Mr. Lopez was the Philippine Ambassador to Japan from December 2010 until June 2016. He was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Manila Electric Company from July 2001 to June 2010. He is concurrently the Chairman and CEO of Lopez Holdings Corporation and is the Chairman of Bayan Telecommunications Holdings Corp., Rockwell Land Corporation, and Rockwell Leisure Club. He is also the Vice Chairman of First Philippine Holdings Corporation and Lopez, Inc., President of Eugenio Lopez Foundation, Inc. and a Director at Meralco, Sky Cable Corporation, Sky Vision Corporation, First Philippine Realty Corp. and Lopez Group Foundation, Inc.
Mr. Benjamin R. Lopez is the Treasurer and Senior Executive Vice President of Lopez, Inc. He is a director and the President of Lopez, Inc. subsidiary INAEC Aviation Corporation. He is a director of Rockwell Land Corporation. He is also a Vice President of First Philippine Holdings Corporation and a director of its various subsidiaries such as First Balfour, Inc., Terraprime, Inc., First Philippine Electric Corp., and First Philec, Inc. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in International Affairs (1992) from George Washington University. He obtained his Executive Masters in Business Administration degree from the Asian Institute of Management (2001).
Salvador G. Tirona is the president, chief operating officer, and chief finance officer of Lopez Holdings Corporation and director of ABS-CBN. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Ateneo de Manila and a Master of Business Administration from the same university. He has been the comptroller of the Company since 2010.
Mr. Emmanuel S. de Dios has been a Professor of Economics at the University of the Philippines School of Economics since 1989. He is also the President of Human Development Network (Philippines) since July 2012. He was the Dean of the University of the Philippines School of Economics from 2007 to 2010. He was a member of the Board of Advisers to the Board of Directors of the Company from 2011 until his election as an Independent Director in 2013. He became chair of the Board of Trustees of Pulse Asia Research, Inc. as of 2016. He received his AB Economics degree from the Ateneo de Manila University (cum laude) in 1978 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of the Philippines in 1987. He pursued post-doctoral studies at the Universität Konstanz in Germany from 1987 to 1988 and is the author or editor of various books, monographs, articles and reviewers in economics. Mr. De Dios has been an independent director of ABS-CBN Corporation since April 23, 2013.
Jose Vitug was Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1993 to 2004. He has been a Consultant of the Ethics Committee and Rules Committee of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He has been the Chairman of the Angeles University Foundation (AUF) Medical Center since 2007, and is the Dean of the AUF School of Law. He has been an Independent Director of Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc. since 2005. He is a Senior Professor of the Philippine Judicial Academy, Supreme Court of the Philippines, and a Professor at the SBC Graduate School of Law. He is the Ombudsman of ABS-CBN. He has been an independent director of the Company since 2011.
The following are ABS-CBN Holdings Corporation’s Board Committees and respective members:
Justice Jose C. Vitug – Chairman
Emmanuel S. De Dios – Member
Salvador G. Tirona – Member
Emmanuel S. De Dios – Chairman
Justice Jose C. Vitug – Member
Salvador G. Tirona – Member
Justice Jose C. Vitug – Chairman
Emmanuel S. De Dios – Member
Benjamin R. Lopez – Member
Manuel M. Lopez
Chairman of the Board
President
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Operating Officer
Salvador G. Tirona
Treasurer
Marifi H. Hernandez
Comptroller
Enrique I. Quiason
Corporate Secretary and Compliance Officer
Maria Amina O. Amado
Assistant Corporate Secretary