Lance Yu Gokongwei was born on 23 November 1966 and is a Filipino businessman.
20 Facts About Lance Gokongwei
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Lance Gokongwei is the President and CEO of JG Summit Holdings, Inc since 2018.
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Lance Gokongwei was born in Manila as the second of six children.
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Lance Gokongwei went to Xavier School until the second year of high school.
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Lance Gokongwei then finished his last two years of high school in Singapore.
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Lance Gokongwei began his career joining the family business as a management trainee at Universal Robina Corporation.
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Lance Gokongwei sold Jack 'n Jill snacks to supermarkets, groceries, and sari-sari stores.
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Lance Gokongwei acquired New Zealand-based cookie maker Griffin's Foods for 700 million New Zealand dollars, giving Universal Robina a presence in the South Pacific.
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In 1996, Lance Gokongwei was tasked by his father to take on the challenge of building a new low-cost airline, Cebu Pacific Air.
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In December 2022, Lance Gokongwei announced his resignation as president and CEO of Cebu Pacific.
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In 2018, Lance Gokongwei was named CEO of JG Summit Holdings, a holding company which provides consumer foods, agro-industrial and commodity food products, real property development, hotels, telecommunications, petrochemicals, air transportation and power generation.
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Lance Gokongwei took over as president and CEO of Robinsons Land Corp.
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Lance Gokongwei later resigned his position as president and CEO of Robinsons Land on February 1,2025 while maintaining his role as chairman of the company.
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Lance Gokongwei is a member of the National Advisory Council of WWF Philippines.
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In 2020, Lance Gokongwei was named a member of board of the Global Reporting Initiative, representing the business enterprise sector.
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Lance Gokongwei is the chairman of the Lance Gokongwei Brothers Foundation, the largest private sector provider of STEM scholarships in the Philippines.
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Lance Gokongwei won the EY-Bank of Singapore Asean Entrepreneurial Excellence Award for 2024.
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Lance Gokongwei was awarded the 2005 Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young, one of Ten Outstanding Young Men in the Philippines in 2000, Finance Asia's Best CEO in 2015 and 2018, and Institutional Investors Best CEO in 2015.
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In 2016, Lance Gokongwei wrote a book titled Lessons from Dad, John Lance Gokongwei Jr.
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Lance Gokongwei contributed to an anthology titled Letters to My Children.