As our Company's Human Resource and Legal Manager, I am responsible for two general duties: First, as our Human

Resource Manager I am responsible for the following matters: 1. Crafting Human Resource Policies. 2. Implementing Training Programs of personnel. 3. Conducting job interviews and evaluation of personnel. 4. Ensuring compliance with the latest laws and issuances of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). 5. Overseeing compliance with all legally-mandated social security and health insurance as well as other benefits under the law. 6. Hearing grievances and concerns of all personnel and implement necessary response or action. 7. Conduct hearings and administrative proceedings regarding personnel and their administrative liabilities. 8. Represent the Company in all Human Resource related matters. 9. Ensuring proper ingress and egress of employees. 10. Providing Opinions and Insights into the effects of Management's Decisions on Human Resources.

Second, As our Company's Legal Manager, I am responsible for the following matters: 1. Crafting Intra-corporate and Inter-corporate contracts. 2. Providing consulation with Management regarding legal implications of their business decisions and implementing the results of those decisions when required. 3. Contract review and due diligence of existing and future contracts. 4. Providing consultation on legal matters and issues encountered in the regular course of business both for management and our personnel.

5. Ensuring compliance with all yearly legal requirements, documents under filings required by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR). 6. Interfacing with clients and other third parties in order to negotiate and discuss the terms of contracts and explain the legal implications of these terms. 7. Management of the property regimes and systems used or to be used for various properties recently acquired or to be acquired by the Company. 8. Management of the Corporate Stock and Transfer Book and functioning as the assistant to the Corporate Secretary.

After repeated self-evaluation of one's self throughout my almost three decades of living, I have found that consistently, my strengths and weaknesses come from the same kinds of traits, only that my weaknesses are formed from my exercise of these traits in an excessive way. To point, one of my positive traits which I am proud of, is my ability to focus. When I really set my heart into something, I try my best to accomplish that thing. My ability to focus creates ancillary traits like being detail oriented and having good work ethics. Having focus engages my prudence in any other matters not related to the task I am focusing on so I am able to maximize my time. Because of these, I am able to swiftly identify and resolve the issues and problems encountered in my given task. Focus however, in excess amounts, can turn into misplaced zeal and impatience. And that is why I consider myself a rather impatient person at times. As an effect of impatience, I can sometimes lack circumspection in some decisions. Hand in hand with impatience is my tendency to be too ambitious, which is a negative trait when in excess, but another positive trait if in moderation.

One accomplishment that I feel is very important in my life, was being given the chance to contribute to my family's business by establishing Ecosci Corporation, a waste management company. Being given a chance by my family to form an expansion business that was conceptualized by myself is an important accomplishment for me because it showed me that my family trusted me enough to have at least a modicum of business sense for them, or at least saw potential in my growth as a business person. Another of the most important accomplishments in my life is taking up law and passing the Philippine Bar examinations in 2007. I spent Four years full of hard

work, sacrifice and discipline at the Ateneo School of Law, and almost half a year of intense review. I learned a lot about myself and my limitations, or at least that I possessed the ability to surpass my self-imposed limitations when truly necessary. I definitely grew more mature as a person because of the experience, and I was very happy to make my family proud. Lastly, an accomplishment I am very proud of is being partly responsible for the good upbringing of my siblings after my mother's passing in 1998. It was hard for us siblings when my mother died, and I was very young then. But I tried my best to step up and become more mature and responsible to take care of my siblings. Growing up without a mother is hard, and I tried my best to guide them in a manner that my mother would approve of. I would like to think that I was successful in contributing to the good upbringing of my brother and sister, as they are now kind, caring, intelligent and happy young adults taking up Law in the Ateneo and Medicine in UST respectively. If there is one accomplishment that I am most proud of, this is it.

An MBA in Health from the Ateneo will allow me to further contribute to my family's business, and achieve more growth as a business person. My family is in the process of establishing a Tertiary Level Hospital in San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan, which will be completed by next year. While I am trying my best to do informal research on the healthcare management, I want to learn more about healthcare management so I can provide more insight to my family in making the right decisions and effectively help run this new business of the family. I have already studied college and law in the Ateneo, and it is an environment that I has been effective in reaching out and stimulating my intellect. I feel very comfortable and confident that the same quality education I was able to receive during my previous years will be available to me if I take up an MBA in Health in the Ateneo. One of the keenest matter of interest for myself is environmental protection, particularly proper waste management. I believe not enough attention is being paid to proper disposal of waste, and yet it is something that is just as basic a need as food, shelter and clothing. Waste management here in the Philippines can be described as somewhat primitive and limited. While we have very good legislation for proper waste management such as Republic Act (R.A.) 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, very rarely is it actually followed. Regulators seem to be unable to impose the proper disposal requirements under the law because of the prohibitive cost of compliance. Compliance

becomes very expensive because of the lack of awareness and interest in the general population to segregate and dispose of waste properly which would drastically reduce the cost of proper waste management. In turn, the general population lacks awareness and interest because of the cultural view of waste as something you would rather throw away and forget, despite the gargantuan effects of improper waste disposal to our nation. I believe the solution is to change the paradigm and perspective of people as to what waste is. Waste should be seen not as matter to throw away, but as matter that is just waiting to be turned into new materials. We have all the technology (which sometimes is not even as high-tech as we imagine) to convert waste into either new materials or energy, we just need to be more aware of this new way of looking at waste.

Member - Philippine Bar Association (Q.C. chapter) Member - Rotary Club (Camp Crame chapter) Member - Ateneo Alumni Association Director - Ven-Am Foundation, an educational foundation providing scholarships and assistance to students in Ilocos Sur. As a lawyer and a business person, English is my primary language, and I use it everyday. I spent eight years fn college and law school in the Ateneo honing my command of the English language. I would like to believe that my command of the English language is one of my strengths and not one of my weaknesses. As such, I can be confident in saying that my skills in reading, writing, understanding and speaking English is at the very least, adequate for everyday communication with fellow English speakers, and will be adequate for proper communication and intercourse in a post graduate course such as an MBA in Health in the Ateneo.

I understand that I am not a medical professional, or a graduate of any health related college course, but I ask you dearly to consider my application.

My being a non-healthcare professional makes it even more imperative that I receive quality education in the Ateneo and not anywhere else, to ensure that I learn enough to offset my admitted less-than-ideal prior healthcare knowledge. And while I may be at a disadvantage because I am not a healthcare professional, I am very passionate about learning more about healthcare management so I can help run our family's soon to be established tertiary level hospital. If you allow me to take my MBA in Health in the Ateneo, I will not let it go to waste. Thank you very much.