Jack Ma

The founder of Alibaba group , has a suite of companies specializing in E-commerce, online money
transfers, and online shopping domains . His initial life was replete with academic and career failures . He
performed poorly in mathematics at school and was rejected by harvard 10 times .

The story did not end there, he was spurned by many organizations in job interviews but even that was
not enough to crash his unflinching determination . He " never say die atitude " helped him overcome all
adversities and climb the success lader , which took him from rags to riches his advice to budding
startups ." Never give up . Today is hard tomorrow , will be worse , but the day after tomorrow will be
sunshine".

9.SERGEY BRIN

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Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is aRussian-born American computer scientist, internet entrepreneur, and
philanthropist. Together with Larry Page, he co-founded Google. Today, Brin serves as President of
Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc. Brin immigrated to the United States with his family from the
Soviet Union at the age of 6. He earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Maryland, following in
his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps by studying mathematics, as well as computer science.

After graduation, he moved toStanford University to acquire a PhD in computer science. There he met
Page, with whom he later became friends. They crammed their dormitory room with inexpensive
computers and applied Brin’s data mining system to build a web search engine. The program became
popular at Stanford and they suspended their PhD studies to start up Google in a rented garage.

8.LARRY ELISON

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Lawrence Joseph “Larry” Ellison is an American businessman who is the co-founder of Oracle
Corporation and was CEO from its founding until September 2014. He currently serves as executive
chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle. Oracle became a successful database vendor to mid-
and low-range systems, competing with Sybase andMicrosoft SQL Server. Ellison has donated up to 1% of
his wealth to charity and has signed The Giving Pledge. In addition to his work at Oracle, Ellison has had
success in yachting, through Oracle Team USA. He is a licensed aircraft pilot who owns two military jets.

7.AMANCIO ORTEGA
Ortega is a Spanish fashion businessman and founding chairman of the Inditex fashion group, best
known for its chain of Zara clothing and accessories retail shops. He is currently the second richest man
in the world with a total fortune of $74.4 billion. He started manufacturing textiles through a small family
company in 1963 before cofounding Zara with his ex-wife Rosalía Mera (d. 2013) in 1975. As he
expanded his empire, which today includes Zara, Massimo Dutti, and Pull&Bear, he caught the retail
establishment by surprise, limiting advertising, expanding aggressively, and controlling much of his own
supply chain. Ortega keeps a very low profile and, until 1999, no photograph of Ortega had ever been
published and is known for his preference for a simple lifestyle.

6.MICHAEL DELL

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Michael Saul Dell is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. He is the
founder and CEO of Dell Inc., one of the world’s leading sellers of personal computers (PCs). In 1998, Dell
founded MSD Capital L.P. to manage his family’s investments. Investment activities include publicly
traded securities, private equity activities, and real estate. In 1992, aged 27, Michael Dell became the
youngest CEO of a company ranked in Fortune magazine’s list of the top 500 corporations. In 1996, Dell
started selling computers over the Web, the same year his company launched its first servers. Dell Inc.
soon reported about $1 million in sales per day from dell.com .

5.RICHARD BRANSON

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is
best known as the founder of Virgin Group, which comprises more than 400 companies. Branson
expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. At the age of sixteen, his first business
venture was a magazine called Student.

In 1970, he set up a mail-order record business. In 1972, he opened a chain of record stores, Virgin
Records, later known as Virgin Megastores. Branson’s Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he
set up Virgin Atlantic and expanded the Virgin Records music label. In March 2000, Branson was knighted
at Buckingham Palace for “services to entrepreneurship”. Branson has guest starred, usually playing
himself, on several television shows, including Friends, Baywatch, Birds of a Feather, Only Fools, and
Horses, The Day Today, a special episode of the comedy Goodness Gracious Me and Tripping Over.

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Turner is an american media mogul and philantropist. As a businessman, he is known as a founder of the
Cable news Network more popularly known as CNN , the first 24 hours cable news channel. In addition,
he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television . As a philantropist , he
is known for his 1billion gift to support the united nations , which created the United Nations Foundation
a public charity to broaden support for the UN.

3.CARLOS SLIM

Carlos Slim Helú is a Mexican business magnate, philanthropist, and investor. From 2010 to 2013, Slim
was ranked as the richest person in the world. He is known as the “Warren Buffett of Mexico”. He
derived his fortune from his extensive holdings in a considerable number of Mexican companies through
his conglomerate, Grupo Carso. Slim is the chairman and chief executive of telecommunications
companies Telmex and América Móvil. Slim always knew he wanted to be a businessman and began to
develop his business and investment acumen at a young age.

