About Gum Cruz | Barber, Educator, Speaker & Creative Collaborator

about gum cruz filipino award-winning barber

The Journey

Built through years of barbering, teaching, speaking, and collaborating with people who value the craft.

About Gum

Gum Cruz works across barbering, education, and speaking, grounded in real experience from the shop and the stage. His approach is practical, considered, and shaped by years of doing the work.

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10+ Years in the Industry

Hands-on barbering experience built through the years

TEDx Speaker

First Filipino barber to deliver a talk on a TEDx stage

Wahl SEA Educator

First Filipino Wahl Southeast Asia Barbering Educator

Award-winning Barber

Recognized in regional and international barbering competitions

Creative Collaborator

Working with brands across grooming, fashion, and culture

In Practice

Areas of Work

From the barbershop to the stage to brand collaborations, the work takes different forms but stays consistent in intent.

Work with Gum

Barbering

Beyond haircuts, Gum offers barbering workshops, private mentorship, barbershop team training, and serves as an educator, judge, and resource for barbering events and organizations.

Barbering

Beyond haircuts, Gum offers barbering workshops, private mentorship, barbershop team training, and serves as an educator, judge, and resource for barbering events and organizations.

Barbering

Beyond haircuts, Gum offers barbering workshops, private mentorship, barbershop team training, and serves as an educator, judge, and resource for barbering events and organizations.

Speaking

Gum delivers talks, panels, and workshops for events, schools, brands, and organizations, sharing lessons shaped by real experience in the barbershop and the industry.

Speaking

Gum delivers talks, panels, and workshops for events, schools, brands, and organizations, sharing lessons shaped by real experience in the barbershop and the industry.

Speaking

Gum delivers talks, panels, and workshops for events, schools, brands, and organizations, sharing lessons shaped by real experience in the barbershop and the industry.

Partnerships

Gum collaborates with brands across grooming, fashion, and culture through marketing campaigns, content, events, and creative projects built on alignment and shared standards.

Partnerships

Gum collaborates with brands across grooming, fashion, and culture through marketing campaigns, content, events, and creative projects built on alignment and shared standards.

Partnerships

Gum collaborates with brands across grooming, fashion, and culture through marketing campaigns, content, events, and creative projects built on alignment and shared standards.

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Let's Talk

From partnerships and speaking engagements to barber education, reach out if there’s something worth building together.

Address

Pomade Cartel Barbershop, Unit F, 2/F Alcon Bldg, Claro M Recto (AUF Area), Angeles City, Philippines