She has started many businesses and among them are : a coffee shop chain, a Filipino quick service restaurant, a farm to table restaurant and a natural and organic store called ECHOstore(www.echostore.ph). She is a strong advocate of Slow Food, organic farming and sustainable agri-based businesses.
She is President and Co-Chair of the Philippine Coffee Board,Inc.(PCBI),(www.philcoffeeboard.com).
She is a founder and President of the NextGenOrganization of Women Corporate Directors (NOWCD), and a Trustee of the Philippine Women’s Economic Network or PHILWEN.
She also sits as an Independent director in a publicly-listed REIT company focused on renewable energy.
She is a regular columnist of The Philippine Star (www.philstar.com) under Food for Thought, writing her opinions about food, sustainability and biodiversity.
She has written three books on coffee namely: KAPE (2002), BARAKO : The Big Bean (on Liberica coffee)(2005) and The Barista Manual (2013). And a book on Cacao: Bean to Bar in 2013. All books published by Anvil Publishing.
她创办了许多企业，其中包括咖啡店连锁店、菲律宾快餐餐厅、农场到餐桌餐厅和名为ECHOstore（www.echostore.ph）的天然有机店。她是慢食、有机农业和可持续农业相关企业的坚定倡导者。
她是菲律宾咖啡董事会（Philippine Coffee Board, Inc.，PCBI）的主席和联合主席（www.philcoffeeboard.com）。
她是NextGen Women Corporate Directors（NOWCD）的创始人兼主席，也是菲律宾女性经济网络（Philippine Women’s Economic Network，PHILWEN）的董事。
她还担任一家专注于可再生能源的上市房地产投资信托公司的独立董事。
她是菲律宾《The Philippine Star》报的定期专栏作家，撰写有关食物、可持续性和生物多样性的观点。 她撰写了三本关于咖啡的书，分别是《KAPE》（2002年）、《BARAKO：The Big Bean》（关于利比利卡咖啡）（2005年）和《The Barista Manual》（2013年）。她还在2013年出版了一本关于可可的书：《Bean to Bar》。所有书籍由Anvil Publishing出版。