Note: Ryan was my schoolmate in Notre Dame of Dadiangas College, Gen Santos City. Our era was Gensans brightest, successful ..in all fields of sorts👍
A prosperous businessman with a gift for charity, Ryan Rivera aspires to be in local politics as a reformer. The scion of a Mindanao industrialist, he is making a bid for congressman in the first district of General Santos City-South Cotabato under the Kilusan ng Bagong Lipunan. His goal is to create more jobs, improve public services and make his hometown one of the best places to live in the country.
The 49-year-old political aspirant is the son of self-made billionaire Rodrigo Rivera Sr. and philanthropist Dolores Chua. The older Riveraestablished the conglomerate, RD Group of Companies, whose main business is tuna. It is the largest employer in General Santos.
Rivera took up graduate studies in business in Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Richmond, Vancouver. He has managed the family businesses in hospitality, banking, fishery and ship repair.
Not wanting to rest on the family’s laurels, the enterprising Rivera put up his own businesses in micro-finance and mining.
Coming from a religious family, Rivera believes that business and wealth are just means to help humanity. “We’ve been have been blessed by God, so we feel it is our responsibility to give back,” he says.
Rivera takes pride in the family’s philanthropy through the RD Foundation. It has provided scholarships for children from the local tribes and low-income families; organized medical mission and supported orphanages, to name a few.
Rivera says he will bring to politics the same determination and discipline he displays in running businesses.
“I want to set an example. If I say it will be done in three days, it will be accomplished in three days. We learned that in international business. When you promise to deliver your container in 30 days, you have to abide or else you will be penalized. We account for every single centavo. It’s all about the will to get things done,” says Rivera.
On confronting poverty, Rivera believes in the dictum “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” His vision is to confront poverty through more opportunities for education and livelihood.
“You have to think about being there for others,” he says. By: Ayunan C. Gunting
The 49-year-old political aspirant is the son of self-made billionaire Rodrigo Rivera Sr. and philanthropist Dolores Chua. The older Riveraestablished the conglomerate, RD Group of Companies, whose main business is tuna. It is the largest employer in General Santos.
Rivera took up graduate studies in business in Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Richmond, Vancouver. He has managed the family businesses in hospitality, banking, fishery and ship repair.
Not wanting to rest on the family’s laurels, the enterprising Rivera put up his own businesses in micro-finance and mining.
Coming from a religious family, Rivera believes that business and wealth are just means to help humanity. “We’ve been have been blessed by God, so we feel it is our responsibility to give back,” he says.
Rivera takes pride in the family’s philanthropy through the RD Foundation. It has provided scholarships for children from the local tribes and low-income families; organized medical mission and supported orphanages, to name a few.
Rivera says he will bring to politics the same determination and discipline he displays in running businesses.
“I want to set an example. If I say it will be done in three days, it will be accomplished in three days. We learned that in international business. When you promise to deliver your container in 30 days, you have to abide or else you will be penalized. We account for every single centavo. It’s all about the will to get things done,” says Rivera.
On confronting poverty, Rivera believes in the dictum “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” His vision is to confront poverty through more opportunities for education and livelihood.
“You have to think about being there for others,” he says. By: Ayunan C. Gunting
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