Jade Acidre



Jade Rance Acidre is a Filipino businessman, building contractor, fashion designer and adventurer. He is married to Dr. Racquel Hilario-Acidre on February 25, 2012. He is notable in the Philippines as the founder of the Philippine National Mountaineering Society (PNMS). He is one of the key person campaigning to unify the mountaineering community in the Philippines, which resulted to the upcoming creation of the International Mountaineering Alliance (IMA) which he also founded and conceptualized. Acidre is an alumnus of Aquinas School in San Juan, where he spent most of his childhood. He continued his studies at the College of Arts and Letters major in Communication Arts,at the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas in Manila, and later entered the College of Architecture at the same university.

He currently manages operations of both ACCON Design+Construct & Diamond Builders Conglomeration, Incorporated (DBCI) as Chief Operating Officer and Associated Blinds and Decors Co. as President and Chief Operating Officer.



Adventures
Acidre is a former member of the UST Mountaineering Club. He was 16 when he started to be an avid fan of extreme adventures. He would go on a hiking trip in different tropical jungles of the Philippines and would go as far as Mount Pulag in the north to the summit of Mount Apo down south and to the treacherous jungle of Mount Halcon in Baco, Oriental Mindoro which is considered to be the hardest and most physically demanding trails in the Philippines. In November 2002, He founded The Philippine National Mountaineering Society along with climbing colleague Jhun Evardone. In 2009, PNMS organized the first "Freedom Climb" where mountaineers from all over the country gathered together to simultaneously climb 50 summits to wave the Philippine Flag in celebration of Philippine Independence. He later united these groups and founded The Alliance of Filipino Mountaineers, Inc. (FIMO). He later reorganized an umbrella organization called The International Mountaineering Alliance (IMA) along with different outdoor clubs in the Philippines and other ASEAN countries. Acidre is also a PADI Certified open sea diver trained by dive Master Penn De Los Santos of Scuba World. His other extreme activities includes spelunking (caving), open water swimming and trail running.