Henry Tan Chi Sieng Sy Sr.

October 15, 1924 – January

19, 2019) was a Chinese Filipino business magnate and
philanthropist known for his involvement in the Philippines' retail
industry.
Born in Fujian, China, he moved with his family to the
Philippines at age 12. While his family returned to China, he stayed
behind and founded ShoeMart, a small Manilla shoe store, in 1958.
Over the decades he developed ShoeMart into SM Investments, one
of the largest conglomerates in the Philippines, including 77 SM
malls in the Philippines and China, 62 department stores, 56
supermarkets and over 200 grocery stores. SM also owns Banco de
Oro, the second-largest bank in the Philippines, and real estate
holdings.
For eleven straight years until his death, Sy was named
by Forbes as the richest person in the Philippines. Upon his death
on January 19, 2019, his estimated net worth amounted to US$19
billion, making him the 53rd-richest person in the world.
In his twenties, Henry Sy became a store manager
working for an American business involved in the local shoe
industry in the Philippines; he opened his first sole-proprietorship
store in Quiapo, Manila in 1948
 John Lim Gokongwei Jr. 11 August 1926 – 9 November 2019) was a
Filipino billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He had holdings in
telecommunications, financial services, petrochemicals, power generation,
aviation, food, beverage, and livestock farming.
Gokongwei obtained his basic education at the University of San
Carlos for primary school (graduating valedictorian) and high school.The family
fortune was lost after the death of his father; Gokongwei was 13 years old at the
time. He initially supported his family by peddling items along the streets of Cebu
from his bicycle.From the age of 17 to 19, he traded using a wooden boat, taking
items to Dalahican, Lucena by sea, and then to Manila by truck.
After the Second World War, he started his own company called
Amasia Trading, which imported flour, onions, fruits, used clothing, old
newspapers and magazines from the United States. During this time, he courted a
young girl, Elizabeth, who would later become his wife. In the early 1950s, along
with his brothers and sisters who returned from China, he started to import
cigarettes and whiskey too.he started a corn milling plant producing glucose and
corn starch. The company was named Universal Corn Products and later expanded
into Universal Robina Corporation.San Miguel Corporation was a big customer of
theirs.
He is the chairman of JG Summit Holdings, one of the largest
conglomerates in the Philippines. In 2010 Cebu Pacific Air. From 2003 Sun
Cellular which is the 3rd largest mobile operator in the Philippines at that time
before selling to the PLDT group for $1.7 billion. In 2013, his company bought
the stake of San Miguel Corporation in MERALCO.
 Enrique Anselmo Klar Razon Jr. (born March 3, 1960)[2] is a
Filipino billionaire and the chairman and CEO of the Manila-listed company
International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI), the Philippine port-
handling giant. As of 2012, he was the third richest Filipino, a four-place jump
from the previous year's ranking, mainly because of his stake in Bloomberry
Resorts and Hotels.On the Forbes 2016 list of the world's billionaires, he was
ranked #722 with a net worth of US$2.4 billion.
In 1987, Razon inherited International Container Terminal Services,
Inc, which grew to become the largest corporation providing container-port
terminal services in Manila, Subic, Batangas, General Santos City, Poland and
Brazil.In 2010, Henry Sy, Jr.’s OneTaipan acquired 100 percent of Monte Oro
Resources Grid for US$350 million. The company soon became a partnership
between Razon and Walter Brown's A. Brown Company and owns 30 percent of
the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines.That same year, Razon invested
in Bloomberry Investments Holdings, Inc. Bloomberry is just one of four
gaming companies that were granted casino licenses by the Philippine
Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) for the upcoming
Entertainment City
Razon sold Manila Standard for P100 million to Leyte Rep. Martin
Romualdez, whose conglomerate owns the Journal Group of Publications, thus
divesting himself from the newspaper business. He acquired the shares of the
Yuchengco family and Soriano group ten years before to become the head of the
Kamahalan Publishing Corporation and Kagitingan Printing Press, Inc.
