Name Christina Ong | Children Melissa Ong | |
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Similar Ong Beng Seng, Goh Choon Phong, Kwek Leng Beng | ||
Christina Ong (née Fu, born October 1947), also known as the "Queen of Bond Street" is a Singaporean businesswoman. A major player of a few companies, including Club 21 and COMO Hotels and Resorts, the Ong family, comprising Ong and her husband Ong Beng Seng, is valued at $1.8 billion as of July 2014, according to Forbes. She is said to be "one of the wealthiest women in the world".
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Early life
Guat Hoon "Christina" Ong was born in October 1947.
Career
Ong founded her first establishment in 1972. She now heads the COMO Group, which comprises fashion group Club 21 (which she founded), COMO Hotels and Resorts, wellness brand COMO Shambhala, and others. Club 21 went on to branch out to many other parts of the globe. She is a well-established hotelier, having founded many hotels worldwide. Ong is also the major stakeholder of the brand Mulberry. Because of the number of properties she owns on Bond Street in London, she is sometimes nicknamed the "Queen of Bond Street".
Ong also serves on the board of Singapore's National Parks service.
Awards
For her services to the Italian fashion industry, Ong has been awarded the Italian Fashion Hall of Fame Award in 1995 and was conferred the Cavaliere del Lavoro. The Italian Trade Commission said in a press release that the Hall of Fame Award was in recognition of Ong's "accomplishments, her qualities, image and authority in the fashion world. She is a leader and has demonstrated her special gift in the world of elegance and style in the capitals of the world".
In 2013 she received Singapore's Meritorious Service Medal, one of three awarded that year. The others went to the historian Wang Gungwu and Tony Chew, inaugural chairman of the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School's governing board.
In 2014, Ong was included in the list of inaugural Singapore Women's Hall of Fame, which described her as a "global fashion entrepreneur and luxury hotelier"
Personal life
Born 1948, Ong is the daughter of Peter Fu Yun Siak, an early employer of her husband and founder of Kuo International. She is described as "aloof and chic" and "Singapore's preeminent style icon". Ong is married to Singaporean business magnate and investor Ong Beng Seng. They have two children, a daughter, Melissa, and a son, Jonathan. The Singapore Straits Times have reported Ong to be a very private person who chooses to be unknown in public settings. She is reportedly a good acquaintance with Donna Karan. The New Paper Singapore have written about Ong's current expansion of her wellness brand, COMO Shambhala, into the medical sectors of Asia and her current partnership with a reportedably young anonymous Billionaire for her upcoming 2017-2021 projects. The New Paper Singapore gained an insider's tip that the project entails the introductions of alternative luxury treatments in hospital settings all across Asia.
Wealth
Ong is cited as "one of the wealthiest women in the world". Her individual net worth is estimated to be in the millions. Together, Ong and Beng Seng make up the Ong family, which has a net worth of $1.9 billion (as of January 2016), based on estimates by Forbes. This makes the couple one of the richest persons in Singapore.