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Roberto Velayo Ongpin (January 6, 1937 – February 4, 2023) was a Filipino businessman who served as the Minister of Commerce and Industry (initially as Minister of Industry) during the Marcos administration. [3] His younger brother Jaime served as the Minister of Finance of the Philippines under Marcos's successor, President Corazon Aquino. [4]
Mar 3, 2023 · He refused to publicize it, but since 1988, he has funded thousands of full scholarships to the Ateneo de Manila University, in the name of his brother, Jaime, who passed away in 1987. The brothers had attended both Ateneo and Harvard on scholarship from anonymous donors. The real Bobby Ongpin As a manager, he is not interested in the merely ...
Feb 8, 2023 · It was his late younger brother, former finance minister Jaime “Jimmy” Ongpin, who initiated the research on their ancestral roots in 1984. For Bobby, it was his duty to pick up from...
Ongpin was the younger brother of Roberto Ongpin who had been Minister of Trade and Industry under President Ferdinand Marcos. Ongpin was a 1958 graduate of the Ateneo de Manila University and from Harvard Business School in 1962. [ 1 ]
- He Comes from The Prominent Ongpin Family.
- He Owns Alphaland and Balesin Island Club, Among Other things.
- Has A Net Worth of $1.1 Billion.
- During The Marcos Regime, He Served as Minister of Trade and Industry.
- He Has Four children.
- His Son Julian Is Currently in The Middle of An Investigation.
Through his father, Luis Roa Ongpin, Roberto Ongpin descends from the Ongpin family. The influential family owes its prominence to patriarch Roman Ongpin, who was a supporter of the Philippine revolution. According to Town & Country Philippines, the family is "virtually synonymous with Binondo, Manila's Chinatown." Today, the family's modern descen...
Since 2009, Ongpin has been director and chairman of the board at Alphaland. He's also the chairman of Atok-Big Wedge Company, Inc. In the past, he was the director of San Miguel Corporation, PAL Holdings, Inc., and Petron Corporation. Alphaland and the Ongpin name have been tied to the development of Balesin Island Club which is an "opulent, all-e...
As of this writing, Forbesreports Ongpin's real-time net worth at $1.1 billion (approximately P55.1 billion) which puts him at the 22nd spot of the Philippines' 50 Richest 2021. In the magazine's list of all the world's billionaires, the 84-year-old tycoon lands at No. 2,378.
In 1979, Ongpin became the Trade and Industry Minister after he was appointed by President Marcos. After the 1986 People Power Revolution, he stayed abroad and returned to the Philippines during the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to focus on business.
While pursuing his master's of business administration from Harvard University, he met and married Italian-Chilean Monica Arellano Ongpin. Together, they have two children Stephen and Anna. He also has a daughter and son out of wedlock, Michelle from a German mother, and Julian from an Australian mother. In a 2017 Forbes interview, Ongpin says his ...
On Saturday, Bree Jonson was found unconscious in Flotsam & Jetsam Artist Beach Hostel in San Juan, La Union. She was later declared dead after being brought to a hospital. Julian Ongpin, who shared a hotel room with Jonson, was being investigated for his possible involvement in the artist's death and charged with possession of 12.6 grams of cocain...
- Esquire Philippines
Feb 5, 2023 · MANILA, Philippines (Updated 2:32 .pm.) — Billionaire Roberto "Bobby" Ongpin died Saturday night on exclusive Balesin Island off the coast of Polillo, Quezon, according to reports quoting his...
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Mar 12, 2023 · President Bongbong Marcos remembers the first time he was in the same room with the late Roberto “Bobby” V. Ongpin, who was then serving as the youngest minister in the Cabinet of his father, then President Ferdinand Marcos Sr.
