Butch Meily

Rene “Butch” Meily is president of IdeaSpace Foundation Inc., the organization behind IdeaSpace, a technology accelerator for early-stage startup companies; and QBO Innovation Hub, a public-private partnership launched to mentor startups. He is also the president of the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation (PDRF), a private sector disaster management organization that includes many of the major business groups in the country. He is the author of an upcoming memoir, From Manila to Wall Street and Back – An Immigrant’s Journey with Reginald Lewis, The First Black Billion-Dollar Dealmaker.