Lance Gokongwei is fighting one of the worst crises ever to hit his family's JG Summit. : ance Gokongwei enters a spacious but bare 43rd-story conference room at JG Summit Holding’s headquarters, with downtown Manila stretched out below. Wearing a face mask, he offers an elbow bump in lieu of a handshake and then takes a seat behind a transparent acrylic barrier for extra safety. The 53-year-old CEO of JG Summit, the Philippines’ third-largest company by market cap, puts a positive spin on Covid-19 reality.