Our Board of Directors

Mr. Pangilinan graduated cum laude from the Ateneo de Manila University, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. He received his MBA degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. In Manila, he worked for Philippine Investment Management Consultants Inc. (PHINMA) in the Philippines, and in Hong Kong with Bancom International Limited and American Express Bank. Thereafter he founded First Pacific in May 1981.

Mr. Pangilinan served as Managing Director of First Pacific since its founding in 1981 until 1999. He was appointed Executive Chairman until June 2003, after which he was named Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. He holds the positions of President Commissioner of PT Indofood Sukses Makmur Tbk in Indonesia. In the Philippines, Mr. Pangilinan is the Chairman of PLDT Inc. (PLDT), Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (MPIC), First Coconut Manufacturing Inc. (FCMI), Manila Electric Company (Meralco), ePLDT, Inc., Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart), PLDT Communications and Energy Ventures, Inc. (formerly named Pilipino Telephone Corporation), Maynilad Water Services, Inc., Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation, Manila North Tollways Corporation, Philex Mining Corporation, PXP Energy Corporation, Landco Pacific Corporation, Medical Doctors, Inc. (Makati Medical Center), Davao Doctors, Inc. and Colinas Verdes Corporation (Cardinal Santos Medical Center), Mediaquest Holdings, Inc. and Associated Broadcasting Corporation (TV 5), and the Vice Chairman of Roxas Holdings, Inc. On 1st January 2016, he assumed the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of PLDT and Smart.

Mr. Lim graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy. He received his MBA degree in 1978 from the Asian Institute of Management (AIM).

Mr. Lim’s background is in investment banking, having worked in various local and foreign banking institutions from 1988 to 1995. He has been with the Metro Pacific Group since 1995 when he joined Fort Bonifacio Development Corporation (FBDC). In 2001, Mr. Lim assumed the position of Group Vice President and CFO of Metro Pacific Corporation (MPC). He was then elected President and CEO of MPC in June 2003.. In 2006, MPC was reorganized into MPIC which he continues to lead as President and CEO. He was awarded by the Corporate Governance Asia as the Best CEO for Investors Relations for four consecutive years from 2012-2015.

Mr. Fernandez graduated with a degree in BS Industrial Management Engineering from De La Salle University (DLSU) and earned a Master of Business Management degree from the Asian Institute of Management (AIM). He completed his Advanced Management Program of IESE (Spain)/ University of Asia and the Pacific in 2014. Mr. Fernandez is currently the President and CEO of Maynilad under MPIC.

Before Maynilad, Mr. Fernandez was head of the Toll Roads business of the group from 2008 to 2015, growing its portfolio inside and outside the Philippines. He is an advocate of customer satisfaction, operating efficiency and innovation.

Laurence Rogero is currently a Director and Strategic Adviser for MPW. He previously served as MPW's President from 2015 to 2018. His expertise is in project finance, foreign and domestic investment, acquisitions, public-private partnerships structuring, energy and water infrastructure and public utilities.

Lau started his career as a project finance lawyer with international and Philippine law firms, advising foreign and local project sponsors, lenders, and project contractors. He eventually took on a number of executive and operational management roles with multinational companies, including acting as general counsel, strategic planning and head of acquisitions, focusing on evaluating, planning and executing special projects, and representing investors in the management and boards of investee companies. He has also done work for the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank relating to the privatization of the electricity generation and transmission sectors. Lau has worked on projects in the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Lau has a Bachelor of Science in Business Economics degree (magna cum laude) from the UP School of Economics. He also completed his Bachelor of Laws degree (Academic Excellence Medal) from the UP College of Law. He also has a Master of Laws degree (With Distinction) from Georgetown University, where he was in attendance as a Fulbright Scholar. Lau also earned Executive MBA units from the Asian Institute of Management and De La Salle University Graduate School of Business.

Erie is the President of Metro Pacific Water. His expertise is in project planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance, and project management of water and wastewater projects.

Erie has over 42 years of experience in the water industry, starting in the public sector as Cadet Engineer at the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) in 1975. He then served in various technical and managerial capacities in LWUA, and was the General Manager of the Metropolitan Cebu Water District from 1990 to 1992. In 1992, he moved on to the private sector as Managing Director of Carl Bro International A/S, a Danish engineering consulting firm. In 1996, he joined the French water firm, Compagnie Generale des Eaux (now Veolia Water) as Managing Director where he worked in the Philippines and the Asia Pacific Region until the end of 2011. From 2012 to 2015, he was a special advisor to the President/CEO and to the Management Committee of the Manila Water Company Inc. He joined Metro Pacific Water in November 2015.

Erie is a licensed Civil Engineer and Sanitary Engineer. He earned his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering and B.Sc. in Environmental and Sanitary Engineering from the Mapúa Institute of Technology in 1975 and 1976 respectively. He later earned his Post-graduate Diploma in Hydrological Engineering (M.Sc.) from the International Institute for Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (IHE) in Delft, The Netherlands in 1981.

Maida is Metro Pacific’s Group Comptroller-Vice President, and concurrently, serves as Metro Pacific Water’s Treasurer and CFO. Maida joined MPIC in November 2009 and is responsible for strengthening and overseeing the Financial Reporting, Budgeting & Forecasting and System enhancements processes.

Prior to joining MPIC, Maida held a CFO role with the top real estate company in the Philippines. She was responsible for overseeing the financials of Ayala Lands’s Strategic Landbank Management Group including its other subsidiaries. She has more than thirteen years of extensive experience in banking under Citigroup Australia and Manila. She was VP for Special Purpose Vehicles under the Financial Control Department of Citigroup Australia and has handled several roles and responsibilities also in Citibank Manila. She was part of a pioneer team that implemented, supported and continuously upgraded a proprietary global financial reporting system to multiple countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

Macel is Metro Pacific Water's Head Legal Counsel and serves as Corporate Secretary.

In 2016, she joined Metro Pacific Investments Corporation as legal counsel where she worked on various M&A initiatives and special projects, drafting and negotiating transaction documents, taking charge of due diligence processes, and handling submissions to the Philippine Competition Commission. She also acted as legal counsel for some of the company’s new subsidiaries. Prior to joining the Metro Pacific Group, she was Director for Legislation in the Senate of the Philippines.

She earned her bachelor's degree in Economics and Juris Doctor from the University of the Philippines. She was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 2011.

Nick Castro is the Assistant Manager for Project Management at MPW, in charge of transition management, corporate governance and strategy management. He concurrently serves as the Assistant Corporate Secretary and assists the Head Legal Counsel and the Board of Directors in corporate housekeeping for MPW subsidiaries both in the Philippines and in Vietnam.

Prior to joining MPW, Nick worked on the Open Data Philippines project of the Philippine government at the Department of Budget in Management (DBM). He has several years of experience in strategic planning and communications, project implementation, and partnership management. He graduated with a degree in Legal Management from the Ateneo de Manila University.