DR.

DIOSDADO BANATAO -Bill Gates of Asia

Engineer / Inventor
Chairman, Managing Partner
Tallwood Venture Capital
Education:

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, cum laude, from

the Mapua Institute of Technology in the Philippines.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from
Stanford University.

Background:

Banatao was born on May 23, 1946 in Malabbac, Iguig,

Cagayan, Philippines. His father Salvador Banatao, was a rice farmer. His mother, Rosita
Banatao, was a housekeeper.

Banatao is known for his rags to riches story. During his childhood, he walked barefoot on a dirt
road just to reach Malabbac Elementary School. He pursued his secondary education at the Jesuitrun Ateneo de Tuguegarao. After high school, he pursued his Bachelor of Science in Electrical
Engineering from the Mapa Institute of Technology and graduated cum laude.

After college, he turned down several job offers, including one from Meralco. He
joined Philippine Airlines as a trainee pilot, and was later pirated by Boeing. At Boeing, he
worked as a design engineer for the company's new commercial airliner and cargo transport
aircraft, Boeing 747, in theUnited States. With the opportunity to stay in the United States, he
then took his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford
University and finished in 1972. Banatao also joined the Homebrew Computer Club, where he
met Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

Banatao is most known for introducing the first single-chip graphical user interface accelerator
that made computers work a lot faster and for helping develop the Ethernet controller chip that
made Internet possible. In 1989, he pioneered the local bus concept for personal computers and in
the following year developed the First Windows accelerator chip. Intel is now using the chips and
technologies developed by Banatao. He now runs his own semiconductor company, Mostron and
Chips & Technology, which is based in California's Silicon Valley.
In 1997, he was honored with the prestigious Master Entrepreneur of the Year Award
sponsored by Ernst & Young, Inc. Magazine, and Merrill Lynch Business Financial Services.

Engineering Management Profile:

Dado Banatao is the managing partner of Tallwood Venture Capital. With his past experiences as
an entrepreneur, Dado provides Tallwood with a unique perspective. As an engineer, he is
credited with developing several key semiconductor technologies and is regarded as a Silicon

Valley visionary. As an investor, he has a keen sense of trends and opportunities involving
technology solutions for computing and communications.
Mr. Banatao serves as Chairman for SIRF Technology and current Tallwood portfolio companies.
He also served as Chairman and led investments in Marvell Technology Group, Acclaim
Communications, acquired by Level One, Newport Communications, acquired by Broadcom,
Cyras Systems, acquired by Ciena, and Stream Machine, acquired by Cirrus Logic.

DR. GREGORIO ZARA

Engineer / Inventor/ Scientist /Educator/ Government Engineer
Education:

Zara finished primary schooling at Lipa Elementary School, where he

graduated as valedictorian in 1918.
In 1922, he again graduated valedictorian in Batangas High School.
With full support from his parents he then enrolled at the University of the
Philippines. In the middle of his first semester, he finally got the scholarship
when his rival got sick and died abroad.
Dr. Zara then enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
in the United States, and graduated with a degree of BS in Mechanical
Engineering in 1926.
After that he obtained a Master of Science in Engineering (Aeronautical Engineering) at
the University of Michigan, USA, graduating summa cum laude.
Zara then sailed to France to take up advanced studies in physics at the Sorbonne University in Paris.
In 1930 he again graduated summa cum laude with a degree of Doctor of Science in Physics, with
"Tres Honorable," the highest honor conferred to graduate students. Zara was the first Filipino given
that honor

Background:

Dr. Zara was probably the most productive of Filipino inventors, with 30 devices and equipment
patented to his name. Among these were the earth induction compass, used by pilots for direction; the
vapor chamber, used to visualize radioactive elements; the wooden microscope; solar energy devices
for areas not reached by power lines; a functional robot; the photo-phone, which allowed audiovisual
phone conversations; a functional alcohol-fueled plane; wooden aircraft propellers; and a
corresponding propeller cutting machine.
He also has written numerous papers and textbooks in science and physics, with some even written in
French.
While busy in government positions, Zara also was an educator. He was an instructor of aeronautics at
the Valeriano Aviation School, at the American Far Eastern School of Aviation (1933) and at the Far
Eastern University (193741). At FEATI University, he was professor of aeronautics (1946), then head
of the Aeronautical Engineering Department (1962) and later dean of Engineering and Technology and
director of research.
He was elected executive vice-president of the university from 1946 to 1962 and acting president in
1956. He retired from government service in 1946 and joined the Far East Asian Technical Institute
(FEATI) and eventually became a member of its board of trustees. He was also a Member of the board
of directors of the National Shipyards and Steel Corporation and of the Civil Aeronautics Board.

