Henry Motte-Muñoz

Notes on the figures above: the 10,000,000+ students-annually figure traces to BusinessWorld's 2019 reporting of "10 million annual visitors" to Edukasyon.ph — visitors, not confirmed unique students. The 29,000,000+ reach figure traces to a UN Women WEPs Awards profile stating approximately 29.6 million non-unique Facebook users reached, a self-reported figure for an award application. Lessons delivered and active tutors are addressed in detail in the Financials section below, where the kit's own attached press exhibit states different numbers. Countries served appears in the kit as 20+, 30+, and 35 in different sections.

Full name (as submitted): Henry Mutto Muñoz
Home address: Unit LP1 BSA Suites C, Palanca St., Legaspi Village, Makati City, Philippines
Birthdate: June 16, 1986 (Age 39)
Pronouns: He/Him
Mobile number: +63 998 849 5253

Name appears as “Henry Mutto Muñoz” in the submitted kit; public records use “Henry Motte-Muñoz” (and, more recently, “Henry Motte de la Motte”).

Education

• 2004–2007: London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) — BSc in Economics & Economic History
• 2011–2013: Harvard Business School — MBA (with Distinction), Business Administration

Work Experience

A separate section of the kit describes the Goldman Sachs stint as 2011–2013, while the kit's work-experience table above (and the kit's biography section) both give July 2007 – March 2009. This is noted here as an item for confirmation with the nominee rather than resolved either way.

Other Affiliations

Programs: National education marketplace (Edukasyon.ph), the Yaring Pinay TVET tracker, the CHED graduate scholarships gateway, and EDGE Tutor's B2B tutor-outsourcing platform.

Reach: Kit-stated 10,000,000+ students annually via Edukasyon.ph; 29,000,000+ individuals reached via the Yaring Pinay gender-equity campaign; 4,000,000+ lessons delivered via EDGE Tutor.

Impact: Henry co-founded EDGE Tutor to give English-fluent Filipino educators access to global tutoring opportunities without requiring migration, with tutors reporting a 2 to 3 times increase in disposable income versus local teaching salaries. Edukasyon.ph was built to address the education-to-employment gap in the Philippines, where the kit states only 300,000 of 2 million students who turn 18 each year successfully finish school and find a job.

Outcomes: reduced information asymmetry in the college-and-career decision process; a stated pathway for stay-at-home parents and career shifters into home-based tutoring; and, per the kit, a self-sustaining model in which business growth is designed to expand social benefit directly, without a separate funding mechanism.

Innovation: Three ventures over roughly thirteen years, each addressing a different layer of the same problem — that education in the Philippines rarely leads to the opportunities it should. Bantay.ph (2012) was a youth-led anti-corruption civic-tech NGO. Edukasyon.ph (2015) built the country's first comprehensive education marketplace after Henry observed a cousin struggle to navigate the college application process. EDGE Tutor (2023) spun out of Edukasyon.ph to connect English-proficient Filipino educators to global tutoring demand, framed against UNESCO's projected need for 44 million more teachers by 2030.

Growth: The kit reports EDGE Tutor scaling to a stated 1,500 certified tutors across an 86-person team, serving 50+ clients across 35 countries, with a target of a 5,000-strong tutor pool and full financial sustainability by 2026. Edukasyon.ph is reported to have scaled to 10 million Filipino students served annually at its peak.

Challenges: the kit frames the rise of AI-powered tutoring as an existential challenge to a human-tutor business model, with Henry's response being to reposition EDGE Tutor as an "essential human complement to AI," integrating AI into recruitment, training, scheduling, and quality monitoring while keeping human educators central to instruction.

Recognitions: WEF Young Global Leader (2020), Asia Society Asia 21 Young Leaders (2015), and a cluster of EdTech-sector honors and 2025-dated shortlists/finalist listings (detailed in Recognition & External Validation below).

Business Model: the kit frames both ventures as structurally self-sustaining social enterprises, where commercial growth and social benefit are designed to move together rather than through a separate CSR allocation. At EDGE Tutor, every tutor onboarded and lesson delivered is framed as simultaneously a revenue event and an income-uplift event for a Filipino educator.

Investment: the kit describes reinvestment into the Tutor Academy and AI-assisted training tools, an AI-driven recruitment and screening pipeline maintaining a sub-5% acceptance rate, and an 86-person operations team (Philippines and Sri Lanka) supporting IT, lesson operations, HR, and compliance.

