Co-founder & co-managing partner

Toto is a seasoned business advisor and corporate finance specialist. He has solid experience in managing various programs and impact fund facilities that are aimed at growing SMEs and cooperatives. In the last 20 years, he has worked with and assisted hundreds of SMEs and cooperatives in the Philippines, Cambodia, and Indonesia in various sectors that include sustainable agriculture, food production and marketing, waste management, healthcare, and renewable energy among others. He believes in a market-driven approach to addressing social and environmental challenges and has a strong passion for providing socially responsible, inclusive, and women-led enterprises with the capital and business development solutions they need to scale.

He worked for five years as Business Development Advisor in Swisscontact-Philippines; eight years as Associate Director of the Foundation for Sustainable Society Incorporated, a Development Finance Institution in the Philippines; three years as Financial Services Program Officer for South East Asia of ICCO, an international development organization based in the Netherlands, and seven years as Senior Investment Manager of Capital 4 Development Partners closing a total of 12 deals in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Cambodia.

Co-founder & co-managing partner

David has more than 10 years of experience in private investing, project development, financial services, entrepreneurship, and impact investing utilizing a variety of investment vehicles across the USA, Africa, and Asia. As the CIO, David is responsible for driving InBEST’s investment and financial strategy in order to maximize its social and environmental returns.

After coming back to the Philippines, David saw an opportunity in working in the impact investing industry and with social enterprises as a means to continue growing professionally while giving back to the community. David has recently held senior positions with Peace and Equity Holdings and Capital 4 Development Partners in promoting impact investing, gender lens investing, blended finance, and the triple bottom line of people, planet, and profit. During this time, he has worked in the agriculture, FMCG, aquaculture, tourism, SME financing, renewable energy, and manufacturing sectors with the main social goal of reducing poverty and promoting gender equality.