Arn
Garcia

About Me

My name is Arn, and I’m a Sr. Technical Product Manager at Amazon. I work in Brand Protection, launching products that help keep brands and sellers safe from intellectual property infringement. Previously, I was one of the co-founders of Entrego (now part of Air21), an e-commerce logistics company in the Philippines, where I ran the Strategy and Business Intelligence organization. I also led the Project Management Office of Zalora, a fashion e-commerce firm in Southeast Asia.

I received my MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, majoring in Finance and Management Science. A little over a decade ago, I got my Bachelor of Science in Management Engineering from the Ateneo de Manila University. My undergraduate studies were supported by a merit scholarship from the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) Foundation, for which I am grateful.

Over time, I’ve collected quite a few hobbies:
1. Started learning tennis in 2021 (with Coach Mel Ampon), took a break for 3 years, and came back in 2024 (with Coach Irvin MacQuarrie).
2. I love teaching. A few years ago, I taught 6 undergraduate classes over two years as a part-time lecturer in Ateneo.
3. I like learning electric guitar solos and nice piano pieces. In 2008, I co-founded the Ateneo Blue Symphony, the university’s first orchestra, with three buddies of mine. It’s now 16 years old!
4. I’m also a stage dad to my very smart yellow Labrador, Peaches (Her tricks: Sit, Down, Stay, Heel, Turn Around, Front, Come, Up, Off, Shake).
5. More recently, I’ve been teaching myself Swift (by auditing Stanford’s CS193p), and powering through Harvard’s CS50x.

Select Projects

• Amazon’s Reporter Dispute Channel: A product that allows brands and rights owners to dispute rejected notices of infringement.
• Pre-Remediation Experience: A product that gives a cohort of selling partners the ability to appeal before enforcement.
• One Click Final Action Automation: An orchestration service that automates the final steps of an investigation (e.g. Communication, Action, Annotation, Case Closure).
• Entrego’s Analytics Infrastructure: I implemented Tableau in Entrego, and led an org that developed analytics products for both internal (Operations/Commercial teams) and external customers.
• Entrego Launch: I wrote the investment brief and developed Entrego’s 100-day launch plan, leading a cross-functional team responsible for establishing key priorities, initiatives, and SOPs for all newly-created departments leading to our 2018 launch.
  • Ayala Ventures into Logistics (Gonzales, Philippine Star 2018).
  • Entrego: Technology Driven Logistics for the Digital World (AC Infra 2018)
  • Ayala invests 1B in Logistics Business (Business World 2018)

Speaking Engagements

Teaching

I was a teaching assistant for each quarter in my 2nd year of MBA at Kellogg and a Part-Time Lecturer in Ateneo from 2013-2016.

OPNS 430 – Operations Management
Teaching Assistant, Spring 2022
MBA-level course that deals with the problems and issues confronting operations managers, and provides the language, concepts, insights and tools to gain competitive advantage through operations.  Professor: Anton Braverman

ENTR 470 – Launching and Leading Startups
Teaching Assistant, Winter 2022
MBA-level course that examines what it’s like to be in the shoes of an entrepreneurial CEO, launching and scaling a startup in its early stages. Professor: Carter Cast

ACCT 430 – Financial Accounting
Teaching Assistant, Fall 2021
MBA-level course that focuses on understanding the decisions that must be made in the financial reporting process and developing the ability to evaluate and use accounting data. Professor: Mark Finn

ITM 11.1 – Basic Information Technology Applications in Business
Part-Time Lecturer, Summer 2013, Summer 2014, Summer 2015