Gary brings a nationally recognized record of grassroots impact to AGILE. Honored as a Siklab Awardee in the Nationwide Search for Youth Nation Builders in 2019, named one of the 10 Most Outstanding MSMEs by Go Negosyo in 2021, and celebrated as an Outstanding Young Organic Farmer by the Department of Agriculture that same year, he has proven his commitment to solidarity-based sustainable development. His flagship venture, BEEngo Farm in Tunga, Leyte, serves as a living classroom—welcoming both foreign and local tourists and providing livelihood training and eco-education to local women and farmers. This blend of conservation, community empowerment, and social enterprise exemplifies AGILE’s vision of co-creating unique sustainable paths with marginalized communities.

From 2017 to 2023, as operations manager of BEEngo Farm, Gary scaled pollination-based value chains, safeguarded bee populations, and deepened local ownership of green industries before handing the venture to his sister and shifting to manage Beach and BEEyond, his eco-resort in El Nido, Palawan. Since 2019, he has served as a senior adviser for Go Negosyo, mentoring aspiring entrepreneurs, and from late 2019 to 2023, he empowered agricultural stakeholders as a resource person for the Agricultural Training Institute in Eastern Visayas. Before taking up agriculture-related courses in the University of the Philippines Los Banos, Gary worked in operations and human resources in the Middle East--an early career that honed his leadership and people-management skills and reinforces AGILE’s belief that strong leadership and mutual support underpin inclusive, sustainable green economies.

Gary is an extroverted connector whose expertise spans apiculture, permaculture, agroecology, edible landscaping, and purposeful tourism. He combines formal training methods with a folksy, interactive facilitation style, leading rapid-prototype workshops that yield immediate, tangible outputs while nurturing antifragile systems for long-term community resilience. Skilled in networking, mentoring, social-media storytelling, research, and critical thinking, he embodies AGILE’s approach: solidarity-driven eco-industrialization from below, co-creation of material and social innovations, and care-centered pathways that empower grassroots social artisans and entrepreneurs across the Global South.