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Frances Ariola
Specialist, Corporate Communications Department at EDCFrances Ariola is a senior Corporate Communications Specialists, the Sustainability Communications Project Head, and currently in charge of the new branding campaign of geothermal leader Energy Development Corporation (EDC). She is a Certified Crisis and Risk Communications practitioner with 22 years of experience in strategic corporate communications and advertising.
She led EDC's adoption of the Global Reporting Initiative framework and managed its Technical Working Group, their 2020 integrated annual and sustainability report being the Philippines' first GRI-certified report. EDC's series of GRI-certified annual performance reports, which she all handled, was elevated to Anvil Hall of Fame for winning five Anvil Awards of Excellence from the Public Relations Society of the Philippines (PRSP). Her crisis communications plan entitled "Harmonizing Environment and Technology" or EDC’s geothermal project in Negros Island won a Grand Anvil award also from PRSP.
he obtained her dual certificate in Crisis and Risk Communication from the Asia Risk Management Institute and the National University of Singapore and graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Arts major in Organizational Communications from De La Salle University.
Warren Bituin
Partner, Cybersecurity Services at SGV & Co.Warren specializes in information security management, IT risk management, application risks and controls review, IT infrastructure risk and controls assessment and financial audit IT integration. He handles clients in government, as well as companies in the financial services, real estate, media,utilities, power, telecommunication, retail and mining industries.
He holds the several certification such as CPA, CISA, CISM, CISSP, CRISC, ISO 27001 LA, ITIL.
Maida Bruce
Vice President Group Controller & IT Head and Data Protection Officer at Metro Pacific Investments CorporationMaida Bruce is the Vice President Group Controller , IT Head and Data Protection Officer of Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (MPIC), where she is responsible for strengthening and overseeing financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting, systems enhancement and IT processes as well as ensuring compliance with the data privacy act . She is also a director and/or Chief Finance Officer and Treasurer of several subsidiaries of MPIC including MPIC Foundation and Ideaspace Foundation. She is also a member and pillar head of the Gabay Guro program under the PLDT Smart Foundation. Prior to joining MPIC, Ms. Maida was the CFO of the Strategic Landbank Management group of Ayala Land, one of the largest real estate developers in the Philippines. She also has more than 13 years of banking experience under Citigroup Australia and Philippines. Ms. Bruce graduated from St. Paul College Manila with a degree in Accountancy.
Michael Cabatuando
Data Protection Officer and Senior Manager, Global Privacy Compliance at Johnson & Johnson PhilippinesMike is the Data Protection Officer and the Privacy Compliance Head of Johnson and Johnson in the Asia-Pacific region, supporting 14 countries. He joined J&J as Compliance Head of the Manila Accounting Shared Service Center and later as the Regional Compliance Lead for Asia-Pacific’s Center of Excellence in Finance where he received the “Encore Platinum Award” for excellent performance in documentation of the company’s processes and controls.
Prior to J&J, Mike was Senior Internal Audit Manager of SYNNEX-Concentrix Philippines where he worked on SOX 404 engagements in the US, Canada and China offices. Mike’s extensive audit career started in the business outsourcing industry. He was a Risk Manager at the PeopleSupport Inc. and a project team leader for the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance for the Los Angeles and Costa Rica Offices. Mike then joined Citibank as Compliance and Controls Manager for Citigroup Business Process Solutions (CBPS). He assisted in the implementation of the business unit’s Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) program.
He was a Board Director of the Institute of Internal Auditors-Philippines in 2007 and 2008, in-charge of Membership and Convention Committee. For years, Mike has been the Membership & Professional Development Committee Chair where he revitalized its activities and refocused its goals to the Institute’s mission-vision. He has been a resource speaker of the IIA-P for its CIA Review Program, Public Run Seminar and In-house seminar for private and publicly listed corporations since 2007.
Mike has 20 years of experience in internal and external audit, data privacy, cyber security, risk management, compliance, and fraud audit. He has robust technical knowledge of International Professional Practices Framework for Internal Auditors, Data Privacy Framework, COSO Control/ ERM Framework, SOX, IFRS, KYC, FCPA and COBIT, ITIL and GTAG.
He is an active member of the Information Association of Privacy Professionals and representative of the Pharma Sector to the DPO Council of the Philippines. Mike is also active in community activities. He is currently an advocate of education for Virlanie Foundation and World Vision program.
Dra. Vanessa Kathleen Cainghug
MD, FPSCAP, FPPA at St. Luke’s Medical CenterDra. Cainghug is a Doctor of Medicine and has been doing medical practice for 23 years, with expertise in the areas that include Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is a Fellow in Philippine Psychiatric Association, Diplomate in Philippine Board of Psychiatry, Fellow in Philippine Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Board passer in Philippine Medical and United States Medical Licensure Examinations
Currently, she holds the following various positions: Vice President - Philippine Psychiatric Association (PPA); Secretary - Philippine Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (PSCAP); Auditor - Group for Addiction Psychiatry of the Philippines (GAPP); Head - Department of Psychiatry, St. Luke’s Medical Center – Global City; Training Officer– Section of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, The Medical City; Consultant – Section of Psychiatry, International Institute of Neurosciences, St. Luke’s Medical Center both Global and Quezon Cities.
