Teresita Sy-Coson
Manila, Philippines
Bachelor of Science, Assumption College
Philippines
diversified
$2,200,000,000
1057
#1057 Billionaires 2019
Teresita Sy-Coson is co-chairman of SM Investments, one of the country's largest conglomerates started by her late father Henry Sy. She is the eldest child and first daughter of the group's founder. Her SM experience spans retail merchandising, mall development, and banking. She also serves as the chairperson of BDO Unibank, a retail bank. Her husband was Chinese lumber tycoon Louis Coson who died of illness in 2003.
Her father discouraged her from getting a masters and said, "Come work with me; it's the school of hard knocks."At age 22 she helped open SM's first department store in Manila.
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