The Duavit Family
Gilberto M. Duavit Sr. is one of the three men credited for the success of GMA Network Incorporated together with Felipe L. Gozon and Menardo Jimenez.
Duavit Sr. was the chairman of the Republic Broadcasting System (RBS) in 1974, a television station owned by an American Robert La Rue Stewart and the precursor of GMA Network Incorporated.
In 1975, Duavit Sr. together with his friends Gozon and Jimenez took control of the management of RBS which was then losing money. He was the founding chairman of GMA Network Incorporated. Under their wings, the station consistently made money and started its steady rise as the main competitor to the top of the Philippine media market.
A lawyer by profession, Duavit Sr. earned his law degree from the University of the East. He was one of President Ferdinand Marcos’ presidential assistants and helped draft the 1973 Constitution as a delegate to the 1971 Constitutional Convention.
The same Constitution prohibited foreign ownership and management of media networks.
He was also an elected government official, having served as Representative of the First District of Rizal in the 9th, 10th, and 11th Congresses.
In 2000, Duavit Sr. and Gozon engineered a coup among the network’s board and installed Gozon as chairman, president and chief executive officer while Duavit Sr.’s son and namesake Gilberto Duavit Jr. was elected executive vice president and chief operating officer.
In July 2007, in a bid to stop GMA’s public offering, Imee R. Marcos, the daughter of former President Marcos, claimed ownership of the Duavits’ 28.35 percent of GMA Network Incorporated. She claimed that Marcos had just entrusted his ownership of GMA to Duavit Sr. in 1983.
In 2010, Duavit Jr. was elected by the board as the network’s president, taking over the position from Gozon.
In 2015, another Duavit, Michael John R. Duavit, was elected to GMA Network, Incorporated’s Board of Directors. Before that, he had served as the elected representative of the First District of Rizal from 2001, when his father Duavit Sr. could no longer run for reelection, up to 2010.
In 2016 Michael John R. Duavit left his directorship of GMA and ran again for Congress. In July 2016 Duavit Sr. was named director of the network.
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is the father of Gilberto R. Duavit, Jr. and Michael John R. Duavit. He is a lawyer and Director of GMA Network, Incorporated.
is the son of Gilberto M. Duavit, Sr. and the President and Chief Operating Officer of GMA Network, Incorporated, Director of GMA Network, Incorporated since 1999, Chairman of the network’s Executive Committee, Chairman of the Board of GMA Network Films, Inc. and GMA Worldwide, Inc. and Vice Chairman of the Board of GMA Marketing and Productions, Inc., President and CEO of GMA Holdings, Inc., Scenarios, Inc., RGMA Marketing and Productions, Inc., Film Experts, Inc., and Dual Management and Investments, Inc., President and a Director of Group Management and Development, Inc., President and Director of MediaMerge Corp., Citynet Network Marketing and Productions, Inc., Director of RGMA Network, Inc., GMA New Media, Inc., Alta Productions Group, Inc., Optima Digital, Inc., and Mont-Aire Realty and Development Corp., President and a Trustee of GMA Kapuso Foundation, Inc., Trustee of Guronasyon Foundation, Inc. (formerly LEAF) and is a Trustee of the HERO Foundation.
is the son of Gilberto M. Duavit, Sr. and brother of Gilberto R. Duavit, Jr., he was elected to GMA Network, Incorporated’s Board of Directors in 2015, he is the Chairman, President and CEO of MRD Holdings & Investments, Inc., Chairman and Managing Director of Puresound Trading, Inc., Director of Citynet Television, Inc. and GMA New Media, Inc., President and Trustee of Guronasyon Foundation, Inc., a Trustee of GMA Kapuso Foundation, Inc., he was elected Representative of the First District of Rizal from 2001 to 2010 and again in 2016.
is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of GMA Network, Incorporated, Senior Partner at the Law Firm of Belo Gozon Elma Parel Asuncion & Lucila, Chairman and CEO of GMA Marketing and Productions, Inc. and GMA New Media, Inc., Chairman and President of FLG Management and Development Corp., Chairman of Alta Productions Group, Inc., Citynet Network Marketing and Productions, Inc., Mont-Aire Realty and Development Corp., Philippine Entertainment Portal, Inc., and RGMA Network, Inc., Vice Chairman of Malayan Savings and Mortgage Bank, Director of Gozon Development Corp., Justitia Realty and Management Corp., Antipolo Agri-Business and Land Development Corp., Capitalex Holdings, Inc., BGE Holdings, Inc., Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Chamber of Commerce of the Philippine Islands and President of Lex Realty, Inc., among other companies. Chairman of the Board of Trustees of GMA Kapuso Foundation, Inc., Kapwa Ko Mahal Ko Foundation, Inc., and The Potter and Clay Christian School Foundation, Inc., Chairman and President of Gozon Foundation; and Trustee of Bantayog ng mga Bayani Foundation, Advisory Board Member of the Asian Television Awards.
