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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Lucio C. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Ramon S. Ang
Ang is a mechanical engineering graduate from Far Eastern University and is the Vice-Chairman,
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.
7. 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.
8. Bayani Fernando
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.”
9. Alfredo Lazarte Juinio
A civil engineer, educator, and public official of the Philippines, he served as the dean of
the College of Engineering of the University of the Philippines. Alfredo Juinio Hall, the building
that houses the National Engineering Center, is named after him. He was once described as "one
of the country's most brilliant engineers. 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. Juinio
was also the co-founder of the DCCD Engineering Corporation and a consultant to various
government agencies.
10. Rodolfo Quiambao
A graduate from Mapua Institute of Technology in Manila, Rudy came to the United States more
than three decades ago. After 20 years of working in several different companies in the U.S., he
founded Rudell and Associates, a full-service engineering consulting company that provides
engineering, design, and project management services from nuclear and fossil generating plants,
substations, transmission, distributions, to commercial facilities, and infrastructures. Quiambao
has also co-founded and became the second president of the Filipino American Association of
Engineers to assist engineers with their professions through mentoring and accreditation.
References:
https://gineersnow.com/leadership/filipino-engineers-became-business-tycoons
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/content/48706/filipino-engineer-among-america-s-
business-elite/story/
https://www.pinoyexchange.com/discussion/338100/the-greatest-filipino-engineers-by-abet-dost-
pia

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