Domingo Itchon
Domingo Yulo Itchon was a Filipino business executive and best known as the founding president of the Philippine Basketball Association. Itchon played a key role in organizing Asia's first professional basketball league.
A Business Administration cum laude from the University of the East, CPA board topnotcher and Harvard University graduate, he became the Elizalde Group of Companies' controller and was Don Manolo Elizalde's most trusted finance executive.
In 1962, Itchon was appointed team manager of the Elizalde-owned YCO Painters in the Manila Industrial and Commercial Athletic Association, serving for over 20 years. Itchon was also MICAA president for two years.
Itchon also became team manager of four Philippines men's national basketball teams. This includes the 1972 team that competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics, noted as the last time the Philippines has qualified for a basketball Olympiad.
In 1975, Itchon, Emerson Coseteng and Danny Floro hatched the idea of forming the PBA. He was elected as PBA's founding president from 1976 to 1982, and served a term of nearly eight years. Itchon also served as team manager of the Elizalde-owned Tanduay Rhum Masters.
He was posthumously inducted into the PBA Hall of Fame on April 8, 2007.
