PJ Lanot (a tocayo) wants to be remembered as a teacher for business and entrepreneurship. He enjoys most his teaching engagement to provinces and other Asean countries under the sponsorship of DTI as his most rewarding endeavor. (He asked me if am still a GoNegosyo speaker, when he noticed my Tshirt bearing that logo) That is his contribution to nation building as an Atenean (He finished Mangement of Communications technology at Ateneo. (I found out he is a year ahead of my daughter, at AdeMU Class 2004, and he is member of the Blue Babble battalion - the UAAP cheerleaders for Ateneo. He married Alessa Libongco? a daughter of a another famous restaurenteur and blogs at Life After Breakfast
He values so much his experience with the people of Jolo whom he inspired to study to go to Manila to avoid the place of war and conflict. And his being with the farmers who borrow money just to send him a text of gratitude
He is a TV and Events host, Film, TV and Voice Actor, Restaurateur and motivational speaker. He studied and worked first as media buyer for Starcomm where he found out that the stars made 100x more money than him in a single day. He quit his day job and joined the celeb crowd. He did what he really wanted to do. When I interviewed him early on, he is related to National Artist/poet Serafin Lanot (a poet) and his daughter Mara Lanot (a professor at UP on arts and married to Pete Lacaba and former staff of Philippine Free Press)
As a TV and Film Actor, he has done voice over for John Lloyd, Ryan Agoncillo and other ads
