Most people normally choose the career or type of business they enter into. But sometimes, it is the business that they stumble upon that dictates the path they eventually take. This is true in the case of businessman Patrick Lawrence C. Tan, the founder and chief executive officer of Global-Link MP Events International Inc., currently the biggest trade event organizer in the Philippines. While he said that he never had any doubt that he would become an entrepreneur, it is in trying to determine which business to get into that mattered for him. “The Chinese family influence is always very strong for business, so being a businessman is almost not by choice. I found this job in Hong Kong that was in this line of business that I am now in, and I was able to get my training there. A few years later, I brought the business in Manila and this is where I’ve been ever since,” Tan said. Global-Link MP Events International is an industry pioneer in the niche market for trade exhibitions. It is this advantage of being one of the first to do this type of business in the country that eventually made them number one….