 Lucio C. Tan, Sr. born July 17, 1934 is a Chinese Filipino
billionaire businessman and educator with interests in banking, airline,
liquor, tobacco, real estate industries, and education. In 2013, Forbes
magazine listed him as the second richest billionaire from the Philippines
with a net worth of $7.5 billion.
Tan was born in Amoy (now Xiamen), Fujian, China. His
parents moved to the Philippines when he was a child.[citation needed] He
earned a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Far Eastern
University in Manila.Forbes states that while in college, Tan "worked as a
janitor at a tobacco factory where he "mopped floors to pay for school.
LT Group, Inc.,Asia Brewery, Inc.,Tanduay Distillers,
Inc.,Absolut Distillers, Inc.,Asian Alcohol Corporation,Fortune Tobacco
Corporation,PMFTC, Inc. – 50% ownership by FTC,Eton Properties
Philippines, Inc.,Philippine National Bank (merger of Philippine National
Bank and Allied Banking Corporation),Victorias Milling Company, Inc. –
minority interest and management control,Philippine Airlines,PAL
Express,MacroAsia Corporation,Alliedbankers Insurance
Corporation,Himmel Industries, Inc.,Century Park Hotel,Pan Asia
Securities (stock brokerage firm),The Charter House (hotel),University of
the East,Tan Yan Kee Foundation
 Jaime Zóbel de Ayala y Pfitz, PLH (born 1934), also
known as Jaime Zóbel, is a Filipino businessman and art
photographer. He is the chairman emeritus of Ayala Corporation.
Zóbel joined Ayala y Compañía in 1958 as executive
assistant upon the invitation of his father. His father placed him
under the wing of his cousin Enrique and uncle Col. Joseph
McMicking. As an executive assistant in the company, he took
down notes during management meetings and gradually learned
the ropes of the family business. He was later transferred to the
training section of the insurance companies of the Ayala group. In
1975, he became president of Filipinas Life Assurance Company
(now, BPI-Philam Life Assurance Corporation). In 1984, he
succeeded Enrique, as chairman and president of Ayala
Corporation. Zóbel successfully steered Ayala through the tense,
final years of the Marcos administration. In 1988, the real estate
division was spun off as Ayala Land, Inc. Ayala Corporation also
ventured into new businesses, like automotive (Ayala Automotive
Holdings Corporation).
Zóbel stepped down as president of Ayala in 1994 and
was succeeded by his son, Jaime Augusto. He continued as
chairman until his retirement in 2006 and became the chairman
emeritus of Ayala since.
 David Mendoza Consunji (October 18, 1921 –
September 4, 2017) was a Chinese-Filipino businessman and the
chairman of a publicly listed holding firm, DMCI Holdings,
Incorporated (PSE: DMC). He was a former secretary of the
Department of Public Works, Transportation and Communications
from 1970 to 1975, during the Marcos administration. In 2014,
Forbes listed him as the 6th richest Filipino, with a net worth of
US$3.9 billion.
He worked as teacher in Bataan and later a concrete
inspector for Kuenzle and Streiff. David Consunji founded D.M.
Consunji, Incorporated in 1954 and has become its Chairman since.
In 1995, he established the DMCI Holdings, Incorporated to
consolidate the businesses.
He also served as the president of the Philippine
Contractors Association, International Federation of Asian &
Western Pacific Contractors' Association, Philippine Institute of
Civil Engineers and Vice-President of the Confederation of
International Contractors' Association. Aside from these
organizations, he was also the chairman of the Contractors
Association, the Philippine Domestic Construction Board and the
U.P Engineering Research and Development Foundation.
 George Siao Kian Ty 18 October 1932 – 23 November 2018)
was a Filipino banker and business magnate. He founded Metropolitan
Bank and Trust Company, the second largest bank in both assets and capital
in the Philippines. He owned stakes in Federal Land, Inc., the Bank of the
Philippine Islands and Philippine Savings Bank, a Metrobank subsidiary. Ty
was the owner of the G.T. International Tower in Makati.
