Social Responsibility and Good Governance

Social responsibility and good governance are integral parts of Seagate Global’s business philosophy.  We focus on people first and the environment.  Prosperity follows. 

For us, business is a means to make the world a better place, not the end goal.  Thus we focus our investment acumen on sectors that will improve people’s lives, such as improving the financial system, community development, food production, job creation or affordable housing.  We also invest in sectors that will help improve the environment, such as solar power, wind power and other forms of alternative energy. For Seagate, the 21st Century is about helping people and improving the planet, which in turns helps to create a more rich and deep prosperity which includes not just material items, but other metrics of well-being.  

Our actions speak louder than words:

• Principal in designing and funding the POGE Corporative in the Philippines which has become an international movement with 150,000 member families.  
• Designed and are helping to implement a POGE Bougainville , a comprehensive development program for the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, at no cost to the country.
• Retained Dr. Jesus Estanislao as Seagate’s Governance Advisor.  He is the former Minister of Finance of the Philippines and the founder of the Institute for Corporate Directors, and Institute for Solidarity in Asia.  
• Trained and employed hundreds of indigenous people in the Philippines to help clean up the environment while producing “green” iron ore, while paying them a living wage 3 times above local standards.  
• Investor and Financial Advisor to The Southeast Asia Food and Commodity Exghange which is designed to reduce hunger and poverty in the Philippines and  Southeast Asia by advancing environmentally friendly state-of-the-art agricultural techniques and encouraging entrepreneurship and ownership.