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On ‘coming off the bench’ a la Pau Gasol
By Cecile Caguingin-Ochoa My budding interest in sports perked up lately with the drama involving the NBA play-offs by realizing how this impacts real-life work. It started with the injuries. So it is — the L.A. Lakers were scheduled to meet with the Brooklyn Nets Tuesday February 5 at the Barclay Center with injured players […]
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Boss lady at the Blakely
By Elton Lugay When superstorm Sandy battered the New York region in October, Charice Pempengco found herself stranded at The Blakely Hotel on West 55th. Managing director of sales and marketing Theresa Gonzales made sure the “Glee” singer-actress felt at home and comfortable while waiting for her canceled flight to Los Angeles to resume. Theresa […]
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Essay contest on the life of Reginald F. Lewis offering $5K in grants; deadline is Jan 11
Five scholarship grants of $5,000 each are being offered to New York City high school seniors through an essay contest on the life of Reginald F. Lewis, the late CEO and chairman of TLC Beatrice International with the deadline for submission on January 11. Students in their senior year at a New York City public […]
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Former AIG chairman sees the PH as a ‘high growth area’
Former AIG Chairman Hank Greenberg praised the Philippines as one of the high growth areas in the world during his lecture last week on “The U.S.- Philippine relationship: A Heightened Importance” held at Fordham University. Greenberg who is currently the chairman and CEO of C.V. Starr and Company, spoke nostalgically about his days building up […]
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Women-, minority-owned businesses invited to attend investment forum
By Federico A. Espiritu An investment and entrepreneurship forum aimed at creating linkages among minority and women-owned businesses will be held in New York next month. The Foundation & Endowment Emerging Manager Round-Up Forum will take place on December 10th at the Ford Foundation and December 11th at Westin Grand Central, according to RG & […]
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Kosherfest expo to showcase banana chips, coco jam from the Philippines
Philippine food companies will be participating for the first time in Kosherfest 2012, the world’s largest kosher-certified products trade show to be held November 13 and 14 at Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, New Jersey. At least five companies will debut their products before top kosher supermarkets, restaurant and food service buyers, said Philippine Agriculture […]
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Investing in the Motherland
Tom Riggio, an apartment owner from Queens, visited the Philippines and parts of Asia in the 1970s and loved everything about the country – the idyllic rural life, the richly delicious food, the kindness and warmth of the Filipinos. On his second visit years later, he married a Filipino woman. Now separated and retired, Tom […]
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CEOs to mentor Filipino entrepreneurs
New York CEO and philanthropist Loida Nicolas Lewis leads a panel of U.S.-based business executives who will be mentoring Filipinos entrepreneurs on how to take their genius from local to global. The four days of brainstorming will take place October 5 to 8 at the Manila Peninsula in Makati City. Organized by the Philippine Development […]
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Best of both worlds for Gerard Araw, Wall Street banker and suburban family man
By Cristina DC Pastor Gerard Araw, the relationship manager for Commerzbank, probably speaks for many immigrant professionals who are trying to strike a balance between the traditions they grew up with and the alluring cosmopolitan lifestyle of New York. Gerard, 41, works in Lower Manhattan and goes home to his family in Springfield, New Jersey. […]