Ty had been chairman of Metrobank Group from 2006 to his
death in 2018. He had been chairman of the Advisory Board of First Metro
International Investment Co., Ltd since 2002. He served as chairman of the
board of Global Business Bank Inc. He served as chairman of the board of
Mla. He served as chairman of Toyota Autoparts Philippines Corp. from
1990 to July 2005. Ty served as chairman of Metropolitan Metropolitan
Bank & Trust Company from 1975 to 2006 and also served as its co-
chairman since May 2006.
He had been director of Manila Doctors Hospital from 1979 to his
death and GT Capital Holdings Inc. from May 14, 2013 to his death. He
served as a director of Metrobank Group, San Miguel Corp., Maynilad
Water Services and Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company. He served as a
director of Toyota Autoparts Philippines Corporation. He served as a non-
executive director of Lai Fai International Holdings Ltd. from September
14, 2002 to his death. Ty graduated from the University of Santo Tomas.
 Tony Tan Caktiong, Born January 5, 1953 is a Filipino
billionaire businessman. He is the founder and chairman of Jollibee
Foods Corporation, and the co-chairman of DoubleDragon Properties.
Tan was born to Chinese immigrant parents from Fujian. He
attended high school at Chiang Kai Shek College and graduated from
the University of Santo Tomas with a degree in chemical engineering.
Tan had initially planned an ice cream parlor when he founded Jollibee,
then added dishes such as hamburgers, french fries, and fried chicken.
Tan founded the fast food chain Jollibee in 1978, after having
started it as an ice cream parlor in 1975 Through expansion and
acquisitions of Greenwich Pizza Corp.which enabled it to enter the
pizza-pasta segment. In early 2006, Jollibee Foods Corporation bought
out the remaining shares of its partners in Greenwich Pizza
Corporation, equivalent to a 20% stake, for P384 million in cash. As of
August 2008, Tan's Jollibee has a total of 1,480 stores worldwide
including Jollibee, Red Ribbon, Chowking, Greenwich, Manong Pepe's
and Mang Inasal.
• Entrepreneur Of The Year Philippines, 2004[11]
• Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year World, 2004
• Gawad Mabini with the rank of Commander (Dakilang Kasugo),
2016
 Andrew Lim Tan is a Chinese Filipino billionaire with
business interests in real estate, liquor and fast food. In 2011, Forbes
magazine rated him fourth on the list of the "Philippines 40 richest"
with an estimated net worth of $2 billion.As of May 2018, Forbes
magazine ranks him as the 10th-wealthiest person in the Philippines,
with his net worth of US$2.6 billion.
Tan runs the Alliance Global Group Inc. (AGI). It is composed of four
companies:
Megaworld Corporation – A real estate corporation engaged
in developing condominiums.It has subsidiaries called Empire East
Land Holdings Inc. and Suntrust Properties. It was dubbed by Finance
Asia, a business tabloid, as the "best managed company" and the "best
in corporate governance" in the Philippines for 2006.Emperador
Distillers, Inc. – Best known for its Emperador Brandy which became
the world's best-selling brandy in 2006, and Emperador Light. What
made it successful was how it was promoted. Instead of following
other liquor advertisements that feature attractive women and other
dainty images, the ads of Emperador Brandy emphasize successes in
life and moral values Golden Arches Development Corporation –
Operates McDonald's franchises
 Manuel "Manny" Bamba Villar Jr. ( born December
13, 1949) is a Filipino billionaire businessman. He has been a
Philippine Senator and the president of the Nacionalista Party.
Villar was born to a middle class family in Tondo, an
impoverished and densely populated district of Manila. After
graduating from the University of the Philippines, he worked as an
accountant and financial analyst, then launched a highly successful
business in real estate. Villar's companies have built over 200,000
homes, and his business career made him the wealthiest person in
the Philippines.Camella homes.
Villar entered politics in 1992 when he was elected
congressman representing the district of Las Piñas-Muntinlupa,
and later became Speaker of the House of Representatives. As
Speaker, he presided over the impeachment of President Joseph
Estrada by the House of Representatives in 2000. In 2001 he was
elected Senator, and served as Senate President from 2006 to 2008.
He was the candidate of the Nacionalista Party in the 2010
presidential election, which was won by Benigno Aquino III.