Excellence 2024
The Philippine Star|November 28, 2024
At the Nov. 25, 2024 23rd anniversary dinner of BizNewsAsia in Makati, we honored outstanding individuals for their excellence in visionary management, general management and the arts and the professions.

Honorees received a 22-inchtall sculpted wood trophy which I designed myself. The visionary management excellence awardees received an 18-inch solid brass bell handcrafted in Italy and flown to Manila for the occasion. Both trophies symbolize freedom, aspiration, fervor, achievement, excellence.

Visionary Management RAMON S. ANG, Chairman and CEO, San Miguel

Corporation In two decades, he repurposed SMC into a colossal con

glomerate with P2.5 trillion in assets, P1.5 trillion in annual revenues and a commanding presence in many strategic industries, such as affordable quality food, water, power, energy, infra, mass transport, tollways and airports. SMC’s business is nation-building and to make life better for all while sustaining the environment.

TERESITA SY COSON, Vice Chair, SM Investments Corp. and Chair, BDO

She brings into the business the family’s culture of hard work, frugality and focus on details, her deep and diverse experience and calibrated boldness in strategic decisionmaking, thus enabling the SM Group to grow marvelously despite stiff competition and an uncertain world. SMIC is the most valuable company. BDO is the largest and best in nearly every metric of banking.

MANUEL B. VILLAR JR. ,Chairman, Vista Land and Lifescapes, Inc.

He is building a new suburban capital and business city from scratch, with his 3,500-ha. Villar City where there is more greenery and trees than commercial space and homes and buildings; for being the nation’s biggest home builder (half a million units) and for building 42 malls, 59 commercial centers and seven office buildings in 147 towns and cities, in less than 17 years. He has built 500,000 homes, the largest.

Excellence awardees The Arts

RAMON ORLINA He is the Mozart of glass sculpture. He transformed

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