Consultant · Builder · Human-capital advocate

Building pathways from ambition to opportunity.

I am an incoming management consultant at Accenture, working at the intersection of digital transformation, human capital, entrepreneurship, and social impact—turning ambitious ideas into institutions, systems, and measurable outcomes.

BS Management EngineeringAteneo de Manila University

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Strategy · Systems · People

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Digital transformation Human transformation

Systems become transformative when people can use them to change what is possible.

“Technology shapes the future. Humanity defines it.”

Digital transformation should not end with digitization, automation, or access to information. It should strengthen people’s capabilities, expand their agency, and open pathways toward lives they once considered unreachable.

My work connects executive strategy with institution-building: helping organizations modernize while building the human systems that make change durable. That means designing clearer pathways, stronger talent ecosystems, better learning experiences, and more equitable access to opportunity.

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Ambition, translated into outcomes.

Early-stage leadership across consulting, technology, youth innovation, health tech, and education.

750+

Filipino students reached

Through innovation and case-competition opportunities created by NOVUS Innovations.

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Youth nonprofit founded

Built to make high-quality innovation experiences more accessible to ambitious students.

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Global innovation ecosystems

Harvard Innovation Labs incubation and Foundess Hatch Accelerator — W25 cohort participation.

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North star

Build the human capital of the future.

At a scale that changes institutions, industries, and the opportunities available to the next generation.

Experience across systems.

Work spanning consulting, technology, youth innovation, health tech, consumer strategy, and institution-building.

2026Present
Accenture

Incoming Management Consultant · Digital Transformation & Strategy

I will help organizations redesign how they create value—connecting technology choices with customer experience, operating models, organizational capability, and measurable business outcomes.

Consulting
2023Present
NOVUS Innovations

Founder & Country Director · Youth Innovation

I built a youth nonprofit that gives Filipino students structured exposure to innovation, case competitions, and high-agency problem solving.

Social impact
2025
Shopee

Apprentice Program · E-commerce & Operations

I contributed within a fast-moving digital commerce environment, gaining exposure to the systems, teams, and execution discipline behind scaled technology platforms.

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Technology
20242026
Hati Health

Health-tech Strategy & Venture Building

I worked where product, growth, and human-centered problem solving meet—translating complex health needs into structured, actionable priorities.

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Health tech
2026
Procter & Gamble

Consumer Strategy & Brand Projects

I worked on strategic projects for Procter & Gamble’s personal care brands, applying structured analysis and consumer-centered thinking to develop recommendations grounded in business context, stakeholder needs, and practical execution.

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Consumer

Technology changes systems. People transform the future.

My emerging body of work focuses on the conversion layer between aspiration and achievement: the capabilities, pathways, institutions, and technologies that help people turn potential into progress.

The bigger frontier is not technology alone. It is the systems that shape humanity’s future.

Human capital × AI × institutions × opportunity

Questions worth building around.

Frontier systems

How can AI expand human capability—not simply automate human effort?

Exploring the organizational, educational, and strategic systems required to turn frontier technology into broad-based human progress.

Future of work

What capabilities will create durable advantage?

Talent systems, learning, leadership, and workforce transformation.

Opportunity architecture

How do we make ambition more actionable?

Career pathways, information design, mentorship, and access.

Articles, research, and field notes.

A foundation for future essays, research briefs, speaking ideas, and startup theses. Draft pages are included but intentionally excluded from the navigation.

Discipline, expression, curiosity.

Outside work, I find energy in dance, piano, reading, writing, and modeling—creative practices that sharpen presence, interpretation, rhythm, and storytelling.

Dance Piano Reading Writing Modeling

For ambitious work with human consequences.

I welcome conversations with consulting leaders, founders, researchers, investors, educators, and institutions building the future of work, technology, and opportunity.

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What are you building?

For consulting, research, startup, speaking, partnership, or leadership-program conversations.

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I am always interested in thoughtful conversations about strategy, human capital, technology, and institution-building.