Rio is a multi-awarded entrepreneur and is one of the leading female tech founders in the Philippines today. She is the woman behind Tarkie, one of the Philippines’ leading homegrown enterprise software solution specializing in sales force automation and field work productivity.
Tarkie gives companies visibility on their field teams and provides them with real-time data by digitizing all manual reports. It has over 10,000 users nationwide and is used by some of our largest companies, such as Bounty, Uratex, Samsung Protempo, Ever Bilena, Regent and Megasoft.
Rio was awarded the prestigious Agora Award for Outstanding Entrepreneurship – Small Enterprise Category, in 2021. In 2020, she was also recognized as the Technology Innovator Awardee in the first-ever Mansmith Innovation Awards.
In 2022, she was awarded as one of Asia’s Top Outstanding Women Marketeer of the Year by the Asia Marketing Federation. This year, she was selected as one of the awardees of the Metrobank Foundation Award for Continuing Excellence and Service (ACES), a recognition that is only given by Metrobank every 5 years.
Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Rio worked in Procter and Gamble for 8 years, handling different roles in Finance in several countries in Asia. She was the Regional Finance Manager for Pantene for ASEAN, Australia and India. She also became the Global Supply Chain Finance Manager for SK-II Japan.
Through a full scholarship from the Metrobank Foundation, Rio was able to study in Ateneo de Manila University and graduate with Honors, with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Management Engineering. She was also chosen as one of P&G’s Top 12 Student Excellence Awardees of the Philippines in 2001.