Dominique Cojuangco, a fashion designer, model, entrepreneur, and the only daughter of actress Gretchen Barretto and businessman Tonyboy Cojuangco, happily announced her engagement to her longtime non-showbiz boyfriend Michael Hearn.
Announcing that it will soon be married, the two made it to their respective social media accounts, where many friends sent their congratulations to the newly engaged couple. They both posted a photo with different poses.
On Dominique’s Instagram, the first photo can be seen where her hand rests on the shoulder of the fiance wearing the diamond ring while looking at the camera. In the next photo, they show the pinky finger promise and Dominique captioned it “For life.”
In Michael’s account, the caption “On to the next chapter with Dominique” can be read. The first photo shows the two of them looking at each other while showing Dominique wearing an engagement ring and in the second, a smiling Dominique can be noticed as she looks at her boyfriend.
Based on the background of their photos as well as the posts of Dominique’s mother Gretchen, it seems that the said engagement of the two took place in Amanpulo.
Dominique’s relationship with her fiance has not been openly publicly because she has kept their private lives. It only came out about their romance in 2019 when Dominique was seen posting pictures of the two of them together as well as their bonding time with the pet dog.
But who exactly is Michael Hearn? He is the business operations director, and royal institutions chartered surveyor with experience in growing business within the Philippine market. He seeks partnership and investment opportunities in challenging and fast-paced businesses. Some of the highlights of Michael’s expertise are strategic business planning, and implementation, sales, and business development, business operations, and resource management, property appraisal, investment and management, contract administration and arbitration, project and program management, and cost and commercial management.
Currently, he is the executive director of Hearn & Hearn Consulting which is a construction firm. Their company helps investors, developers, contractors, and tenants deliver successful construction projects by challenging the current situation. Such a company is an innovative consulting practice that provides advice and services on a wide range of activities linking the development and promotion of projects.
With over thirty years of experience in large and prestigious projects in the Philippines, Hearn & Hearn Consulting has rich experience to assist clients with their development portfolio.
Their directors and project teams have significant experience in projects such as large and well-known buildings, schools, healthcare, hotels, industrial facilities, infrastructures and transportation, recreational and leisure parks, as well as residential and retail spaces in the three countries. , Philippines, United Kingdom, and Doha Qatar.
Michael is also one of the directors of “Hearn Land”, a privately owned investment company in the United Kingdom that specializes in the acquisition and management of residential properties in the Southwest UK. He founded and managed the said company in 2013.
Apart from the company owned by his family, he is also the current co-founder and managing partner of the Run Rabbit Run cocktail bar which was awarded and won as Best Bar in 2020. The said company also launched “Your go to to go cocktail delivery program “.
Michael’s other business as an investor is Winery which curates the best wines in the Philippines for wine lovers. It offers a full range of red, white, rose, and sparkling wines from around the world.
He is also one of the founders of Clear Ice Company in the country whose goal is to provide quality ice cream. They are the suppliers to some bars, restaurants, hotels, casinos, and even households in Manila.
Michael first worked as a cost and commercial consultant for AECOM, a consulting firm headquartered in Doha Qatar. Here he managed a commercial management project worth $ 3 billion. Michael also became operations director of a leading global design and consultancy for natural and built assets headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 2015 where he was also a member of the Philippine Leadership Team, Asia’s Strategic Persuades and Sales Team.
Other positions he has held are as business unit head of project and program management and project director of cost and commercial management in the Philippines.
Michael’s educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in Business Statistics at the University of Reading in Berkshire, United Kingdom. During his studies, Michael was awarded various awards such as top placed in Business Forecasting Assessments and was also honored as the winner of the Business Entrepreneurship prize and winner of the Marketing Management prize.
Michael also took a digital leadership course at Balearic Business Schools which is one of the leading international business schools in Belgium. It also took an e-learning course in entrepreneurship and emerging economy at HarvardX, a university-wide strategic initiative that allows teachers to create open and online courses for on-campus and global learners in advanced research when it comes to science.
His licenses and certifications also include being a corporate member of the Philippine Institute of Certified Quantity Surveyors, the first and recognized quantity surveying organization in the Philippines.
Michael is also a member of The Royal Institutions of Charters Surveyors, a UK-based professional body of surveyors founded in 1868.
Finally Professional and Value Management or PVM at the Institutions of Value Management is also a UK-based professional association exclusively dedicated to value management with a concern for creating sustainable value regardless of the project, product, process, and organizational level in society.
There are also some groups that include Dominique’s fiance such as the University of Reading Alumni, The Projects Controls Community, Quantity Surveyors Cost Engineers and Estimators Middle East, Qatar Foundation, Construction Consultants, Davis Langdon Alumni, British School Manila Alumni Association, YEP Global The Voice of Future Leaders, Quantity Surveying, Engineer Construction Dispute International, Qatar Business and Professional Network, Value Management Medical, School of Energy, Geoscience Infrastructure and Subsiety, and Qatar Business Network.
If the resume of Michael who will marry Dominique shows how successful and wealthy he is, the resume of the soon-to-be Mrs. Hearn. Dominique completed two courses in college. Her first degree is the Bachelor of Arts in International Fashion Foundation at Istituto Marangoni in London which she obtained in 2017. The second is an Associate’s Degree in Merchandising and Marketing at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in California where she graduated magna cum laude and was also nominated for the Cyril Magnin Award given to graduates who demonstrated outstanding skills in Merchandising or Marketing last year. He completed his secondary education at The British School of Manila in 2013.
Some of Dominique’s working experiences are being a Global E-commerce intern, a global digital intern for a cosmetics brand as well as being a social media assistant for another well-known make-up brand. She also served as a social media assistant for graduate fashion week and dresser and social media assistant at a fashion event in London.
Dominique also had the opportunity to be a freelance journalist for the well-known lifestyle magazines Philippine Tatler and Preview magazine. Dominique also took Preview as their guest editor in 2016 for a month.
Because she has a background in fashion, she first applied what she learned in fashion school in 2017 through a collection she released that she named ‘La Dona.” She did so after several years of studying the technical side of fashion including pattern making, actual sewing, and design theories.
Her inspiration for her collection comes from our country. She wants to show the beauty of a Filipino woman in her clothes. The name “La Dona” was also a term of endearment of his family to him when he was young. This collection he presented through his mother Gretchen Barretto who stood as his model.
Dominique and Michael introduced the business they founded and opened in May. They are happy to announce that they will be able to show the public their hard-earned business for a year as an e-commerce skincare shop that brings a select line up of skincare brands to people looking for reliable and trustworthy skincare routines. match their lifestyle.
In this business, Dominique manages the research and development of the product types that they will introduce to the market while Michael is the standing operations director.
Meanwhile, no date has yet been set for their wedding but many are already excited to see Gretchen’s son settle down quietly as he has already found his ‘the one”.
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