Summary
Cesar Castillo is a strategic HR leader with 15 years of experience building people-first organizations across Southeast Asia, currently leading HR for The Clorox Company in SEA. He combines hands-on people operations expertise—from scaling Amazon’s Manila customer service site to caring for seafarers at Maersk—with a consultant’s mindset honed running StrongCastle Consulting Group. Cesar is known for driving transformation through data-informed HR and early adoption of AI agentic workflows to streamline talent and capability development. He partners with leaders to design scalable systems that preserve culture during rapid growth and complex change, having built programs that took sites from single digits to thousands of employees. Outside work he balances a warm, approachable leadership style with a knack for clear, sometimes sarcastic humor and strong coffee, reflecting a leader who leads selflessly while keeping teams human.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Commerce Business Management, Bachelor of Science in Commerce Business Management at De La Salle University
High School, High School at Ateneo de Manila University
Filipino, Cebuano, English, Korean