Ed Canela

Professional Experience
1. Position/Duties

Managing Director: Formulation and development of new products and services for BDS and NGOs. Together with US AID formulating best practices for microfinance, BDS, and new trends in SME technical assistance programmes.
1. Year
June 1998 to present
1. Organization
The K+E Ventures
2. Position/Duties

Chief CEFE Trainer: Various short term (two to three months) missions in South Africa, Tanzania, Palestine, Socialist Republic of VietNam, Laos, Indonesia, and in the SADDC Region including Zimbabwe, Malawi, Lesotho, and Swaziland.
2. Organization
The German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ); Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft (CDG)
2. Year
January 1995 to June, 1998
3. Position/Duties

Consultant on Small Enterprise Entrepreneurship: Worked with various institutions including UNDP-Jerusalem, UN Relief and Works Agency (in Beirut, Gaza and the West Bank), NGOs, microfinance institutions, and banks.
3. Organization
UN--ESCWA and UNDP, Palestine
3. Year
May 15-December, 1994
4. Position/Duties

Operation and Management Adviser, The Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC): Provided advisory services to this successful Nationally-Executed Project of the (UNDP) and the International Labour Organization (ILO)
4. Year
July 1992 to May 15, 1994
4. Organization
ILO Bangladesh
5. Year
November 1989 to July 1992
5. Organization
Foundation for Entrepreneurship and Appropriate Technology (FEAT) Inc.
5. Position/Duties

Managing Director and Chairman for International Operations: Administered and managed the accounts of Asian Development Bank (ADB), Technonet Asia, US-AID, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), The UN System, and GTZ.
6. Position/Duties

Small Business Promotion and Development Adviser (posted with Small Business Promotion Project, the seedbed of CEFE)
6. Organization
GTZ
6. Year
May, 1986 to September, 1989
7. Year
July 1985 to May, 1986
7. Organization
Freelance Consultant
7. Position/Duties

Performed field evaluation missions in Malawi for ILO; Executed small business consulting and management courses in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, and The Philippines
8. Year
May 1982 to June 1985
8. Organization
World Bank Indonesia
8. Position/Duties

Small Industries Extension Consultant, Directorate General for Small Industries, Department of Industry: Second Small Enterprise Development Project (SEDP-2), Training of more than 2,000 extension officers, installa
9. Organization
University of the Philippines Institute for Small Scale Industries
9. Year
January 1973 to May 1982
9. Position/Duties

Various Positions Until Assistant Director for Technology Development. Also acted as UNDP Expert with the National Apprenticeship System (SENA) of Colombia, South America and as Technology Development Consultant of the East West Centre-Technology Developm
General Information
Surname
Canela
First Name
Eduardo Q.
Phone
+632 930 1615
Address

P.O. Box 44 UP Campus - Diliman
QUEZON CITY 1101, M.M.A.
Fax
+632-936-7496
Current Country
Philippines
Key Qualification

Ed Canela specializes in promoting entrepreneurship, small enterprise growth, technology development, and innovative educational programmes in rapidly developing economies. Backed by more than two decades of field experience, Ed certainly knows what will and will not work. He knows what real value creation means. He has always been promoting value creation as a basic approach to wealth creation. He is keen on issues affecting small and medium manufacturing enterprises, fast growth high technology companies, corporate re-engineering, industrial restructuring, complex development project management, institution building and organizational learning systems.

Recently, Mr. Canela has developed a package for training and certification of Young SME Consultants for the World Bank (STEP in Nigeria), US AID (in Jordan and Palestine) and GTZ (in Timor and Nigeria). In Nigeria, Mr. Canela has also developed consultant mentoring processes and have introduced other packages like: Young Development Agents, Young Development Writers, Young Agro-Business Consultants, Young Value Chain Brokers, Young CEFE Trainers, Young SME Tracers, and Young SME Consultants. Each of these package are on CDs of 420 MB or more.

Computing Competence
Specialist in the applications of WindowsXP, Premium Office2002, SPSS for
Windows 10, MsProjects 2002, MicroStart, MicroBank. Developed various
management-and training-related computer programmes. Can assist MFIs in
developing Access based Management Information System (MIS). Developed
software (Business Planning System) and games manuals.
Education

Master in Business Administration (with Distinction), Ateneo Graduate School of
Business (majored in Industrial Economics), Makati Metro Manila, The Philippines, 1978.
Certificate in Low Cost Automation and Advanced Production Management,
University of the Philippines Institute for Small Scale Industries (UP-ISSI), Quezon City, Philippines, 1974.
Post-Graduate Certificate in Management Consultancy for Small Industries (with Honours) UP-ISSI, The Philippines, 1973.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Mapua Institute of Technology, Manila, The Philippines, 1972.

Attended various training courses, workshops and conferences on small business
management, economics and management of industrial technology transfer (France,
Japan, Singapore), computer-based information systems (Canada, United States,
Singapore), project planning and development (Germany, Thailand, The Philippines), microprocessors courses for small businesses (Singapore), intercultural project management (Germany, Japan and Thailand), and entrepreneurship and rural development (United States and The Philippines).