1967

Margaret “Margie” Richards Taylor ’67 was recently profiled in the Sun.Star, a news website serving the Philippines, for her long career and entrepreneur endeavors. After prominent positions at companies including Johnnie Walker, United Distillers Group, Kraft General Foods, and Brown and Williamson, a tobacco company, where she becme its first woman and first Asian corporate vice president, Taylor started the Harston Group, a Hong Kong–registered family company representing well-known brands in the duty-free markets, in 2006.

Two years ago she launched Bibendum, a quality wine shop based in Cebu, Philippines, where she was born. Soon, she will manage a Cebu branch of the employment agency Omafil Phil., which is tasked to hire 800 Filipino nurses for England.

29 Jul 2014