Manuel V. Pangilinan He is top honcho of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) corporations. 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.

Henry Sy The company he founded and owns is the largest retail and shopping mall operator in the country. His company built and operates three of the ten largest shopping malls in the world. Henry Sy’s business acumen is so sound that professors in college and graduate programs in the Philippines frequently use his business model to teach students and budding entrepreneur the fundamentals of business.

The self-made Lucio Tan is another Filipino of Chinese descent who is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the Philippines. He amassed his wealth (he is currently valued by Forbes at over $1.7 billion) from a variety of sources including tobacco, beer and alcohol, air travel and banking. Tan, they say, is more excited about bigger challenges and the pursuit of intellectual endeavors. Lucio Tan

Jaime Zobel de Ayala Jaime Zobel de Ayala is the CEO of the well-established Ayala Corporation. The Ayala Corporation is a holding company for the Ayala Group of Companies which owns a diverse group of companies that range from telecommunications and real estate to automotive and financial service. This successful entrepreneur is also an avid sportsman who regularly enters local marathons.

Toni Tan Caktiong The recipient of the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2004, is firmly established as the leader in the Philippine fast food industry. He founded the hamburger fast food chain Jolibee in 1978 and turned it into one of the largest fast food chains in the world. Not only is Caktiong recognized as on one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the Philippines, his Jollibee foundation has been very active in helping out the less fortunate.

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