Born May 23, 1946, is a Filipino entrepreneur and engineer working in the high-tech industry. He was born in a small barrio of Malabbac in the town of Iguig, Cagayan, Philippines.A three-time start-up veteran, he co-founded Mostron, Chips and Technologies, and S3 Graphics. Banatao was known for his rags to riches story. During his childhood, he walks barefooted to a dirt road just to reach Malabbac Elementary School everyday. He then pursued his secondary education in a Jesuit run school, Ateneo de Tuguegarao. After finishing high school, he tookBachelor of Science in Electric Engineering in Mapúa Institute of Technology and graduated cum laude.
After college, he turned down a lot of job offers including an offer from Meralco after knowing the starting salary; He later pursued and applied inPhilippine Airlines as a trainee pilot. However, he was pirated by Boeing and worked as design engineer for the company's new commercial airlinerand cargo transport aircraft, Boeing 747, in the United States. With the opportunity of staying in the United States, he then took his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Stanford University and finished in 1972 in order to enhance his craft.
After finishing his master's degree, Banatao worked with different technology companies such as the National Semiconductor, Intersil, and Commodore International where he designed the first single first single chip, 16-bit microprocessor-based calculator. In 1981, he discovered and invented the first 10-Mbit Ethernet CMOS with silicon coupler data-link control and transreceiver chip while working in SEEQ Technology. He was also credited for the first system logic chip set for IBM's PC-XT and the PC-AT; the local bus concept and the first Windows Graphics accelerator chipfor personal computers.
2. Winston Damarillo
Is the CEO and co-founder of Morphl, the world's leading provider of converged dynamic infrastructure for cloud computing. He holds a B.S. in Industrial and Mechanical Engineering from the De La Salle University. His past endeavors include several companies which were subsequently sold to major IT companies: Gluecode Software, an open source application infrastructure company which was acquired by IBM in 2005,Logicblaze, acquired by Iona Technologies in 2007, and Webtide, acquired by Intalio in 2009.
Winston is also the co-founder and chairman of the board of directors for Exist, an enterprise software development company, and MaestroDev, a collaborative software development automation company.
Prior to his entrepreneurial endeavors, Winston was among the highest performing venture capital professionals at Intel, having led the majority of his investments to either a successful IPO or a profitable corporate acquisition. In addition to leading Morphlabs, Winston is also involved in several organizations that are focused on combining the expertise of a broad range of thought leaders with advanced technology to drive global innovation and growth.
In 2011, Winston was selected as a Commissioner in the TechAmerica Foundation – State & Local Government Cloud Commission (SLG-CC).
He is one of the Young Global Leader honorees for 2010 and a participant of the World Economic Forum. He is a trustee of the Philippine Development Foundation.
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