Manuel lopez meralco biography examples

Manuel “Manolo” M. Lopez, former chairman and CEO of power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) passed away on Thursday, Jan.

12, at the age of 80, the family has announced.

Lopez, who is widely known in business circles as well as to Meralco employees and executives as “MML”, was the Philippine Ambassador to Japan during the Aquino administration ().

It was in that role that he greatly helped the Philippine government enticed many of the Japanese companies to invest in the Philippines.

A younger brother to the late ABS-CBN Chairman Eugenio “Geny” Lopez Jr. and First Philippine Holdings Corporation Chairman Emeritus Oscar M.

Lopez, Manolo led Meralco during its turbulent years because of a government-maneuvered takeover which forced the Lopez family to sell their shares to the group of businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan in

In his retirement years, he was the torch guiding his sons on their respective corporate roles – pr