Local Woman

Technopreneur

Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa is the founder and CEO of

rappler, a popular mews website in the
Philippines. Even Before rappler, Maria Ressa has
been a journalist is Asia for more than 25 years,
most of them as CNN’s bureau chief in Manila the
Jakarta. In 2005, she headed the Philippines’
largest multiplatform news operations, ABS-CBN
News and Current Affairs. She also taught in her
alma mater, Princeton university, as well s the
University of the Philippines. She authored “Seeds
of Terror” and “From Bin Ladden to Facebook”.

Ressa was born in Manila and grew up

there until the age of 10, when her parents
relocated to Toms River, New Jersey. There,
she
spent the rest of her childhood and adolescence, where she graduated from Toms
River High School North. Ressa studied molecular biology and theater as an
undergraduate at Princeton University, where she graduated cum laude with a
B.A. degree in English and certificates in theater and dance in 1986. For her
degree, Ressa completed a 77-page long senior thesis titled "Sagittarius". She
then was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study political theater at the
University of the Philippines Diliman.

Ressa's first job was at government station PTV 4. She then co-founded
independent production company Probe in 1987, and simultaneously served as
CNN's bureau chief in Manila until 1995. She then ran CNN's Jakarta bureau from
1995 to 2005. As CNN's lead investigative reporter in Asia, she specialized in
investigating terrorist networks. She became an author-in-residence at the
International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) of
Nanyang Technological University's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in
Singapore.

From 2004, Ressa headed the news division of ABS-CBN, while also writing for
CNN and The Wall Street Journal. She left the company in 2010, after deciding not to
renew her contract.

She is the author of two books concerning the rise of terrorism in Southeast
Asia: Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda's Newest Center (2011)
and From Bin Laden to Facebook 10 Days of Abduction, 10 Years of Terrorism (2013).

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 She established the online news site, Rappler in 2012. It started as a
Facebook page named MovePH in August 2011 and later evolved into a complete
website on January 1, 2012. The site has since been a major news portal in the
Philippines, receiving numerous local and international awards.

Tina Amper

Tina is the founder of TechTalks.ph, a non-profit,

independent community of business, technology,
and startup enthusiasts. TechTalks host meetups &
events to facilitate networking and organize
workshops to foster innovative ideas and acquire
better skills once or twice every month. It is a
community of 1100+ people today in Cebu, Bohol,
Davao, Iloilo and will soon reach to other cities of
Philippines as well.. The number shows that the
community is nascent, however in Tina’s words it is
only bound to scale up from here.A roundtrip from
Cebu to SanFrancisco that led to TechTalks.

Tina was born and brought up in Cebu. Right after she finished her
engineering, she moved to the U.S. so she never got a chance to work in the
Philippines. She was based in San Francisco when all the buzz around startup
ecosystem was starting to happen in Philippines. She first got introduced to the
startup community in the U.S. by Jojo Flores, co-founder of Plug and Play Tech
Center in Silicon Valley, and got interested in the startup ecosystem
instantaneously.

Three years ago, when she started becoming interested in returning to

Philippines, she started catching up with her Filipino friends about the developments
happening in her homeland. She formed TechTalks.ph as a way to get to know
the community. Tina was quite surprised to know that a whole lot of startup
movement was happening in Philippines. She wanted to stay connected with the
startup community and when she came finally moved back to Cebu in late 2012,
she found an exciting opportunity to build up a community of startups here. With
a vision to

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 create strong bonds in startup ecosystem - the entrepreneurs, startup founders,
software developers, designers, investors, media, marketers etc- she started
TechTalks.ph

Aisa Mijeno

Engineer Aisa Mijeno, currently a

faculty member of De La Salle Lipa,
Batangas and CEO of SALt (Sustainable
Alternative Lighting).

In 2010, in order to be a full time

instructor she decided to take a master’s
degree on Computer Engineering and work
on her thesis earlier. The lamp is supposed
to be the final work of her thesis but it was
rejected because it does not align with the
field she’s taking. Seeing the potential of
her work, she continue working on it despite
of the first outcome.

Aisa sees challenges as something that keeps her moving forward. She’s the kind
of person who loves to solve challenges and one if it is the invention of SALt
lamp.

One of the main factors that push her to continue working on this is the
Kalinga community living in the mountain. Most of them are still experiencing lack
access of electricity and using kerosene as an alternative.

Last November 18, 2015 during APEC an opportunity came for Asia, as
President Obama requested her to have a 30-minute talk for a panel discussion
about climate change along Alibaba’s Jack Ma. It’s a great exposure and promotion
for her invention.

With the help of her brother who’s in the business path they’re able to talk to
different investors to raise more funds that will support the whole project.

For now, they are collecting 500,000 dollars in order to buy parts for the
system that will allow them to make 2 million lamps.

