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PUP-PCC First Global Alumni Reunion USA 2016

The PUP Alumni Association USA (PUPAA-USA) made history during the spectacular 3-day Memorial Weekend Reunion held at The Orleans Hotel in Las Vegas.

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<strong>2016</strong> Outstanding <strong>PUP</strong> <strong>Alumni</strong><br />

Mario Alban Santos<br />

Mario’s outstanding contribution in the area of<br />

Business and Community Service, started long<br />

ago in his <strong>PCC</strong>/<strong>PUP</strong> days, serving as Editor-in-<br />

Chief of the college paper, The Businessman,<br />

1966-67; and as President of the Supreme<br />

Student Council, 1968-69 (Mario worked for<br />

the awarding of the 11-hectare lot in Sta. Mesa<br />

that is now the <strong>PUP</strong> campus). After graduation,<br />

he was invited to serve as <strong>PCC</strong> faculty member<br />

in Advertising and Marketing. He also finished<br />

the MBA academic courses in Ateneo Graduate<br />

School of Business.<br />

He was born in Manila, eldest of 8 siblings of<br />

Atty. Felix and Maria Santos. He is married to a<br />

co-<strong>PCC</strong> student leader, the former Marylou<br />

Garlitos. They have one daughter, Martia, now<br />

a lawyer in the U.S. and is married to Michael<br />

Fox, with two loveable daughters, Catherine<br />

and Elizabeth.<br />

Mario came to the U.S. in 1978 and has served<br />

in the profession of retirement income planning<br />

and life insurance from that year up to the<br />

present. The courses he finished in the U.S.--<br />

Chartered Life Underwriter, Retirement Income<br />

Certified Professional, with the American<br />

College of Financial Services and the Life<br />

Underwriting Council Fellow--ensure a high<br />

quality of education, skill and service to clients<br />

in California, Illinois, and other states. As a life<br />

insurance marketing broker, Mario has trained<br />

and developed hundreds of agents.<br />

Mario helps people in planning a safe and<br />

regular retirement income, and protecting their<br />

family and wealth, using guaranteed insurance<br />

products with A-rated carriers. Mario has been<br />

recognized by the insurance industry with<br />

numerous awards, with production and quality<br />

awards; and also was the recipient of the<br />

“Filipino American Executive of the Year”<br />

award. He is a lifetime member of the Million<br />

Dollar Round Table. He is also currently the<br />

president of the Silicon Valley Society of<br />

Financial Services Professionals. He coauthored<br />

a finance book “How You Can Profit<br />

from Annuities.” He also was the editor of the<br />

award-winning life underwriter NAIFA<br />

Peninsula bulletin in California.<br />

Mario has been serving the community for<br />

many years, as president of various associations<br />

such as Filipino Professionals and<br />

Businessmen’s Association (1998-99, 2012-13);<br />

Toastmasters International public speaking<br />

clubs; and Lay Director of the San Francisco<br />

Filipino Cursillo. He also served as a Human<br />

Relations Commissioner of San Mateo County,<br />

CA, 1991-95. He co-chaired the very<br />

successful Conference on Philippine<br />

Entrepreneurship in 2012. Mario is a recipient<br />

of the Outstanding <strong>Alumni</strong> award for marketing<br />

and life insurance in <strong>PUP</strong> (100th year<br />

anniversary, 2004); and the Outstanding<br />

<strong>Alumni</strong>, Falcon Award, of V. Mapa High<br />

(2014). Mario thanks the Lord God for<br />

allowing him to love and serve through the<br />

years.<br />

24 <strong>PUP</strong>/<strong>PCC</strong> ALUMNI <strong>USA</strong> 1ST GLOBAL REUNION

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