Prof. Manuel A. Tenmatay
Prof. Manuel A. Tenmatay has more than 40 years of work and consultancy experience, 29 years of which he spent at Panasonic Manufacturing Philippines Corporation. Prof. Tenmatay developed his expertise in operations management, product development, quality control, corporate planning, information systems, purchasing management, and production engineering prior to joining the academe.
Upon his retirement from Panasonic, he continues his journey as a lifelong learner, teacher and mentor at the Ateneo Graduate School of Business and Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health where he teaches operations management, strategic management, applied mathematics, management statistics, applied management science, quantitative analysis management and business tools. He was recently appointed as a guru to shepherd a group of 20 student entrepreneurs under the Master in Entrepreneurship program of the AGSB. He also serves as a resource person through the corporate and in-house programs of the Ateneo Center for Continuing Education that caters to the learning needs of clients including GenPact, Profriends, Social Security System, Asian Development Bank, Northern Cement, and GN Power.
Prof. Tenmatay holds a degree in electrical engineering from the University of the Philippines and a Master’s degree in electrical engineering at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan as a full scholar under the Japan Ministry of Education. He also earned his Master in Business Administration under the Regis MBA Program at the Ateneo Graduate School of Business where he was recognized as a Gold Medal awardee. He is currently completing his Doctorate degree in Organizational Development and Planning at the Southeast Asia Interdisciplinary Development Institute (SAIDI) under scholarship granted by the AGSB.
Dr. Alejandrino “Andy” J. Ferreria – Program Director
Dr. Andy Ferreria is the Academic Director and one of the founding gurus of the Master in Entrepreneurship (MEnt) at the Ateneo Graduate School of Business. He is also the president of ACE Center for Entrepreneurship and Management Education, Inc. He remains active as a board of director and consultant to several firms who wish to create an entrepreneurial organization. An accomplished author, he has internationally published a book on entrepreneurship called Entrepreneurs’ Helpline and a Philippine publication on 50 inspiring entrepreneurs of the Philippines. In the ASEAN region, he is often referred to as Entrepreneurship Guru or entrepguru. He is adviser to many family enterprises and has facilitated the development of the family constitution of several enterprising families.
He has been an educator for 50 years and has taught in the University of the Philippines, Ateneo de Manila University, Asian Institute of Management, and at the London Ontario and Hong Kong campuses of the Richard Ivey School of Business of the University of Western Ontario in Canada.
Dr. Ferreria holds a BS degree from the Ateneo de Manila University and a Master in Business Administration from the University of the Philippines. He has completed the academic requirements of his doctoral studies at the University of the Philippines and finished his research work and obtained his doctoral degree in education management from the National University.
