Angela Chao is the sister of Elaine Lan Chao, the 24th US secretary of Labor. Angela married Bruce Wasserstein in January, 2009. She was the fourth woman married to Wasserstein. She was 35 years old, as of October 2009http://gawker.com/5146687/bruce-wassersteins-secret-asian-bride-revealed. She is an executive in the shipping company, Foremost Group.

She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard, and is also a graduate of the Harvard Business School. She worked with Smith Barney, an investment banking company. Her father is James S.C. Chao, an entrepreneur and her mother is Ruth Mu-lan Chu, a historian.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Wassersteinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Chao