1.

Ramon Ang

CEO of Top Frontier Investment Holdings, president and CEO

of San Miguel Corporation
BS Mechanical Engineering
Far Eastern University

Ramon Ang was the son of an ethnic Chinese couple of modest means. He obtained a degree
in mechanical engineering from the Far Eastern University in Manila. His business career
started in the late 1970s when he engaged in the importation of vintage cars and engines.

2. Tony Tan Caktiong

Founder and chairman of Jollibee Food Corp.

BS Chemical Engineering
University of Santo Tomas

He is a member of a famous Businessman with the age 68 years old group. He is one of

the Richest Businessmen who was born in Filipino.
As of 2016, Tony Tan Caktiong ranked 6th in Forbes’ Philippines’ 50 Richest. He was also
awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year and the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year in
2004.

3. Edgar Saavedra

Chairman of Mega-wide Construction

BS Civil Engineering
De La Salle University

Saavedra obtained training in the German framework system and basic occupational safety and
health. He specializes in European building technologies and advanced formwork systems. At
the height of the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997, Saavedra and Michael Cosiquien founded
Mega-wide Construction Corporation
4. Michael Cosiquien

Cofounder of Megawide Construction

BS Civil Engineering
De La Salle University

Michael Cosinquien is a Chinese-Filipino engineer and businessman who co-founded the

publicly-listed construction company, Mega-wide Construction Corporation with Edgar
Saavedra. He currently serves as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He ranks 39th in
the Forbes 40 richest Filipinos for 2012 with a net worth of USD140 million

5. Alfredo Yao

Founder of Zest-O and Macay Holdings Inc.

BS Chemical Engineering
Mapua Institute of Technology

Alfredo Yao was the eldest of six children of an ethnic Chinese

couple who peddled household goods in the streets of Manila right after the Second World War.
His father died when he was only 12 years old. He enrolled at the Mapua Institute of Technology
but quit on his sophomore year

6. Frederick Dy

Chairman of Security Bank

BS Industrial Engineering
Cornell University
Frederick Dy is chairman emeritus of Security Bank, which was founded in 1951 and developed
into the nation's tenth-largest bank by assets. Security Bank Corp was the first bank to offer
credit card franchise in the Philippines in the 1970s. Dy and his associates gained majority
ownership in 1991 and took the bank public in 1995

7. Jacinto Ng

Founder of Republic Biscuit (Rebisco) and Asia United Bank

BS Chemical Engineering
Mapua Institute of Technology

Jacinto Ng, Sr. is a second generation Chinese-Filipino businessman that founded the Rebisco

Group of Companies. He founded the New England Biscuit in 1963 form a tiny rented second-
hand factory. He then moved the company to a new compound in Novaliches Quezon City.

8. Dean Lao

Chairman emeritus of D&L Industries

BS Chemical Engineering
Polytechnic Colleges of the Philippines

Dean L. Lao is a Philippine entrepreneur who founded 6 companies, including: D&L Industries,

Inc., Chemrez, Inc. and Aero-Pack Industries, Inc. He is on the board of Chemrez Technologies,
Inc. and 11 other companies. Mr. Lao previously was Chairman-Emeritus at D&L Industries, Inc.
(he founded the company in 1963).
9. Jeff Bezos

Founder and CEO of Amazon

BS Electricial Engineering and Computer Science
Princeton University

Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, computer

engineer, and commercial astronaut. He is the founder, executive chairman and former
president and CEO of Amazon. With a net worth of around US$159 billion as of August 2022,
Bezos is the second-wealthiest person in the world and was the wealthiest from 2017 to 2021
according to both Bloomberg's Billionaires Index and Forbes.

10. Tim Cook

CEO of Apple
BS Industrial Engineering
Auburn University

Apple CEO Tim Cook graduated from Auburn University with a bachelor's degree in industrial
engineering and earned an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. Following a
12-year career at IBM, Cook went on to executive roles at Intelligent Electronics and Compaq,
before joining Apple in 1998.