Shem Jose Garcia has been the Executive Director of the Vivant Foundation since its inception in 2014, having first been hired by the Vivant Corporation as a CSR consultant in 2013 to conduct community research into challenges shared by Vivant’s diverse communities. He has since led the foundation in promoting and enabling STEM education and technology and energy-related TVL courses in public schools while electrifying schools in off-grid communities. His other NGO work includes being a former officer at the Island Rescue Organization and the President of the Dominus Pascit Me Foundation in his home province of Cebu.