How the youngest Filipino billionaire and Jollibee’s founder unleashed S-E Asia’s quiet dragon on Wall Street

[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.