MARILOU CERVITO GONZALES, a citizen of Abucay, Bataan was born on November 27, 1968.

Marilou or Alou to her friends and officemates, is the eldest among the four brood of Zosimo Adrian Cervito, a Refrigerator and Aircon Technician and Flor Valencia Gloria (now in God's loving arms), her parents.

Raised with sound deportment and courage to face challenges, she finished her primary education on March 1982 at Abucay North Elementary School, where she was considered a school treasure as she always represented her school to various contests like Math Quiz Bee; she was a trinket then as she vied up to the regional level and to the clincher stage of the national level. Thereafter, she had her secondary education at Bonifacio Camacho High School where she actively continued her zeal to a range of competitions. She graduated valedictorian both in primary and secondary levels.

As she graduated from secondary level in 1986, she started competing in the field towards her own real life. She enrolled in Saint Louis University of Baguio City and entered in the College of Natural Sciences to take Medical Technology as initial step with thought of satisfying parents' dream for a higher degree. She struggled the first whole year of Medical Technology with full scholarship grant under SLU Special Scholarship Program. Driven with her mathematical enthusiasm and analytical nature as her English name Marilou implies, and with her parents' approval, she shifted in the College of Engineering under the so-called international or irregular section of the department. And in four (4) years, she was able to fulfill the degree of Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communications Engineering in block section.

Few months after her graduation, she accepted the part-time Job in Radio Communications of the Philippines, Inc. (RCPI) in Baguio City as Telegraphy and Telephone Operator. Soon enough, she decided going back to her hometown and tried to submit credentials in Makati simultaneously with her filing of job applications in the new co-op then, PENELCO.

It was the last week of August, after examination and series of interviews; Alou was advised to report in PENELCO in the succeeding month. But like a challenge trying to test her intuitive ability, on that same week, she received a call from a German-owned Semiconductor Company in Makati asking her to report on the first week of September.

With her practical and analytical nature, supplied with the convincing power of her mother, she decided to gear up with PENELCO. And so, on 03 September 1992, PENELCO was blessed when she was hired as a Trainee under the then Consumers Services and Power Use Division (CS/PUD) receiving only P50.00 as daily allowance.

At that time, she already showed enthusiasm and very satisfactory performance in completing all tasks assigned to her, prompting the office to delegate the position of Power Use Coordinator when she got the permanent status on April 02, 1993. Subsequent to seeing very potential skills out of her, she was appointed as the Consumer Relations Officer months after, and eventually, after certain time, she was elevated as Head of the Consumers Services Section. Her aptitude and performance advanced her to the present position she is handling now as the Senior Technical Auditor, for which, she takes part on the Five-Year Development Plan of the Cooperative.

Alou or Marilou can be best described as a very proficient employee, as reflected by her outstanding grades on her Performance Appraisal and salary increases from the date she entered the co-op.

Among her other tasks include being the Secretary to the Board that meets at , least twice a month. Her dedication and sense of responsibility for the cooperative are the reasons why she achieves what she is right now.

When free from work, Alou loves to stay at home with her family or have time visiting their mini homestead.

For almost eleven (11) years, Alou is blissfully married to Gary P. Gonzales, Head of the Consumers Collection of PENELCO. The couple is blessed with two kids, the nine-year old Mikell Lorenzo (pen name Renzo) and the eight-year old Zoshie Anne (fondly called Sasha), both studying under the SPED Class of Balanga Elementary School (BES).

Alou understands that the hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn, however, with confidence - by performing consistently in a manner seeing self, one can shoot the aim. And so, she constantly spices up life with trust in God and pinch of confidence.