Draft:Trisha Bantigue

Trisha Angela Bantigue Tsao (born July 4, 1994) is a Filipino-American businesswoman, cofounder, and CEO of Queenly. She is known for winning beauty pageant titles, including Miss National Asia 2014, Miss Philippines USA 2015 (2nd Runner Up), Miss California Earth 2016, Miss Asian Global 2017, Miss Enterprise USA 2020, and Miss Nevada AMB 2021. She is also listed in Forbes 30 Under 30-Art & Style Cover 2022.

Early life and background
Bantigue grew up in the Philippines. She moved to Las Vegas when she was 10. She graduated with a Bachelor's in Political Science from UC Berkeley.

Career
Bantigue became an emancipated youth at 17 and paid her way through college by competing in pageants.

In 2018, she was hired by Facebook Menlo Park, CA., as a recruiting agent. She was later hired by Uber in October 2018.

Bantigue co-founded Queenly, along with Kathy Zhou in Oct 2019.

Notable Work
Bantigue has been competing in pageants and won Miss California Earth 2016, Miss Asian Global 2017, Miss Enterprise USA, and the title of Miss Nevada AMB in 2021.

Bantigue has worked with Slay Models, the world's first and only Transgender modeling agency, and funded its Pride 2022 event.

Bantigue received funding for her business from Andreessen Horowitz, SHAKTI, NextView Ventures, and Y Combinator. Additional angel investors included the former CTO of Uber, CEO of Mercari, CEO of The RealReal, and CEO of Fitbit.

Personal Life
Bantigue speaks fluent English and Kapampangan, as well as limited proficiency in Tagalog and Korean. Trisha is the epitome of a self-made Filipino-American woman.

Her role models include Jennifer Hyman of Rent the Runway, Queen Elizabeth I, and Catriona Gray.

Bantigue has openly supported breast and ovarian cancer awareness.

Bantigue started dating Nick Huffman (successful real estate investor at The Carlyle Group) on March 7th, 2016. They met as UC Berkeley classmates at Café Strada.

She is a Corgi-fanatic and enjoys spending her free time outdoors exploring or hiking. Her favorite color is silver.