Rosario Calderon

Rosario "Chato" Calderon is a seasoned corporate executive and entrepreneur with forty years of experience in clean energy, environment, international development, and government and business relations. She serves as Chair of UPAASF, current Advisor and former President to UP Engineering and Development Foundation (UPERDFI), Chair of San Francisco SCORE, and an Angel Investor/ Social Entrepreneur. She is a certified mentor at SF SCORE, a US Small Business Administration resource partner, counseling small business startups to succeed.

Chato has a BS Civil Engineering degree from the UP College of Engineering and Masters in Business Administration and Public Administration from Syracuse University (NY) and Harvard Kennedy School (MA), respectively. She was a U.S. State Department / Senior Energy Advisor of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Pakistan, Vietnam, and the Philippines. As a USAID officer and U.S. corporate executive, her multimillion-dollar energy and power generation projects have supported the U.S. and Asian countries' energy independence and economic growth.