He was awarded Presidential Diploma of Merit - Distinguished Service Medal (1959) for his
pioneering works and achievements in solar energy research, aeronautics and television,
and Presidential Gold Medal and Diploma of Honor for Science and Research -Cultural Heritage
Award for Science Education and Aero Engineering (1966).

Engineering Management Profile:

He was appointed as technical assistant on aviation matters in the office of the Secretary of
Department of Public Works and Communications (DPWC) and later on, he became chief of the
aeronautical division of the DPWC.
In 1936, he was assistant director and chief aeronautical engineer in the Bureau of Aeronautics of the
Department of National Defense. For 21 years, he was director of aeronautical board, a position he
held and confirmed by the Congress of the Philippines up to 1952.
Considered expert in the Field, he was chosen to be the technical editor of Aviation Monthly and at
various times, he worked as vice chairman and acting chairman of the National Science Development
Board, where a number of Science projects were impetus.

ALFREDO LAZARTE JUINIO

Civil Engineer/ Educator/ Government Engineer
Education:

In 1939, Juinio graduated cum laude with a degree in civil engineering from the University of the
Philippines where he became a member of the Beta Epsilon Fraternity.
He then attended the Massachusetts, from which he obtained his master's degree in civil
engineering.

Background:

Juinio, together with other UP engineering professors, became the structural engineers of the
first thin-shell concrete dome in the Philippines for the UP Catholic Chapel, otherwise known as
the Parish of the Holy Sacrifice. The structure is the country's first circular church with the altar
in the middle and has been declared a historical landmark and cultural treasure by the National
Historical Institute and the National Museum, respectively.

During his term, as the dean of the UP College of Engineering, he initiated the establishment of
the National Engineering Center building, as well as the formation of the UP Engineering
Research and Development Foundation, Inc. (UPERDFI).

Juinio was elected as the first Chairman of the Board, and went on to serve as UPERDFI
president for thirty years.

Awards:
-Meralco Award for Engineering and Applied Sciences, 1990
-Most Distinguished Engineering Alumnus, given during the Diamond Jubilee of the UP College

-of Engineering, 1985

-Most Outstanding Betan Award, given by the Beta Epsilon Fraternity, 1999
Engineering Management Profile:

Prior to serving as college dean, Professor Alfredo T. Juinio headed the UP Diliman Office of
Campus Planning (also known as the Campus Planning Committee). Two of the projects he
undertook during his term were the construction of C.P. Garcia Avenue and the UP Gateway at
the University Avenue.

Juinio was appointed as the Minister of Public Works and Highways, as well as the Administrator
of the National Irrigation Administration. During his term, he headed the Upper Pampanga
River Multipurpose Projects in Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija.

From 1970 to 1979, Juinio served as the dean of the UP College of Engineering.

Juinio was also the co-founder of the DCCD Engineering Corporation and a consultant to various
government agencies.

Geronimo Z. Velasco
Mechanical Engineer/ Government Secretary
Education:

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering- University

of the Philippines.

Background:

He was recognized as one of the highest paid CEOs in the

Philippines as the head of DOLE and Republic Glass. He was
invited by former president Ferdinand Marcos to join the
government to become the first president of the Philippine
National Oil Corporation. He was among the many brilliant,
elite, well- educated Filipinos that Marcos had invited to help him run the government then.
Velasco was a protg of the smart yet controversial American Jewish self-made tycoon Harry
Stone hill, who tasked Velasco in the late 1950s with building the Philippines pioneer glass
manufacturing factory.
The late mechanical engineer Ronnie Velasco was winner of the 1977 Management Man of the
Year Award, first president of Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC).

