Asia CEO Awards
Asia
CEO Awards identifies and recognizes leadership excellence by
internationally focused individuals and organizations in
Philippines.
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CEO AWARDS WINNERS RECOGNIZED
With
over 100 nominations and more than 50 finalists, eight names
representing eight categories won the respect and admiration of some of
the world’s business leaders as they were called and recognized in the
first-ever Asia CEO Awards at the Dusit Thani Hotel, Makati, on
Thursday.
One of the country’s largest banks, Banco de Oro, bagged
the KPMG Executive Leadership Team of the Year, besting nine other big
names that included ABS-CBN, Ayala Land, Convergys Philippines, GMA
Network, GlaxoSmithKline Philippines, Hyundai Asia Resources, Kepco
Philippines, Kraft Foods Philippines and Security Bank.
For the Technology Leadership Team of the Year, InfoWeapons won the
award over Accenture Philippines, Gurango Software, Morphlabs and VOIM
English. InfoWeapons Corp. is the Cebu City-based office of the Dulles,
Virginia-headquartered manufacturer of IPv6-compliant Internet
products. Its testing facility in the Philippines is one of only six
sites in the world accredited to conduct conformance and
interoperability testing under the IPv6 ready-and-enabled logo program.
Fluor Daniel Philippines Inc. received the Finance Leadership Team of
the Year, with Ayala Land and Security Bank as other finalists. Fluor
Daniel is engaged in providing detailed engineering design,
procurement, controls and project management services for a wide range
of projects applicable to industries such as electronics, petroleum and
petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.
The NorthgateArinso HR Leadership Team of the Year went to Magsaysay
Maritime over Convergys Philippines, GlaxoSmithKline Philippines, IBM
and Unilever Philippines.
The former two-man-team company of The Net Group brought home the
Entrepreneurial Leadership Team of the Year. Other finalists included
ActiveOne Health, FirstCarbon Solutions, Global Gateway Venture
Capital, ICCP Venture Partners and iRemit.
Award presenter Henry Schumacher of the European Chamber of Commerce of
the Philippines said he really admires entrepreneurs for they have the
courage to take risks and bet their money on something that they hope
will be worth it in the end.
As
for the Nonprofit Leadership Team of the Year, Gawad Kalinga Community
Development Foundation garnered the distinction, with other deserving
finalists Aboitiz Foundation, Community and Family Services
International, Philippine National Red Cross and Wholistic
Transformation Resource Center.
The
man who braved coming into the country and stayed, Chandramogan
Anamirtham of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Philippines, won the
Jones Lang LaSalle Leechiu Expatriate Executive of the Year. Other
finalists included Chris Duncan-Webb, Maulik Parekh, Michael Raeuber,
Sanjiv Vohra and Serge Grynkewich.
The
Hitachi president and general manager admitted that the minute he
stepped foot on the Manila airport, he told himself that he will make a
difference in the company and his stay will be a memorable one.
For
the last award, it was Manuel V. Pangi-linan of MetroPacific who
emerged as the Global Filipino Executive of the Year. The business
magnate won over the powerhouse set of finalists that included Antonino
Aquino, Erramon Aboitiz, Felipe Gozon, Fred Ayala, James Velasquez,
Javier Infante, Kingson Sian, Maria Fe Perez-Agudo, Marife Zamora,
Norberto Viera and Reynaldo Vea.
Also on the same night, Lifetime Contributor awards were given to Robert Sears and Oscar Sañez.
Sears
is the executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce.
According to him, he already considers the country as his second home
where the “best people in the world” are.
Sañez,
meanwhile, is the president and CEO of the Business Processing
Association of the Philippines, with over 28 years of senior management
and leadership experience in consumer goods marketing in five countries.
Bernie
Villegas, prominent economist, author and professor at the University
of Asia and the Pacific; Don Felbaum, founder and chairman of the ICT
and Health Sections of the American Chamber of Commerce; Edward Chang,
president of the Korean Chamber of Commerce Philippines; Francis
Estrada, chairman of De La Salle University and former CEO of the Asian
Institute of Management; Henry Schumacher, founder and executive
director of European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines; Nobuo
Fujii, vice president and the key executive of the Japanese Chamber of
Commerce and Industry of the Philippines; and Richard Mills, former
president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and a current Board of
Governors member composed the board of judges.
Described
as the “grandest alliance of the local and foreign business
communities,” Asia CEO Awards was created to promote the Philippines on
the international stage.
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