
Profile: Navegar's Honorio Poblador IV
The launch of Philippines-focused Navegar represented another breakthrough for Asian private equity. For Honorio Poblador IV, the firm’s managing partner, it was more than a decade in the making
It became clear to Honorio Poblador IV and Javier Infante, over the course of the 2000s, that hardly anyone was willing or able to sink private capital into small- to mid-size Philippines companies. ...
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