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LIBERAL PARTY
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
• BS Management Engineering (Ateneo de Manila University)
PUBLIC SERVICE RECORD
• Three time consecutive Leyte Governor (2004-2012)
• Drafted the implementing Rules and Regulations of the Leyte Province Investment Code of 2004, encouraging investors to locate in Leyte getting a 100% real property tax holiday for 5 years
• Supported The Philippine Economic Zone Authority in converting the developed and ready for operation Leyte Academic Center into the Leyte Information Communication Technology Park
• DOE Secretary (2012-2015)
• Signed Circular No. DC2015-06-0008 or Demand Aggregation and Supply Auctioning Policy (DASAP) which mandates all distribution utilities to undertake a competitive selection process in securing power supply agreements (versus previous practice of bilateral contracts which were prone to self-dealing)
PLATFORMS
- Information and Communication Technology
- Energy
- Education
- Health
MISCELLANEOUS
• Comes from the Loreto-Cari-Petilla clan, a well-entrenched political family in Leyte (Palo) but only ran for and became Governor of Leyte at 40
• Taught Computer Programming subjects in Ateneo de Manila University for five years
• IT Consultant to Various Multinational companies
• Has many business interests including data companies based in including data companies based in Mandaluyong, Tacloban and International (offices in UK and US)
