Joseph Arlan Fajardo, CPA, CIA, CISA
Director of Tao CorporationJoseph is both a CPA, CIA and CISA with more than 20 years of experience in the field of Internal Auditing, Quality Assurance, Management and Tax Advisory, and the Academe.
Currently, he is the Director for Corporate Planning of Tao Corporation, a leading supply-chain services company, one of the top 500 companies in the industry, and top 100 companies in the Philippines in terms of consolidated revenue and President of I Can Capital Lending, Inc. He is responsible for facilitating the establishment of risk management process in Tao community of companies and for enhancing the implementation of risk-based internal audit approach. In his short stint with the Tao Corporations he has facilitated the establishment of risk management framework and initial risk management in TriDharma Marketing Corporation which one of the top earning subsidiaries of Tao Corporation. Before moving to his current company, he was the Internal Audit Manager, (Department Head) of East-West Seed Company, Inc. (EWSCI), the leader in tropical vegetables seed in Southeast Asia with sister companies in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, South Africa, China, and Myanmar. He was responsible for the establishment of the first Internal Audit Function in the Group. He also introduced Enterprise Risk Management in the company facilitating the first risk assessment exercise by the Board of Management (BOM) and the first risk management workshop by the functional managers. He reports functionally to the President and administratively to the Country General Manager. He also performs internal audit reviews of East-West Seed International, East-West Regional Operating Headquarters, East-West Thailand and Hortigenetics Reearch SE Asia.
He is also a CPA review lecturer in the Baliuag University teaching Management Advisory Services and Theory of Accounts. He also teaches in the Baliuag University College of Business Administration and Accountancy on the subject of Managerial Accounting, Management Consultancy, Managerial Finance, Advance Accounting 2 and Tax Planning, among others. Baluiag University is the first and only autonomous private university in Bulacan.
His past professional work experiences included his being an Internal Audit Head of Sports and Gaming Entertainment (SAGE), an on-line gaming company. He also had a stint in AMA Education System as Internal Audit Supervisor.
He also worked in Asahi Allglass (Asia) Pte. Ltd., Singapore as Quality Assurance Supervisor cum Assistant Management Representative. Among his responsibilities is to assist the QA Manager cum Management representative in overseeing the consistent daily operations of the Quality Management System, preparation for the ISO:9000 -9003 Certification and the Australian Product Certification, among others. Notable among his achievements is the general review and revision of the Quality Assurance Manual of the company and he authored the 3-point quality check which was adopted as part of the standard quality procedures.
He also worked in RBL Fishing Corporation as an Internal Audit Staff.
Joseph is an active member of IIA Philippines as former Chair of Marketing Committee and Professional Development – IIA-P and resource speaker for public run and in-house seminars.