Engineering Management Profile:

He was chairman of Republic Glass Holdings Corp. which used to own the pioneer factory
supplying 70 percent of Philippine glass requirements for home and building construction since
1956.

Velasco also served as energy minister from 1978 to 1986, implementing President Marcoss then
strategic goal of reducing Philippine dependence on imported oil.

Lucio C. Tan
Chemical Engineer/ Business Man/ Billionaire
Education:

Tan earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from the Far Eastern

University of Manila.

Background:

Tan was born in Amoy (now Xiamen), Fujian, China. His parents
moved to the Philippines when he was a child.

Forbes asserts that Tan "worked as a janitor at a tobacco factory" where

he presumably also "mopped floors to pay for school. He said he attended night and Sunday classes.

In 2013, Forbes magazine listed him once again as the second richest billionaire from the Philippines
with a net worth of $7.5 billion.

He is married and under his helm are his children of whom some may be poised to follow in his
footsteps. Michael Tan currently working with Asia Brewery Inc. after being replaced by Lucio Tan Jr.
who now heads the Eton Properties Inc. Timmy Tan, the self-made entrepreneur with SK Techno lube
Corp and La Isla Publishing Corp ranking progressively at the country's top 2013 corporations and
Vivian Tan who dwells in education and low level politics.

Engineering Management Profile:

Lucio C. Tan owns the following companies:

-LT Group, Inc. (PSE: LTG)
-Asia Brewery, Inc.
-Tanduay Distillers, Inc.

-Fortune Tobacco Corporation

-PMFTC, Inc. 50% ownership by FTC
-Eton Properties Philippines, Inc.
-Philippine National Bank (PSE: PNB) - (merger of Philippine National Bank
and Allied Banking Corporation)
-Victorias Milling Company, Inc. (PSE: VMC) minority interest and management
control[6]
-Philippine Airlines (PSE: PAL)
-MacroAsia Corporation (PSE: MAC)

Other Successful Engineers:

David Consunji. Ranked by Forbes magazine this year as the fifth

richest billionaire in the Philippines with US$1.9 billion in estimated
net worth, this UP civil engineering graduate is big in construction
with DMCI, also infrastructure, real estate, mining and power.

David Consunji

Francis Chua. Henry Lim Bon Liong of Sterling Paper Group told
me that I should add his batchmate Francis Chua to this list of tycoons
who are engineers, because Chua is an industrial engineering graduate
of his same batch 1972. Chua is president of the Philippine Chamber
of Commerce & Industry (PCCI) and he hopes to construct PCCIs
new headquarters building in the Manila Bay area. Chua said a major
thrust of PCCI is to encourage more proliferation of small- and
medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) nationwide for faster Philippine
economic growth. Chua is also former member of the UP Board of
Regents.
Francis Chua

Ramon S. Ang. This mechanical engineering graduate of Far Eastern

University is now the dynamic boss who is transforming San Miguel
Corp. from a beer giant into a diversified conglomerate with huge
investments in infrastructure, energy and other fields. Due to Angs
bold strategic reforms, beer and foods now constitute only 20 percent
of San Miguels total businesses.

Ramon S. Ang

Henry Lim Bon Liong. This mechanical engineering

graduate of UP batch 1972 is a leader in Philippine paper
products with Sterling Paper Group. In recent years, Lim
has become more known as a pioneer of hybrid rice
technology with his SL Agritech Corp. which seeks to
promote Philippine rice self-sufficiency. He is now one of
the vice presidents of the Federation of Filipino-Chinese
Chambers of Commerce & Industry, Inc. (FFCCCII).

Henry Lim Bon Liong

Bayani Fernando. The former Metro Manila

Development Authority (MMDA) chairman and Marikina
mayor, is a mechanical engineering graduate of Mapua.
Before entering politics, he was founder of the BF Group
of Companies, with construction, steel, manufacturing
and real estate businesses. BF built the countrys tallest
building, top shopping malls, industrial and residential
subdivisions and other facilities. Like Consunji, BF is
also a former secretary of the Department of Public
Works and Highways. BF once told me that engineers like
him are more practical and prefer to focus more on
solving problems.
Bayani Fernando