A startup founder and social enterprise enabler and a lover of good design. He is the Founder and CEO of The Spark Project, the first and only crowdfunding platform and community for creative conscious entrepreneurs and changemakers in the Philippines.

As a lifelong learner and teacher, his passion for education and entrepreneurship inspires him to serve entrepreneurs by providing them access to tools that help accelerate their business ideas to reality.

Over the last 10 years he has worked with and mentored a number of creative startups and social enterprises, and developed and implemented programs for large organizations such as Ayala Land Inc., Clock In, Globe Telecom, De La Salle College of Saint Benilde, the US State Department, and the United Nations Development Program.

He authored (and successfully crowdfunded) his first book entitled ReSpark: Lessons and Conversations on How to Restart Your Enterprise in the New Normal — in 2020.

Patch got his undergraduate degree in Management Information Systems at the Ateneo de Manila University in 2005. He completed his Master’s degree in Global E-business at the University of Lille, France in 2010. He also spent two years as a lecturer in the Department Information Systems and Computer Sciences at the Ateneo de Manila University. He received his Master's degree in Entrepreneurship - Social Enterprise and Development from the Ateneo Graduate School of Business in 2020.

He is one of 4 Filipino delegates chosen to be part of the Economic Empowerment cohort of the Young South East Asian Leaders Initiative Professional Fellows Program (YSEALI PFP) for Spring 2016 and an alumni member of the Global Shapers Community of the World Economic Forum. He was awarded the Industry Mover of the Rappler Move Awards for 2016 and the only South East Asian recipient of the US State Department Professional Fellowship Program Alumni Impact Awards for 2018. He is part of Tatler Asia's #GenT list for 2019.