Teaching Entrepreneurship – My Life Story as an Example

About Prof. Jorge Saguinsin

Facilitator for Entrepreneurship

FROM BEING SQUATTER TO BEING A MASTER

Hard work and education go hand in hand

Commencement ExercisesValedictorian, 1964

Rizal High SchoolClass Salutatorian 1968

Ateneo de ManilaMagna Cum Laude AB Behavioral ScienceClass 1972

Academic excellence alone does not guarantee success

Wanting to save the country

My stint as an activist, then joining the “establishment”

Being an Activist

Part of the journey: taking MBA and putting up businesses

Completing MBA after 20 years

Being Part of Ateneo Graduate School of Business

Dual Roles

As a student and as a faculty

Building communities

For the living

For the deceased

Montevideo

Sunnyvale IV

Notable life achievements:

Founding and running Maunlad Savings and Loan Association;

Founding and running the family owned corporation- Unisun Group of Companies

Founding the Amado M Saguinsin Mem Foundation to implement CSR for Unisun Group

Setting up 3l corporations which cover water co; construction, finance, supermarket, subdivision

development, memorial park, homes.

Unishire Hathaway Financing Co.

Founded on May 6, 1988Started operations on June 19, 1988

Role Models/influencers:

Peter Drucker Harold Geneen Edward Deming Jack Welch (GE) Konosuke Matsushita Akio Morita Donald Trump Dale Carnegie

Sixto K Roxas Jaime Ongpin Joseph Mcmicking John Gokongwei Li Kai Shing

The Gurus

Corporate Social Responsibility

Scholars So far, the Foundation has sent to College over

30 poor but deserving students.

Fire trucksGarbage truck donationChurch construction

Graduation of one of the AMSMF Scholars

Donation of garbage trucks

Setting the standards

in Interment Service

Holy Gardens Memorial Park

The Philippine Star,October 30, 2004

Holy Gardens Greenhills Memorial ParkCalamba City, Laguna

Holy Gardens Matutum Memorial ParkPolomolok, South Cotabato

Holy Gardens Manila EastManila East Road, Taytay, Rizal

Being a teacher

Being a student again

Giving back to Ateneo

Focus on ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Constant innovation

Leading edge knowledge

Joining Go Negosyo Movement

CHARACTER BUILDING

EXTREME SPORTS AND EXERCISE

Banawe rice terraces

Mountain

climbing

Mt. Pulag Summit

Mountain

climbing

Mt. Banahaw

Mountain

climbing

Mt. Apo

Mt. Pinatubo crater

Off-roading

Off-roading

Off-roading

MarathonFull Marathon (42.195 km)

First ever marathon,

the PAL marathon –

January 1986.

Biking to Sampaloc, Tanay and Mabitac

STILL GOING STRONG

Hill Climb at Mabitac Laguna

With fellow younger bikers

At the Lion’s Mouth, Kennon

Road

January 2011

Biking down Marcos Highway (Baguio)

Biked all the way from Manila to Baguio

Extreme sports develop character and determination

Victory belongs not to the swift, but to the one who persists.

Quotable quotes:

“Success is constant realization of desired

goals and plans.”“We do not need more men, more money;

we need more spirit in men.”“Victory belongs not to the swift, but to the

one who persists.”“Persistence and determination alone are

omnipotent.”

THANK YOU!Profjorge.entrep@gmail.com