Dalareich Polot, a businesswoman from Bohol who makes chocolate, is the first Filipino to ever receive the prestigious Goldman Sachs & Fortune Global Women Leaders Award.
The co-founder of Dalareich Chocolate House and Ginto Fine Chocolates were recognised as joint winners of the international prize at the Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit that took place in Laguna Niguel, California, from October 10 to 12, 2022.
The Filipina leader was also awarded a grant that would enable her to support her neighbourhood.
“I am extremely honored to be the first Filipina to be conferred this prestigious award at ‘Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit’ in California in the next few days. I am also very ecstatic that it comes with a grant that i can utilize to pay-it-forward to my adopted communities,” Dalareich Polot wrote in a Facebook post ahead of the awards ceremonies.
Through her chocolate-making firm and other initiatives, Polot supports cacao producers in her area and other regions of the nation. She is also committed to her causes of women's empowerment, cocoa cultivation, community-based tourism, social entrepreneurship, and sustainable community development.
"Bohol's Chocolate Princess" Polot is the brains behind the award-winning Dalareich Chocolate House, the first chocolate factory in the region, and the social company Ginto Fine Chocolates.
After receiving the APEC Business Efficiency and Success Target Awards and the Academy of Chocolate Awards in London, among other accolades, the house of chocolate in Tagbilaran effectively solidified its international name as a complimentary stop when visiting the Chocolate Hills of Bohol.
The Walgreens Boots Alliance CEO Roz Brewer, TIAA CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett, AMD CEO Lisa Su, New York Stock Exchange president Lynn Martin, TikTok COO Vanessa Pappas, and philanthropist Melinda French Gates were just a few of the important women executives and figures present at the awards ceremony.
The Fortune-U.S. Department of State Global Women's Mentoring Partnership and the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women initiatives are two programmes that the investment firm Goldman Sachs and the magazine Fortune sponsor each year to celebrate and reward women all around the world.
Louise Emmanuelle Mabulo of Camarines Sur, another supporter of cacao production, was honoured by the National Geographic Society as a Young Explorer.
