MEET OUR TEAM.
Carissa Villacorta founded and ran her own PR firm, CVPR, based out of New York City since 2007. She worked as the PR Consultant of high-profile business executives and multi-national corporations. As a consultant to the Philippine Development (PhilDev) Foundation, she also shared the story of its chair, Silicon Valley visionary Dado Banatao, who was responsible for making the GPS (Global Positioning System) accessible to consumers, and innovating computer chip sets that make up about 30% of every computer in the world today. The events that Carissa publicised in New York has attracted attendance and coverage from the likes of Bill Cunningham of the New York Times, NY1, Bloomberg, etc.
She is the author of Surreality, a collection of essays about life in NY from the perspective of a young Filipina publicist. She became the only Filipino author to have had a book launch and signing at a Borders book store in 2006.
In 2013, she returned to Manila and joined Ogilvy PR to represent the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry, helping to boost the popularity of Cebuano entrepreneurs, from the founders of startups like Loudbasstard and The Chocolate Chamber to industry leaders like Kenneth Cobonpue. After leaving Ogilvy to return to her personal practice, she also helped jumpstart the popularity of Movenpick Hotel Mactan Island Cebu.
Through compelling stories, valuable connections, and a personal approach, Carissa has built bridges to connect various businesses with their target audiences, and contributed to their success — such as original campaigns like the Eat and Greet Tour of Cebu in 2015, creative events like CreatePH Pop-Up Boutique in 2016, and community philanthropy through product design of the Global Filipino Watch by Philip Stein in 2017.
This 2018, Carissa created ReachUs, LLC and staged #PHTimeIsNow at the Harvard Club in NYC, once again bringing people together in a time and space of collaboration, motivation and inspiration through digital marketing, event planning and PR.
Ian Doromal is a serial entrepreneur, digital marketer and brand-building expert with over 15 years of executive leadership experience of building and managing sales & marketing strategy. Ian has also run his own digital marketing agency serving clients in various industries as well as his own startups.
Ian’s marketing approach is built upon his extensive organizational leadership background in building winning sales & marketing teams. Thus, foundationally, sound marketing strategy begins with developing plans to drive sales revenue. Along with being a Co-Founder for ReachUsGlobal, Ian is Co-Founder and Head of Sales & Marketing for ecoSPEARS Inc., a venture-backed Cleantech company with transformative green technologies to clean earth’s polluted land and waterways.
Ian is a two-time recipient of Orlando Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” Award in 2014 and 2015, and was a recipient for Orlando Business Journal’s “CEO of the Year” Award. In 2015, Ian led his previous company becoming a “Florida Companies to Watch” Winner in 2014, an annual awards program celebrating second-stage entrepreneurs and the “Top 50” fastest growing, privately held second-stage companies doing between $2 – $50MM of revenue a year within in the state of Florida.
He specializes in traditional and digital marketing strategy, sales strategy development & implementation, web development strategy, sales funnel mapping & development, email marketing automation, graphic design strategy including web & print media, video production strategy, content marketing, online advertising (PPC & SEO), & social media channel strategy, development & implementation.
In his spare time, Ian loves to give back by mentoring others. His purpose is fulfilled by his active involvement mapping the brainstorming events and mentoring program of PH Time Is Now. He also volunteers for the Philippine Development (PhilDev) Foundation, Big Brothers, Big Sisters, and coaches beginning entrepreneurs.
Ian considers himself a life-long learner, believes in continuous personal development, and reads an average of one new book a week.
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