Robina Gokongwei-Pe (born July 15, 1962) is a Filipino businesswoman who is currently a member of board of directors and COO of Robinsons Malls.[1] She is the daughter of late tycoon John Gokongwei and Elizabeth Yu-Gokongwei.[2]
Business
She is also a director of Robinsons Land Corporation, Cebu Air, Inc., and now defunct. Robinsons Bank Corporation.[3] She is a trustee and the secretary of the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation, Inc. and a trustee of the Immaculate Concepcion Academy Scholarship Fund.[4]
An urban legend relating to the Robinsons Galleria flourished in the 1990s, which claimed of a half-snake, half-human creature that resided in the basement of the mall and purported to be a lucky charm installed by the Gokongwei family, feeding it with unsuspecting victims from a supposed shaft from a dressing room. Among its supposed victims were actresses Alice Dixson and Rita Avila. Although the rumor is now considered absurd and dead, it was revived in 2010 after a supposed YouTube video depicting it surfaced.[16]
Gokongwei asserted in 2008 that the tale emerged from the "market competition".[17] Dixson herself dismissed the entire narrative as fake, and in 2020 she finally put the entire tale to rest through a YouTube video.[18] She had appeared in a videographic advertisement by the mall two years earlier, poking fun at and lampooning the extinct urban legend.[17][19]