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NEW YORK: Emma Imperial & Jopin Romero FilAm History Month Luncheon @ Harvard Club

  • October 17, 2016
  • 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Harvard Club New York, 35 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036

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  • Member dues $200 + $38 lunch
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  • Member dues $208 + $38 lunch

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FWN Filipino American History Month Luncheon with

Jopin Romero
(Global FWN100™ '16)
Former DTI Trade Commissioner of Washington DC, New York, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Sao Paolo, Brazil; Currently CEO, Magpie.IM

Emma Imperial
(Global FWN100™ '15, '16)
CEO, Imperial Homes
Developer of affordable homes powered by solar energy


    Emma and Jopin will share their views on the Philippine business and investments climate under President Duterte's administration.

FilAm History Month Lunch Chaired by Jocelyn Bernal Ochoa
(U.S. FWN100™ '07) 


October 17, 2016 • 12:00 pm (EST)
Harvard Club Main Dining Room
35 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036


About Josephine "Jopin" Romero:

Jopin has over 20 years of experience in private and public sectors, carrying a diverse portfolio marked by professionalism, creativity and enthusiasm. She has worked in New York, Washington DC, Silicon Valley, Sao Paulo and Manila.

Currently CEO of a new fintech startup, she is back to entrepreneurship after a decade in corporate and diplomatic service. She also sits on the boards of several organizations in Asia and North America.

Previously, she was an executive in the biggest Filipino American IT outsourcing firm in the US. She was one of five friends who, in the first dotcom wave of the 1990s, set up and sold Pinoymail.com.

She studied at the University of the Philippines and completed the Leadership California Issues and Trends Program and the Society for Information Management Regional Leadership Forum Program in the US.


About Emma Imperial:

Emma Marcha Imperial is President and Chief Executive Officer of Imperial Homes Group of Companies. Imperial Homes Corporation (IHC) to date has built 15,000 homes. IHC was awarded by IFC World Bank Philippines first Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies (EDGE) Certificate for Green Building, a prestigious award given to home units, which exemplify design achievements in areas of energy, water reduction and renewable materials. IHC is the poster child of World Bank for it EDGE residential case study.

Imperial Homes Corporation launched last January 14, 2015 Philippines first solar powered mass housing project, Via Verde in Santo Tomas, Batangas.

She is also Go Negosyo Awardee for Woman Entrepreneur 2015.

Ms. Imperial is an Alumna of Harvard Business School’s Owner Management Program and has a Bachelor of Science in Business Economics from University of the Philippines. She is a licensed broker, ranked 3rd Top in Philippine Broker Board Examination in 2000. She was the Corporate Broker Officer of Financial American Exchange in California, from 1982-1995. Ms. Imperial is the Founder and President of Bicol Chamber of Real Estate Builders Association, 1995. She holds key positions at the Subdivision and Housing Developer’s Association as Governor in 1995-1997, and Auditor in 1997.


FWN Members:

If you're bringing a guest, make sure that she's someone who doesn't take herself seriously, laughs a lot, willing to share her expertise, pay forward and femtor next generation Filipina women and will join FWN. In other words, an awesome Filipina like YOU.

Meet other like-minded, socially, economically and politically engaged Pinay sisters for lunch, networking and collaborating.


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