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NBA champs Golden State Warriors executive chairman and co-owner Peter Guber is coming to Manila

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GOLDEN STATE Warriors executive chairman and co-owner Peter Guber will be coming to the Philippine­s on March 20 as the featured speaker in ANC, the ABS-CBN News Channel’s Leadership Series at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza Manila.

The sports mogul, who is also the chairman and CEO of media giant Mandalay Entertainm­ent, will talk in front of the country’s business executives, sports and entertainm­ent industry leaders, and members of the academe about his experience­s as an executive and entreprene­ur in various industries.

In addition to his ownership of reigning NBA champion the Golden State Warriors, Guber is an owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers and an owner and executive chairman of Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles Football Club. He is chairman of the Strategic Advisory Board and an investor in NextVR. Guber is an owner and co-executive Chairman of the new e-sports ownership group, aXiomatic, which purchased the controllin­g interest in Team Liquid, one of the most successful global e-sports franchises. Guber is also a member of the University of California Board of Regents and has been a professor at UCLA for 40 years.

Prior to founding Mandalay Entertainm­ent, Guber was chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainm­ent, chairman and CEO of Polygram Entertainm­ent, cofounder of Casablanca Record & Filmworks and President of Columbia Pictures. Guber produced or executive produced (personally or through his

companies) films that garnered five Best Picture Academy Award nomination­s (winning for Rain Man) and box office hits that include The Color Purple, Midnight Express, Batman, Flashdance, The

Kids Are All Right and Soul Surfer. Guber, the no. 1 New York Times’ best-selling author of the business book

Tell to Win, is the third featured speaker in the ANC Leadership Series. In 2016, ANC brought Virgin Group founder Richard Branson in the Philippine­s, followed by former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright in 2017.

The ANC Leadership Series is part of the country’s premier all-English cable news channel’s efforts to raise the level of discourse on global affairs and business issues in the country by bringing renowned internatio­nal speakers for a one-day speaking engagement.

Watch and learn from Media Mogul and Sports Owner, Peter Guber as he talks about “Telling Stories, Winning Games” at the ANC Leadership Series, moderated by ABS-CBN news and sports anchor TJ Manotoc, on March 20, 2 p.m., at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza Manila. Tickets are priced at P20,000, and P10,000. For inquiries and reservatio­ns, visit www.ktx.com.ph or call TicketWorl­d at 891-9999 or log-on to its Web site at ticketworl­d.com.ph.

For news and informatio­n, watch ANC, your news channel, your partner on cable. Watch ANC in high definition on cable on ANC HD. You may also

visitnews.abs-cbn.com/anc or follow @ANCalerts on Facebook and Twitter.

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