2.WARREN BUFFETT

Warren Edward Buffett is an American magnate, philanthropist, and investor. Buffett is the most
successful investor in the world. He is the chairman, CEO and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway
and is consistently ranked among the World’s wealthiest people in the world. Buffett is often referred to
as the “Wizard of Omaha” or “Oracle of Omaha,” or the “Sage of Omaha,” and is noted for his adherence
to value investing and for his personal frugality despite his immense wealth. Buffett is a notable
philanthropist, having pledged to give away 99 percent of his fortune to philanthropic causes, primarily
via the Gates Foundation.

Arianna Huffington

Arianna is a co founder of the famous online news and publication platform Huffington post ,as well as
the author of the best selling book, "The Sleep Revolution".She recently stepped down as editor in chief
of Huffington post to pursue her dream start up, Thrive Global . Her aim is to conduct workshops and
trainings to make this world stress free . She tells young entrepreneurs, " You have to really believe in
your product to deal with the naysayers and persevere".

3. Lucio Tan

Philippine Airlines

Lucio Tan’s story was from rags to riches tale. Before working in the tobacco industry, his business was a
scrap. His dream was to become a scientist but his fortune was bound to become an entrepreneur. His
hard work made him successful and became famous. Now, he owns Asia Brewery, Tanduay, Fortune
Tobacco, Philippine Airlines, Allied Bank, and many more to mention.

4. ATTY. FELIPE L. GOZON

GMA Network, Inc.

Atty. Felipe L. Gozon is the chairman, president, and CEO of GMA Network. He was credited for the
success of GMA Network in radio and TV broadcasting, filmmaking, and music recording. He was Master
Entrepreneur in 2004. Because of the leadership of Atty. Gozon, he made GMA as one of the top
networks in the country today. Currently, GMA had via-satellite broadcasting in Asia and in other parts of
the world.

5. Henry Sy

ShoeMart

Henry Sy was born on December 25, 1923, in Xiamen China. In his early twenties, he used to sell
American shoes. Then after three years, he was able to have his first shoe mart store. SM group of
companies was one of the biggest companies in our country and the man behind it was Henry Sy. His
self-discipline, perseverance, and hard work made him what he is today. In almost every part of the
country (as well as in Asia), there is SM mall.According to Henry Sy Sr., success will not last if you do not
care of it. That’s the secret of their success.

6. Jaime Zobel de Ayala

Ayala Corporation

Jaime Zobel de Ayala was before president and chairman of Ayala Corporation. He was considered as one
of the richest persons tied with Henry Sy in 2007. He had received many awards and the latest was
Entrepreneur of the Year 2012. His strategy for being successful in this business was getting partners
with those who are in need in the community. He believes that gaining profits was not really the concern
of every businessman, but to help the poor people.
9. Cecilio K. Pedro

Lamoiyan Corporation

Cecilio K. Pedro finished his business management degree in Ateneo de Manila University. He founded
the Lamoyan Corp. which produces toothpastes like “Hapee” and “Kutitap.” This made toothpaste
affordable to the masses. He survived in the industry because of being tough and innovative to fight for
the multinational companies. His company had received an award, “Most Outstanding Program for Equal
Employment Opportunity,” giving importance to those who have difficulty in hearing to work in his
company.

Mariano Raceles,

a farmer in Bicol, always had a fascination with mushrooms. Back in 2013, he was
motivated to give his outdoor mushroom plantation an upgrade.

Fast forward to 2016, the joint efforts of Raceles and the Department of Agriculture –
Regional Field Office in Bicol through Pedro Oliver, regional focal person for mushroom,
have led to the establishment of a community-based organization of mushroom growers
– the Bicol Entrepreneurs’ Association for Mushroom or BEAM.

With beneficiaries in Naga City, Camarines Sur, Sorsogon, Catanduanes, Masbate, and
Albay, “Bicol’s Community-Based Mushroom Project” aims to provide local farmers with
an additional source of income and livelihood.

The DA, in partnership with the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR), accomplished
this by spearheading the production of pure culture and quality spawn bags which,
Oliver said, are “key components to the sustainability of mushroom production.”

“The project is made up of two components: on-station and community-based enterprise

development,” Oliver said.

--- Ma. Lydia Perez Lomibao of Naga City and Canaman, Camarines Sur who owns and manages J.
Emmanuel Pastries – The House of Pili, exporter of quality pili nut products, has been hailed as one of
the country’s inspiring Filipina entrepreneurs for 2017.

For the past 12 years, Go Negosyo has recognized women entrepreneurs from various fields for their
successful and inspiring entrepreneurial journey, which is hoped will empower the next generation to start
their own enterprises.

