(Winners of the 3rd Mansmith Innovation Awards proudly holding their Imao-sculptured trophies, pictured from left to right: RR Chua of Immuni Global, Dr. Aris Alip of CARD MRI, SEC Chairman Emilio Aquino, Jimmy Thai of Primer, Edward Lee of COL Financial, and Auke Idzenga of AIDFI. They are joined by co-founders Josiah Go and Chiqui Escareal-Go, along with UnionBank CEO Edwin Bautista, a master innovator winner from the first batch.) In business, shaking things up often […]
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Dr. Aris Alip is the visionary behind CARD Mutually Reinforcing Institutions (CARD MRI), the largest micro lender to the underprivileged in the Philippines. It boasts of a customer base exceeding 9 million and an impressive collection rate of 99.17%. CARD MRI’s low-interest loans, predominantly aimed at women, play a pivotal role in poverty alleviation and the empowerment of women. Dr. Aris […]
Six outstanding organizations have been named as Top Innovators for the 3rd Mansmith Innovation Awards 2023. These exceptional innovators are: These outstanding innovators will join an esteemed group of game-changing individuals and organizations, including Union Bank (Edwin Bautista), KennethCobonpue Collection (Kenneth Cobonpue), Mega Sardines (William Tiu Lim), BeaValdes Design (Beatrice Valdes), Cebuana Lhuillier (Jean Henri Lhuillier), Bounty Agro (Ronald Mascariñas), […]
Leni Olmedo, the country manager of Amway Philippines, has been with the company for the past two decades. She provides insights into the strategies and efforts she and her team implemented to successfully lead Amway’s recovery and subsequent growth. Q1: As the leader of Amway Philippines since 2003, you successfully reversed a 7-year sales and distributor decline, achieving six consecutive […]
Rio Ilao is the Founder and CEO of MobileOptima, Inc., one of the top technology companies in the Philippines specializing in sales force automation and workforce management solutions. Its leading enterprise solution, Tarkie, digitizes and automates field processes like digital forms and field monitoring with real-time data to give companies 360 visibility on their field operations and help make real-time decisions. […]
Kim Frances Lato, the founder of Kimstore.com, started her business with just P20,000 on the Multiply social media platform. Today, she has more than 250 employees and processes over 1 million online transactions per year with an omnichannel availability. Kim was awarded the Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (YMMA) in 2021. In this interview, she shares her insights on opportunity-seeking and […]
Bea Evardone is the Group COO of Cebu-based Republiq Group, a digital transformation agency based in Cebu. She won the Mansmith Young Market Masters (YMMA) 2022 and is the first winner in the geographical marketing category. In this interview, she shares her thoughts about hyperlocalization and influencer marketing. Q1: You specialize in content hyperlocalization for the VisMin market. What makes […]
Dr. Prof. Geoffrey Chua is a tenured associate professor of operations management at the Nanyang Business School (NBS), Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His research and specialization spans the areas of supply chain management, service operations, decision science and operations-marketing interface. He has published in leading journals and was awarded the Research Excellence Award by NBS in 2015 and 2011. He […]
(From left to right: Lhullier, Mascariñas, Sazon, Uy) Four prominent Filipinos have been named Master Innovators in the 2nd annual Mansmith Innovation Awards. They are Jean Henri Lhuillier, Ronald Mascariñas, Martha Sazon and Dennis A. Uy. They will join an equally elite roster of game-changing master innovators recognized last year — Edwin Bautista (Union Bank), Kenneth Cobonpue (KennethCobonpue Collection), William […]
CoreProc, an IT company, created the brand drybrush, an e-commerce website for artists to sell their paintings, sculptures, and artwork at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. This not only helped artists, but also gave CoreProc substantial revenue growth, without the continuous customization burden of their old IT business model. In this interview, CoreProc President Jojo Liao shares about their […]