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Jose Rene Almendras

Jose Rene Almendras

Director of the Company since March 30, 2009 and became the President also on March 30, 2009. He joined the Company on January 1, 2007 as a Group Director for Business. He was previously connected with Ayala Land, Inc. as a member of the Management Committee and concurrently Head of the Visayas Mindanao Business and [...]

Florencio Abad

Florencio Abad

Hon. Florencio B. Abad is the secretary of the Department of Budget and Management. He is also a former Representative of the Lone District to the 8th (1987-1990), 10th, 11th, and 12 Philippine Congress (1995-2004) and was appointed Secretary of the Department of Agrarian Reform (January 4, 1990 – April 5, 1990) and Department of [...]

Armin Luistro

Armin Luistro

Brother Armin Altamirano Luistro FSC is a Filipino La Sallian Brother who is currently the President of De La Salle University-Manila and the Chief Executive Officer of De La Salle Philippines, Inc. Luistro was born on December 24, 1961 to Jose Dimayuga and Magdalena Aranda Altamirano in Lipa City, Batangas. From 1966-1967, he studied at [...]

Paquito Ochoa Jr.

Paquito Ochoa

Paquito Ochoa Jr. is a Filipino Lawyer who serve as City administrator of Quezon City, Philippines, under the term of Mayor Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. He has been appointed Executive Secretary to President-elect Benigno Aquino III. Ochoa finished economics at the University of Santo Tomas and law at the Ateneo de Manila. Incoming search terms:paquito ochoa [...]

Jesse Robredo

Jesse Robredo

Jesse Manalastas Robredo is the current Secretary of the Interior and Local Government of the Philippines. Robredo is a member of the Liberal Party. On July 9, 2010, President Benigno Aquino III named Robredo as Secretary of the Interior and Local Government. Robredo was formerly the Mayor of Naga City in Bicol. Robredo is the [...]

Teofisto Guingona, Jr.

Teofisto Tayko Guingona, Jr. (born July 4, 1928 in San Juan, Rizal) was the Vice President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2004 during the first term of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Teofisto Guingona was born on July 4, 1928 in San Juan, Rizal, and was raised in Marawi City in Mandanao. His parents were former assemblyman, [...]

Salvador Laurel

Salvador Roman Hidalgo Laurel (November 18, 1928 – January 27, 2004), also known as Doy Laurel, was Vice President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992 under Corazon Aquino. Before that, he briefly served as Aquino’s first (and only) Prime Minister from February 25 to March 25 of 1986. Laurel is the fifth son of [...]

Ramon Avanceña

Ramon Avanceña (April 13, 1872 – June 12, 1957) was a Chief Justice of the Philippines. He served from 1925-1941, when he resigned during the nearing of the Japanese Occupation. He later served as one of the vice-presidents of Jose Laurel in the puppet Second Republic. Ramon Avanceña served as a legal adviser to the [...]

Noli de Castro

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Manuel Leuterio de Castro, Jr. (born July 6, 1949), better known as Noli de Castro or “Kabayan” Noli de Castro, is a politician and former broadcast journalist in the Philippines. De Castro was elected Senator in 2001 and was elected as Vice President of the Philippines in 2004. He is the first independent Senatorial topnotcher [...]

Mariano Trías

Mariano Trías y Closas (October 12, 1868 – February 22, 1914) is considered to be the first de facto Philippine Vice President of that revolutionary government established at the Tejeros Convention – an assembly of Philippine revolutionary leaders that elected officials of the revolutionary movement against the colonial government of Spain. When that assembly broke [...]