FOUR businessmen and one lady entrepreneur were elected to the Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc. board of trustees during the 49th annual election of the multi-awarded business chamber held at the Park Inn by Radisson Hotel in Lanang last Saturday.
This was announced by the DCCCII Comelec committee composed of lawyer Bienvenido Cariaga as chairman and Delia M. Ladao and Robert “Boyet” Quinto as members. All three are past presidents of the chamber.
Elected were Bonifacio T. Tan, Antonio dela Cruz, Arturo M. Milan, Jennifer Sazon and Juanito “Ricky” Tgabucba.
Tan owns several companies, although he is mainly a rubber exporter. Cruz is a cooperative leader, security agency operator and former banker, while Milan is the top executive of the Davao Light and Power Company, Inc. Sazon operates many companies, while Tagabucba is top banana executive who recently retired and is now operating his own businesses.
Topping the balloting was Boni Tan, who is the business chamber’s incumbent president. Tan and dela Cruz each served the chamber twice as past presidents. Sazon and Tagabucba are the newcomers to the board of trustees.
The newly elected trustees will join 10 other incumbent board members in a special meeting on December 6 at the chamber headquarters to elect the chairman, president, executive vice president , other vice presidents for sectors, corporate secretary, corporate treasurer.
The 10 other trustees are Sofronio Jucutan, Teresita Pascual, Belinda L. Torres, Luciano Frederick Puyod III, Capt. Ronald C. Go, Yvonne F. Cabada, Alvin M. Pinpin, engineer Wlifred “Evoy” Torres, Jocelyn Romero and Antonio M. Ajero.
