Ricky Carandang - is a Filipino

Filipino people

The Filipino people or Filipinos are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the islands of the Philippines. There are about 92 million Filipinos in the Philippines, and about 11 million living outside the Philippines ....

 News Anchor of ABS-CBN

ABS-CBN

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 and ANC

ANC

ANC commonly refers to the African National Congress, a revolutionary movement which became the ruling political party in South Africa in the 1994 election.ANC may also refer to:-Organizations:...

 correspondent. On July 9, 2010 He resigned in ABS-CBN to become a part of the communications team of President

President

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 Benigno Aquino III

Benigno Aquino III

Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III , also known as Noynoy Aquino or PNoy, is a Filipino politician who has been the 15th and current President of the Philippines since June 2010....

. He serves spokesperson under Presidential Communications Group (Philippines)

Early Life and Career

Ramon “Ricky” Arellano Carandang was born on September 2, 1967 in Manila, Philippines. He is the son of St. Luke’s College of Medicine President Dr. Brigido Carandang, Jr. and clininical psychologist and MLAC Institute for Children and Families Founder and President Dra. Maria Lourdes A. Carandang.

He spent his early years in Sacramento, California entering elementary in Isadore Cohen Elementary School. He returned to the Philippines and finished high school and college at the Ateneo de Manila University

Ateneo de Manila University

The Ateneo de Manila University is a private teaching and research university run by the Society of Jesus in the Philippines. It began in 1859 when the City of Manila handed control of the Escuela Municipal de Manila in Intramuros, Manila, to the Jesuits...

 with a Bachelor of Arts in Management Economics in 1989.

He spent the whole of the 1990s in the business sector, as a stock broker for Pryce Securities, HG Asia Securities, and Kim Eng Securities.

Media Career

Before venturing into public service, Ricky Carandang was a top news anchor for the ABS- CBN News Channel (ANC)

ABS-CBN News Channel

ABS-CBN News Channel or better known as ANC is the Philippines first 24-hour news channel broadcasting both in cable television domestically and in satellite television internationally via The Filipino Channel, owned and operated by the ABS-CBN Corporation under its ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs...

. He co-hosted the evening news show The Rundown, hosted the national affairs talk show The Big Picture, and was a field reporter for ABS-CBN’s Filipino-language free-television news programs TV Patrol and Bandila.

Public Service

Secretary Ricky Carandang is the first head of the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office (PCDSPO), created in 2010 at the beginning of President Benigno S. Aquino III

Benigno Aquino III

Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III , also known as Noynoy Aquino or PNoy, is a Filipino politician who has been the 15th and current President of the Philippines since June 2010....

’s term. PCDSPO serves as the President’s chief message-crafting body.

Awards/ Distinctions

He was proclaimed “Broadcaster of the Year” by the Rotary Club of Manila in 2010, the culmination of a career in broadcast journalism that spans the years 1976 to 2010. He was also President and Business Editor of Newsbreak Magazine from 2000 to 2004.