MANILA BULLETIN - Gokongweis speak at Business Forum

by Heidi Ng
October 20, 2013

From left, front row: AYFCE VP Marcelo Co, AYFCE President Jovenson Ong, Keynote Speaker Lance Gokongwei, AYFCE Chairman Jeffrey Ng,
From left, back row: AYFCE VP Edison Kwong, AYFCE Director Christopher Go, AYFCE VPs Hubert Henry Chua and Alvin C. Teng, AYFCE Director Robert Marie Sy and AYFCE VP Jeremy Sy

From left: Patrick and Shalini Ong, AYFCE President Jovenson Ong, Shereen, Sheridine and Carl Yao of Crissa Jeans

Given the special challenges of its time, the second and third generation Filipino-Chinese leaders who comprise the Association of Young Filipino-Chinese Entrepreneurs (which was called formerly the Anvil Business Club), held a forum to address the challenge of successful succession planning. No less than Lance Gokongwei and his elder sister Robina Gokongwei-Pe were its marquee speakers on this topic. It was held at the speakers’ Crowne Plaza hotel in Ortigas amidst luxury Chinese lauriat buffet. Captains of industry and their families, top leaders from the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc., Philippine Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry attended the dinner forum. The Chinese Embassy’s Consul General Shen Zicheng and Consul Chen Meiluan were also very much engaged with the topic at hand.
AYFCE is committed to empowering the Filipino-Chinese youth, preserving its Confucian values as well as giving a voice to the community. Its advocacy is entrepreneurship. It does so by holding bi-monthly forums wherein by leveraging on their well-lubricated network, they invite marquee leaders from various industries and backgrounds to hold intimate talks. Given the exclusive nature of the club, it is thus able to achieve its goal to have its members have a mentor-protégé’ relationship with its very elusive guest-speakers as well as the club’s top members. AYFCE has been doing this for more than 20 years, month in and month out. Now you know this secret club!

From left: FFCCCII VP Mary Ng of the Federation of Filipino Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Inc. PCCCI Chairman Joey Go, Consul Meiluan from the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China, FFCCCII’s Cai Jian Cheng and Eusebio Lu, Jr. of Office Basics Corporation

From left: PLDT SME Nation Strategic Accounts Management Head Jecyn Chua- Teng, Sun Cellular Vice President Faraday Go, Robina Gokongwei-Pe, AYFCE Honorary Chairman Wilfred Co, Keynote Speaker Lance Gokongwei, AYFCE VP Alvin Teng, AYFCE President Jovenson Ong and AYFCE Honorary Chairman Michael Chenglay

From left: FIRST ROW, AYFCE Honorary Chairman Michael Chenglay, Consul Chen Meiluan from the Embassy of People’s Republic of China, AYFCE Chairman Jeffrey T. Ng, AYFCE Honorary Chairman Roy Chua; 2ND ROW, AYFCE Honorary Chairman Peter Mangasing, PLDT First Vice President and Head of SME Nation Kat Luna-Abelarde, Keynote Speaker Lance Gokongwei, Chinese Consul General Chen Zi Cheng; 3RD ROW, AYFCE Honorary Chairman Michael G. Tan, AYFCE President Jovenson Ong, AYFCE Past Chairman Steven Cua, AYFCE Honorary Chairman Stefan Tong Wai Mun, AYFCE Chairman Emeritus George T. Siy;
4TH ROW, AYFCE Honorary Chairman Wilfred Co and AYFCE Honorary Chairman Eduardo Cobankiat