How the youngest Filipino billionaire and Jollibee’s founder unleashed S-E Asia’s quiet dragon on Wall Street
Singapore-based Hotel101 Global is the brainchild of fast-food tycoons Edgar Sia and Tony Tan
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[SINGAPORE] As the first Filipino-owned company to list on the world’s second-largest stock exchange Nasdaq, Hotel101 Global may have bumped the Philippines – long lagging regional peers in capital markets activity – up the radar of foreign investors.
The Singapore-based proptech hospitality platform remains a fledgling in the international arena but its parent company, the Philippines-listed DoubleDragon, has built a solid track record at home.
DoubleDragon takes its name from its chairman, Edgar Sia, 48, and co-chairman, Tony Tan, 72, both of whom were born in the year of the dragon.
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