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3 Decades In
The Philippines
Hubert d Aboville first came to
The Philippines conquered Manila in 1977 as a backpacker me maintained the Brittany Bhe longest serving aged 17 slept at Luneta Park France native To date he has President of the Eu and befriended local thugs who spent 30 of his 67 years in this ropean Chamber of invited him to their Tondo shack country His home family and Commerce in the By EMMIE V ABADILLA
and showed him around
Philippines
ECCP
business are all here
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After globe trotting Hubert rural development
Today he hopes that DoE
returned to Manila in 1981 as In 2000 Head of a French multinational
NAPOCOR and the Energy
timber trading firm He fell in love with Araceli
Ara
Va
lenzuela daughter of Dr Pio Valenzuela close associate of Andres Bonifacio and member
of the Katipunan s Supreme Council
Accidentally seated next to
he spearheaded a 17 5 Million Euro Philippine Regulatory Commission will Rural Electrification Service appoint a private company to PRES initiative for the Na operate and maintain the PRES tional Power Corporation NA so people can continue to ben POCOR The French Ministry efit from the project of Finance funded project was On top of his PAMATEC du meant to provide solar power ties Hubert has been stand for 120 000 impoverished people ing at the helm of the ECCP living in the remotest parts of for five years now He serves
each other over dinner in a Masbate
the Chamber s 700 members
friend s house he could only But as soon as PAMATEC broke remember her talking about ground for the PRES Masbate how much she loved Paris while communist insurgents demand he went on and on about how ed revolutionary tax from the much he loved the Philippines French CEO When he refused
and encourages European companies to invest in the Philippines
We mirrored each other explained
Ara
A Foreign Service graduate she worked in a five star hotel for half a decade and studied in Sorbonne Then she hand crafted two thousand shell necklaces and sold half in Avi
gnon for ten thousand francs to finance a year of adventure in Paris Hubert and Ara married in 1982
He also discovered a new pas sion this time for nurturing to pay they razed down multi Filipino artists and champion million pesos worth of project ing indigenous peoples in his equipment and supplies neighborhood Undaunted Hubert flew to Eu It all started after he stumbled rope and sought an audience on a 40 hectare property on with an exiled top rebel leader the ridge of 7 000 foot high Luis Jalandoni He had always Mount Malasimbo overlooking been upright and fair in his Puerto Galera Bay in Oriental dealings He even walked out Mindoro He built his family on lucrative deals refusing to home there calling it Villa pay bribes But he refused to Malasimbo and considered set give up on this one ting up an eco friendly subdivi
But he had to return to France After he talked with Jalandoni
sion for retirees on the rest of
in 1986 to be Deputy Head of the Masbate insurgents left Marketing and Sales in Europe him alone A decade two Presi Yet he pined for Manila So in dents and three Department 1988 he left his high paying job of Energy DoE secretaries in Paris and came back to es later PAMATEC completed the tablish his own company Paris PRES project in 2010 Manila Technology Corporation At present the PRES sup PAMATEC specializing in plies electricity to 131 remote electrical power barangays covering 18 000 From the timber business he households of which 5 000 are sought to shift into reforesta equipped with solar energy tion I really wanted to go into
his vast land
Hubert even managed to write high impact eco cultural proj a book about the Masbate ects he declared But he saw PRES project His Man better opportunities to do it in agement of an International the power sector Project against Poverty was Hubert envisioned PAMATEC published in France detailing as a social enterprise that will the unforeseen difficulties and bring power generation tech challenges his company faced nology to the country s poorest Last year the PAMATEC un communities In addition he
dertaking won the prestigious founded a non profit NGO To Energy Globe Award for the gether Ensemble Foundation Philippines over 150 other glob Inc in 1992 to provide relief al entries in Vienna Austria in disaster areas and promote
That was until he hit on the
idea of hosting annual music festivals with four outdoor
stages and camping sites for artists For him it made sense
He fer
vently believed in the Filipino talent Of his four children two
daughters are artists The young est daughter is still at school and his eldest son an engineer helps him in his business
Now the PAMATEC CEO aspires
to nurture the creativity of the Filipino to make Filipino mu sic and art better known to the
world In conjunction with these he aims to transform Puerto Gal
era as a prime tourist hub
Already Hubert has installed Puerto Galera Bay in the global map by making it a member of the UNESCO approved orga
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3 Decades In The Philippines Manila Bulletin 29 Feb 2012 Business Bulletin B6 English Emmie V. Abadilla Daily
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the art and tribal way of life of mastered the native language seven Mangyan tribes living Legislators nearly fell off their
Last year his Villa Malasimbo nearby hosted the first international Next month March 2 4 2012 music and arts festival in Puerto the PAMATEC CEO will host
seats when he was summoned in the House once and he ad
dressed them all in Tagalog
He may have French blue blood in his veins being descended Artists displayed their sculp from Brittany nobles but in his forward to hosting it every year tures and opuses outdoors thereafter soul he confessed he feels truly among the trees in the moun tains while musicians from all After all is said and done Hu Pinoy over the country performed In bert regards the Philippines addition the festival showcased as his real home He has even Galera
the second annual music festi
val in Malasimbo And he looks
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