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 Natasha Bautista

Natasha Bautista currently

heads the operations of QBO
Innovation Hub. QBO (‘ku-bo’) is an
innovation hub, or a platform for the
startup community to collaborate,
develop talent, and grow. It is the
product of a partnership between
IdeaSpace, J.P. Morgan, DOST, and
DTI and the country’s first public-
private initiative for startups. Spurred
on by the vision of Filipinos startups
changing the world, the mission is to create a globally competitive startup
ecosystem in the Philippines.

Before she became the head of GrabCar Philippines, she first became the
Marketing Vice President from January 2013 to April 2014 and also became the
Deputy Country Manager of GrabTaxi from April 2014 to June 2015.

Beforehand, Natasha was the Head of GrabCar Philippines. GrabCar is

Southeast Asia's leading transportation technology app that positively impacts the
way people move. It took Natasha three years to shift from first to fourth gear in the
transport mobile app business — from intern at MyTeksi (former name) to AGM of
GrabTaxi and to Head of GrabCar.

Bautista graduated her high school in saint Louis School Center High School
and took her Business Management degree in Ateneo de Manila University.

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 Stephanie Chung

Stephanie Chung is the CEO and

co-founder of eCompareMo.com, the
leading fintech company in the
Philippines. The company helps
customers to choose the best loans,
credit cards, or car insurance for their
needs through the help of artificial
intelligence and online platforms.

A Filipino-Chinese of the fourth

generation, Chung was born to a
family of reputable status that owns the largest manufacturing companies in the
country. With a strong will to set out beyond traditions, she chose a different path,
finishing a doctorate in Psychology and transforming lives as a mentor and
educator.

Chung finished her doctorate in Psychology in University of Santo Tomas. She

also went to Assumption College, San Lorenzo for her Masters of arts major in
Psychology and took her Business Management degree in Asian Institute of
Mangement.

She has a lot of experience in managing business as she work as different

position. April 1994 to April 1995, she became the Chief Operating Officer of Dragon
Gumball Corporation in Makati. She also became the Chief Operating Officer of
Southbelle Enterprise- Taiwan Cement Corporation for 2 years and 5 months(January

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 2000- May 2002). After that she became the Chief Operations Officer of La Suerte
Cigar and Cigarette Factory — JMP Distributors for six years (2002-2008). She also
became the Managing Director of Think Tank Software Lab Development
Corporation from 2008 up to present and today she is the acting CEO of the
successful eCompareMo.

Global Woman

Technopreneur Sheryl Sandberg – Facebook COO

The first influential women in tech, Sandberg,

graduated from Harvard College in 1991 with
a B.A in economics, where she also co-
founded Women in Economics and
Government. She then enrolled at Harvard
Business School in 1993 to earn her M.B.A.
Sandburg had a number of jobs after
graduating in 1995 until she met Mark
Zuckerberg at a Christmas party in 2007 who
offered her the COO job at Facebook while
not actually searching for a COO. She has
been with the company ever since.

Susan Wojcicki – YouTube CEO

Wojcicki grew up on the Stanford University campus as her fa

and then became senior vice president of

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 Advertising and Commerce. After overseeing Google Video, she proposed
that Google should buy YouTube. She handled two of Google’s largest
acquisitions- the $1.65 billion purchase of YouTube and the $3.6 billion
purchase of DoubleClick and then became CEO of YouTube in 2014. The huge
success of Susan Wojcicki shows how influential women in tech can be for
the world’s biggest companies.

Angela Ahrendts – Former SVP for retail at Apple

Ahrendts studied merchandising and

marketing
at Ball State University in 2010 and then moved to
New York to work in the fashion industry. She worked
for brands such as Warnaco, Donna Karan and Henri
Bendel and then joined Burberry in 2006 as CEO. She
then went on to join Apple in 2014 as senior vice
president for retail and online stores and is the only
female senior executive at Apple. In April 2019
Ahrendts left her role at Apple.

Safra Catz – Oracle co-CEO

Catz attended the University of

Pennsylvania and their Law School, as
well as Harvard Law School. She then
became a banker at Donaldson, Lufkin
& Jenrette and then served as
managing director and senior vice
president. In 1999 Catz joined Oracle
and became a member of the
company’s board of directors in 2001.
She held a number of roles at Oracle
in
her time. Catz was ranked by Fortune as the 12th most powerful women in
business in 2009. Catz stepped up as co-CEO of
Oracle in 2014 when Larry Ellison stepped
down.

Ruth Porat – Alphabet CFO and SVP

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 Porat was born in England before she moved to America at a young
age. She then went on to obtain a bachelor of arts degree in economics and
international relations from Stanford University and then onto graduating
from London School of Economics with a master of science degree in
industrial relations. Porat started her career with Morgan Stanley in roles
such as Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, Global Head of the Financial
Institutions and co-head of Technology Investment Banking. She then joined
Google & Alphabet as CFO in May 2015.

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