FOUNDER FINDER

Charm Dalisay, 09A

Carl Chester L. Trocio, the youngest of Confucius and Carmencita Trocio’s two kids, was born in Cebu on March 15 37 years ago. He finished his grade school and high school at Sacred Heart School for boys at Cebu City, and he completed his college degree at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He was a member of the UP Economics Society being a Business Economics major. Later in the years, after realizing that Economics was far from what he really wanted, he found himself taking a new course that would change his life forever.

During his early period of stay in AIT, he decided to organize an institution for tourism students which would enhance students academically and help them in their social life. He first named the organization CRUSADES, and through the years, it was now known as the Tourism Management Society.

“It was like a full time job for me [organizing and bringing up the society]”, Trocio said.

In order to strengthen the new organization, it was necessary to create superior foundation. But despite of the hardships the organization and the founding chairman had faced, it was all worth it for Trocio, who was maintaining his being a college scholar. He brought in new members that would help him making the organization better. TMS currently celebrates its 13^thyear.

After finishing his degree from the university, he realized that the promise of UP graduates getting to land on jobs easier after graduation was not true after all. Like other graduates of different colleges and universities, he experienced the adversity of finding a job. He learned that school life was far different from the “real” life.

His first job was at the banking industry, far from the course he had finished. After three years of working there, he decided to retire from the job and get his masters degree at the Asian Institute of Management.

He became a consultant for four years to several companies dealing with different facets and disciplines of business like operations, corporate culture, and marketing. Aside from his job he also established another organization, the KOTSE AUDIO CLUB and stayed as its president for 7 years.

Mr. Trocio is the current general manager of the Perfect World Metal Mining Corporation. How did he get into mining? Interesting, isn’t it? “I started out as a consultant for the company doing process engineering and auditing, overseeing the operations and formulating policies for the company. Eventually, after a change in management, I landed the job of general manager. So here I am. Ironic that I studied to promote our country's sights and here I am peeling a mountain to extract its minerals... the mountaineers are going to kill me.”

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