Guest of Honor and Speaker’s Profile: Jose Ma. A. Concepcion III

Joey Concepcion is one of the country’s leading business figures. Known for his dynamic entrepreneurial skills and aggressive market-driving approach, Joey was able to take the family business, RFM Corporation, to the next level after transforming the company from a once commodity-oriented business to one of the country’s leading branded consumer food and beverage corporations.

Joey is appointed as Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship by President Rodrigo Duterte to help in MSME development. He is also the Chairman of the ASEAN Business Advisory Council in 2017 Philippine Chairmanship of ASEAN.

Joey is also the founder of the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship – Go Negosyo. It aims to alleviate poverty by empowering entrepreneurs and eventually transform the country into an enterprising nation. Go Negosyo has become an inspiring and motivational movement that also empowers the Filipino with entrepreneurship education as the way to succeed in life and business. For PCE, this is the lasting solution to poverty.

Joey is the President and CEO of RFM Corporation, the Chairman of the RFM Unilever Ice Cream Corporation, and Director and Executive Committee member of Concepcion Industries, Inc. Joey was also one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines (TOYM) in 1995, recognized in the Time Global 100 List of Young Leaders of the Millennium, given the Anvil Award of Excellence for Advocacy by the Public Relations Society of the Philippines and the CEO Excel Award by the International Association of Business Communications. Joey was also hailed by Forbes Asia as one of the 48 Heroes of Philanthropy this 2011.