Sigfrido "Freddie" Rodriguez Tiñga (born April 16, 1965) is a Filipino politician and businessman who is currently the founder and president of Global Electric Transport since 2014. He previously served as the representative from

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in the

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from 2010 to 2013 and as the

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of the same city from 2001 to 2010. He is the son of former

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Dante Tiñga Dante Osorio Tiñga (born May 11, 1939) is a Filipino politician and jurist. He served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 2003 to 2009. Profile In 1960, Tiñga obtained his law degree at the University of t ...

and Ma. Asuncion Tiñga.

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Tiñga received his bachelor's degree at

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in 1986. He then pursued master of business administration from

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from 1989 to 1991. He started his career as a technical staff of SGV & Co. in 1986–1988. He then became a staff member in Andersen Consulting, moving to Siemens-Nixdorf, Philippines, in 1988, where he worked as senior project analyst. He lectured on marketing management in the

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Graduate School of Business after working as a management associate for Citibank Philippines in 1991–1992. In 1992–1994, he was the administrator of The Livelihood Center. In 1995–1999, he was assistant vice-president for business development in First Pacific/

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. In 1999, he co-founded K2 Interactive, which specializes in regional strategy consulting, e-business and providing digital designs. He was then elected

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in 2001, serving for three terms until 2010. While he was the mayor of the municipality of Taguig (later became a city in 2004), Taguig had the motto "Forward Taguig." In 2010, he was

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representative of Taguig's 2nd district. He only served as congressman for only one term as he decided not to seek reelection in 2013 due to personal reasons. He then returned to business, when he became the executive of Global Electric Transport.

Personal life

On July 16, 1994, Tiñga married Kaye Chua, with whom he has four children.

References

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