HARI Chairman Edward Go posthumously awarded Lux in Domino by ADMU

MANILA: The late Chairman of the Board of Hyundai Asia Resources, Inc. (HARI) Edward S. Go, has been conferred the Lux in Domino Award by the Ateneo de Manila University. 

The Lux in Domino Award "honors the life and work of an individual who embodies in an outstanding manner the noblest ideals of the Ateneo University," the Hyundai distributor said.

Go was scheduled to receive the Award in 2022. The Ateneo reset the conferment to this year upon learning that he was seriously ill.

The Lux in Domino Award, along with a replica of the Sacred Heart carved by National Hero Jose Rizal, one of the first graduates of the Ateneo, was posthumously presented to Chairman Go’s widow Pacita Go and daughter Christine. The virtual awarding ceremony was preceded by a Holy Mass, which commemorated 40 days since the Chairman’s passing on September 16 at the age of 83.

Chairman Go was consistently at the top of his class from grade school to college in Ateneo. He served as a member of the Ateneo de Manila Board of Trustees (1998-2014), during which he spent four years as Chairman of the Board. Go also sat in the board of several leading companies in the country, chaired the  National Citizens' Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL), and spearheaded the poverty alleviation programs of ASA Foundation and the Ateneo.

In HARI, he played a key role in the expansion of the business in its 20 years of operation in the country, and was a moving spirit behind HARI Foundation, Inc. (HFI), the company's corporate social responsibility arm. He helped forge the Foundation’s lasting alliances with Gawad Kalinga and the Ateneo.

“The conferment of this award helps soothe our hearts as we are still mourning the passing of our beloved patriarch,” Pacita Go said. “This award is the ultimate honor from his beloved school.”

“We will miss his wise insights at board meetings…. his elegant manner of conversing with local and foreign VIPs at our many corporate events. But most of all, we will miss his dry humor when chatting with employees at our office lobby,” HARI President and CEO Ma. Fe Perez-Agudo recalled. 

Photo from Hyundai Asia Resources, Inc. (HARI)

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