Our Founder
The Woman with a Passion for Developing Beauty Products of Substance and Achieving a Lasting Social Change
Courage, risk tolerance, resilience, and handling ambiguities together with passion for developing beauty products of substance and championing important causes is what Demee Koch equipped herself within the past two decades. She used her ability to navigate ambiguities and complexities with experience and success and took risks to rule in the highly competitive beauty industry.
Demee wanted to change the beauty industry with the best intentions by educating people about how brilliance knows no bounds regarding race or gender.
Having worked in more roles, functions, companies, and industries she has always been motivated in achieving concrete results and creating a positive impact. In fact, this must come from collaborating with other people and taking on more responsibility, driven more by a sense of general benefit to the company and the community she built than to herself.
DE MOI was born out of a passion for spreading happiness and love. Demee believes in beauty inside and out. She found beauty in her hometown of Cebu in the Philippines, her meanderings around the world, to the home she found in Zurich, Switzerland. But throughout her rich experiences, outstanding women succeed even in male environments, and it shouldn’t require exceptionality.
Demee believes that women shouldn’t merely serve as ideals of perfection and beauty. They don’t have to be perfect and unachievable; rather, they should change the game by listening to others, developing their abilities, and promoting women’s beauty, leadership and empowerment.
As a sought-after speaker, guest author, and commentator on the subject of conscious beauty and entrepreneurship, she strongly advocates healthy beauty, inclusivity, empowerment, and social impact. Recognized and honoured with awards as one of the most influential Filipinas in the world by Global FWN and as Ambassador of Peace by Universal Peace Federation UK, an NGO with general consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, Demee uses her influence to give back.
As a sought-after speaker, guest author, and commentator on the subject of conscious beauty and entrepreneurship, she strongly advocates healthy beauty, inclusivity, empowerment, and social impact. Recognized and honored with awards as one of the most influential Filipinas in the world by Global FWN and as Ambassador of Peace by Universal Peace Federation UK, an NGO with general consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, Demee uses her influence to give back. She shares her expertise in business and conscious entrepreneurship as a Forbes Business Council influencer through her articles.
Demee is a Member of the Corporate Board of the revolutionary boxing brand SPARBAR. She is also a shareholder and corporate board member of Luxvivendi , a company celebrating the finest in luxury products, services, food, and luxury experiences.
She also supports various other charity organizations working to improve the lives of others like the Voice of the Free, a hybrid organization that combines social care, social entrepreneurship, and mobilizing social movements to achieve lasting social change. The Breaking Silence Movement, a private, non-profit organization that fights gender-based violence recently welcomed Demee as a board member. She also established the DE MOI fund to benefit all the nonprofit organizations DE Moi collaborates with, including BSM and Voice of the Free.