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TAM NGUYEN
CHAIRMAN
ADVANCE BEAUTY COLLEGE
WHY: Chairman of Garden Grove-based Advance Beauty College, which also has campus in Laguna Hills. College has 50K graduates. Founding board member of Newport Beach-based Genesis Bank.
NOTABLE: Active in OC community. Serves on the board of the Orange County Community Foundation, was Chairman of the Orange County Transportation Authority and is past chair of the Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation board of governors.
IN THE NEWS: Tam co-founded Nailing It For America, a volunteer group that contributed over 1.2M personal protective equipment worth approximately $30M to healthcare professionals, front-line workers, and vulnerable community members during the COVID-19 pandemic.
IN HIS WORDS: His father Minh “got the idea of the beauty college after watching my mom make significantly more money as a beautician doing hair and nails than he did at his job. The other reason he thought of the beauty college was because he was a volunteer for a nonprofit processing a lot of Vietnamese immigrants and saw a need for a transition job or vocation for them. He believed it was important to contribute back to the U.S.”
