Robina Gokongwei

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Robina Gokongwei-Pe
Born (1962-07-15) 15 July 1962 (age 62)
NationalityFilipino
Education University of the Philippines
New York University
Occupation(s)Businesswoman, investor, philanthropist
Spouse
Perry Pe
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(m. 1993)​
Parent(s) John Gokongwei
Elizabeth Yu

Robina Gokongwei-Pe (born July 15, 1962) is a Filipino businesswoman who is currently a member of board of directors and COO of Robinsons Malls. [1] She is the daughter of late tycoon John Gokongwei and Elizabeth Yu-Gokongwei. [2]

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Business

She is also a director of Robinsons Land Corporation, Cebu Air, Inc., and now defunct Robinsons Bank Corporation. [3] She is a trustee and the secretary of the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation, Inc. and a trustee of the Immaculate Concepcion Academy Scholarship Fund. [4]

Gokongwei formerly wrote a column at The Philippine Star named Chicken Feed. [5] [6]

Kidnapping victim

Gokongwei was once kidnapped in the 1970s, only to be saved later by a unit of the Metrocom Intelligence and Security Group (MISG) led by Ping Lacson. When Lacson ran in 2022, she supported his campaign. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

Sports

Gokongwei is a sponsor and patron for her alma mater’s men’s basketball team, the UP Fighting Maroons. [12] [13]

Personal life

Gokongwei is married to Perry Pe, an Atenista lawyer. [14] [15]

Robinsons Galleria urban legend

An urban legend relating to the Robinsons Galleria flourished in the 1990s, which claimed of a half-snake, half-human creature that resided in the basement of the mall and purported to be a lucky charm installed by the Gokongwei family, feeding it with unsuspecting victims from a supposed shaft from a dressing room. Among its supposed victims were actresses Alice Dixson and Rita Avila. Although the rumor is now considered absurd and dead, it was revived in 2010 after a supposed YouTube video depicting it surfaced. [16]

Gokongwei asserted in 2008 that the tale emerged from the "market competition". [17] Dixson herself dismissed the entire narrative as fake, and in 2020 she finally put the entire tale to rest through a YouTube video. [18] She had appeared in a videographic advertisement by the mall two years earlier, poking fun at and lampooning the extinct urban legend. [17] [19]

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