She is a member of the following professional associations: Philippine Psychiatric Association, Philippine Society of Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists, Group for Addiction Psychiatry of the Philippines, Philippine Medical Association Leyte Medical Society, UERMMMC Alumni Association and UP Alumni Association.
Winston Chan
Independent Director of San Miguel Pure Foods CorporationWinnie is currently serving as a Non-Executive Director in a number of listed and privately held companies in the Philippines. He is also serving as an IT advisor to the Board of Directors of several listed and privately-held companies.
Winnie is a retired partner of SGV/EY and the former managing partner of SGV/EY Advisory Service Line. He has more than 34 years of Audit and IT Audit, and Strategic IT and Business Consulting experience. He lead the transformation of what was mainly risk consulting practice in SGV to a broader portfolio of business consulting services with capabilities in customer, finance, supply chain, and IT advisory. The Philippine Advisory practice became the biggest in head count and highest margin in EY ASEAN when he transitioned out his advisory leadership role. He was part of the broader management of the firm as a member of SGV’s Management Committee and the EY ASEAN Advisory Leadership Team.
In 2015, he was part of a global EY client team that won the first EY “better begins with you” global award for excellent client service, in 1995, as a manager, he was given the SGV Special Award for leading the IT/operations integration work stream of a large business merger in the Philippines, and in 1989, as a senior staff, he was given the SGV Special Award for expanding the use of computers in auditing and for starting up a business systems consulting practice for middle market.
Ian Corbilla
Director of KPMG RG Manabat & Co.Ian started his career in KPMG R.G. Manabat & Co. (formerly Manabat Sanagustin & Co.) as an Advisory associate participating in various risk and compliance related projects.
After almost two years, he left the firm to work as a Junior Audit Officer in one of the local universal banks in the PH. Early 2013 when he decided to rejoin KPMG under the firm’s growing Risk Consulting practice.
Currently, he is now a Director under the Information Technology Advisory in Risk Consulting service line. Ian has almost ten (10) combined years of experience in the field of internal audit, risk management, regulatory compliance, forensic, enterprise risk management and IT advisory in risk consulting; with representative clients from the financial services and business process outsourcing space.
Atty. Raul Cortez
Legal Corporate Affairs Director of Microsoft Philippines, Inc.Raul Cortez is the Legal and Corporate Affairs Director for Microsoft Philippines, Inc. He joined Microsoft in late September, 2011. As Legal and Corporate Affairs Director, Raul is in charge of all legal matters affecting the Philippines operation of Microsoft. He also leads Microsoft’s Philanthropies program in the Philippines. He is also part of the extended team of Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit. Raul has over 23 years of legal experience both in the Philippines as well as in the U.S.A. He received his Master of Laws degree in International Commercial Transactions and Comparative Law from the University of San Francisco. Raul earned both his Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of the Philippines.
Joseph De Dios
CRO at Philam LifeMr. De Dios is Philam Life’s Chief Risk Officer. Prior to his appointment, he served as the Head of Internal Audit of Philam Life, in charge of preparing an independent assessment of the state of the company’s governance, risk management, and internal controls. Prior to Philam Life, he had a rich and broad experience in external and internal audit and risk management in the Philippines, Singapore and Japan as senior director at Sycip, Gorres, Velayo & Co. (Ernst & Young).
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Ryan Gabinete
Chief Audit Executive at Development Bank of the PhilippinesRyan R. Gabinete is currently the Chief Audit Executive with a rank of Senior Vice President of the Development Bank of the Philippines.
Ryan is a CPA with over 25 years of work experience handling almost all facets of the accountancy profession. His professional experience includes but is not limited to external audit, assurance services, internal audit, comptrollership, finance, tax and advisory services, as well as, human resources and administration. He served more than 18 years in the public practice of the CPA profession, 11 years of which as a Firm Partner. Ryan was an Audit Partner of KPMG Philippines handling multinational and big local conglomerate clients. He also had a stint as Engagement Partner and Group Head for EY in the Middle East region initially for Tax and Advisory Services then Assurance Services. He gained other involvement as Manager for PwC and during his early years as Senior Auditor, he got additional exposure with KPMG Indonesia. Moreover, he worked as Head of Finance and Human Resources, and Internal Audit for Philippine companies engaged in various industries.
Ryan’s professional expertise includes being a US GAAP and PCAOB Accredited partner, IFRS technical resource person, fraud/forensic audit trainer, and a senior trainer for accounting practices and audit methodologies. Additionally, he is a career and motivational speaker.
He gained his BS in Commerce major in Accounting degree from San Beda College-Manila. He honed his skills and knowledge with international and local studies and trainings, both as instructor and participant.
Michael Gallego
Partner, Knowledge Management Head at Punongbayan & AraulloMhycke is partner for advisory, and the knowledge management head of Punongbayan & Araullo (P&A Grant Thornton). He is also the Asia Pacific RWG leader for business risk services of Grant Thornton International, Ltd.
