JA COUNCIL OF BUSINESS ADVISERS

As an initiative to strengthen and support the students in the entrepreneurial journey with JA Philippines, the council was created. The council’s goal is to find advisers with expertise in the fields of management, finance, product, marketing, people management and entrepreneurship to mentor student entrepreneurs.

The council is linked to JA Philippines’ two prominent entrepreneurial programs.

CHAIRMAN

Mr. Krishna Alejandrino

Executive Director, JA Philippines

VICE-CHAIRMAN

Mr. Jared Lawrence Go

Manila Business Representative, Martson Food Corporation

CHIEF ADVOCACY OFFICER

Mr. Hector Angeles

CEO & Founder, MAD Elephant PH

DIRECTOR FOR ADVOCACY PROGRAM

Mr. Gabriel Oreta

Chief Operating Officer, EMBM Services OPC

SECRETARY GENERAL

Ms. Paula Patrice Dela Cruz

National Project Manager, JA Philippines

LEARNING BUSINESS BY DOING BUSINESS

College Level

JA Company of the Year

The Mini-Company Program helps young Filipinos appreciate and understand better the role of business in the society by allowing them to organize and operate an actual business enterprise. For a ten-month period 3rd and 4th year students from various colleges organize and operate their own mini-company and go through the different steps involved in setting up and closing a company. These steps include capitalization, registration, corporate visioning, election of directors and officers, research and product development, manufacturing, marketing, maintaining a financial record system, preparing of an annual report, distribution of wages and salaries, dealing with taxes, and eventual liquidation of the company. Since its introduction in 1969, 25,000 students have graduated from the Mini-Company Program.

Senior High School Level

JA Business Skills Pass

The Business Skills Pass (BSP) is a qualification that certifies that students who have had a real entrepreneurship experience, hold the necessary knowledge, competences and skills to start a venture of their own or be successfully employed.

BSP includes a full-year in-school mini-company experience; an examination of business, economic and financial knowledge: the possibility to access further opportunities offered by small and large businesses, top higher institutions across the Philippines.

  • Phase 1: JA Be Entrepreneurial (Business Planning and Mentoring)

  • Phase 2: Program Implementation thru the JA Company Program™ (Senior High School Edition)

  • Phase 3: Online Assessment

  • Phase 4: Winning teams will be sent abroad to compete and will receive scholarship in the US.