is the daughter of Felipe L. Gozon, she has been a Director of GMA Network, Incorporated since 2000, junior partner in Belo Gozon Elma Parel Asuncion & Lucila, Associate Professor in the University of the Philippines, College of Law, Programming Consultant to the Chairman and CEO of GMA Network, Inc. President of GMA Films, Inc. and GMA Worldwide, Inc., and a Trustee of GMA Kapuso Foundation.
is the brother-in-law of Felipe L. Gozon, his wife is Carolina L. Gozon-Jimenez. He is the father of Joel Marcelo G. Jimenez. He was the President and Chief Executive Officer for GMA Network, Incorporated from 1974 to 2000. He is the Chief Executive Officer and President of Albay-Agro Industrial Development Corporation, President of Mabuhay Philippines Satellite Corporation, Justitia Realty and Development Corporation, Food Pro Asia Inc. and M.A. Jimenez Enterprises Inc., is the Chairman of Cable Entertainment Corporation, Veloci Motors, Majalco Finance & Investments Inc., Pan-Phil Aquaculture Corp., and Southwest Resources, Inc.. He is a Commissioner of Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission and Governor of Philippine National Red Cross, he was a Consultant of First Metro Investment Corp., has been the Chairman of United Coconut Planters Bank since March 2011, is a Director of CCC Insurance Corporation, Mabuhay Phils. Satellite Corporation, Malayan Savings & Mortgage Bank, UniCapital Inc., UniCapital Securities, Inc., Television International Corporation, Majent Management and Development Corporation, Majent Agro Industrial Corporation, M. A. Jimenez Enterprises, Inc., Alta Tierra Resources Inc., Mont-Aire Realty and Development Corporation, CBTL Holdings Inc., Electronic Realty Associates Inc., Cunickel Mining Corporation, Franchise One Corporation, Pacrim Realty & Development Corporation, Pan-Phil Aqua Culture Corporation and The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf Inc., he has been a Non Executive Director of San Miguel Pure Foods Company, Inc. since April 25, 2002, San Miguel Corporation since February 27, 2002, United Coconut Planters Bank since March 2011, and Magnolia, Inc. since August 29, 2002, Director of Nuvoland, Inc., Unicapital Finance and Investment, Inc., and Albay Agro Industrial Corp., has been a Director of Philippine National Oil Company and Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines Inc., since July 31, 2002, Director of Cosmos Bottling Corp. from May 6, 2004 to February 22, 2007 and First Metro Investment Corp. since March 21, 1994.
is a Director of GMA Network, Incorporated since 2002, President and CEO of Menarco Holdings and the Chief Executive Officer of Alta Productions, Inc., Director of RGMA Network, Inc., GMA New Media, Inc., Scenarios, Inc., and GMA Worldwide, Inc., member of the Board of Directors of Malayan Savings and Mortgage Bank, and Unicapital Securities, Inc., Director of Nuvoland Philippines, a real-estate development company, Trustee of GMA Kapuso Foundation, Inc..
is mother of Joel Marcelo G. Jimenez and Laura J. Westfall, and she is also Felipe L. Gozon’s sister.
is the sister of Joel Marcelo G. Jimenez and has been a Director of GMA Network, Incorporated since 2000, held the following positions in the GMA Network, Incorporated: Senior Vice President of Corporate and Strategic Planning and Senior Vice President for Finance, Chairperson and President of GMA New Media, currently holds various positions in the Majent Group of Companies, Board Member of Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf Philippines, Bronzeoak Clean Energy, Inc., and Museo Pambata.
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Financial Statement of GMA Holdings Incorporated (available upon request at SEC) (2016), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
General Information Sheet of GMA Holdings Incorporated (available upon request at SEC) (2016), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Financial Statement of GMA Network Incorporated (available upon request at SEC) (2016), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
General Information Sheet of GMA Network Incorporated (available upon request at SEC) (2016), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
