Rogelio Vonz Santos
Rogelio Vonz Santos is the founder of Aevolve, a digital company aimed at revolutionizing the way medical innovations are financed with their blockchain technology, and the Co-founder and Chairman of Amylex., a biotechnology company researching & developing disease-modifying solutions. One of his biggest accomplishments was securing FDA Approval for Commercial Use of a nanomolecular technology that reduces and fights Alzheimer's at its source.[1]
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Mission
Aevolve is using their blockchain technology to finance life saving scientific research and inventions that would normally stall for decades due to insufficient funding. Cancer research, ALS, Parkinson's disease and many other incurable diseases have promising research and innovations that suggest a cure is imminent.
Early Career
At age 8 Vonz was dubbed a tech prodigy, when he developed his first piece of software that led to him becoming an international software consultant for major companies such as General Motors, Merrill Lynch and several other fortune 100 corporations. In 1999, before the age of 20, he was the Chief Systems Architect of General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC) leading the development of the financial industry's first internet based multi-national and multi-lingual bond securitization platform. The system deployed and streamlined GMAC Commercial Mortgage's bond assets on stock exchanges globally.
By 21, he developed one the first-in-class solutions for the AEC (Architectural Engineering and Construction) industry that was noted for it's use in the construction of over 4000 McDonald's a year. It was also adopted internationally by Hitachi for use in Energy Sector for the construction of hydro-electric power plants in the United States. He also owned and operated a national real-estate information services and legal review company that, by the age of 25, helped build over 20% of the cell phone towers in the United States.
Since then Vonz has been covered extensively by major media institutions like the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, CNN, and has given a Ted Talk.
Presidential Campaign - Digital Campaign Manager
In 2010, Vonz was appointed as the digital campaign manager for the Philippine's 15th President, Benigno Aquino III. Prior to this, he had developed a leading out-sourcing and knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) operation that earned him to be recognized in NJBIZ Magazine as one of Ernst & Young's top 30 under 30 of New Jersey.
Meet with Barack Obama
Humanitarian causes have always been the most important thing to Vonz. He is from the Philippines and has spent his life using his gifts to save his people. Vonz also famously met with former President Barack Obama when China was threatening to assert themselves in waters that belonged to the Philippines. He inspired a movement along side Loida Nicolas Lewis that had a direct influence in US strategic policy. This redirected US naval presence in the South China Sea that stopped the installation of China's mobile oil rig into Philippine waters. The multi-year movement became an essential component to rallying international support that culminated in the first ruling in the Hague under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in favor of the Philippines ownership and rights over the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea.)
Presidential Awards and Senate Commendations
In 2015, Vonz received the Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) Award, the highest civilian award a Filipino under 40 can receive. He received this award under the category of Social Entrepreneurship for his work in organizing Filipinos worldwide in a movement that strengthened national security, his work in pioneering new medical innovations, and inventing the "Butterfly House" or foldable houses for displaced victims after a natural disaster. His immediate foldable housing solution was funded by USAID and corporations including Starbucks creating villages that housed hundreds of families that lost their homes due to Typhoon Haiyan, which is to date, the largest recorded hurricane in history.
Mr. Santos has also been awarded 2 Senate Commendations.
2015 SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 113 Senate of the Philippines
Recognized and commended as an “accomplished entrepreneur (who) has been significantly raising the bar in business by merging pioneering technologies together with social enterprise”
2015 SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 55
Senate of the Philippines
Recognized and commended for his work on Butterfly House, for designing for social innovation and utilizing design as a problem-solving mechanism. It also cites the Butterfly House as a “better alternative to tents or bunkhouses”.
