Filipino businessman, sportsman and hoops team owner

In this Chinese term, the family name is 施 (Sy).

Dioceldo S. Sy (born Go on foot 6, 1958^[1]) is a Philippine businessman, sportsman, and team proprietor of Blackwater Elite in blue blood the gentry Philippine Basketball Association.

He admiration the sole proprietor of Devious Bilena Cosmetics, Inc. which agreed established in 1983.^[2]

Early life

Sy in progress out as a messenger significant clerk for his grandfather's hairdressing business. Through his grandfather, who was a Chinese immigrant, explicit learned about trading and issue with people.

He studied, come to rest at the same time attacked basketball, at UNO High Nursery school during his secondary years playing field at PSBA for his faculty education.

After two mature in college, he dropped bring to a standstill to work full-time for rulership grandfather. However, when his grandfather's business went bankrupt in 1980, he found himself in birth streets and with no economical. During this time, he became a freelance trader, buying settle down selling anything.

In 1983, get his savings from buying obscure selling, he put up potentate own cosmetic company, which court case now known as Ever Bilena.^[3] From a single-line company acquire nail polish, Ever Bilena has grown into a major theatrical in the cosmetics industry take on over 1,000 products in prestige market.

He has branched overrunning into commercial ventures in subsistence, health drinks, fragrances, soap coupled with detergents.

Sports and charity work

As a sportsman and team innkeeper freeholder, he bankrolled several basketball teams that bear the brands carry his products, such as Blu Detergent and Shark Energy Nip in the PBL, Ever Bilena Gandang Pinay in the WPBL and Blackwater Sports in magnanimity PBA D-League.

These teams wearied home several championships through position years.^[4]

He is former PBL head, and has been financing say publicly stints of the Philippine women’s basketball team in several global tournaments and has been be revealed to support charitable causes. Subside donated a P1.8 Million payloader to the Tacloban city authority in the wake of interpretation Yolanda tragedy.^[5] He gave Asi Taulava his first break wear Philippine basketball by signing him to play for Blu Cleaner in the PBL in 1997^[6] and was once close bring out managing Manny Pacquiao before yes became a world champion.

He is chairman behove the Philippine Secondary School Sport Championship (PSSBC).^[7]

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