Mica Francesca Tan, President and Chief Executive Officer of the MFT Group of Companies, describes herself as “an odd little kid.” When she was in grade school, at barely 10 years old, she had a small notebook that documented her dad’s earnings for the day.

“My dad is an oncologist, a cancer specialist,” Mica offers. “Every time he’d come home, I would ask him how much he made that day. Then, he would invent numbers, like 500 pesos, a thousand, ten thousand and I would write would write that down in my notebook.