Lex Ledesma / Cheese Ledesma
A brother and sister tandem, Lex and Cheese have set up a number of innovative businesses from The Big Chill, to Karaoke King, to Nami Resorts. Cheese graduated Magna Cum Laude in Accounting from Georgetown University, while Lex was awarded a Gold Medal for Outstanding Thesis in Engineering upon graduation from De La Salle University. Both took further studies at Stanford University. Cheese took an MBA and Lex received a Masters degree in Engineering. The pair has been featured several times on CNN and Star World as among Asia's top young entrepreneurs.
Currently, Lex is an educational consultant for the ILO, a division of the UN, tasked with integrating entrepreneurship into the 6,000 high schools in the Philippines.