Pacita Juan

Juan co-founded ECHOstore in 2008 and has since won many awards like Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 (for social enterprise) by Ernst and Young, Social Entrepreneur of the Year by GO Negosyo, and Bossing award by PLDT/Smart. She also chairs the Women’s Business Council of the Philippines, an advocacy group for policy reforms to empower women in business composed of women CEOs and COOs. She also founded and heads the Philippine Coffee Board, Inc., the Philippine chapters of the International Women’s Coffee Alliance, and the Women Corporate Directors International. Juan is also the Chair of the ASEAN Women Entrepreneurs Network for 2016-2017. She sits in several non-profit boards such as the Haribon Foundation and Philippine Coffee Board Inc.