Lance Gokongwei

In 2020, Gokongwei was named a member of board of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), representing the business enterprise sector.

In 2018, Gokongwei was named CEO of JG Summit. In 2020, the company was hit by quarantine measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, its income and revenues fell.

In 2016, Gokongwei wrote a book "Lessons from Dad, John Gokongwei Jr." He also contributed to an anthology titled "Letters to My Children".

In 2013, Gokongwei became chief executive of Universal Robina. The following year, he partnered with Japan's Calbee and France's Danone for potato chips and beverages respectively. He also acquired New Zealand-based cookie maker Griffin's Foods for 700 million New Zealand dollars ($609 million at the time), giving Universal Robina a presence in the South Pacific. The partnership with Calbee, however, ended five years later as Calbee suffered losses in the Philippine market.

In 2010, Cebu Pacific became the Philippines' largest airline.

Gokongwei was awarded the 2005 Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young, one of Ten Outstanding Young Men in the Philippines in 2000, Finance Asia’s Best CEO in 2015 and 2018, and Institutional Investors’ Best CEO in 2015.

Then tragedy struck, when in February 1998, two years after the company's inception, Cebu Pacific Flight 387 slammed into a mountainside, killing all 104 people aboard. At the time, it was the nation's worst air disaster.

In 1996, Lance Gokongwei was tasked by his father, John, Jr., to take on the challenge of building a new affordable airline, Cebu Pacific Air.

In the late 1990s, Gokongwei became general manager of Universal Robina's branded food business, where he led the development of beverages. In 2004, the company introduced C2, a ready-to-drink tea that went head-to-head with foreign cola companies that dominated the beverage sector in the Philippines. It was sufficiently successful that another production line was required to meet demand.

In 1988, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a double degree in Finance and Applied Science (summa cum laude).

Lance Yu Gokongwei (born 23 November 1966) is President and CEO of JG Summit Holdings Inc., one of the largest Filipino conglomerates, with interests in food (Universal Robina), air transport (Cebu Pacific), real estate and property development (Robinsons Land Corp.), banking (Robinsons Bank), and petrochemicals (JG Summit Olefins Corp.) He also has a stake in Robinsons Retail, one of Philippines' largest retailers, which was started by his father as a department store in 1980. He is also Chairman of Robinsons Retail Holdings, the Philippines’ second largest retailer; Vice Chairman of Manila Electric Company; and Chairman of the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation (GBF), Inc.