Alonzo Nieves is the founder of Philippine Ube Co., a B2B exporter building "Philippine ube" into a premium global ingredient category — the way Colombia did for specialty coffee and Japan did for matcha. Rather than treating ube as a commodity, he's constructing the institutional infrastructure behind an origin brand: standardized grading, farmer cooperatives, toll manufacturing, and direct export relationships with buyers across South Korea, the UAE, Europe, and India. His ube venture spans the full value chain. He has incorporated the operating company and a farmer cooperative, secured participation at Food Taipei 2026, and is developing agritech pilots on a Batangas farm in partnership with agricultural experts and Philippine government agencies including the Department of Trade an...