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Eka Tjipta Widjaja
Eka Tjipta Widjaja (黄奕聪), born Oei Ek Tjhong, was a Chinese-Indonesian businessman who founded Sinar Mas Group, a conglomerate in palm oil, pulp and paper, real estate, and finance.
Ela Bhatt
Ela Bhatt (1933–2022) was an Indian labor lawyer who founded SEWA, a trade union of poor self-employed women, in Ahmedabad in 1972 and led it until 1996.
Enrique K. Razon Jr.
Enrique K. Razon Jr. is a Filipino ports billionaire who has chaired International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI) since 1995 and also leads Bloomberry Resorts and Manila Water.
Enrique María Barretto de Ycaza
Enrique María Barretto de Ycaza was a Manila businessman who obtained a Spanish royal license and opened the San Miguel brewery in 1890, later San Miguel Corporation.
Essar Group
Essar Group is an Indian business house founded by the brothers Shashi and Ravi Ruia in 1969, which sold its core oil, steel, and port assets between 2017 and 2022.
Eusebio H. Tanco
Eusebio H. Tanco, known in Philippine business circles as Yosi, is a Filipino tycoon who chairs STI Education Systems Holdings and DigiPlus Interactive, the Philippines' largest online gaming operator.
Felipe L. Gozon
Felipe Gozon is a Filipino lawyer and executive who served as chairman and CEO of GMA Network from 2000 to 2024, transforming it into the country's ratings leader.
Filinvest Development
Filinvest Development Corporation is a Philippine holding company controlled by the Gotianun family and headquartered in Alabang, Metro Manila, operating in real estate, banking, and power since 1973.
Formosa Plastics Group
Formosa Plastics Group (台塑企业, FPG) is a Taiwanese petrochemical conglomerate co-founded in 1954 in Kaohsiung by the brothers Wang Yung-ching and Wang Yung-tsai, beginning with Taiwan's first PVC factory.
Francis Yeoh
Francis Yeoh, full name Tan Sri Francis Yeoh Sock Ping, is a Malaysian businessman and executive chairman of YTL Corporation, which he transformed into a global infrastructure group.
Ghanshyam Das Birla
Ghanshyam Das Birla, known as G.D. Birla, was an Indian industrialist from Pilani, Rajasthan, who built the Birla group into one of India's two largest business houses and co-founded FICCI.
Godrej
Godrej is an Indian conglomerate founded in 1897 and headquartered in Mumbai, whose businesses range from locks and soaps to aerospace, real estate, and agricultural science.
Goh Cheng Liang
Goh Cheng Liang was a Singapore entrepreneur who founded Wuthelam Holdings in 1974 and became the controlling shareholder of Japan's Nippon Paint, dying in 2025 at 98.
Goh Hup Jin
Goh Hup Jin is a Singapore businessman, son of tycoon Goh Cheng Liang, who has chaired Japan's largest paint maker, Nippon Paint Holdings, since 2021 through his family's controlling stake.
Gotianun family
The Gotianun family is a Filipino-Chinese business family that founded and still controls Filinvest Development Corporation, a Philippine conglomerate in real estate, banking, and power.
Guanghui Group (新疆广汇实业投资（集团）有限责任公司) (广汇集团)
Guanghui Group (广汇集团), formally Xinjiang Guanghui Industry Investment Group, is a private Chinese conglomerate founded in 1989 in Urumqi, spanning energy, automobile services, logistics, and property.
Gulf Development
Gulf Development is a Thai listed energy and telecommunications group formed on 1 April 2025 through the amalgamation of Gulf Energy Development and Intouch Holdings, led by Sarath Ratanavadi.
Gunkul Dhumrongpiyawut
Gunkul Dhumrongpiyawut (กัลกุล ดำรงปิยวุฒิ์) is a Thai businessman who founded Gunkul Engineering in 1982 and chairs the SET-listed renewable power producer, worth an estimated $750 million.
Gunkul Engineering
Gunkul Engineering is a Bangkok-based Thai engineering and renewable-power group founded in 1982 by Gunkul Dhumrongpiyawut, listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand since 2010.
GVK Group
GVK Group is an Indian infrastructure group founded by G.V. Krishna Reddy and headquartered in Secunderabad, which built and operated Mumbai's main international airport before ceding it to the Adani Group in 2020.
GVK Reddy
GVK Reddy, full name Gunupati Venkata Krishna Reddy, is the founder and chairman of the Hyderabad-based GVK Group, an Indian infrastructure company spanning power, transportation, and hospitality.
Harita Group
Harita Group is an Indonesian family conglomerate controlled by the Lim Hariyanto Wijaya Sarwono family, dating to 1915 and employing over 40,000 people in nickel, bauxite, and palm oil.
Hartono Kweefanus
Hartono Kweefanus is an Indonesian-born businessman who serves as Chairperson Emeritus of Monde Nissin, the Philippine food maker behind Lucky Me! noodles and SkyFlakes crackers, and holds its largest stake.
Haryanto Tjiptodihardjo
Haryanto Tjiptodihardjo is an Indonesian businessman who serves as President Director of Impack Pratama, a building-materials maker his father founded in 1981 and Indonesia's largest maker of polymer-based roofs.
Henning Holck-Larsen
Henning Holck-Larsen (1907–2003) was a Danish chemical engineer who co-founded Larsen & Toubro in Mumbai in 1938 with Soren Kristian Toubro, building it into India's largest engineering company.
Henry Soesanto
Henry Soesanto, born in 1952, is an Indonesian-born chemical engineer who moved to the Philippines in 1981 and leads Monde Nissin, maker of Lucky Me! noodles and SkyFlakes.
Hermanto Tanoko
Hermanto Tanoko, born 1962 in Malang, is an Indonesian businessman who controls the Avia Avian paint group with his brother Wijono and ranks among Indonesia's richest people.
Hiroshi Ishibashi
Hiroshi Ishibashi, also known as Kan Ishibashi, is a Japanese businessman born in 1946, a grandson of Bridgestone's founder who founded Axis Inc. and directs the Artizon Museum.
Ho Hung Anh
Ho Hung Anh (Hồ Hùng Anh) is a Vietnamese banking tycoon, born in Hanoi in 1970, who joined Techcombank in 2004, chaired it since 2008, and co-founded Masan Group.
Hoa Phat Group
Hoa Phat Group is a Vietnamese steel producer and diversified industrial group founded in 1992 and headquartered in Hanoi, the largest steel maker in Southeast Asia with 16 million tonnes of planned capacity.