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TECHIE P. BAUTISTA

Director - CREBA

President - Geterson Realty & Development Corporation

Ms. Techie P. Bautista – President of Geterson Realty & Development Corporation – is a multi-dimensional professional with a wide breadth of knowledge and experience in various fields, particularly as a human resource expert and an educator.

Among her laudable achievements, she is credited with having initiated the Executive Diploma Program in Real Estate Management (EDPREM) – the first in the history of real estate in the Philippines, and which the CREBA-De La Salle Benilde consortium has been offering for almost 20 years.

She has been representing CREBA in various dealings with government instrumentalities for over three decades.

Apart from her real estate business, she has also been actively involved in various government functions – particularly as special assistant to then Vice-President Salvador Laurel, during which she co-chaired the reorganization efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She later became consultant on matters pertaining to market administration and cooperatives of former Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim, and then as member of the Presidential Commission on Urban Poor under the administration of former president Joseph Estrada.  

With a big heart and a passion for humanitarian activities, she has been the initiator and prime mover of many of CREBA’s socio-civic operations during states of calamity.

Techie is a graduate of AB Psychology, holder of a Master’s degree in Business Administration, and is a real estate broker and a government civil service licensee.

Her corporate experiences include being Vice President for Human Resource Management of the Araneta Group of Companies, Personnel Manager of the Malayan Group, Personnel Administrator of General Motors Philippines, and Personnel Assistant at the Smith Bell Group and as Reconciliation Staff at the Security Pacific Bank in Los Angeles, CA.

She has held various key positions in CREBA, concurrently as Executive Vice President and as Past President of the CREBA Foundation in 1992, during which incumbency, she authored a book entitled “Metro Manila Squatters: A Social Housing Time Bomb.” Under her leadership, the Foundation piloted the Housing on Stilts in Pinugay, Baras, Rizal, built a multi-purpose center in Kalangitan Village in Tarlac during the Pinatubo eruption, and participated in President Carter’s Habitat for Humanity program.

She also served as Vice-President for the USA of the CREBA International Foundation and Chairperson of the APEC-CREBA Conferences on Sustainable Cities.

Credentials

Companies

  • Geterson Realty & Development Corporation (President)

Professional Licenses

  • Licensed Real Estate Broker

  • Civil Service – Managerial Level

Affiliations

  • Chamber of Real Estate & Builders’ Associations, Inc (CREBA)

  • CREBA Foundation

Education

  • AB Psychology

  • Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Other Info

  • Author – “Metro Manila Squatters: A Social Housing Time Bomb”

Career Highlights

  • President – CREBA Social Housing Foundation

  • Vice President for USA – CREBA International Foundation

  • Executive Vice President – CREBA

  • Chairperson –  APEC-CREBA Conferences on Sustainable Cities

  • 1st Program Director – CREBA-De la Salle Consortium

  • Director – Personnel Management Association of the Philippines (PMAP)

  • Director – Philippine Society for Training & Development (PSTD)

  • Vice President for Human Resource Management –  Araneta Group of Companies

  • Personnel Manager – Malayan Group

  • Personnel Administrator – General Motors Philippines

  • Personnel Assistant – Smith Bell Group

  • Reconciliation Staff – Security Pacific Bank in Los Angeles, CA

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