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As president and CEO of CREC, Tan is helping lead one of the Philippines’ most ambitious renewable energy expansion programs. Here he tells the story of his years with Megawide.

As tycoon Ramon Ang reportedly buys Gabby Lopez’s stake in Lopez Inc., it helps to understand the company’s ownership structure and the strategies it employed to ward off threats over the years.

In the five-month Lopez family saga, there is one, inescapable fact: someone has to put money in.

The Philippine Stock Exchange has penalized First Gen for disclosure violations. Underneath the sanction is a question every family business eventually answers: whose clock are we on?

Both sides said they wanted peace. The clues that they did not were hiding in everything they said and did while saying it.

Amidst a very public clash with his cousins about the leadership of Lopez Inc., all eyes and ears were on Federico “Piki” Lopez when he delivered a speech at First Gen’s annual stockholders meeting.

If you only came to the story when the Lopez cousins started suing each other, it helps to start with a simpler picture: one family, one flagship utility, and a very ambitious buyout.

In this candid one-on-one with startup founder and AI expert Carlo Almendral, Uy reveals a side of himself rarely seen: an engineering geek-turned-businessman whose eyes light up discussing the possibilities of technology. He also talks about his commitment to nation-building through various initiatives aimed at grassroots education and livelihood and his vision not just for his company but for the entire country.

Hero worship won’t save us—only concrete action and a willingness to break from our self-defeating habits will.