Ambassador Alfonso Tiaoqui Yuchengco , Founder, Yuchengco Group of Companies in the Philippines (1923-2017)

Ambassador Yuchengco founded the Yuchengko Group of Companies.  By the time I met him in 1998 he was already 75 and had  handed over day to day management to his eight children.  The group is prominent in many business sectors and includes major companies such as Malayan Insurance, Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation and House of Investments - https://www.ygc.com/He has led an extraordinary life and, following his successful business career, has represented the Philippines as its Ambassador at the United Nations, Japan and China and held several other prominent advisory roles for Philippines' Presidents.He also had an unusual childhood with one particular experience which, as an Australian, feels very strange to me.  Several of his older brothers died at birth and his parents immediately adopted a boy in the place of the biological brother who had died.  His parents were quite superstitious so, when Alfonso was born and survived, to protect him they brought him up as a daughter until he was 6 or 7.Please note that these interviews took place some time ago - over 25 years ago in the case of the South East Asian life story book and around 10 to 15 years ago in the case of the two Indian life story books.  However, their stories are correct to the time of the interviews and the objective is to demonstrate the entrepreneurial skills they exhibited at the time of the interviews in building their businesses.