BNA EXCELLENCE AWARDEES
MANAGEMENT EXCELLENCE
HELEN YUCHENGCO-DEE Chairman Rizal Commercial Banking Corp.
Helen Yuchengco Dee, 72, is bent on enhancing the legacy her father. It is a legacy built around integrity, excellence, discipline, professionalism and love of country. She lives by those values from day to day.
Alfonso T. Yuchengco died April 15, 2017, at the age of 94. AY should be remembered for three things—for his entrepreneurship, for his love of his country, and for fighting the Marcos dictatorship (he helped finance the Light a Fire Movement and backed Cory’s presidential bid in1986).
ISIDRO A. CONSUNJI Chairman and President DMCI Holdings, Inc.
Isidro Consunji, 68, inherits the company, the family culture of excellence, and the reputation for quality. Sid is the chairman, president and CEO of DMCI Holdings.
Sid has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (UP), Master of Business Economics (Center for Research and Communication), Master of Business Management (Asian Institute of Management), and Advanced Management (IESE School, Barcelona, Spain).
ATTY. FELIPE L. GOZON Chairman and CEO GMA Network, Inc.
Felipe “Henry” Gozon is the best and most accomplished broadcast CEO in Asia today. In 16 years of savvy management and visioning, he delivered P27.95 billion in cumulative profits on revenues of P167.33 billion. Thrilling, considering that the now renamed GMA Network, Inc. started, in the years before that, with zero profits and scarce resources in equipment, manpower, and influence.
DENNIS A. UY President and CEO, Phoenix Petroleum Philippines, Inc./ Chelsea Logistics Holdings Corp.
Dennis Uy, 44, is the founder, president and CEO of emerging companies like Phoenix Petroleum Philippines, Inc. and Chelsea Logistics Holdings Corp.
His Phoenix Petroleum (PNX) is the largest independent local oil company.
His biggest acquisition, from Kuwaiti fund KGL Investment Co., is Global Gate- way Logistics City in Clark, which is developing a 177-ha. logistics hub at a cost of $1 billion.
BENJAMIN E. DIOKNO Secretary Department of Budget
Diokno promises a different Duterte administration. “By the time we step down in 2022, we would have ushered in the Golden Age of Infrastructure in the Philippines, an era that Filipinos will look back with affection as one that laid the necessary foundations for robust and equitable growth in the longterm,” he projects.
Diokno, 69, finished his Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of the Philippines (1968).
JAIME J. BAUTISTA President and COO PAL Holdings, Inc.
For three consecutive years, from 2013 to 2016, PAL President Jaime J. Bautista achieved what was thought before nearly impossible – register flying profits for Philippine Airlines. Three-year profits amounted to P11.19 billion – P3.945 billion in 2016, P6.46 in 2015, and P786.8 million in 2014.
For Bautista, the mission at PAL is make it a five-star airline by 2020, and to deliver safe, reliable, efficient, and wholesale travel experience, one that captures the heart of the Filipino.
JANUARIO JESUS GREGORIO ATENCIO III President and CEO 8990 Holdings, Inc.
He made 8990 Holdings, Inc. the largest homebuilder and promoted financial literacy and responsible investing in assets for previously underserved buyers of quality affordable homes.