Here's a rundown of the profile of the speakers.:)
Peter John Cabanilla
Mr. Cabanilla is the Officer-in-Charge of Visayan Forum Foundation-Davao and VF’s Social Partnership and Alliance Officer for Mindanao. Aside from VF, he is also involved as radio anchor of ABS CBN’s 1296 Radyo Patrol and Bantay Bata 163 Program.
Peter is a Graduate of Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Assumption College of Davao.
Shai Coggins
Ms. Coggins is the Manager for Communications at Connecting Up, which is a nonprofit organisation based in Australia. She has been running the organisations social media strategy and is currently in the midst of revamping their site and taking care of Online Content and Community. Shai is a veteran social media maven and has been recognized in a number of media, including ABS-CBN Australia, Manila Bulletin, Reader's Digest Australia, SBS Radio, and The Advertiser, among others. She was named as one of the Most Influential Women in Technology by Fast Company.
Camille Datu
Ms. Datu is a Production Design graduate from De La Salle – College of Saint Benilde. She first worked as a Marketing Assistant for a local Photography Magazine. As of today, she has been with Microsoft for over a year now.
Camille started out as an Events Specialist for the Small and Mid-market Solutions and Partners (SMS&P) Team wherein she received a Certificate of Excellence in supporting the IT Works! Marketing Campaign. After 5 months of being an events specialist, Camille was assigned to be the Citizenship Specialist with the responsibility is to bring technology to the non-profit community. This is her first NGO Connection Day.
Margarita Delgado
Over the course of her life, Ms. Delgado has distinguished herself as a successful businesswoman with a passion for reading.
Along with co- founder and partner Mrs. Lizzie Zobel, Mrs. Delgado founded SA AKLAT SISIKAT FOUNDATION. SAS focuses its efforts just as much on teacher training and on principal training, as it does on its year-round Reading Programs.
Eleven years since its inception, SAS has served 811 public schools nationwide, positively impacting the reading skills of over 22,500 teachers and touching the minds of over 928,300 Filipino students. The Foundation has also had an indirect impact on the millions of students who have attended its partner schools, where SAS-trained teachers work and where their program is run autonomously from year to year.
Tomas Escano
Mr. Escano received his Bachelor’s Degree in Business at California State University, Dominguez Hills campus, and his MBA at University of Redlands. Tom acquired most of his professional experience from working for companies in Los Angeles. For thirty years, Tom specialized in the information technology field, and worked in various industries from the US Defense industry, Insurance Industry, and the Financial industries. Tom has worked for the top 500 most influential companies in Los Angeles, namely; TRW Systems Defense Group, Security First Group, (a Subsidiary of London Life), Computer Sciences Corporation, and Fujitsu Consulting Incorporated.
Together with his wife, Jing, and two kids, Tom migrated to Cebu City in 2007 to help run the family business, as general manager of Casa Escano Bed & Breakfast & Don Merto’s . In October of 2010, Tom became the new Chief Information Officer of Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP). PBSP is one of the largest NGO in the Philippines, and Tom is spearheading the effort of upgrading PBSP’s current IT standards.
Dindo Fernando
Mr. Fernando is currently the Business Development Manager for Cloud Services in Microsoft Philippines. Dindo's role is to establish cloud services within the local partner channel and set the direction for Microsoft hosted cloudservices. His main goal is to establish adoption and landing of theMicrosoft Cloud technologies in the Philippines.
Prior to this role, Dindo has spent 6 years in the Microsoft Enterprise and Corporate Accounts space driving Business Intelligence and Data Management.
Ma. Cecilia Flores-Oebanda
Ms. Oebanda is the Founding President and Executive Director of the Visayan Forum Foundation, a Philippine-based NGO known for its innovative work for empowerment of vulnerable migrant especially victims of human trafficking, domestic servitude and other forms of exploitation through building social movements, advocating for policies and delivering of services.
Cecil received the 2005 Anti-Slavery Award given by the Anti-Slavery International. She was recognized by the UK Government as one of the Modern-Day Abolitionists in the celebration of the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 2007. The following year, Cecil was conferred with the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University in the UK by the Skoll Foundation. She was named by the US Department of State as one of its Heroes Acting to End Modern-Day Slavery in its 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report and was presented the first Iqbal Masih Award for the Elimination of Child Labor by the US Department of Labor.
Cecil, a globally recognized human rights advocate and multi-awarded freedom fighter, serves as an international expert on human trafficking, child labor and domestic work.
Sreeni Narayanan
Mr. Narayanan is the Founding Director of ASSIST - Asia Society for Social Improvement & Sustainable Transformation, a non-profit international capacity building organization that focuses on thematic areas of Energy, Environment & Water; SME/Industry Competitiveness; Human Rights; Food & Health Services.
Sreeni is a leading Consultant and Trainer with over 15 years of experience in designing, executing as well as managing multi-dimensional projects and has a very close working relationship with Multilateral Agencies like European Union, Asian Development Bank, USAID, InWent, UNEP, World Bank, UNIDO, and German Developmental Bank.
Sreeni has conceptualized, created and successfully managed over 40 International Projects spanning technical assistance in the form of consulting, training, elearning, policy development, advocacy rollout and information campaign design across SE Asia, South Asia and Africa.
Sreeni is a Graduate of Master of Business Management from Asian Institute of Management and has a Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from India.
James 'Jay' Savage
Mr. Savage currently works as Manager for Business Development of HMR Group and General Manager of HMR Solutions, the I.T. branch of HMR. He has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Maryland, MBA from American Graduate School of International Management, and is a graduate of the Defense Language Institute with a Certificate in Japanese language studies. Jay manages the HMR Microsoft Registered Refurbisher program which allows HMR to provide affordable refurbished computers with genuine Microsoft Windows XP and Office Citizenship licenses.
As a Rotarian Jay is chairman of the Books Across the Seas Committee of the Rotary Club of Makati. The BATS Committee provides donated textbooks from the U.S. to deserving public schools and libraries. He has lived in the Philippines for over 30 years.
Hilda Tabar-Cleofe
Ms. Cleofe is the Executive Director of Corporate Network for Disaster Response (CNDR), a network of corporations, corporate foundations and business associations involved in disaster risk reduction. She is also one of the founders and the current President of Ocean Beacons International (OBI), a non-government organization which focuses on integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) based in Bacolod City. She also serves as member of the Board of Trustees of American Chamber Foundation Philippines, Food for Hungry Minds School Philippines and International Movement of Development Managers. She has been involved in development work focus on education, environment and disaster risk reduction for the past 18 years.
She is a graduate of the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) under the Master Program in Development Management. She completed her Bachelor Degree in Human Ecology from the University of the Philippines at Los Banos. She is married with two kids.
