Anvil Executive Club cites Sterling Paper CEO Henry Lim

Anvil Executive Club, the dynamic business organization of young Filipino Chinese entrepreneurs and professionals, has invited Sterling Paper Group chairman Henry Lim Bon Liong to be its guest speaker in the Anvil Exchange Forum today at 8:30 p.m. at the Rockefeller Room of Astoria Plaza, Escriva Street (former Amber Avenue), Ortigas Center, Pasig City.

Anvil honors 51-year-old business leader Lim for his entrepreneurial leadership and his pioneering efforts in bringing China’s famous rice hybrid technology for rural Filipino farmers.

Lim supports the National Government’s goal of rice self-sufficiency and agriculture modernization.

On Dec. 13, during the annual Philippine Business Conference at the Manila Hotel, Henry Lim Bon Liong will receive the Aurelio Periquet Jr. Business Leadership Award from the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), Manila Jaycees, Periquet Foundation and Metrobank Foundation.

A graduate of UP, Letran and the University of Asia and the Pacific, Lim is external affairs committee chairman and director of the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (FFCCCII), past president of the Philippine Stationers Association and president of the Philippine Quanzhou Association.

He has donated over 20 public schoolbuildings to rural barangays in Bulacan and Cavite under the Filipino Chinese business community’s "Operation Barrio Schools".

The newly-elected 2003 to 2004 board of directors of Anvil Executive Club is led by chairman Mark Sy Cabilangan, president Ronald Alan Ko, as well as Jeffrey Cobankiat, Solon Sy, Richard Go Barria, Robert Marie Sy, George Siy, Michael Chenglay, Wilfred Co, Bernard Go, Jeffrey Ng, Wilson Lee Flores, Eduardo Cobankiat, Anthony Chiongson and Jeffrey Lao.

Established in 1981, Anvil Executive Club has become a training ground for future business leaders and entrepreneurs who seek to propagate traditional Confucian values and entrepreneurial courage in support of Philippine economic progress.

Among the former chairpersons of Anvil Executive Club include Elena Tanyu Coyiuto, George Siy, David Chua of Cathay Pacific Steel Corp., Michael G. Tan of Asia Brewery, Peter Go Mangasing of Unicon Wires & Cable, Steven Cua of the Philippine Amalgamated Supermarkets Association, Wilfred Co of Robinsons Handyman hardware chain, Michael Chenglay and Bernard Go of Contract Designs Furnitures, while a former Anvil president is Jeffrey Ng of Cathay Metal Corp.