Meet Your Mentors

Kennette Canales

Apple Manansala

Aaros Cabrera

Gemma Rose Dublan

Engr. Christian Lance P. Arojado

Kennette Canales

He is a graduate of BS Computer Engineering Major in Digital Systems Design and Master of Management in Operation Management at the University of San Carlos - Cebu City
He is a full-stack web and mobile developer, business owner, and faculty member.
In the field of business and innovation, currently, he is the

(1) CEO of PaySo, Inc. - Payhiram US Entity,

(2) Founder and CEO of Payhiram LLC (USA),

(3) Founder, President and CEO of Increment Merchandise Corporation in Cebu City,

(4) Founder, President and Interim CEO Increment Realty Corporation in Cebu City,

(5) President and CEO of Increment Technologies - Cebu City,

(6) Part of the Management Team of University of San Carlos TechHub, School of Engineering,

(7) Host and Founder, The Gladiators Ring - Pitching Competition for StartUps in Cebu Province

He is also a part-time instructor at the University of San Carlos - Department of Computer, Information Science, and Mathematics
He passed the Philippine Information Technology General Certification Examination year 2016.
Moreover, he is the President of ELITE, Graduate Studies Organization of School of Business and Economics.

Apple Manansala

She is the Co-owner and Vice President of PuzzleBox BPO Inc., a decade old 24x7 operating BPO offering digital and intelligent outsourcing solutions.
She is a 20-year old Marketing and Business Development executive who has been instrumental with the growth of different companies around Asia and the US.
Private Pop Avenue is one of her passion-projects.
She is also helping SMEs through venture capital through event bazaars in Manila and other key cities.
She currently sits as the President and Chief Executive Producer of The New Channel Media Corp. or TNC. It is an online new media platform which was launched during the global pandemic. TNC showcases Filipino talent, global influencers that promotes cultural intelligence and ingenuity. It has shows being streamed around Asia and the US aside from the Philippines.
In her pursuit to the use and respect of #DigitalForGood, she created Global Women Who RULE. GWWR, is an online summit and now a growing community which shares inspiring stories of empowered and outstanding Filipino women from around the world. The overwhelming acceptance of GWWR gave birth to another concept MeAndMOM, or short for Me and My Outstanding Mother. Me and MOM is an event that promises to bring out the best in one person by gratefully appreciating her mother.
She is a graduate of Fine Arts major in advertising.
She is a certified Digital Leader and an MSME hero awardee.

Aaros Cabrera

He is a 25-year old entrepreneur, business analyst and strategist.
The most notable startups and ventures that he started are: (1) Ros Rollos, an innovative food concept, (2) WeCrave, a food focused startup media company which garnered over 200,000 followers and reached numerous clients nationwide, (3) co-invented and co-founded Borvo, a wearable hand sanitizer which they started during the pandemic and was recognized by the largest media network in the Philippines and their products was sold to 4 countries.
At the young age of 23, he became the CMO of a restaurant chain with 10 branches nationwide.
Currently, he is the co-owner and CEO of one of the most talked about restaurant and cocktail lounge in Batangas City, BlueMoon which was recently featured by Ms. Winnie Cordero. Together with his co-owners and partners, they are already starting their 2nd branch in Lipa City.

Gemma Rose Dublan

She is a Juris Doctor at Arellano University School of Law
Chief Information Officer for Cybersecurity Philippine CERT.
She formerly worked at Microsoft as Technical Documentation Specialist Consultant and World Bank Philippines.
Single mom of 3 kids.
Full time remote Customer Success Engineer at Pantheon USA

Laila Marquez

She is a Medical Technologist who humbly started her career as a Laboratory Scientist in Research Institute for Tropical Medicine specifically in HIV Research
She later explored her capabilities in sales and marketing in healthcare in different multinational companies here and overseas such as Getz Healthcare Philippines and Becton Dickinson Co.
Her experience in managing different medical distributors, customers, supply chain and regulations in her corporate life led her to build her own company with a mission to bring better healthcare affordable service by bringing quality and cost-saving products in different medical institutions through an e-Commerce technology named InterLeukin – making medical purchasing simple.

Rene Torralba

He is the President and CEO of MVENT Philippines, Inc., a 34-year old company distributing assembly tools to the local automotive and manufacturing industries.
He is also the Chairman of Aerocross Philippines, Inc., an online retailer for US-imported consumer goods, operating since 2012.
During the pandemic, he pursued his passion doing voice overs, as well as a broadcaster for EntrepRadio, both online and on the DWIZ 882 AM band.
His advocacy of helping Filipinos develop into successful entrepreneurs has led him to become a past-president and current director of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) - Parañaque City chapter, as well as a current trustee of the PCCI - NCR main chapter.

