Six awardees of Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (YMMA) recently assembled for the 1st Mansmith Brand Summit. I chaired the conference and opened it with a fearless forecast – that marketers will hear more and more of the word TRUST, while the marketing rockstars shared real-life cases about the importance of branding. TRUST is the latest currency in the ways […]

Ron Batisan is the Assistant Vice President of UnionBank who led UnionBank’s launch of The Ark project, the Philippines’ first fully digital bank branch located at the Insular Life Building in Makati with a total of 50 Ark branches planned by end of 2019. The Ark by UnionBank was declared the winner of Best Branch Customer Experience in Asia-Pacific at […]

DTI Secretary Ramon Lopez and yours truly in front of Kapiterya, a DTI-backed cafe promoting Philippine coffee at the National Trade Fair.   Nearly three years ago, on December 2, 2016, Markprof Foundation Inc. and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) agreed in principle to produce free marketing education videos, in taglish, for the benefit of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). The […]

Ian Santos is the Country Manager of Mundipharma Philippines’ consumer healthcare and ethical businesses. Mundipharma is a privately owned global network of independent associated companies, with presence in over 120 countries across six continents. They are leaders in pain management and wound care, as well as significant players in respiratory and eye care. Mundipharma is the maker of the popular […]

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Juan Paolo Gonzales is the AVP Marketing Operations and Capabilities of Rebisco. He was formerly a Marketing Manager of Colgate-Palmolive and was based in Thailand. He launched Del Monte Fit n Right in the Philippines. He won the Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards in 2008. He teaches Marketing Analytics at the University of Asia and the Pacific. Paolo will share […]

Ann Esteves is marketing director of Unilever. She is Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (YMMA) winner in 2016. She shares tips on how marketers can make their brands more authentic, relevant and talkable with some examples. Q1: Consumers demand authenticity nowadays. How can a brand show it? A1: Authenticity is achieved when a brand becomes absolutely rooted in the realities […]

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McDonald’s Philippines marketing director Christina Lao won the Mansmith Young Market Masters Award (YMMA) in 2010. Under her leadership where she supervises a talented group of millennials, overseeing menu innovation, brand communications, digital marketing, family marketing, local store marketing, and customer care, McDonald’s Philippines received the Hall of Fame Award from the Philippine Association of National Advertisers (PANA) for winning […]

Gladys Jane Chan is the Marketing Director of Visa in the Philippines and Guam, before which she worked in the fields of telecommunications, banking and digital content. She is also a former marketing professor at the UA&P, teaching brand management. She won the Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (YMMA) in 2013. She shares her insights about services marketing. She will […]

I asked the senior marketing consultants of Mansmith and Fielders Inc. to share some key trends happening in their fields. I am providing a condensed list of their inputs below. Chiqui Escareal-Go, Anthropologist.Mansmith Chief Behavioral Strategist and Chair, Women’s Business Council Philippines. 1.    Chief Customer Experience Officer – The constant and inevitable call for customer centricity as a source of competitive […]

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