- (Photo Captions: Left - Ricky's high school picture (1977), Top Right - Ricky with his wife and kids, Bottom Right - Ricky's contemporary photo)
- Yesterday (8/20/07) I had an e-mail communication with Dr. Ricardo "Ricky" A. Lim. Ricky and I belong to the same high school batch, Philippine Science High School Class of 1977. For a long time, Ricky has been "silent" in our batch e-group. So, perhaps he was not aware of our 30th batch anniversary project for PSHS (of which I am one of the coordinators).
According to him, he made a wrong press of the button (one of the keys in the computer keyboard) while surfing the Net the other night. The result: he had to apologize to most of the more than 1000 people in his address book for SPAM :) I guess, this kind of accident happens to many Net users, not only to Ricky.
However, because of that accidental pressing of the button one of the coordinators of our batch projects, Dr. Francis "Keku" Domingo (who is the medical director of Novartis Healthcare Philippines, Inc.), got in touch with Ricky. Keku forwarded to me the e-mail message from Ricky (Keku actually said it was "providential"). After that I e-mailed Ricky and requested him to reconnect to our batch e-group.Ricky used to be one of the coordinators of our batch. He was active in the PSHS alumni affairs and even became the president of the Philippine Science High School Alumni Association.
During our high school days (1972-1977) Ricky stayed briefly at the PSHS boys' dormitory (I was also a dormer) during our freshmen year. We were classmates for two school years: during our sophomore year, our section was Champaca; and during our senior year, our section was Atom.
The son of the former Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare Dr. Estefania Aldaba Lim and the brother of media personality Che-Che Lazaro, Ricky is now a professor and an associate dean at the Asian Institute of Management. Below is a feature article about Ricky from the AIM website (Source: http://www.aim.edu/faculty/facultyresume.asp?id=228 ):
"Professor Ricardo A. Lim, PhD, is the Don Benigno Toda, Jr. Professor of Business Management. He is currently the Associate Dean of the W. SyCip Graduate School of Business (WSGSB) where he is a core faculty of the MBA Program. He was the former Associate Dean of the International Relations Group, and Editor-in-Chief of The Asian Manager. He specializes in information technology and management communication, and has published articles for MIS Quarterly and the Academy of Management.
Before joining the Institute, Prof. Lim managed ATM and branch automation projects for the Philippine National Bank; developed a telemarketing system for the Sears Roebuck Chicago Merchandising Group; and built an international securities monitoring and control system for the State Street Bank in Boston. He installed a nationwide claims litigation system for the American International Group in New York. He participated in manufacturing and financial systems development projects at Allied-Bendix Rhode Island, Hartz Mountain of New Jersey, Wang Laboratories and American Fund Raising Services in Boston, Massachusetts. He also worked for Nixdorf Computer Philippines, the CSC Consulting Group in Boston and the Bankers Trust Company in New York. He currently consults for local firms.
Prof. Lim has also taught management information systems in the MBA program of the Graduate School of Business of the University of the Philippines. He wrote The PHINMA Story (1996).
He received a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Marshall School at the University of Southern California (2002), an MBA from the Darden School, University of Virginia (1989), and a B.Com. in Management Information Systems (Magna Cum Laude) from McGill University, Montreal (1982)."
To Ricky: this is what happens to you when you press a wrong button... You not only got to be found by us, you also got featured in my BLOG :)
Cheers,
Raffy
8/21/07 in Quezon City
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