The Management

 

Dennis Mendiola
Founder and Chief Executive Officer

  • Successful Investment Manager with extensive experience in wireless communications technology
  • Investment Manager, Next Century Partners (Managing Director and founding partner)
  • Investment Banker, Bankers Trust and Morgan Stanley
  • Management Consultant, McKinsey & Co.
  • BS Electrical Engineering & Economics, University of Pennsylvania
  • MBA, Harvard Business School

Chito Bustamante
Chief Operating Officer

  • Director of Technology, AJOnet Holdings, Inc., investment holding company for companies providing innovation in Information and Communications Technology
  • Experienced in network and infrastructure development and deployment
  • Systems Engineer at Compucom Systems, Inc.
  • Certified Systems Engineer for Microsoft and Novell; also certified in IntelBay Networks and Lotus Notes

Patrick Garcia
Managing Director, Bidshot Wireless Services, Inc.

  • Experienced as equities portfolio manager and stockbroker
  • Managing Director of Metrobank's stockbrokerage arm for 4 years.
  • President of L.M. Garcia Securities.
  • Successful entrepreneur with interests in restaurants & real-estate
  • BS Business Management, Ateneo de Manila University

Junie Fajardo
Managing Director, Crushcow Asia, Inc.

  • CEO, Veritas Mobile Solutions
  • Experienced business and political strategist

Alexandra Roxas
Founder and Chief Adminstrative Officer

  • Successful Entrepreneur and Executive with extensive experience in Southeast Asia
  • CEO, SJ Roxas & Company (one the Philippines' leading stock brokerages)
  • Courses in Securities Analysis, New York University
  • Courses in E-Commerce, University of California, Berkeley
  • BS Psychology, University of Sto. Tomas

Richard Alikpala
Chief Finance Officer

  • Senior Manager of Credit Lyonnais Manila Offshore Branch, specializing in debt instruments for the top corporations in the Philippines
  • Managing Trader for All Asia Capital and Trust Corporation, focusing on the origination and trading of debt paper
  • Investment Banker, Natwest Capital Markets, New York City
  • BA Philosophy, University of the Philippines

Hoton Elicano
Chief Information Officer

  • Successful Technology Manager with experience building innovative and award-winning technology infrastructure
  • BS Electrical Engineering, University of the Philippines
  • Head of Technology, Citibank N.A.
  • Chief Internet Officer, Union Bank of the Philippines

Junie Agcaoili
Chief Corporate Communications Officer

  • Successful Entrepreneur and Executive with extensive experience in Southeast Asia
  • Account Director, Agents International Public Relations
  • Managing Consultant, PT Intermatrix Konsultindo and PT Communications Counsellors
  • Council Member, Presidential Council for Youth Affairs, Government of the Republic of the Philippines
  • BS Economics, University of the Philippines (cum laude and Most Outstanding Student system-wide)

Roland Benzon
Chief Alliances Officer

  • Managing Director, Sagent Networks Ltd.
  • Business Development, Operations and Information Systems Consultant, Executive Systems, New York.
  • Mirror Image Systems Programmer
  • BS Computer Science Lock Haven State University, Pennsylvania, Summa Cum Laude (with a GPA: 3.962/4.0)

Lorenzo G. Formoso III
Chief Legal and Compliance Officer

  • Juris Doctor, University of California, Davis School of Law
  • Admitted to Practice in the Philippines and California
  • Specialized practice and multi-jurisdiction experience in Business Organizations, Commercial Transactions, Corporate Law, Privatization and Telecommunications
  • Extensive legal consultancy work with multilateral development institutions

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