Jericho Petilla

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office = Governor of Leyte
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party = Lakas-CMD (2007–)
NPC (2004–2006)
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Carlos Jericho Petilla is a Filipino politician who is the incumbent Governor of Leyte.

Education

Petilla finished his Bachelor of Science in Management Engineering in Ateneo de Manila University. He also attended the same school during his high school days.

Before Politics

After finishing college, Petilla was a professor in Ateneo de Manila UniversityFact|date=February 2007 and was a consultant to various companies in Manila such as Meralco, Security Bank and Philphos.Fact|date=February 2007

His business interests included the International Data Conversion Solution Inc. in Mandaluyong, Manila and Accudata, Inc. in Tacloban City where he is both President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the same time.Fact|date=February 2007 He is likewise the part owner and consultant of Direct Data Capture with business offices in United Kingdom and New York and Datahold in the Isle of Man, UK.Fact|date=February 2007

Political career

Coming from a political family,Fact|date=February 2007 it was inevitable for the young Petilla to run for a public office. During the 2004 election campaign, he divested his shares in his private investments to make a run as a governor of Leyte, even challenging a more popular bet in the person of three-term Representative and now Presidential Legal Adviser Sergio Apostol. He won during that year's election, thus giving Leyteños a bright future, as it is now, with all the nice things.Fact|date=February 2007

His first 100 days of office saw the drafting of the implementing Rules and Regulations of the Leyte Province Investment Code of 2004. The code aims to encourage investors to locate in Leyte with the salient feature of getting a 100% real property tax holiday for 5 years.Fact|date=February 2007

Recently his vision of making Leyte an ICT hub with the creation of an ICT Park is now a reality. The Philippine Economic Zone Authority approved the application of the Province of Leyte to convert the 6.9 hectares lot at Barangay Pawing, Palo, Leyte, where the developed and ready for operation Leyte Academic Center is located, into the Leyte Information Communication Technology Park.Fact|date=February 2007

enate bid

Petilla caught everyone by surprise when he accepted the nomination of the ruling Lakas-CMD party, where he belonged since the start of the year, as one of its candidates for Senator under the Team Unity umbrella in the May 14, 2007 Philippine midterm elections, although his name was never initially floated by pundits as the candidate who would represent the Visayas region in the slate.Fact|date=February 2007

However, only days after he filed his candidacy for the Senate, he withdrew his name from the list of Team Unity candidates and will run for re-election as his mother, incumbent Leyte Rep. and three-term Gov. Remedios "Matin" Loreto-Petilla, decided to retire from politics. Instead, the Petilla's partymates in Lakas selected Boholano actor Cesar Montano as his replacement in the slate, according to Team Unity spokseperson and Tourism Secretary Joseph Ace Durano.Fact|date=February 2007

Personal life

Icot, as he is called, is the son of former Leyte Governor Leopoldo E. Petilla (1992-1995) and Rep. Petilla. He is married to Frances Ann Regis Basilio of Cebu and they have five children. They are Carlos, Nicola, Renzo, Mika, and Danica.