EPIFANIA (Rose) Q. NAVARRO-MENDOZA, a Senior Partner of the Firm has been into finance and tax practice for decades. Formerly Chief Finance Officer of a group of companies engaged in international shipping and freight forwarding business. 

 

Prior to this, she was connected with two of the country's most prestigious auditing firms and among the Big Six audit firms in the world—Ernst & Young International and Price Waterhouse as Senior Tax Manager.  She was also formerly Head of Banking, Immigration, Corporate and Tax Services of a Law Firm in Makati.  She acted as accountant/auditor and consultant to various prominent individuals and companies and had lectured and had been invited as resource person in various seminars. 

 

She was once professorial lecturer of various universities and review schools in Metro Manila and  columnist in the Business World under the column Tax Wise or Otherwise.  Formerly, a Director of Federacion International de Abogadas (FIDA) and Treasurer of Ateneo Class of 1980, Inc. She is the Managing Partner of Navarro-Mendoza Mendoza & Co. CPAs.

 

She is a lawyer and a certified public accountant, a graduate of Ateneo Law School Class of 1980 where she was a consistent Dean's lister and Dean’s scholar. She earned her accounting degree from the University of Baguio where she graduated Cum Laude with Magna Cum Laude average, top 1 in the Class.

 

She is a  Bar topnotcher placing 9th in the 1980 Bar examination.

 

She likewise topped the nationwide Revenue Examiners Basic Training Course for Bureau of Internal Revenue and landed first place in the final CPA pre-board examination of PSBA Review School.  She also took up Master in Public Administration from the University of the Philippines were she was a civil service scholar and a consistent academic scholar.

 

She was among the candidates for associate justice position in the Supreme Court considered by the Judicial and Bar Council.