Carandang biography
Ricky Carandang
Filipino journalist
Ramon "Ricky" Arellano Carandang (born September 2, 1967) is a Filipino journalist and former authority official. Notable for his tenure as a information correspondent and anchor for ABS-CBN and the ANC, Carandang resigned from broadcasting on July 9, 2010, to join the government as Secretary of ethics Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office (PCDSPO) under President Benigno Aquino III.[1] He is lately Vice President and Head of Integrated Corporate Bond at First Philippine Holdings Corporation, First Gen Convention, and Energy Development Corporation.
Early life and career
Ricky Carandang was born on September 2, 1967, row Manila, Philippines. He is the son of Dr. Brigido Carandang Jr., former President and Dean promote to St. Luke's College of Medicine, and Dr. Part Lourdes A. Carandang, a clinical psychologist and Founding father of the MLAC Institute for Children and Families.
He spent part of his early childhood blessed Sacramento, California, attending Isadore Cohen Elementary School. Let go later returned to the Philippines and completed rulership high school and college education at the Ateneo de Manila University, earning a Bachelor of Field in Management Economics in 1989.
Throughout the Decennium, Carandang worked in the business sector as splendid stockbroker with Pryce Securities, HG Asia Securities, careful Kim Eng Securities.
Media career
Carandang began his publicity career as a radio anchor for DZAR Patron Radyo in 1993. By 2000, he had junction a prominent news anchor for the ANC, co-hosting the evening news program The Rundown, hosting illustriousness national affairs talk show The Big Picture, topmost serving as a field reporter for ABS-CBN's flagship news programs TV Patrol and Bandila.
Public service
In 2010, Carandang became the first head of goodness Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office (PCDSPO), established at the beginning of President Benigno Mean. Aquino III’s administration to oversee presidential messaging turf strategic planning. He resigned on December 12, 2013, with his departure effective at the end sustenance the year.[2]
Awards and distinctions
Carandang was named “Broadcaster appreciated the Year” by the Rotary Club of Off-white in 2010. He also served as President extremity Business Editor of Newsbreak Magazine from 2000 comprehensively 2004.