Mar Roxas

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Mar Roxas : biography

May 13, 1957 –

Afterwards, on August 31, 2012, President Aquino appointed him as the new Secretary of Interior and Local Government, replacing former DILG Sec. Jesse Robredo who died in a plane crash.

Personal life

He was previously in a relationship with former beauty queen Maricar Zaldarriaga, with whom he has a son, Paolo Z. Roxas. He is married to Korina Sanchez, one of the Philippines’ most popular and critically acclaimed broadcast journalist from ABS-CBN.

In the April 25, 2009, episode of ABS-CBN noontime show Wowowee where Sanchez appeared as a guest co-host alongside Willie Revillame, Sanchez and Roxas announced their engagement. Sanchez took a leave of absence from her duties at ABS-CBN on May 2009.

As of 2007, he has a declared net worth of P140.3 million.

Wedding

On October 27, 2009, Mar Roxas and Korina Sanchez were married during a wedding ceremony held at Santo Domingo Church in Quezon City. Roxas’ former running mate in the 2010 election, President Noynoy Aquino was one of the couple’s primary wedding sponsors. Manila Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philippine Madrigal Singers provided the music during the wedding. Other notable performers included Basil Valdez, Robert Sena, and Jamie Rivera.

Early life and career

Roxas was born on May 13, 1957, in Manila, Philippines to Judy Araneta of Bago City, Negros Occidental and Gerardo Roxas (1924–1982) of Capiz. Roxas’ father was a former Senator (1963–1972), and the only son of Manuel Roxas, the first President of the Third Philippine Republic, and Trinidad de Leon. The couple married in 1955. He has two siblings namely Maria Lourdes or Ria, married to Augusto Ojeda and mother of three and the late Congressman Gerardo Roxas, Jr. (1960–1993).

Roxas attended Ateneo de Manila University for grade school and high school, then attended the Wharton School of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, earning a degree in economics in 1979.

After graduation, he worked for seven years as an investment banker in New York, and became an assistant vice president of the New York-based Allen & Company. Following the 1985 announcement by President Ferdinand Marcos of a snap election, he took a leave of absence to join the presidential campaign of Corazon Aquino.

In September 1986, President Corazon Aquino went to the United States. He was one of those who organized a series of investment round-table discussions with the American business community. From 1986 onwards, he visited the Philippines more frequently.

He then proposed to his company to have set up shop in Asia specifically in the Philippines, and later, his superiors agreed. In 1991, he was stationed in the country under North Star Capitals, Inc. which took Jollibee public. In the United States, he participated in the first financing of Discovery Channel and Tri-Star Pictures.