Top 10 Social Entrepreneurs in the Philippines

1. Henry T. Sy was born on October 15, 1924, to a poor family in Jinjiang, Quanzhou, China .
He is a Chinese-Filipino business magnate, successful investor, and philanthropist. Then
started his career with a simple but friendly sari-sari store (neighborhood variety store),
before going on to make a shoe retail store. He is now the chairman of SM Prime Holdings
Inc., the holding corporation for all his interests within his dominant empire.
2. Tony Tan Caktiong was born on January 5, 1953 in a family of Chinese immigrants,
originally from Fujian. He is the founder of Jollibee, one of the biggest fast food chains of
Philippines and owns approximately 1500 stores all over the world that include the Red
Ribbon, Greenwich, Mang Inasal, Manong Pepe's, Tita Frita Uling Uling, Chowking .
3. John Robinson L. Gokongwei, Jr. was born on August 11, 1926 in Gulangyu, Xiamen, Fujian
Province of China. He is a Chinese Filipino businessman with holdings in telecommunications,
financial services, petrochemicals, power generation, aviation and live stock farming. As of
September 2014, Gokongwei is the fifth richest entrepreneur in the Philippines, with a net worth
of over $5 billion, ranking behind only to Henry Sy, Lucio Tan, Enrique Razon and Andrew Tan.