3 local successful entrepreneurs

1.Manuel Pangilinan. Manuel or “Manny” Pangilinan is the top honcho of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT). Under Manuel Pangilinan’s watch, PLDT slowly amassed full or majority ownership on a number of key Internet, communications and broadcasting related corporations. This has made the Wharton-educated Pangilinan one of the Philippines’ top telecommunications magnates.  Pangilinan is also engrossed in propelling Philippine basketball back to its old glory days.  This successful entrepreneur currently owns a professional basketball team bearing the name of a mobile phone company he also owns, which competes in a Philippine based league. He has also almost exclusively bankrolled the entire Philippine national basketball team which represents the country in international basketball competitions.  

2.Henry Sy. (Chines ;pinyin:Shi Zhi Cheng; born December 25, 1924) is a Cinese Filipino businessman and the founder of SM Group and chairman of SM Prime Holdings, the largest retailer and shopping mall operator in the Philippines. He earned his Associate of Arts degree in Commercial Studies at Far Eastern University in 1950.^[2] Acknowledged as the country’s "Retail King," he has come a long way from the modest shoe store he set up in Quiapo in 1946, to become Asia's biggest shopping mall operator with over 41 malls throughout the Philippines.

3. Cecilio Kwok Pedro is an entrepreneur who made it to the top after his failure back in 1985. His principle is much grounded and to quote this man of humility, he once said, "We are competing against the giants. Without faith and without the intervention of the divine, it is really difficult to survive in this industry." The founder of Hapee toothpaste in the Philippines, making his company, Lamoiyan Corp., the country’s first homegrown toothpaste name.