Brief Story

It all officially began when we first hosted the Mr. & Ms. College of Business Education Pageant (December 2014) and the Mr. & Ms. Northwestern University Pageant (January 2015) with our first local television exposure. Things went modestly normal after these student events until preparations came for Laoag City's Pamulinawen Festival on February 2015. As a great surprise, I was invited to host the Miss Association of Barangay Councils (ABC) Laoag pageant which I earnestly accepted due to rare chances and grant my inner thoughts of hosting off-campus events. While it was my first time to take part on city-wide activities, little did I know that this part-time job will be going along as we hosted other grand occasions like the 50th Charter Day or Golden Birthday of Laoag City and Miss Laoag City Pamulinawen pageants.

Blessings and inquiries also poured on the same and following year when I’ve been invited to host highly-attended and most anticipated events on various local government units such as Miss Banna, Miss Piddig, Miss Sarrat pageants, and more notably, the Provincial Government of Ilocos Norte with the Himala Sa Buhangin 2015, Miss Ilocos Norte pageants and other youth/tourism-related activities. All of these steered my career wheel in standing onstage, facing the crowd while holding the microphone, greeting everyone in Iloco, "Naimbag nga rabii kadakayo amin!" (Good evening, ladies and gentlemen!).

Greatly inspired and humbled to share my talent and experiences, it also opened me to opportunities in hosting international pageants such as:

• Mister Tourism World Finals on December 2016 at Vigan Convention Center, Ilocos Sur

• Mister Grand International Preliminaries (September 2017) held in Vigan City, Ilocos Sur

• The 13th Mister International Preliminaries (2019) held in Ilocos Norte Centennial Arena, Laoag City supported by national and local sponsors and organized by Ilocos Norte Tourism Office with Ilocano talents.

With these live and television exposures, event organizers, planners, coordinators, suppliers and other colleagues in the events industry provided numerous events to host like weddings, birthdays/debuts, corporate events, mall shows, concerts, events for a cause, etc. Talking about special occasions, I proudly highlight the wedding of Atty. Michael Manotoc and Mrs. Kara Manglapus-Manotoc held on November 2017 in front of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Paoay Church. It was the grandest and biggest wedding reception hosting with Mrs. Stella Gaspar-Gudoy.

Remarkable as it is, I also had my very first event hosting abroad during the wedding of Mr. Christian Durban and Mrs. Rosemarie Lao-Durban on July 2018 at Hilton Hotel, Auckland, New Zealand with Mrs. Rye Shieng as the wedding planner. Truly memorable, this event provided me an opportunity to discover the world and know more about the said country. Special thanks to the Lao family!

At present and with over seven years in the industry, I already hosted more than 300 events! These are weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, corporate and other public entertainment activities held online inside of Ilocos, in Metro Manila or abroad. Whether hosting in Iloco, Tagalog/Filipino and English, I always aim at making my events special, memorable and awesome with lots of smiles, applause and cheers! Do you have a big event coming up? I might be the ANCHER to what you're looking for! Start booking today!

#ApplauseNCHeERs, taking your event to the stars!

As Ancher is a consistent educator in events management. he along with several teams of student organizers and friends from the event industry have pioneered projects that combine education and social responsibility such as the first North Luzon Tourism and Hospitality Convention (2016) and Bangon Marawi Run for a Cause (2017), a fund-raising and running event participated by hundreds of Ilocanos. Other programs include Seminar-Workshop on Personality and Professional Development (2018), Northern Philippines Business Research Conference (2019) and online events like Project E2: Community E-xtension on E-ntrepreneurship and Virtual Tourism I.N.dustry INformation Forum, both held in the year 2021.

Alongside hosting, he is an active lecturer and resource speaker on personality development, public speaking, leadership, tourism and hospitality, career guidance, business and management training/seminars/workshops; and a judge of various art and talent-related contests; research, and the like. He is currently a lecturer of University of Technology and Applied Sciences - Shinas, Sultanate of Oman (Middle East) under their Business Administration students' Virtual On-The-Job (OJT) Training. (Full resume is available upon request)

"Ikaw At Ako At Ang Ending" Movie

August 13, 2021 streaming at Vivamax

Ancher became a News Anchor! Together with his female counterpart, Mariz Domingo, both of them played as reporters in the upcoming movie of Kim Molina and Jerald Napoles. This movie is directed by Ms. Irene Villamor and special thanks to the Local Talent Manager, Mr. Rainier Alvarez for this awesome part! NOW SHOWING on vivamax.net!

"Seasons" Movie (Showing Date: TBA)

Ancher plays the role of "Chico" - a friend of "Charlie" (Lovi Poe) and "Kurt" (Carlo Aquino) in the upcoming movie. Other actors who were part of the story were Jolo Estrada as "Hans", Sarah Edwards as "Jane", Sheenly Gener as "Shelby", Ron Angeles as "Joel", Christian Ty as "Jack" and local talents such as Toni Carag as "V", Mark Gil Adorna as "Nelson", Andrea Peralta as "Kookie", and Keith Alawag as "Cath", and among others!

Special thanks to Direk Easy Ferrer of Regal Entertainment, Inc. and our Local Talent Manager, Mr. Rainier Alvarez, for having us! We all feel the excitement and thrill! ABANGAN!