Christian Leynes

He was born July 11, 1978 and is married to Charmaine Castañeda Leynes.
He is the CEO of the following companies:

Multibiz International Corp.

Inkbiz Ventures, Inc.

Somana Corp.

Bizhub Concepts, Inc.

Carlo Valencia

He is the Founder and Facilitator of Startup PH Training where he teaches new and aspiring founders how to quickly test ideas and accelerate revenue growth by deeply understanding customers and their problems.
He is the Customer Success Manager of Prosperna. He makes sure their clients are able to go live as soon and as easily as possible. To set them up for success in growing their business using the Prosperna platform.
He is a Startup Mentor of QBO Innovation Hub. He provides time and expertise to start-up mentees selected and identified by QBO, provides connections and/or referrals to start-up mentees, conducts workshops to start-up mentees and/or TBI managers and staff, and coaches start-up teams during hackathons, bootcamps, or other similar activities.
In all that he does, he advocates a "Begin by Understanding" and a "Fail Fast, Often AND Forward" mindset to all of his students. He is a student of mindfulness, practices gratitude as well as radical transparency in all that he does.

Faith Pastrana

She is a graduate of Bachelor of Arts in Communication
A segment producer at GMA Network Channel 7
Senior Producer at Film Magik Singapore
Business Development Executive of Blue Mango Singapore
Program Manager of Google My Business MSME Caravan
Radio Broadcaster at EntrepRadio on DWIZ 882 AM
Segment Producer and Writer at Net 25
Owner of The Vozz Creatives Media Production
CEO of The Vozz Creatives Singapore Pte. Ltd.
She is an experienced creative media professional in the local and international scene.
She is a scriptwriter for TV and corporate videos, a technical director for live streaming, a video producer and director, a voice over artist, online show host, radio broadcaster, and project manager

Erus Lumague

He is the Department Head of the College of Business Administration at Bulacan State University.
He works as a project staff and office head for two DOST-BulSU initiatives, namely the BARAS Technology Business incubator and the Lauin Technology Transfer office.
He has participated in several different Mentor programs, including ones that teach learning design for sustainability, internal quality audit, and entrepreneurial mentorship.
He is an alumnus of the Bachelor of Arts major in Philosophy program at Notre Dame University’s de Mazenod seminary.
He received his Master of Business Administration degree from AMA University. At the moment, he is enrolled in the Doctor of Philosophy in Commerce program (the dissertation writing phase) at the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas.
He is also a published researcher who has citations to his work on business-related subjects.
He is an experienced business consultant, particularly in the area of marketing. His more than a decade of experience in the teaching profession has equipped him to venture into the field of public speaking.
A mentor, teacher, researcher and consultant.

Engr. Christian Lance P. Arojado

He is the Project Development Officer of SULONG Central Luzon, the leading startup consortium of Region III that was proposed by Bulacan State University to the DOST-PCIEERD under the agency’s HEIRIT ReSEED Program.
He communicates with all the startup stakeholders like the startups, incubators, academe, government agencies, private sectors, investors and such inside and outside the Central Luzon to establish the said consortium. In this role also, he organizes projects such as technopreneurship training, exhibits for startups, hackathons for future startup founders, and such that would benefit the startup ecosystem.
He graduated Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering at Bulacan State University last September 2020 whereas he had a lot of organizations led too like JJC BulSU and the Local Student Council.
Currently, he is involved with two NGO’s: Junior Chamber International (JCI) Malolos Inc. as the Vice President for Individualism and Bridging Leaders for Sustainable Development Inc. as the Director for Governance and Leadership Institute.
He helped in organizing around 30 NGO projects like donation drive, tree planting, and community pantry during the height of covid-19 pandemic from 2020 to 2021.
Even as a fresh graduate, he already worked in 4 jobs: as an Admin Officer of a project by the Chamber of Commerce of the Philippine Islands, Trade Marketing Officer at Foodcrafters Inc, a processed food manufacturing company in Bulacan, he’s current work now in DOST and previously, he was recruited to be the Chief Marketing Officer of an IoT focused startup, Sentrify Technologies Corp.
He is also a student now at the University of the Philippines’ Technology Management Center taking up his Masters degree in Technology Management.

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