TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERISTY OF THE PHILIPPINES

COLLEGE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY

CIVIL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

CASE STUDY NO.2

“FILIPINO TECHNOPRENEURS”

GUEVARRA, ARDREI CARL V.

BET – CT 4C

PROF.
FILIPINO TECHNOPRENUERS
1. Diosdado “Dado” Banatao, Monstron

- Diosdado Banatao is titled as the Philippines Bill Gates, he invented a Graphic

accelerator chip to boost the graphic rendering of personal computers which made him 4
million dollar in just 4 months. He finished Electrical Engineering in Mapua University
and later studied at Stanford in Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, He is a Filipino who venture and capitalist in Silicon Valley and his inventions
contributes on development of Personal Computers. Diosdado Banatao success taught us
despite that we are poor we need to train ourselves and invest knowledge so we can do
spectacular things that will make us successful.

2. Orlando Vea
- Mr. Vea is one of the most successful digital entrepreneurs in the country. He cofounded
Smart in 1991 with Dave Fernando and was its President and CEO until 2000. During
that time, First Pacific purchased Smart. He led Smart from its inception as a startup to its
position as the industry's market leader in mobile telephony. He went on to start a number
of businesses, including CIGNAL, which is currently the top direct-to-home digital cable
channel. He then went on to lead the PLDT Group's media and content business as
President and CEO of MediaQuest Holdings, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the
PLDT Beneficial Trust Fund, where he was in charge of the Group's forays into Mobile
TV, Direct to Home TV, and other major mass media and new media platforms. In 2008,
he returned to Smart as the company's Chief Wireless Advisor. In January 2013, Mr. Vea
initiated the development of Voyager Innovations, PLDT and Smart's digital innovation
business, where he currently serves as President and CEO. The Voyager Group, which
includes Voyager Breakthroughs and its several spin-off enterprises such as
FINTQnologies, Takatack Technologies, and PayMaya Philippines, is paving the way for
digital innovations in emerging countries.

3. Joey Concepcion

- Joey is a self-assured entrepreneur. At the age of 28, he is already the Chief Executive
Officer of RFM Corporation, the Philippines' second largest food and beverage
conglomerate, with net sales of P10 billion in 2001. He purchased the Selecta and
Cosmos brands and took on Coke and Magnolia, two of the world's largest beverage
companies. With Pop Cola, he created Cosmos a market leader in 13 years. He views
business not only as a means of gaining money, but also as a means of demonstrating his
love for the country. He wants to help others, both established and aspiring entrepreneurs,
thus he formed the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship with eight other colleagues.
They want to help entrepreneurs by encouraging and mentoring them. They create a
 campaign called "Go Negosyo" to fulfill their goal of making Filipinos positive rather
than pessimistic, with the hope of making the Philippines a country of billionaires.

4. Rachel De Villa

- Rachel is a social entrepreneur and a full-stack software engineer. She specializes in

developing scalable and long-lasting inventions with a social aim. Cropital, an award-
winning finance-agricultural start-up in the Philippines, was founded by her at the age of
23 with co-founders Ruel Amparo and Everett Ubiadas. Cropital is the first crowdfunding
platform that allows individuals to make low-cost, long-term agricultural investments,
providing scalable and long-term financing to disadvantaged farmers. This program aims
to promote equitable growth, poverty reduction, and food security. To date, her team has
now reached over 90,000 investors and supported over 800 smallholder farmers.
- She has been named ASEAN Woman in Business Startup of the Year, Cosmopolitan
Magazine's Fun Fearless Female, Jollibee's Yumbassador, and the youngest entrepreneur
to be named to Forbes' first "30 under 30 Asia" list. She received the Creamsilk Women
Empowerment Scholarship as well.
5. Diane Eustaquio

- IdeaSpace's Executive Director is Diane. She is in charge of the foundation's signature

incubation and acceleration program. Prior to joining IdeaSpace, Diane worked for First
Pacific Company Ltd as the Executive Assistant to the Head of Strategy, where she
obtained experience in deal closing, mergers and acquisitions, and strategy management.

6. Ralph Santos, founder, president and CEO of VMoney Inc.

- Based on his accomplishments in delivering large-scale technology programs both locally
and internationally, Ralph is one of the most successful Filipino fintech enablers. In 2013,
he established VMoney, a payments platform that is being used by retailers, online
merchants, travelers, government organizations, small to large businesses, transit
companies, and educational institutions. Ralph was the CEO of VMoney for over four
years before joining FirstTree Ventures, an internet and technology holdings business that
incubates and develops fintech companies around the world. He was the CEO of Arkin
Technologies Ltd. before joining FirstTree.

7. Patch Dulay of The Spark Project

- Patch Dulay, sometimes known as Patrick "Patch," is a startup enabler. He is the founder
and CEO of The Spark Project, an online community and financing platform for socially
conscious businesses. As a lifelong learner and teacher, his passion for education and
entrepreneurship inspires him to serve entrepreneurs by providing them access to tools
that help accelerate their business ideas to reality. Patch graduated from Ateneo de
Manila University with a bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems in 2005.
In 2010, he received his master’s degree in Global E-business from the University of
Lille in France. He also taught for two years at the Ateneo de Manila University's
Department of Information Systems and Computer Sciences. In 2020, he graduated from
the Ateneo Graduate School of Business with a master’s degree in Entrepreneurship -
Social Enterprise and Development. He is a member of the World Economic Forum's
Global Shapers Community and one of four Filipino delegates selected for the Economic
Empowerment cohort of the Young South East Asian Leaders Initiative Professional
Fellows Program (YSEALI PFP) for Spring 2016. In 2016, he was named Industry
Mover of the Rappler Move Awards, and in 2018, he was the only South East Asian to
 receive the US State Department Professional Fellowship Program Alumni Impact
Awards. Tatler Asia's #GenT list for 2019 includes him.

8. RJ David, Sulit.com to OLX.ph

- Is the co-founder of OLX. Ph with his wife Arriane David, this site is aimed to sell
second-hand Items, which took popularity in 2006. This Start up Business makes the
couple successful.

9. Marx Melencio of Grayscale Business Consultancy & Marketing Services

- Marx Melencio, the founder and managing director of Grayscale Business Consultancy
and Marketing Services, was named after Europe's preeminent communist political
theorist and philosopher Karl Marx, although he is a passionate supporter of capitalism.
What makes this Marx in this part of the world even more unusual and exceptional is the
fact that he has been striving to improve the lives of people with disabilities (PWDs). To
be politically correct, Marx Melencio is sight impaired. His ingenuity, acumen and
perseverance to pursue his advocacies, despite the odds, were recently recognized by the
Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology and Research
Development during its recent eighth anniversary celebration as one of the members of
the first batch start-ups.
References:
https://gineersnow.com/engineering/electrical/meet-diosdado-dado-banatao-philippines-bill-
gates
http://www.fintq.com/about-us/
http://upae.org/rachel-l-de-villa-bscs13/
https://filipinoachievers.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/joey-concepcion-gonegosyo/
https://www.iccp.ph/speaker/diane-eustaquio/
https://fintechnews.sg/25559/fintechphilippines/35-innovative-fintech-founders-in-the-
philippines/
https://ph.linkedin.com/in/patchdulay#:~:text=Patrick%20%E2%80%9CPatch%E2%80%9D
%20Dulay%20is%20a,community%20for%20creatively%20conscious%20ventures.
https://businessmirror.com.ph/2018/08/14/the-entrepreneur-who-continues-to-thrive-in-his-own-
dark-world/