive. Peng was a cofounder of Alibaba
and continues to serve as its chief people officer. In
march 2013, she was appointed as the CEO of Ant
Financial Services. It entails Alipay, China’s version
of PayPal and the engine powering the entire
Alibaba e-commerce world; Alipay Wallet, a mobile
payment service provider, among others. It recently
added MYbank, commercial banking for small
clients. An IPO for Ant Financial is in the cards.
MAI KIEU
Mai Kieu Lien,a graduate engineer in milk
LIEN
processing technology returned to Vietnam in 1976
when 22 years old and started working for milk and
coffee company Southern, forerunner of Vinamilk. Citizenship/Residence
France/ Vietnam
She has contributed to the modernization of old
cooperatives of this state.
After privatization in 2003, she played a key role
in transforming Vinamilk into one of Vietnam’s
most profitable brands and a respected name
across Asia.
Under her management, Vietnam has
launched products to occupy both domestic and
international market leads to great achievement.
In 2012 she was included in the Forbes list of 50
women entrepreneurs have the most power in Asia.
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