For the past years, the awarding ceremony was held at the World Trade Center in front of thousands of
Filipina entrepreneurs and students. But this year it was special because the President himself was
present to lead the awarding rites here in Malacanang.
Ms. Lomibao, along with 7 other awardees, were recognized under the micro and small entrepreneur’s
category where 99.6% of the enterprises in the country are from this sector. Despite their size, they are
committed to reach their own success.

Medium to large entrepreneurs were also recognized, such as Felicia Atienza of Chinese International
School Manila, Ana de Ocampo of Wildflour Café & Bakery, Anne Gonzalez of Terry SA (distributor of
Havaianas footwear), Sheree Gotuaco of Omnimoda International, Gina Lorenzana of Unilever
Philippines, Rebecca Mills of Asia CEO Forum, Mary Ann Montemayor of Villa Margarita Hotel and
Catering, and Evelyn Palomo of Great Image.

Also honored who themselves have mentored and empowered fellow entrepreneurs were Pacita Juan,
Doris Ho, and Sen. Cynthia Villar.

Over 400 guests filled the Rizal Hall of Malacañang and congratulated this year’s awardees.
From humble beginnings, J. Emmanuel Pastries-The House of Pili that Lydia co-manages with husband
Joseph was funded by P500 that remained of their wedding kitty.

Through perseverance and assistance from concerned government agencies, J. Emmanuel Pastries grew
into a P30M family enterprise. A Presidential Awardee four times over as endorsed severally by DTI, DA
and DOST, Lydia’s company was first recognized as a Gawad Saka Awardee in 2007 for High Value
Commercial Crop Category for its calculated transformation as a world-class food processor of the
indigenous Bicol nut, pili.

She was soon a regular exhibitor carrying the Philippine flag in various trade fairs in Japan, USA, China,
Thailand, Hongkong, and recently in Paris, France last October 2016. Her products are now exported to
Japan, Korea, China, and the USA.

After the event in Malacanang, Lydia immediately flew to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia for the ongoing Halal
conference where her array of pili nut pastry products are also being exhibited. J. Emmanuel products
which are also Halal-certified have caught the interest of investors from Muslim countries, such as those
in Indonesia and Malaysia, and the Emirates in the Middle East.

Always looking forward despite the material returns that her company is already raking in, the Lomibao
couple instituted the first Pili Contract Growing Project named PILIpinas which encourages local farmers
to plant more pili trees because their future harvests are guaranteed to be purchased by Lydia’s company.

A 2016 Halyao awardee, Lydia’s nomination to the Inspiring Filipina Award 2017 was endorsed by the DTI
Bicol Regional Office and the Metro Naga Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MNCCI).

The Halyao Awards is an annual search for Outstanding Bicolano Businesspersons who are being
honored for their exemplary performance contributory to the Bicol Region’s socio-economic development
and nation-building. The awardees traditionally come from the field of business, entrepreneurship, public
service, community involvement, and care for the environment.

Yco Tan can still remember it clearly: the day he decided that he
deserved a better life.
He was only 17. The eldest boy in a Filipino-Chinese family, he had been his
family’s breadwinner for as long as he could remember.

Yco, who had met success in Saudi, suddenly had to start from scratch
again and build a new career in the Philippines.

He and his wife first tried their luck with a sewing business,
manufacturing uniforms for the Philippine National Police (PNP). It
didn’t work out well because of late payments.

In the early 2000s, beauty parlors were popping out fast all over the
country and Yco partnered with his sister-in-law to start one. Their
relationship turned sour and the Tans decided to open one in Bicol
themselves.

Yco had always thought big. He wanted his salon to be nothing less
than great – a business mentality that, he said, is rare in the provinces.
He needed a sizeable capital for the venture so Yco applied for a
livelihood loan from LandBank. He got a P300,000-loan.

The Tans opened their first salon, EveGate, in Tabaco City, Albay, which
quickly became a hit among Albay’s middle class. They paid their loan
immediately and opened other branches in the region.

Yco soon ventured into other businesses, all in the beauty and
wellness industry and under the banner of the Tanvera Corporation.
They opened Salon de Estudyante, a hair salon for the masses; Fresh
Up Nail and Body Spa; and Spalon, a high-end salon and spa.

As of writing, the Tans have a total of 16 salons, spread all over the
Bicol region. Their 17th branch is set to open this year.

They branched into the distribution business through Adams Housing Salon
Supply which distributes salon supplies, formula, and equipment in Albay;
and also the Evegate Technical Development Training Academy, a TESDA-
accredited school for aspiring beauty and hair technicians.