People: the kit reports EDGE Tutor's Asia-Pacific client base comprising 74% of revenue to date, with regional expansion into Europe and the Americas growing from 5% of revenue in 2022 to 30% in 2024, per the attached press exhibit.

Partnerships: CHED (Scholarships for Graduate Studies gateway), a hardware-access alliance with ASUS Philippines' Enterprise Division, the EDGE Hub Accreditation Program (partnering with provincial seat-leasing offices, internet cafes, and co-working spaces to extend tutoring access outside Metro Manila), and a board seat on the E. Zobel Foundation.

Programs: EDGE Tutor (2022–present; economic empowerment through home-based tutoring employment), Edukasyon.ph (2015–present; education access and school-to-work information), Bantay.ph (2012–2018; civic governance and anti-corruption monitoring), and a board role at the E. Zobel Foundation (2022–present; education, community health and nutrition, and socio-economic development in Calatagan, Batangas).

Beneficiaries: the kit's stated beneficiary groups are Filipino (and, for EDGE Tutor, Sri Lankan) educators seeking stable, higher-paying home-based work; Filipino students and job-seeking youth using Edukasyon.ph; and communities engaged through Bantay.ph's civic-reporting tools.

Sustainability: the kit's central sustainability argument is that neither venture depends on external subsidy or grant funding — growth in paying clients and users is presented as directly funding the scale of the social benefit.

External Review: the kit cites the Asian Development Bank, the Australian Government's Investing in Women initiative (via DFAT), and the Makati Business Club as having evaluated aspects of the ventures.

Revenue model: B2B and recurring — EDGE Tutor bills education companies abroad for managed tutor capacity rather than selling lessons directly to consumers, which produces contract-based rather than per-lesson income. The core economics rest on the margin between what foreign clients pay for English-fluent tutors and what those tutors are paid in pesos, a spread the company must maintain even while promising tutors 2–3x local wages. Because delivery depends on human tutors, revenue growth requires roughly proportional growth in recruitment, training, and management overhead — margins do not automatically expand with scale the way a pure software product's would.

HolonIQ, QBO: HolonIQ's own published research note names EDGE Tutor on its Southeast Asia EdTech 50 list. QBO's designation is attested through the event's own materials but corroborated primarily through company channels.

Founders Forum, Bett Asia: the Founders Forum list sits behind a gated download form and could not be confirmed; no Bett Asia primary source naming EDGE Tutor as a finalist was found.

EdTechX Innovator Award: the organizer's own award page lists EDGE Tutor under the Innovator category, but the page heading reads "2024 Awards Finalists" while the page URL is dated 2025 — the organizer's own labeling is inconsistent between the two years.

Startup World Cup: the October 2025 Manila regional event itself is confirmed to have taken place; no retrievable source names the winner of that regional round.

National Privacy Commission matter (NPC 19-438, Edukasyon.ph)

Following a 2019 online event (the AWS x Edukasyon.ph "Siklab Pilipinas" conference), a thank-you email and a publicly accessible file link exposed the names, email addresses, and digital certificates of 103 participants. This was verified directly against the Commission's primary documents. The NPC's Order of February 3, 2022 directed Edukasyon.ph to implement a formal security-incident management program and to notify all affected data subjects. Compliance was completed and the matter was closed by Resolution on September 22, 2022, with no fine and no cease-and-desist order issued. The case concerns Edukasyon.ph specifically; it is noted here as relevant context for EDGE Tutor given that both ventures share founder leadership.

Workforce commentary

Employer-review platforms show mixed ratings: Glassdoor 4.2 out of 5 on 36 reviews, and Indeed 2.8 out of 5 on 16 reviews. Some reviews describe waiting periods between client assignments and a practice sometimes described as "tutor pooling," where a certified tutor pool is described as larger than the active client pipeline at a given time. This review data is anecdotal and self-selected, and the company's own recruiting material describes a high booking rate. The share of the tutor pool actively booked and earning, versus on standby, is not documented in any public source and is suggested as a follow-up question.

Other commentary

Anonymous forum commentary describing past management culture at Edukasyon.ph also exists in the record. This commentary is unverifiable against any credible reporting and should be weighed accordingly — it is noted for completeness, not as an established finding.