Manuel Pangilinan
| Manuel V. Pangilinan | |
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Pangilinan in 2012
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| Born |
Manuel Vélez Pangilinan July 14, 1946 Manila, Philippines |
| Other names | Manny Pangilinan, MVP |
| Occupation |
Managing Director & CEO (First Pacific Company Limited); Chairman, President & CEO (PLDT) |
Managing Director & CEO (First Pacific Company Limited);
Manuel V. Pangilinan, BOLk, KLD, (born July 14, 1946 in Manila, Philippines) is a Filipino businessman and sports patron. He is the managing director and CEO of First Pacific Company Limited, a Hong Kong-based investment management and holding company with operations in the Asia-Pacific region. He is also First Pacific’s chief executive for the group’s investments in the Philippines, such as Metro Pacific Investments Corporation, PLDT and Philex Mining Corporation. He is the chairman emeritus of the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) and was its first president, serving two consecutive terms from 2008 to 2015.
Due to his connections with the Salim Group (which effectively controls First Pacific and key subsidiaries such as PLDT and Metro Pacific Investments Corporation), a company which is alleged to have flourished due to the close ties of its founder with the Indonesian President Suharto, Manny Pangilinan's ethics and probity have at times been called into question. He is alleged to be the puppet of the Chinese-Indonesian tycoon Anthoni Salim of the Salim Group (not least by President Duterte of the Philippines) in order to skirt around the Philippines' foreign ownership laws.
Pangilinan spent his elementary and high school days at San Beda College. He graduated cum laude from the Ateneo de Manila University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. He received his MBA degree in 1968 from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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