Maullon, Meredith S. FE- 5101 List of ten Engineers who became president or general manager of a large company: Geronimo Z. Velasco Ronnie Velasco was a mechanical engineer who won the 1977 Management Man of the Year award, as well as the first president of Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC). He was the chairman of Republic Glass Holdings Corp, which used to own the pioneer factory that supplied 70 percent of Philippine glass requirements for home and building construction since the year 1956. The firm then sold its shares in Republic-Asahi Glass Corp. to its Japanese partner Asahi Glass in the year 2001. He also served as energy minister from the years-1978 to 1986, wherein he implemented the strategic goal of reducing the dependence of the Philippines on imported oil. Diosdado “Dado” Banatao This Filipino is a high-tech entrepreneur and innovator in Silicon Valley California. He is an electrical engineering cum laude graduate from the Mapua Institute of Technology, a prestigious engineering school in the Philippines. He also has a master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science in Stanford University. He is credited for having developed the first 10-Mbit Ethernet CMOS with silicon coupler data-link control and transceiver chip, the first system logic chip set for IBM, as well as the local bus concept and the first Windows Graphics accelerator chip for PC’s. He is co-founded Mostron, Chips and Technologies and S3 graphics. Lucio Tan He is a science and history buff who studied chemical engineering at Far Eastern University in the Philippines, as a working student. According to a Philstar article, he said he attended night and Sunday classes. He is a self made tycoon, who continues to read nonstop until now. He is ranked as the third richest billionaire in the Philippines for 2016, with a net worth of US$4Billion. David Consunji Consunji is a civil engineering graduate from the University of the Philippines, a prestigious university in the Philippines. He is ranked by Forbes as the fifth richest billionaire in the Philippines with a net worth of US$3 Billion. He is big in construction with DMCI, as well as infrastructure, real estate, minin and power. Francis Chua Chua is an industrial engineering, cum laude graduate from the University of the Philippines. He is president of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce & Industry (PCCI) and is also former member of the UP Board of Regents. This study source was downloaded by 100000777432285 from CourseHero.com on 03-03-2022 02:02:50 GMT -06:00 https://www.coursehero.com/file/52578876/10-Engineersdocx/ Ramon S. Ang Ang is a mechanical engineering graduate from Far Eastern University and is the ViceChairman, President and Chief Operating Officer of San Miguel Corporation. He is transforming San Miguel Corp. form a beer giant into a more diversified conglomerate that has huge investments in infrastructure, energy, and other fields. Because of his bold and strategic reforms, beer and foods now constitutes only 20 percent of San Miguel’s total business. He is also Chairman of Cyber Bay Corporation and Eagle Cement Corporation. Henry Lim Bon Liong Lim is a mechanical engineering graduate from the University of the Philippines. He is a leader in Philippine paper products with Sterling Paper Group. In the past years, he is being known as a pioneer of hybrid rice technology, with his SL Agritech Corp, he is working to promote Philippine rice self-sufficiency. Fernando Bayani Fernando is a mechanical engineering graduate of Mapua. He is formerly known as the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman, and the mayor of Marikina, a city in the Philippines. Before he entered the world of politics, he was the founder of the BF Group of Companies, with construction, steel, manufacturing and real estate businesses. Fernando built the country’s tallest building, the tallest hoping malls, as well as industrial and residential subdivisions and other facilities. According to Fernando, engineers like him “are more practical and prefer to focus more on solving problems.” Greg C. Garland Garland started at Phillips as a project engineer in 1980 and began steadily working his way up through the company: from project to sales engineer, then a business service manager, and development director. He serves as an executive-level director in a half-dozen companies, is a director of the American Chemistry Council, and is a member of Texas A&M’s Chemical Engineering Industrial Advisory Board. Andrew N. Liveris Liveris studied chemical engineering in Australia, where he also began his career with Dow Chemical in 1976. After working in the company’s engineering, manufacturing, sales, and marketing divisons on several continents, he was unanimously elected CEO on the strength of his plan to renew and transform the company. (His plan directly lead to a sixfold growth in share value.) A noted champion of the manufacturing sector, Liveris published a similar plan for reestablishing American manufacturing in “Make it in America: The Case for Re-Inventing The Economy”. President Obama named him Co-Chair of his Advanced Manufacturing Partnership initiative. This study source was downloaded by 100000777432285 from CourseHero.com on 03-03-2022 02:02:50 GMT -06:00 https://www.coursehero.com/file/52578876/10-Engineersdocx/ This study source was downloaded by 100000777432285 from CourseHero.com on 03-03-2022 02:02:50 GMT -06:00 https://www.coursehero.com/file/52578876/10-Engineersdocx/ Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
