Rosario Calderon

Rosario "Chato" Calderon is a seasoned corporate executive and entrepreneur with over forty years of experience in clean energy, environment, international development, and government and business relations. She serves as President of the UPAASF, current Advisor and former President to UP Engineering and Development Foundation (UPERDFI), Vice 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 a Master in Business Administration and Public Administration from Syracuse University (NY) and Harvard University (MA), respectively. She was a U.S. State Department Diplomat/ Senior Energy Advisor of the U.S. Agency for UPAASF 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.