Founder, ECHOstore

　　Philippines

　　Social Entrepreneur. Green Advocate. Coffee Crusader and Advocate for Women Empowerment through business.

　　She has started many businesses and among them are : a coffee shop chain, a Filipino quick service restaurant, a farm to table restaurant and a natural and organic store called ECHOstore(www.echostore.ph). She is a strong advocate of Slow Food, organic farming and sustainable agri-based businesses.

　　She is President and Co-Chair of the Philippine Coffee Board,Inc.(PCBI),(www.philcoffeeboard.com)

　　She is a founder and President of the NextGenOrganization of Women Corporate Directors (NOWCD), and a Trustee of the Philippine Women’s Economic Network or PHILWEN.

　　She also sits as an Independent director in a publicly-listed REIT company focused on renewable energy.

　　She is a regular columnist of The Philippine Star (www.philstar.com) under Food for Thought, writing her opinions about food, sustainability and biodiversity.

　　She has written three books on coffee namely: KAPE (2002), BARAKO : The Big Bean (on Liberica coffee)(2005) and The Barista Manual (2013). And a book on Cacao: Bean to Bar in 2013. All books published by Anvil Publishing. She■