Rafael M. Garcia III

Rotary Resume

First non-charter Rotarian of RC Pasig since 1971

Club President – RC Pasig, RY 2006-2007

Most Outstanding President for District 3800 in 2006-2007

Most Outstanding Rotary Club in District 3800, RY 2006-2007

Received 37 awards including the Rotary International Four Avenues of Service Award in 2007

Increased membership from 35 to 78 during my term

Built a 159 unit Gawad Kalinga housing project for informal settlers in Sitio Caliuag, Barangay Pinagbuhatan, Pasig City

Presently building a 3 story Rotary Center on a 600 sqm. lot adjacent to the RC Pasig GK housing project

TRF Banquet Chair – RY 2007-2008

Deputy District Governor – RY 2008-2009

Chair - District Disaster Coordinating Committee – RY 2009-2010

District Governor – RY 2011-2012

Vice Chair – 2013 Taipei Institute

General Program Trainer – 2014 Kota Kinabalu Institute

Training Leader – 2014 International Assembly

Photography Co Chair – 2014 International Assembly

Training Leader (DTTS/GETS) – 2015 Manila Institute

Chairman – Philippine College of Rotary Governors, RY 2015-2016

Endowment and Major Gifts Adviser – Zone 7a – RY 2013-2016

Arch C. Klumph Society Trustee’s Circle 2012 Chair’s Circle 2013

Present Position

Chairman/CEO of the Mega Group of Computer Companies, a multinational conglomerate of 44 companies specializing in high technology systems based in the Philippines, with offices in the US, Shanghai, Buenos Aires, Singapore and Germany, active in the Middle East, South America, Australia and in the Eastern Bloc countries, either through wholly owned companies or through joint ventures.

Significant Mega Group Companies

Mega Data Corporation (which had been providing the Philippine Drivers License since 1983, and operated the National Bureau of Investigation Criminal Computer System since 1977).

Omega Computers (supplies Philippine banks and credit card companies with plastic card personalization systems for their credit and ATM cards, including EMV cards), Symbol Sciences (supplies commercial barcode scanners to Philippine retail companies including giant SM Malls)

Scantech (supplied 90% of Philippine industrial companies with industrial grade barcode scanners); Offshore Data, Home Data, DumaData, and Scanplus International (all data transcription companies servicing the needs of US based telephone directory companies, medical and legal transcription companies), JipCard Philippines (a joint venture company producing PVC cards for the credit card and bank card industries), Laser Barcode Solutions (provides custom made bar-coding solutions to the Philippine market), Geebo Digital (a 3D animation company), Xinapse (an Open Source systems development company), Mega ePrinting (provides digital short-run printing to the local market), Technical Computer Components (Clark) (a material recovery company that recovers high valued spare parts from obsolete computer systems and stocks them for users of these systems), IT Convergence (which provides Oracle consultants to Fortune 500 companies)

ROM Gaming (operated lottery companies in Romania from 1994-2009) 888 Electronic Gaming, and 165 Gaming, (operated lotto companies in Cambodia) GELOTO (operated LOTTO operations in Equatorial Guinea) Mega Gaming Corporation (Developed and operated Off-Fronton betting terminals for the Cagayan Valley Jai A’Lai) Agilivant Philippines Corporation (operates a money remittance system for OFW remittances to the Philippines) BTI Payments Inc (a joint venture company with a leading Australian firm, Banktech, that provides state of the art ATM’s to Philippine banks)

Past Positions

SGV & Co – Management Services Division – Supervising Consultant

Asia Computer Services Corporation – Vice President for Operations

Meralco Securities & Investment Corporation – General Manager : Computer Services Center

Online Advanced Systems Inc - Executive Vice President

Herdis Management and Investment Corporation : Summa Computer Services Corporation - President

Herdis-Jardine Davies Inc – President

Uniphil Computer Corporation - President

Personal Circumstances

My wife, Minda Acacio Garcia, is active in the Soroptimists International movement, which concentrates on the improvement of the lives of women and girls. She has been a Past President of the Founder-Manila Chapter, and a member of the International Fund Development Council based in Philadelphia. She is the Immediate Past Regional Governor for the whole Philippine Region for SY 2012-2014. She is now a member of the Fund Raising Committee of Soroptimists International based in Philadelphia.

We have four children: Susanna (Nana) married to Nick Guzman; Ma. Antonia Romina married to Paul Narth; Rafael IV married to Djoanna Pineda; Ana Maria Katrina married to Paolo Diaz; and eight grandchildren: Mariel, Manuel, & Marcel Guzman; Kieron Narth; Rafael P. Garcia V; Santino, Andrea, & Giselle Diaz