Dante Raul "DR" Teodoro

by: C.T. and Valjun Apuzen

Dante Raul Teodoro is the owner and President of JUNO Healthcare Group of Companies, a company that started off its humble beginnings with three employees in 2001, and has grown to approximately 400 employees by the end of 2007. An entrepreneur armed with exceptional skill, intensity and passion, DR Teodoro led JUNO Healthcare Staffing past the 2.5 million mark in just under two years. In 2004, he founded JUNO Investment and Management, Inc., a holding company for all JUNO Healthcare Staffing companies inclusive of JUNO Media Production Creatives, an Advertising and PR company, and the JUNO Review School for healthcare professionals in California. Before founding JUNO Healthcare Staffing, DR Teodoro was President of Wall Street Funding for over two years, a company that packaged loans for small-medium businesses. This year, JUNO Healthcare was selected out of nearly 21 million companies to be included in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Hot 100 list of fastest-growing new businesses in America.

In July 2008, DR Teodoro graduated from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Ranked as one of the top business schools in the world, Wharton is recognized globally as one of the foremost leaders in business innovation today. While at Wharton, DR, along with 51 executives representing over 30 countries, underwent a 5-week intensive Advanced Management Program designed to further enhance and improve upon business skills and decision-making. Having undergone the rigors of such a program rightfully entitles students alumni status. Therefore, as a member of the Class of AMP 54, DR Teodoro is now an alum of Wharton, the first collegiate business school in the world, established in 1881.

In addition to having graduated from Wharton, DR Teodoro was carefully chosen among hundreds of applicants from around the world to be a part of the Harvard Business School Executive Education, Owner/President Management Program (OPM). With its stringent guidelines and highly selective application process, the Harvard Business School OPM Program is available only to presidents and business owners who are actively involved in running their respective businesses, with minimum annual sales of 7 million; once accepted, participants will attend three sessions over three years. DR Teodoro has completed his first year, will return to Harvard in February 2009 and will be graduating March 2010.

As further proof of his entrepreneurial and leadership acumen, D.R. Teodoro has been selected to be a member of the Circle of Leaders amongst the Filipino community in the U.S. and is one of the Twenty Outstanding Filipinos Abroad for 2008. He has also received the 2007 Chancery Leadership Award and Most Outstanding Chapter President from University of the Philippines Alpha Phi Beta Chancery. He was inducted into the Chicago Filipino American Hall of Fame Class of 2007 for Humanitarian Leadership, receiving the Humanitarian-National Award. He has also been awarded several distinctions including: Business Man of the Year 2005, Business Advisory Council, State of New York; Business Achievement Award 2004, Pan-American Concerned Citizen Action League, Inc., New Jersey; and Certificate of Recognition 2004, Asian Pacific American Heritage, New Jersey.

Despite all the outward manifestations of success, DR Teodoro knows that he would not be where he is without God’s favor. As a testament to God’s faithfulness, DR Teodoro established Foundation for God’s Glory in 2005, a not-for-profit social service organization with three programs running in the Philippines: scholarship, hunger alleviation and disaster relief. Since its initial launch in the Philippines, FGG has assisted families struck by various disasters, fed 80 children daily in four economically-distressed urban communities in Manila, served 243 persons in three medical missions, and sponsored 118 scholars for a one-year training course for pastors, evangelists and church planters. In the US, FGG donated financial support to aid the people affected by Hurricane Katrina, fed 60 South American indigent migrants in New Jersey, regularly sends volunteers to help feed the homeless in New York City, and sends monthly financial support to 17 US-based Christian ministries. In April 2008, DR traveled to the Philippines to give the commencement address at the graduation of 53 FGG scholars this year.
When asked by Entrepreneur Magazine what success means to him, D.R. responded, “Success is when we have found ourselves in the center of God’s will, doing exactly what we’re meant to do.” Indeed it seems D.R. Teodoro has found his calling.