A young lady entrepreneur topped last Saturday’s 51st annual election of the Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc.
She is Jennifer Ellen D. Dumlao, corporate secretary and managing director of SVLand Corporation, and owner of JEDD Real Estate (Citrine Court) and JEDD Real Estate Brokerage.
Ms Dumlao garnered 61 of the 68 votes cast by chamber membersin the election which was supervised by an election committee headed by Honorary Consul General of Bangladesh to the Philippines Joji Ilagan-Bian, DCCCII past president, with Delia M. Ladao and Protacio “Cocoy” Tacandong, also past chamber presidents, as members.
The election is done every year to choose five chamber trustees who will replace trustees whose two terms have expired and are no longer qualified to run.
After being proclaimed winners, the five new trustees join the chamber’s 10 trustees whose terms have not expired and elect the following year’s board of officers headed by a president.
Both elections for the five trustees and for the board officers are supervised by the election committee whose decisions on electoral matters are final and cannot be appealed.
Dumlao is the first member of the Davao City Young Entrepreneurs Association (DCYEA) to be elected to the DCCCII board of trustees (BOT).
The group was formed this year with the guidance and encouragement of DCCCII President Arturo M. Milan who said the young entrepreneurs are mostly millennials who are owners of local business ventures.
The other four elected trustees and their rankings in number of votes garnered are:Remegio “Boy” G. Salanatin, with 60 votes; Rodger S. Velasco, 57 votes; Bernardo P. Benedicto, 54; and Simeon “Sim” P. Marfori II, 52.
Except for Marfori who had served as chamber president for two terms, the new trustees are elected to the BOT for the first time.
A total of seven candidates ran in the derby for trustees.
The two who did not make were Professor Roland T. Suico, president and CEO of Zilverband, Inc.; and MsManellie Mallorca-Sabroso, corporate treasurer and general manager of Tinhat Company, Inc.
The five will replace the following trustees who will “graduate” on December 31, 2018: Ronald C. Go, past president; Yvonne F. Cabada, executive vice president; Teresita M. Pascual, vice president for agribusiness; Antonio M. Ajero, corporate secretary; and Jocelyn A. Romero, trustee.
