Serge E. Grynkewich, II, currently President of International SOS (Philippines), Inc., was selected as a finalist in the Asia CEO Awards for Expatriates working in the Asia region.

The award ceremony, held at the Dusit Thani Hotel in Manila on Nov. 10, is an annual event held to recognize leadership excellence in the Philippines.Grynkewich was among six CEOs chosen as finalists from among the leading companies in the Philippines including Citibank, AIG, Hitachi, SPI Global Solutions, and Royal Cargo Combined Logistics. Criteria for the selection included management achievement, financial contribution, international recognition, pioneering achievements, and social commitment. This finalist award is among several that Grynkewich has earned over the years for his community service and his professional achievement.His family lived in Lehighton from the early 1950s until the 1980s. His parents were the late Dr. and Mrs. Serge Grynkewich.Serge moved to Manila in 1973 to attend medical school and remained an expatriate living in the Philippines, the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland and Lebanon. He attended his primary school years in Lehighton and went on to graduate from Lehigh Carbon Community College in Schnecksville and De Sales University in Centre Valley.Presently he resides in Forbes Park, Metro Manila, Philippines where he is active in his work as well as serving as a director of the American Chamber of Commerce, chairman of its Health and Wellness Committee, a director of Philippine K9 Search and Rescue, the past chairman of and now a civilian director of the Philippines Chapter of the State Department's Overseas Security Advisory Council.He intends to retire near the town of Byblos, in northern Lebanon in about three years and looks forward to spending his retirement raising olives and grapes and continuing with social work and travel.His brother Gary resides in Arizona and his sister Annette practices medicine in North Carolina.