Ramon v del rosario sr biography

Fatherless at nine, he was introduced early to the nuances of hard work, helping his mother survive on a meager teacher’s salary during the Depression. During his schooldays at La Salle, he had to contend with missed lunches and often dispensed with the luxuries of motorized transport simply to meet the costs of quality education.

And out of that circumstance came a young man of steadiness, calm and a cheerful confidence that life would bring good things.

His remarkable motivation and matchless determination to succeed carried him out of mediocrity and away from the Depression.

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He became the first Filipino General Manager of IBM Philippines in 1946 at the tender of 29. In 1951, he joined Philippine American Life Insurance Company as Executive Vice-President. In 1953, he embarked on his first entrepreneurial venture by helping his siblings set up the Del Rosario Brothers, Inc.

­ a company that manufactured and distributed household appliances to customers on an ins