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3 Decades In

The Philippines

Hubert d Aboville first came to

The Philippines conquered Manila in 1977 as a backpacker me maintained the Brittany Bhe longest serving aged 17 slept at Luneta Park France native To date he has President of the Eu and befriended local thugs who spent 30 of his 67 years in this ropean Chamber of invited him to their Tondo shack country His home family and Commerce in the

By EMMIE V ABADILLA

and showed him around

Philippines

ECCP

business are all here

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After globe trotting Hubert rural development

Today he hopes that DoE

returned to Manila in 1981 as In 2000 Head of a French multinational

NAPOCOR and the Energy

timber trading firm He fell in love with Araceli

Ara

Va

lenzuela daughter of Dr Pio Valenzuela close associate of Andres Bonifacio and member

of the Katipunan s Supreme Council

Accidentally seated next to

he spearheaded a 17 5 Million Euro Philippine Regulatory Commission will Rural Electrification Service appoint a private company to PRES initiative for the Na operate and maintain the PRES tional Power Corporation NA so people can continue to ben POCOR The French Ministry efit from the project of Finance funded project was On top of his PAMATEC du meant to provide solar power ties Hubert has been stand for 120 000 impoverished people ing at the helm of the ECCP living in the remotest parts of for five years now He serves

each other over dinner in a Masbate

the Chamber s 700 members

friend s house he could only But as soon as PAMATEC broke remember her talking about ground for the PRES Masbate how much she loved Paris while communist insurgents demand he went on and on about how ed revolutionary tax from the much he loved the Philippines French CEO When he refused

and encourages European companies to invest in the Philippines

We mirrored each other explained

Ara

A Foreign Service graduate she worked in a five star hotel for half a decade and studied in Sorbonne Then she hand crafted two thousand shell necklaces and sold half in Avi

gnon for ten thousand francs to finance a year of adventure in Paris Hubert and Ara married in 1982

He also discovered a new pas sion this time for nurturing to pay they razed down multi Filipino artists and champion million pesos worth of project ing indigenous peoples in his equipment and supplies neighborhood Undaunted Hubert flew to Eu It all started after he stumbled rope and sought an audience on a 40 hectare property on with an exiled top rebel leader the ridge of 7 000 foot high Luis Jalandoni He had always Mount Malasimbo overlooking been upright and fair in his Puerto Galera Bay in Oriental dealings He even walked out Mindoro He built his family on lucrative deals refusing to home there calling it Villa pay bribes But he refused to Malasimbo and considered set give up on this one ting up an eco friendly subdivi

But he had to return to France After he talked with Jalandoni

sion for retirees on the rest of

in 1986 to be Deputy Head of the Masbate insurgents left Marketing and Sales in Europe him alone A decade two Presi Yet he pined for Manila So in dents and three Department 1988 he left his high paying job of Energy DoE secretaries in Paris and came back to es later PAMATEC completed the tablish his own company Paris PRES project in 2010 Manila Technology Corporation At present the PRES sup PAMATEC specializing in plies electricity to 131 remote electrical power barangays covering 18 000 From the timber business he households of which 5 000 are sought to shift into reforesta equipped with solar energy tion I really wanted to go into

his vast land

Hubert even managed to write high impact eco cultural proj a book about the Masbate ects he declared But he saw PRES project His Man better opportunities to do it in agement of an International the power sector Project against Poverty was Hubert envisioned PAMATEC published in France detailing as a social enterprise that will the unforeseen difficulties and bring power generation tech challenges his company faced nology to the country s poorest Last year the PAMATEC un communities In addition he

dertaking won the prestigious founded a non profit NGO To Energy Globe Award for the gether Ensemble Foundation Philippines over 150 other glob Inc in 1992 to provide relief al entries in Vienna Austria in disaster areas and promote

That was until he hit on the

idea of hosting annual music festivals with four outdoor

stages and camping sites for artists For him it made sense

He fer

vently believed in the Filipino talent Of his four children two

daughters are artists The young est daughter is still at school and his eldest son an engineer helps him in his business

Now the PAMATEC CEO aspires

to nurture the creativity of the Filipino to make Filipino mu sic and art better known to the

world In conjunction with these he aims to transform Puerto Gal

era as a prime tourist hub

Already Hubert has installed Puerto Galera Bay in the global map by making it a member of the UNESCO approved orga

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the art and tribal way of life of mastered the native language seven Mangyan tribes living Legislators nearly fell off their

Last year his Villa Malasimbo nearby hosted the first international Next month March 2 4 2012 music and arts festival in Puerto the PAMATEC CEO will host

seats when he was summoned in the House once and he ad

dressed them all in Tagalog

He may have French blue blood in his veins being descended Artists displayed their sculp from Brittany nobles but in his forward to hosting it every year tures and opuses outdoors thereafter soul he confessed he feels truly among the trees in the moun tains while musicians from all After all is said and done Hu Pinoy over the country performed In bert regards the Philippines addition the festival showcased as his real home He has even Galera

the second annual music festi

val in Malasimbo And he looks

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