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Ardy Roberto is a best-selling author, award-winning entrepreneur, sought-after speaker

and international award-winning seminar producer. OMF Literature published his best-selling
booklet, Ang Buhay Na Hindi BitinHow to Live Life Content, Blessed and Worry-Free, now on its 12th
printing with over 500,000 copies sold and printed. Ardy's inspirational book, The Heart of
Healing was given a prestigious Gintong Aklat (Gold Book) Finalist award by the National Book
Development Board of the Philippines (NBDB) in 2010. In 2011, his book on personal finance, Ang
Pera na Hindi Bitin - Money That is Never Short, was National Bookstore's #1 Best Seller* for 5
months (*Philippine publications). Ardy's latest book, Real Men are POGI (Pure Obedient Gentle
and Intense) - How to be Handsome in God's Eyes was also on National Bookstore's Best Seller list
(Top 5) in 2013.

Ardy, together with his late wife, Tingting, co-founded Salt & Light Ventures. They are the only
learning event organizers to have won both local and international awards for the seminars and
conferences that they have produced and marketed. This includes co-winning (together with their
agency, BCD Pinpoint) a:

Cannes Lion advertising award at Cannes, France (Finalist)
a DMAsia Creative Award at Singapore (Gold-Best in Marketing Medium),
and an Araw Award at the Philippine Ad Congress (Gold) for the Tom Peters Live! In
Manila seminar.
Gold Quill Award Achievers and Leaders Seminar

One proud achievement includes a Grand Anvil Award for putting together the 2004 John
Maxwell Live! In Manila -- the largest, most successful back-to-back leadership learning event ever
produced in Philippine history with over 17,000 leaders in attendance. In 2008, Salt & Light
Ventures together with Inspire Leadership Consultancy hosted John Maxwell again and came up
with a unique concepta Live event with 10 difference satellite campuses all over the country.

Ardy was also the Chairman of the Franklin Graham National Leadership Breakfast in
Manila last February 1, 2006 which attracted 1,000 leaders from both business and government,
including President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. He also served as Co-Chair of the Workplace
Committee of the Metro Manila Franklin Graham Festival (MMFGF). An evangelistic event held at
the Rizal Park from Feb 2-5, 2006 which attracted more than 400,000 people.

Ardy graduated at the Ateneo de Manila, but got most of his education while traveling as an
exchange student and international youth delegate to schools and places like Sophia University in
Tokyo, and the Yokohama and Niigata prefectures in Japan; Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Brunei,
Singapore and finally Washington, D.C. and Virginia, USA. Ardy also took executive education
courses at Stanford University and the Asian Institute of Management. His latest life-changing
educational trip was at the Mt Carmel School of Ministry in Israel. It was a most memorable
encounter with God and the people of Israel.

Ardy has published and marketed two of his fathers best-selling books, User-Friendly Marketing
Research and Strategic Market Segmentation: How to Market to the Rich, the Middle Class and the Poor.

A writer by calling, Ardy has also discovered the joy of creating and launching new events and
business venturessuch as the Achievers and Leaders Seminar, Inspire Leadership Consultancy,
and the Buzan Center for Creative Thinkingthat inspire and bring out the best in people.


Ardy Roberto is an author, entrepreneur, speaker and international award-winning seminar
producer. He was awarded with a Grand Anvil Award for putting together the 2004 John
Maxwell Live! In Manila. It is considered as the Philippines largest and most successful
leadership learning event in the country with over 17,000 leaders in attendance.
The author and entrepreneur Ardy Roberto also co-writes a weekly column, Marketing RX, for
the Philippine Daily Inquirer, together with his marketing guru and father, Dr. Ned Roberto.
Ardy Roberto is best-known for his best-selling book, Ang Buhay Na Hindi Bitin-How to Live
Life Content, Blessed, and Worry-Free, published by one of the Philippines largest publishing
company, OMF Literature.
The current fiance of Miriam Quiambao, Ardy Roberto has published an inspirational book,
The Heart of Healing, which tells about the miraculous healing of his wife, Tingting, it was
given a prestigious Gintong Aklat (Gold Book) Finalist award by the National Book
Development Board of the Philippines (NBDB) in 2010.
The 47-year-old Ardy Roberto was born on April 8, 1966. He is formerly married to Margot
Pelaez-Linsangan and a father to Joshua Roberto. Ardy Roberto and his former wife co-founded
the Salt and Light Ventures, Inc., the only learning event organizers to have won both local and
international awards for the seminars and conferences.
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