Robina Gokongwei-Pe | |
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Born | 15 July 1962 |
Nationality | Filipino |
Education | University of the Philippines New York University |
Occupation(s) | Businesswoman, investor, philanthropist |
Spouse | Perry Pe (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]
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 write some column at The Philippine Star named Chicken Feed. [5] [6]
Gokongwei was once kidnapped in the 1970s, only saved by unit of Metrocom Intelligence and Security Group (MISG) led by Ping Lacson. When Lacson ran in 2022, she supported his campaign. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
Gokongwei was sponsor and patron for her alma mater, the UP Fighting Maroons. [12] [13]
Gokongwei's married to Perry Pe, an Atenista lawyer. [14] [15]
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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