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With over several years of experience in public communications and public policy, serving at the highest levels of the Executive Branch of the Philippine government as a Cabinet member in the capacity as the Presidential Spokesperson of President Benigno S. Aquino III for the full six year term, coupled with years of corporate and litigation experience, a law professor and a legal analyst in mainstream media, and finally, surrounded with able men and women who I have worked together through several communications crises, I and our company, DDI Strategic Communications, are fully equipped with assisting our clients navigate through the new media landscape and providing a strategic communications framework and solutions to improve their reputation in the public eye as well as craft a crisis communications package that prepare them to handle a crisis before, during or after it happens. DDI can assist your organization manage and improve communications strategy in periods of famine and feast.And now, as co-founder of the Fintech startup PayMongo, we aspire to make online payment fast and simple. At PayMongo, we value online payment user experience and product engineering as central factors to establish PayMongo as the leading online payment gateway in the digital economy of the Philippines and Southeast Asia.Our mission for PayMongo is simple: to grow the internet economy in the emerging markets. We started with the Philippines. To do that, we need to ensure that SMEs are given the fighting chance to participate in the online economy. We do this by onboarding SMEs in the shortest possible time yet maintaining a robust e-KYC process. We also ensure that the user experience in paying and receiving online payments is done faster & simpler. Today, we have leapfrogged over our legacy friends who are much larger because we have eliminated pain points for merchants, irrespective of business size, to start transacting online. That is our Creed & Mission at PayMongo.

Listed skills include Public Policy, Public Relations, Public Speaking, Strategic Communications, and 12 others.