The Management Association of the Philippines, one of the country’s most active business groups, named banker and business executive Aurelio ‘Gigi’ Montinola III as its president for 2021. Montinola is the 72nd president of the organization which was established in 1950.
Montinola is chair of Amon Trading, East Asia Computer Center, Far Eastern College Silang, Nicanor Reyes Educational Foundation, FEU High School, FEU Alabang, and Roosevelt College.
He is also the chair of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation, the WWF Philippines National Advisory Council, and the National Golf Association of the Philippines. He is the vice chair of the Philippine Business for Education.
Montinola is a director of the Bank of the Philippine Islands and independent director of the Roxas and Company Inc., both listed corporations. He is also a director of the BPI/MS Insurance Corp.
He served previously as president of BPI and the Bankers Association of the Philippines. He was awarded the 2005 and 2010 Asian Banker Leadership Award for the Philippines and the 2012 “MAP Management Man of the Year”.
He graduated with a BS Management Engineering at the Ateneo de Manila University in 1973 and received his MBA at Harvard Business School in 1977.
The other MAP officers for 2021 are Atty. Emmanuel Bonoan, vice chair and COO of KPMG R.G. Manabat & Co. as vice president; Maria Victoria ‘Marivic’ Espano, chair and CEO of P&A Grant Thornton, as treasurer; Romeo Bernardo, managing director of Lazaro Bernardo Tiu & Associates, as assistant treasurer; and Marianne Hontiveros, managing director of CEO Advisors Inc. as secretary.
The other MAP governors are Atty. Danilo Concepcion, president of University of the Philippines; Alfredo Pascual, lead independent director of SM Investments Corp.; Regelio Singson, president and CEO of Meralco Powergen Corp.; and Wilson Tan, chair and country managing partner of SGV & Co.