{"id":777021787,"date":"2025-01-07T09:56:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777021787"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:58:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:58:46","slug":"robinsons-land-appoints-new-president-and-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/robinsons-land-appoints-new-president-and-ceo","title":{"rendered":"Robinsons Land appoints new president and CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The company has announced Lance Y. Gokongwei has stepped down from the dual role with Maria Socorro Isabella V. Aragon-Gobio<\/strong> taking his place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Philippines.- Robinsons Land Corporation (RLC), the parent company of NUSTAR Resort & Casino in Cebu, has announced Maria Socorro Isabella V. Aragon-Gobio<\/strong> has been appointed CEO and president of the company, effective February 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aragon-Gobio will replace Lance Y. Gokongwei<\/strong>, who has recently stepped down from the dual role. However, the company said Gokongwei will remain as chairman of RLC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before her appointment, Maria Socorro Isabelle V. Aragon-GoBio was the senior vice president and business unit general manager of Robinsons Destination Estates and Robinsons Logistics Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She concurrently serves as the president and CEO of Robinsons Logistix and Industrials<\/strong>, Bonifacio Property Ventures and Bacoor R&F Land Corporation. She serves as chairman of the board of directors of Shang Robinsons Properties and as member of the board of directors of Altus Property Ventures, Grand North Integrated Resort and Virtual Palaro Ventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aragon-GoBio received her Bachelor of Science degree in Management Engineering with a minor in International Business from the Ateneo de Manila University and is a licensed real estate broker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NUSTAR Resort and Casino<\/a> soft-opened its doors in May 2022, becoming the first upscale IR on Cebu island. The resort will eventually have three hotel towers. Tower 1 will be super high-end, Tower 2 will be five-star and Tower 3 will be for the MICE market. The final casino will have a total area of \u200b\u200b21,000 square meters and will eventually include 1,500 slot machines and 500 tables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The company has announced Lance Y. Gokongwei has stepped down from the dual role with Maria Socorro Isabella V. Aragon-Gobio taking his place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777013862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Robinsons Land Corporation (RLC), parent company of NUSTAR Resort & Casino, has appointed Maria Socorro Isabella V. Aragon-Gobio as its new CEO and President, effective February 1. She replaces Lance Y. Gokongwei, who will remain as Chairman. Aragon-Gobio brings extensive experience from RLC's logistics and real estate divisions.","focusai_entities":"Robinsons Land Corporation, NUSTAR Resort & Casino, Maria Socorro Isabella V. Aragon-Gobio, Lance Y. Gokongwei, Robinsons Destination Estates, Robinsons Logistics Division, Robinsons Logistix and Industrials, Bonifacio Property Ventures, Bacoor R&F Land Corporation, Shang Robinsons Properties, Altus Property Ventures, Grand North Integrated Resort, Virtual Palaro Ventures","focusai_location":"The Philippines, Cebu","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (0.85), investor_analyst (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"RLC Strategic Direction?","query":"What are the anticipated strategic shifts for Robinsons Land Corporation's integrated resort and real estate portfolio under Ms. Aragon-Gobio's leadership, particularly concerning NUSTAR's expansion phases?"},{"label":"Governance Impact?","query":"How will Mr. Gokongwei's continued role as Chairman influence the corporate governance framework and executive decision-making process under the new CEO?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16333],"tags":[24592,24591],"class_list":["post-777021787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-nustar-resort-casino","tag-robinsons-land-corporation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777021787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777021787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777021787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777021808,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777021787\/revisions\/777021808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777013862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777021787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777021787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777021787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}