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RJ Ledesma


Editor-in-chief

Mr. Ledesma, the Consul of Monaco to the Philippines, is a jack-of-all-trades and a master of all. For SME entrepreneurship, he is an Agora Awardee for Excellence in Entrepreneurship and an Accredited GoNegosyo Mentor for his work in Mercato Centrale (a food business incubator), where he recently won the 2019 SME Company of the Year at Asia CEO Awards, the 2019 SME Company of the Year Awards, the 2019 SME Excellence in Innovation Philippine Winner at the Asean Business Awards and the SME Winner in Business Model Innovation the 2020 First Mansmith Innovation Awards. He is also co-founder of EnterPH (a market entry consulting firm for foreign offshoring/outsourcing businesses), and Easy Franchise (an online franchise marketplace that connects franchisors & franchisees). For solo entrepreneurship, he is a Hall of Famer and a 3-time Best Male Emcee at the Aliw awards and a 3-time National Book Awards finalist who has written six best-selling books. And for the academe, he holds a double degree in Applied Economics and Business Management from De La Salle University (1995) where he graduated with a Student Leadership Award, he was a writing fellow for both the University of the Philippines and Silliman University National Writing Workshops, and a Masters Degree in Real Estate Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001). He was the first Asian to deliver the valedictory speech at MIT Center for Real Estate. He currently hosts the Bright Ideas on Bloomberg Philippines/One News, a show that focuses on the local tech start up scene, and Philippine Realty TV on CNN Philippines. 

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