Mike Calma

Business Support Development Manager, NEC Philippines

Mike Calma’s passion is on providing leadership and managerial expertise in establishing and growing new technology-based businesses. Mike recently joined NEC Philippines as Business Support Development Manager. His mission is to enter new markets and innovate on new revenue generators. He has 6 action-packed years of business experience and has been instrumental in several tech start-ups. Prior to joining NEC, he has worked as Business Development Manager for GeoSpatial Solutions, Inc. (pioneered Offshore Outsourcing Practice), General Manager for LinkSphere IT Solutions (Self-financed/first failed IT start-up) and Business Development Manager for General Instrument Corporation (Family-financed Engineering Consulting start-up). He has an MBA from the University of the Philippines, Diliman (2008) as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of the Philippines, Los Baños (2003). He is a member of the Upsilon Sigma Phi (www.upsilon.com ) and the UPLB Computer Science Society (www.uplbcoss.org ). He blogs (www.mikecalma.com) to share some of his lucid (sometimes myopic) moments. He is starting work on his first book with the working title of: "Entrepreneurial Agitation: Starting Trouble to Create Value".