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Myla Villanueva is a technology pioneer with 28 years of leadership and experience in the local and global technology industry. She is a pioneer in Mobile Software, Cloud, Big Data Analytics and Security. She founded the first broadband wireless company in the country, which provided access to underserved educational institutions and rural areas in the early 2000’s. . She also founded the first mobile value-added software development company in 2003, which enabled mobile phones a low cost way to access consumer, corporate and government content. Both of these pioneering companies were acquired by Smart Communications in 2003 and 2006 in one of the largest mergers and acquisitions in those years, for technology start-ups.

Myla has also served in international industry organizations including the GSMA (the world industry body of telecom operators.) Myla chaired the Mobile Innovation Forum of the GSMA, where she connected venture capitalists (VC’s) from Silicon Valley, Israel and Europe to young technology entrepreneurs and start-ups around the world. She also served in its Executive Management Committee (EMC) from 2005 to 2010. The EMC vets innovation products, business models, and services platforms for possible interoperability and commercialization in any of its 700 mobile operators, which in turn serve billions of mobile consumers. .

She is the Asia Pacific President for the Global Telecom Women’s Network, a non-profit encouraging young women to enter the fields of internet, technology and telecoms.

Myla is currently the CEO of MDI Group, a leading systems integrator and technology innovator in the Philippines representing the top US and China technology leaders like Dell, VMware, Juniper, IBM, and Cloudera. MDI helps top corporations navigate through their digital transformations and adopt their business models, ecosystems and infrastructures to a very interconnected world. These include Smart, Globe, Aboitiz, ABS CBN, PCHC, LandBank, Accenture, MetroBank, Air21, PHIC, and many others.

Myla is a long time trustee of GoNegosyo, a non-profit promoting the entrepreneurship culture amongst the youth and broader sectors of society. . She is also a trustee of the Asia Society and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Philippines.

Myla served as long time trustee of the Philippine Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV), a non-profit and accredited watchdog for clean, fair, transparent and peaceful elections.

Myla is Ernst and Young's first Woman Entrepreneur of the Year (2003) and was named Ten Outstanding Women in the Nation's Service in 2010, in the field of Science and Technology.