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Laying the foundation for a skin-care empire at 25
A pharmacist of a dermatological company asked me to partner with her to put up our own drugstore with…
A risk-taker at 25
If one is to list adjectives describing today’s millennials, “daring” would almost certainly be in the top 10. Think…
PRA GM Bienvenido Chy From Star Basketball Player to Reformist Lawyer @25
‘Looking back, I have no regrets. ‘I’ve lived a life that’s full…I did what I had to do……
Datem president was an up-and-coming project manager at DM Consunji
LEVY V. Espiritu, president of Datem, one of the country’s leading homegrown construction companies, was an aggressive project…
Finding his life’s purpose at 25
Dennis B. Funa was a happy-go-lucky person in his 20s, as he described himself in his earlier years,…
Businessman, gemologist and part-time student at 25
‘I got exposed to our jewelry and luxury watches business at age 17. In a way I was…
Content is king, distribution is queen
THERE are many products that do not become brands and eventually become failures. Blame it on hit-and-miss marketers who do not begin with the basic: Market research.
At 25, Safdar Hayat entered Pakistan’s diplomatic corps
HE found himself seated inside an office of a Pakistani bank, bored by an accounting job that paid…
Gabby Lopez: Urban planner, educator, man for others
IT was the First Quarter Storm, a time of many uncertainties. Student activism was raging. After completing his AB Humanities in Ateneo de Manila, Gabby Lopez boycotted his graduation with 20 other students. Then, he was accepted at the University of the Philippines Institute of Planning (now the UP School of Urban and Regional Planning) as its first scholar and belonged to the third batch of graduate students.
Adrian Williams: I started a new life at 25
TURNING 25 was a meaningful year for Adrian Williams, a second-generation Filipino in London who cofounded Philippine Generations,…
BIR’s Dulay: Earning his stripes at 25
WHEN President Duterte appointed lawyer Caesar R. Dulay to the crucial position of Internal Revenue commissioner, nobody could recognize…
Salvador Mison: ‘My philosophy in life is the Golden Rule’
MORE than 260 kilometers away from Manila, the young company executive officer is preparing administrative requirements for his…
Samie Lim: Revolutionized appliance marketing at 25
TODAY Samie Lim is hailed as the “Father of Philippine Franchising.” But at age 25, he was just…
Fidel V. Ramos: I became a board-certified civil engineer when I was 25
FORMER President Fidel V. Ramos’s vow to become a civil engineer, instead of a lawyer like his…
Ma. Alegria Sibal-Limjoco: The former Avon lady helps create thousands of entrepreneurs and millions of jobs
WHILE successful business leaders of her generation were inside their cozy offices checking on the day’s turnout, Ma.…
Roberto G. Manabat: A life of second chances
AT 25, diligence and a solid work ethic have already been deeply ingrained in the character of financial adviser Roberto…
Bob Sobrepeña: When I was 25, I was the top executive of my own company
NOT many people had the honor of sitting behind the desk of a company chief executive at…
Joseph ‘Erap’ Estrada: ‘I was already a popular actor when I was 25’
‘NOONG 1962, when I was 25, sikat na artista na ako,” former President and now Manila Mayor…
Ambassador Antonio L. Cabangon Chua: No Dream Too Tall
By Joel Pablo Salud |Special to the BusinessMirror It was half past the summer of 2009 when, as…
P.A.L.’s Bautista fulfills a vision
THE halls of Colegio de San Juan de Letran were witnesses to how a terror professor once prophesied Jaime…
Bro. Ray Suplido: A teacher at 25, molding young minds to become responsible citizens
BRO. Raymundo Belardo Suplido, FSC, PhD, is the 23rd president of De La Salle University (DLSU). External circumstances led to…
Senate President Franklin Drilon at 25
IN 1969, when the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman was a roiling caldron of student activism as…
Ginia R. Domingo: Making a career shift at 25
By Leony R. Garcia WHEN buying cars, men like to go fast, while women like to go efficient. …
From struggling CPA to company owner
THE eldest of eight children of a tenant-farmer in a remote barangay in Nueva Ecija, Donnies T. Alas made…
Canon PHL President and CEO Lim Kok Hin: Giving his best shot
‘I NEVER really consider myself a success until today, frankly,” said Lim Kok Hin, president and CEO of…
Cory Quirino: In a hurry at 25
IT still rings loudly in my memory—“Cory, you should have been born a boy!” Yes, that was my…
Teddy Locsin Jr.: I was jobless at 25
By Teodoro L. Locsin Jr. At 25, I was jobless. It was a Thursday night; it was late,…
BPI President and CEO Cezar P. Consing: ‘Things look better now than during our time’
‘I wish I was like them when I was 25 years old. These people have their whole world…
Tetangco: Time away from comfort zone speeds up growing up
WHEN I was 25, I was a grad student at the University of Wisconsin (UW) in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. I was…
Lucio Tan at 25: Birth of an enterprise
By Joey de Guzman / Special to the BusinessMirror AS a child, Lucio C. Tan was always fascinated by technology.…
Arsenio M. Balisacan: Resolute at 25
AT the age of 25, the country’s chief economic planner was not the typical carefree young adult like many…
P-Noy: Presidential ‘bodyguard’ at 25, Commander in Chief at 50
BORN on February 8, 1960, President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III spent his 25th birthday amid mounting people-powered street…
When men wore ‘bakya’: ‘Ka’ Jimmy recalls how life was as a farmer in Bulacan when he was 25
A farmer, agrarian-reform and organic-farming advocate. This is how Jimmy Tadeo describes himself today. Tadeo, or “Ka Jimmy” as…
Henry Lim: I was forced to fill big shoes at the age of 25
AT a time when most of my peers were starting a new life, I was still mourning the…
Michinobu Sugata: What were you doing when you were 25?
ACCORDING to Republican and political strategist Gary Teal, 25 is the age that most people look back to—when…
Speaker Feliciano ‘Sonny’ Belmonte Jr.: Began serving the people at age 25
ANG hindi marunong lumingon sa pinanggalingan ay hindi makararating sa paroroonan [He who does not know how to…
PLDT’s Eric Alberto: From Binondo to Cloud
AT Manila’s bustling China Town in the 1980s, Ernesto R. Alberto was a young man evaluating the cost…
Oscar S. Reyes: In good company at 25
SIXTY-NINE-year-old Oscar S. Reyes has been working hard for half a century now. During those 50 years, Reyes…
Alfredo Yao: His business genius came from within, not from school
FOR the go-getting Millennial generation, the name of the game in life, as in business, is keep up,…
Rafael ‘Paeng’ Nepomuceno: On top of the bowling world
WELL-TRIMMED and a handsome mestizo at 6-foot-2 and already a two-time World Cup of Bowling champion, who wouldn’t…
Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Hernando Iriberri: Charting a course 31 years earlier
JOINING the military service, where only the brave and selfless souls exist and thrive, was the dream of…
Arnel Paciano Casanova: From a slum dweller to a city builder
WHO would ever think that a slum dweller, a penniless student who migrated to the city to pursue the…
Jose Midas P. Marquez: In the midst of ‘demigods’
AT the age of 25, I was in second-year law school at the Ateneo de Manila College of Law,…
Gladys R. Basinillo: Climbing the corporate ladder at 25
FOR 22 years, Gladys Rondina-Basinillo’s life has practically revolved around the world of advertising. Basinillo is CEO of Carat…
F. Sionil José: Young and at war
IF I were to name a man who had seen it all, my first thoughts would go to National…