BDO Unibank Inc. president and chief executive Nestor Tan was voted the Best CEO for Emerging Markets (Philippines) in this year’s poll of investors and analysts conducted by New York-based magazine Institutional Investor.
The category is a key feature of the All-Asia (excluding Japan) Executive Team, an annual ranking done by the publication which often serves as industry benchmarks. Apart from the Philippines, the countries in the Emerging Markets category include Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.
All the winners were determined by voting. This year, the publication had over 4,500 qualified voters, of which around 80 percent are portfolio managers/ analysts from the buy-side. The remaining 20 percent are analysts from the sell-side.
Joining Tan in the list of the country’s bests are JG Summit Holdings president and CEO Lance Gokongwei (ranked 2nd) and Ayala Corp. chairman and CEO Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (3rd).
Institutional Investor is a leading international business to business publisher, focused primarily on international finance.