Wilfred Steven "Fred" B. Uytengsu Jr. is a Filipino businessman. As of August 2017, ''

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'' lists him as the 35th richest in the Philippines with a net worth of $240 Million.

Personal life

Uytengsu was born in 1961 in

Cebu City Cebu City, officially the City of Cebu ( ceb, Dakbayan sa Sugbo; fil, Lungsod ng Cebu; hil, Dakbanwa sang Sugbo), is a 1st class Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas Regions of the P ...

to Wilfred T. Uytengsu, Sr. and Bonnie Brooks. His paternal grandparents were

Chinese Filipino Chinese Filipinos; tl, Tsinoy, / Tsinong Pilipino, ; Philippine Hokkien , Mandarin (also known as Filipino Chinese in the Philippines) are Filipinos of Chinese descent, mostly of southern Fujianese ancestry, where the majority are bor ...

. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the

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in 1983. After completing his studies in the

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, he returned to the Philippines and joined the family owned

Alaska Milk Corporation Alaska Milk Corporation (AMC) is a manufacturer of milk products in the Philippines. It is a subsidiary of Dutch dairy cooperative FrieslandCampina, which acquired control (98.1%) of the company from the founding Uytengsu family in 2012. The com ...

(AMC). He became president of AMC in 1998 and its CEO in 2007. He stepped down as CEO and President by the end of 2018 and remains as Chairman of the company. Uytengsu is married to Kerri Elaine Dunn with whom he has three children.

Athletic career

Uytengsu joined the

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team of the University of Southern California (USC) on his first year at the institution. He was coming from an injury on his right leg which he sustained in a car accident during his last school year as a high school student. In 1982, at the end of his third year in the university, he was voted to be the captain of the team in the next school year in 1983. He was coached by

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during his stay with the USC team. He also represented the Philippines in international competitions as part of the national swimming team, including the team that competed at the

1981 Southeast Asian Games The 1981 Southeast Asian Games, officially known as the 11th Southeast Asian Games, was a multi-sport event held in Manila, Philippines from 6 to 15 December 1981. This was the first time that the Philippines hosted the Games since its first pa ...

. Uytengsu also became involved in

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, doing his first race in 1984 and competed intermittently until the mid 1990s when he decided to take the sport more seriously. At the 2011 Ironman World Championship in Kona,

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, Uytengsu set a personal best. He is credited for bringing the

Ironman Triathlon An Ironman Triathlon is one of a series of long-distance triathlon races organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC), consisting of a swim, a bicycle ride and a marathon run completed in that order, a total of . It is widely consider ...

XTERRA Triathlon XTERRA is a series of cross triathlon races, i.e. three-sport races which include swimming, mountain biking, and trail running. The XTERRA Global Tour is owned and produced by XTERRA Sports Limited. The XTERRA race series is the best-known series ...

and IronKids races to the Philippines. In 2012, Uytengsu made an $8 million donation to USC. The donation helped fund the reconstruction of USC's swim stadium originally constructed for the

1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the secon ...

and opened in July 1983.McDondald's Olympic Swim Stadium page
of the Los Angeles Sports Council's website (www.lasports.org); retrieved 2021-10-28. The new center was named the

Uytengsu Aquatics Center The Uytengsu Aquatics Center (originally the McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium) is a 2,500-seat outdoor aquatics venue located on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA. The facility features two pools: a long cours ...

which officially opened on February 21, 2014. It is the largest gift to the USC Athletic Department by a former student-athlete.

Alaska Aces

Through the efforts of Uytengsu,

organized the Alaska Aces basketball team which competed in the

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from 1986 until 2022. The Aces won 14 PBA championships in 36 years. During his tenure as team owner, Uytengsu spoke his mind, particularly on instances of trades he believed to be dubious and caused disparity and unlevel playing field.

Honors

At the 2016 PSA Annual Awards, Uytengsu was named PSA Executive of Year for his contribution to the promotion of various sports in the Philippines such as basketball, triathlon and

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. From the PBA Press Corps, Uytengsu has received two Danny Floro Executive of the Year awards (1998 and 2010) and became the first Lifetime Achievement Award recipient (2018).

References

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