Advocacy-based marketing training and consulting company, Mansmith and Fielders Inc., has bestowed a 5-year P33-million scholarship grant that aims to train 4,000 marketing professors and teachers across the Philippines.  By enhancing their skills and knowledge through marketing training courses, these educators will be better equipped to deliver relevant, up-to-date and practical marketing education to their students. The ripple effect of […]

Christine Fajardo is the head of communications and engagement of Novartis in the Philippines and the Asia Aspiring Innovative Medicines Cluster. Novartis is the world’s second largest drug company. Prior to Novartis, she was SVP for strategic marketing & corporate affairs of St. Luke’s Medical Center. Christine is also the Chairperson of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines […]

Ana Aboitiz-Delgado is the Senior Executive Vice President (SEVP) and Chief Customer Experience Officer, as well as Chief Digital Channels Officer of UnionBank of the Philippines. UnionBank is the first to offer a fully digital banking experience in the country.  She is also one of the recipients of the 5th Mansmith Market Masters Awards for Senior Mentors, the first and only […]

On its 5th year, the Mansmith Market Masters Awards (MMMA) once again honors outstanding senior marketing executives who mentored members of their teams toward both professional and personal excellence. Because of their mentorship,  their mentees had become the recipients of the Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (YMMA), which is the first and only recognition program for marketers and entrepreneurs 35 years […]

I get the most number of new ideas by attending learning events organized by reputable organizers with track records of delivering quality content. By simply listening to different perspectives of speakers or panelists who have been-there, done-that, I get inspired with their possibility thinking.  I build on their ideas, connect a missing piece of a puzzle, or get triggered with […]

Life insurance was once an uncomfortable service to discuss, but it has now turned into something that can easily be bought online. Insular Life, operating since 1910, is the first and biggest Filipino life insurance company and the only mutual company in the Philippines, with total assets currently over P143 billion. It markets various insurance products (personal, life, educational, health, […]

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 […]

At the recently concluded 16th Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (YMMA), we asked three of the marketing rockstars to share about formulating compelling marketing strategy. They are Mark Alvarez, Managing Director (Philippines) of InSites Consulting and YMMA Awardee for Insighting, Camille Ang, Group Manager of Marketing and Demand of GrowSari and YMMA Awardee for Marketing Management, and Gian Louis Yap, Brand Director of Procter & […]

Historically, winning a presidential election, like winning market leadership in the marketplace, entails a lot of mass media advertising to be top of mind. The basic idea is you convert positive thought leadership into market leadership.  Early presidentiable favorites in 2016, then Vice President Jejomar Binay and Senator Grace Poe landed number four and number three, respectively in the final tally, […]

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