MCCI Recognizes New Members

The Mandaue Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) never fails to remain successful due to its active, supportive members and its never-ending participation in various local and national activities, seminars and events. It would have not been possible without the help of the current Board who were going to end their term this month, and were ready to pass on the responsibilities to the next Board and Trustees.

The Mandaue Chamber of Commerce and Industry General Membership Meeting and Election of Board and Trustees was held on June 3, 2015 at the Oakridge Horizons from 6:00 pm-9:00pm. The meeting was attended by MCCI’s sponsors, members and the current board and trustees.

The meeting started off with a product presentation of Nimble Storage, one of Mandaue Chamber’s gold sponsors, which was conducted by Satish Murthy, the Solutions Architect. Nimble Storage, a California based company, is an adaptive flash platform that helps in leveraging breakthrough technology in delivering business values. It is a company that is continuously growing and currently has over 10,000 clients, one of them being Shangrila, Globe, Rustan’s Supermarket, and 2GO.

President of the MCCI Mr. Jeruel Roa gives out his presidential report.

For one year, the Chamber has been successfully participating in different activities that continuously helped keep them active and notable. The chamber participated in advocacies that helped educate schools on the K12 program through workshops and seminars. The Chamber also sent its key staff to Manila for the TechVoc Education and Training, a K12 dualized training. It was stated that there are more businesses that want to be put up in Mandaue due to its lowest real estate and business taxes, which caused a proposal to increase Real Estate Taxes and Business Taxes in Mandaue.

Alongside with Mayor Jonas Cortes and City Treasurer Regal Oliva, they consulted with Mandaue Chamber and the Mandaue Filipino-Chinese Chamber made joint counter proposals to cushion the blow of new tax adjustments. The chamber collaborated with the Japan International Cooperation Agency in supporting with the Metro Cebu Development and Coordinating Board’s long term vision “Mega Cebu Vision 2050.”

The Chamber celebrated its successful and notable flagship events of the term; the Mandaue Business Month with the theme “Integration + Innovation = Opportunity”. This also highlighted the hosting of the PCCI’s Visayas Area Business Conference. Events included the Manduae Bridge Park Pledging, Greening Innovation Forum and Exhibit, Search for WINNERs Season 4, introduction on reforestation program Tree Brew Life, Franchising Negosyo Para Asenso, Go Negosyo Summit, and Run for ERUF where the Chamber was able to generate P.1.2 million for the construction of ERUF’s Training Center in Mandaue.

The current member of the MCCI Board and Trustess takes the stage.

Lastly, the Chamber received a “Most Outstanding Chamber in the Visayas for 2014” title during the Philippine Business Conference in October 2014 which was held in Manila.

The program followed with the recognition of the new members of the Chamber. 60 new members were welcomed to the Chamber for the new term, which totaled to the Chamber of having a total of 220 members. After that, the election for the new Chamber’s Board and Trustees was held by the MCCI Election Committee; Mark Ynoc, the chairperson, and committee members Girlie Garces and Disston Tan.

The nomination ended down to nine members, but only seven could be chosen for the board. These members were Clayton Tugonon, John King, Vicky Dy, Kelie Ko, Alice Uy, Steven Yu, Mike Pato, Don Busa and Michelle Co. People who nominated these members were asked to state why they chose them for the board. Based off what the voters said, all of these nine people were successful, driven and active people and are a shoe-in for the Board for next term.

While the counting of the votes was ongoing, a sponsorship presentation was presented by Michelle Co-Lin of CTBC Bank and raffles were being given away by PLDT.

The final members of the board were declared. Out of nine nominees, the seven who became official members of the Board were Don Busa, with 54 votes, Michelle Co, with 52 votes, Alice Uy, with 50 votes, Steven Yu, with 48 votes, Mike Pato, with 46 votes, John King, with 46 votes, and Clayton Tugonon with 46 votes. These members are now officially part of the Chamber’s Board and Trustees but they will still receive their official title by the end of June.

The program ended with closing remarks by the outgoing President, Jeruel Roa, where he ended the night by saying “Let us continue supporting our chamber. The general meeting is now adjourned.”