How Cary Lagdameo Grew Damosa Land, Inc. Into Davao’s Leading Developer

Cary Lagdameo, President of Damosa Land, Inc. Shares How the Region’s Leading Developer Is Realizing Its Vision for the Future

Entrepreneurs are often part opportunity hunter, part service-oriented problem solver, and part visionary. Cary Lagdameo, the young president of Davao-based Damosa Land, Inc. (DLI), embodies all of these aspects of the entrepreneur. While he heads the construction and real estate arm of his family’s decades-old diversified business interests, he has the spirit of an entrepreneur–simultaneously playing the roles of innovator, problem solver and visionary.

As an innovator, Cary Lagdameo leads Damosa Land into unique developments such as the Agriya “agropolis”–a mixed-use agricultural metropolis–as well as Damosa Diamond Tower, the region’s first EDGE-certified, green building. As a visionary, he is building a future for the promising yet under-served region of Davao and the greater Mindanao area. 

At the same time, he is a practical real estate developer devoted to the communities his company works in. And while Damosa Land is far greater in scale than a startup, he has the underdog spirit of scrappy and hungry startups: young and undaunted by the prospects of making a real difference.