He is the eldest son of Jose de Venecia Jr., the Philippines' former five-term Speaker of Congress and Victoria Salazar Perez.

He received much attention in the Philippines as a whistleblower related to the corruption scandal surrounding the ZTE broadband project.

He worked as an auditor for Arthur Anderson-based out of Washington, DC for over 4 years and for SGV & Co in the Philippines before obtaining his MBA.

Since then, the Contact Center and Business Process Outsourcing Industry has created over 500,000 jobs as foreign investors have entered this market.

Equatorial Guinea is a small country with less than a million people but has one of the largest proven oil reserves in the African Continent.

He was a full-time research scholar at the Fordham University Business School in New York City where he earned an MBA with a major in finance.