Mari Martirez

Full Name: Mari Martirez
Home Address: San Lorenzo Place, Makati, Metro Manila
Birthdate: May 14, 1994 (Age 32)
Pronouns: He/Him
Mobile Number: +63 917 892 0234

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Education

BS Industrial Management Engineering — minor in Service Management.

Work Experience

Other Affiliations

Product and Digital Consultant (Part-time), ICPD Gateway, April 2018 – March 2020.

Note: public records of a 2023 PCCI-Iloilo award (Aspiring Entrepreneur and Tech-Based Entrepreneur categories) name the awardee as "Matthew Cristi Martirez of Rezbin Waste Technology." Confirmation that this refers to the nominee is a suggested follow-up.

Rezbin's core model, "Scan, Snap, and Toss," turns recycling into a gamified activity: residents, students, and employees photograph clean recyclables at partner bins to earn points redeemable for consumer rewards. The company positions itself as a tech-first "ecosystem enabler" rather than a capital-heavy logistics operator — it does not own collection trucks, instead layering a digital platform, automated tracking dashboards, and postpaid financial flexibility on top of the existing informal waste sector (junk shops and waste banks). Its hardware-light approach converts an ordinary recycling bin (roughly USD 60) into an AI-powered smart station with a QR code sticker, instead of deploying a traditional reverse vending machine (USD 8,000–10,000). The company reports program presence across corporate offices, real estate developments, academic campuses, and retail malls, and cites institutional alignment with LGUs and national agencies including DOST, DTI, and DSWD.

Rezbin's product set spans two software products — the Rezbin App (AI-powered photo detection for recyclables) and AI Smart Bins (QR-code overlays on standard bins) — alongside three biotechnology hardware solutions offered through regional partner Go Circular (goAqua, goCompost, goRDF) for on-site organic waste processing. The founding motivation is framed around the 2023 report ranking the Philippines as a leading contributor to ocean plastic pollution, and the view that recycling infrastructure fails without behavior change at the point of disposal. The hardware-light bin conversion is described as roughly 133x more affordable than first-world reverse vending machines, intended to allow rapid, low-capital replication across many sites. The kit describes a major challenge as adapting a technology background to a traditional, largely non-digital waste economy, addressed through rapid experimentation and iteration before scaling to junk shop partners.

Rezbin describes its CSR alignment as intrinsic to its SaaS business model: clean materials feed directly into its waste-collector network, lowering municipal hauling fees, with dashboards tracking carbon footprint reduction and community engagement. Rather than allocating a fixed percentage of profit to standalone CSR projects, the company frames its core business as conducting data-driven circular economy experiments that help institutional and corporate clients direct their sustainability budgets, using dashboard data on participation rates, material cleanliness, and GHG reduction volumes. Employee engagement in CSR is described as indirect, arising through gamified participation (scanning, photographing, and earning points) rather than dedicated employee programs. Partner PNB Holdings Corporation is quoted describing the platform as helping build "a culture of sustainability among our employees, tenants, and partners."

Rezbin frames its social programs around digitizing the circular economy: transforming public and academic infrastructure into interactive smart recycling stations, training citizens in clean segregation habits via gamification, and removing the cash-flow trap for informal collectors through postpaid settlement. The company positions its SaaS retention rate as evidence of self-sustaining operations, and describes a long-term roadmap toward 100,000 APAC property installations by 2030 and beyond. It cites UNDP engagement as external validation of its tech-first, hardware-light strategy.

Rezbin's institutional partnership record is the strongest independently verifiable element of this candidacy, and among the most verifiable institutional traction of the three 2026 nominees. Each of the following is confirmed against the partner organization's own published channels.

Additional notes: PNB Holdings Corporation (PHC) is PNB's real-estate holding arm within the Lucio Tan Group, so the EcoStation partnership is a property-level program rather than a banking-wide endorsement. One Ayala Mall's involvement rests on a single mall social-media post rather than an independent news source. DTI's involvement is a 2023 regional pitch-competition award rather than an ongoing partnership. No independent confirmation was found for stated collaborations with the City of Makati, the Province of Oriental Mindoro, or DSWD.

Rezbin operates a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model, generating recurring subscription revenue from institutional clients — commercial properties, schools, LGUs, and corporations — that deploy its AI-powered smart recycling ecosystem, rather than from one-time hardware sales. Its asset-light strategy converts ordinary recycling bins (approximately USD 60 each) into AI-enabled smart bins via QR-code overlays, in place of traditional reverse vending machines (USD 8,000–10,000 each) — a roughly 133x reduction in per-unit hardware cost. In place of a fixed CSR spending percentage, the company presents an integrated ESG/GHG reporting model: corporate clients pay for the platform while receiving sustainability dashboards, GHG monitoring, and waste-diversion analytics as part of the service.

Reported growth metrics

The following figures are reported by the company as evidence of commercial traction. Each awaits supporting documentation: none currently has a public footprint outside company materials, including Rezbin's own website.

Ecosystem economics (partner junk shops and collectors)

Funding picture

Corporate registration

Independently Verified

Rezbin Waste Technology Inc. is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission — the one nominee venture whose SEC registration has been confirmed on file at this stage. This confirms the registered entity itself; it does not independently verify the revenue or other unit-economics figures above, which retain their Self-Reported status.

• Individual vs. company honors: in public coverage, several honors are associated with co-founder Mica Martirez rather than the nominee — including the ASEAN Startup Award acceptance, the EY Accelerator for Women program, the ASEAN-Australia Generation Next recognition, and the UN ESCAP Feminist Finance Forum item. A clean mapping of which honors belong to the nominee personally, to the co-founder, and to the company as a whole is a suggested follow-up.
• Founding timeline: the kit's work-history table lists Co-founder & CEO from March 2023, while another kit section describes a November 2024 launch in Iloilo City. The public record — a founder interview, a September 2023 DTI regional award, and December 2023 PCCI awards — supports operations from mid-2023. Stated Multiple Ways; recommended for confirmation with the nominee.
• Business metrics await documentation: the growth and unit-economics figures (CMGR, retention, LTV/CAC, subscription growth, junk-shop income effects) have not yet appeared outside the company's own materials. This is not unusual for a young private company; direct documentation is the recommended follow-up.
• No adverse regulatory or press record was found for Rezbin or the nominee.