Diosdado "Dado" Banatao, Managing Partner of Tallwood Venture Capital and Chairman, Philippine Development Foundation was the main speaker for the 13 June 2011 Joint Membership Meeting of the Makati Business Club (MBC) and Managament Association of the Philippines (MAP) held in the Rigodon Ballroom of The Peninsula Manila, Makati. 

Source: http://www.mbc.com.ph/events/2011-jun-13-joint-membership-meeting-dado-banatao/

Diosdado “Dado” Banatao, Chairman of PhilDev and Managing Partner of Tallwood Venture Capital, formally relaunches Ayala Foundation USA into the Philippine Development Foundation whose role in strategic philanthropy is for the economic development of the Philippines.

Dado Banatao on PhilDev USA Forum

From the outside, everything about Diosdado Banatao seems average: he wears no expensive designer suits, nor carry fancy, top-of-the-line gadgets. But to anyone with even a fraction of knowledge of Silicon Valley and computer technology history, nothing about Dado, who also considers himself with “just average” intelligence, is truly average. He, after all, pioneered the very first PC chip set when there was not yet a PC industry and he created the graphics acceleration technology that made Microsoft Windows a viable operating system. Dado has helped propel the computer industry into a global phenomenon.

President Benigno Aquino III had barely warmed his seat in Malacañang in May when he was visited by Silicon Valley entrepreneur and philanthropist Diosdado Banatao.

Leaders and professionals focused on building an ecosystem of science and technology-based entrepreneurship and innovation for social and economic development in the Philippines. They also generate resources from US-based donors for non-profit organizations in the Philippines as part of their commitment to diaspora philanthropy.