Technopreneurs

for us to appreciate the importance of technopreneurship, we must first see the persons behind it. the succesful technopreneur.

lets talk about the two pilipinos who become successful in the field of business and technology.

                 Diosdado P. Banatao was  born May 23, 1946  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.

 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 chip for personal computers.

             Winston Damarillo is the CEO and co-founder of Morphlabs, the world's leading provider of converged dynamic infrastructure forcloud 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 2005Logicblaze, 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.
In 2011, Winston was selected as a Commissioner in the TechAmerica Foundation State & Local Government Cloud Commission (SLG-CC).