Mhycke provides advise and insight to address clients' needs on growth strategy, ethics and integrity, people development, sustainability and operational improvements, and risk and regulations. He has been involved in internal audit, human capital, and transaction work for companies within the Philippines and the Asia Pacific region.
Mhycke was president of the Northern Metro Manila Chapter of the Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA, FY2014–15). He was awarded by PICPA with the 2016 Special Achievement Award for Professional Development and the 2017 Outstanding CPA in Public Practice.
Mhycke was also president of the Institute of Internal Auditors Philippines (IIAP, CY2016). He led the development of the IIAPs learning ladder framework, championed the promotion of internal audit in the academe and government, and has actively advocated IIAPs support to the BSIA and MSIA programs of schools in the country. In 2003, he was conferred with the IIAPs Presidential Award on his contributions to the outstanding internal audit department award, IMAP, and the BSIA model curriculum.
Atty. Rosario Carmela Gonzales-Austria
Assistant Director of Corporate Governance Division, Securities and Exchange CommissionMs. Rosario Carmela B. Gonzalez-Austria has been with the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) since 2009. She is currently the Assistant Director of the Corporate Governance Division of the Corporate Governance and Finance Department. Her responsibilities include leading the Corporate Governance Division in recommending and drafting corporate governance policies, and in monitoring compliance with the Commission’s corporate governance requirements.
Presently, she leads all Corporate Governance initiatives of the SEC, including the drafting of the Philippine Corporate Governance Blueprint in 2015, the Code of Corporate Governance for Publicly-Listed Companies in 2016 and the soon to be released Sustainability Guidelines for Publicly-Listed Companies. Currently, she also sits as the representative of SEC in the ASEAN Capital Markets Forum (ACMF) CG Experts’ Meetings on the ASEAN Corporate Governance Scorecard, which is under the ACMF Corporate Governance initiative being chaired by the SEC.
Ms. Austria is a Juris Doctor from Ateneo de Manila University (2008) and has received her Master’s Degree in Public Policy from Japan’s National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (2013) as a recipient of the Japan-IMF Scholarship Program for Asia (JISPA).
Carmina Herbosa
Chief Audit Executive at Globe TelecommunicationsCarmina Herbosa is the Chief Audit Executive of Globe Telecom. She joined Globe in February 2012. Ms. Herbosa is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor (US CIA), and a Certified Control Self-Assessment Auditor (US CCSA). Ms. Herbosa has more than 20 years of financial and audit experience having held management positions in Procter & Gamble in Asia, Europe, and the US. Prior to joining Globe, Ms. Herbosa was based in China as Senior Director for Internal Audit for Asia and EMEA of Whirlpool Corporation. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Accountancy, cum laude, from the University of the Philippines, and her Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
Catherine Hufana- Ang
Chief Audit Executive,\ at Ayala CorporationCatherine Hufana-Ang is an Executive Director and the Chief Audit Executive (CAE), and previously the Risk Management Head and Sustainability Program Director at Ayala Corporation, one of the largest conglomerates in the Philippines. She is a member of the audit committees in a number of Ayala companies in the infrastructure, energy, industrial, and healthcare sectors. Prior to moving to Ayala, she was a VP & the CAE for Globe Telecom. In 1998, she joined PricewaterhouseCoopers - Singapore as Manager for Operational and Systems Risk Management. She started her career at SGV & Co in 1991.
Cathy is a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD), and the Audit Committee Chair and Good Governance Committee Vice Chair for Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX). She was the 2014 Chair of the Board of Trustees and previously a member of the Board of Directors for The Institute of Internal Auditors–Philippines. A CPA and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in BS Commerce major in Accounting from St. Louis College, she attended various courses at the Andersen Worldwide Audit Training School, USA and completed the Leadership Excellence Acceleration Program (LEAP) of the Ayala-Harvard Business School, the Regional Leadership in Action Program at the Singapore Management University (SMU), the Executive Programme on Women's Leadership and Impact on Asia at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, and the Computer Programming and SDLC course at the Institute of Advanced Computer Technology (I/ACT).
Rohit Kumar
Director, Forensic Consulting Practice of PwC MalaysiaRohit Kumar is a Director and has over 25 years of diversified consulting experience which includes 14 years with PwC US in various leading roles and responsibilities. He has extensive experience in developing analytics solution, building large data marts for reporting and analysis, financial fraud detection, business process redesign, big data analytics, leveraging cloud technologies for analytics, etc. He has featured in several prestigious magazines, CIO Review Magazine (2014, 2015), The Silicon Valley Review (2014). He has been a regular speaker at industry conferences, Information Systems Audit and Control Associations (ISACA), The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Malaysia Institute of Accountants (MIA), Big Data Conferences and others.
Thomas Laughlin
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Amagi TechnologiesThomas Laughlin is an entrepreneur and community leader. He previously worked in sales, risk, and trading roles at Bridgewater Associates, Deutsche Bank, and Nomura Securities. He has also worked with or managed startups and coops in four continents, and political campaigns at the federal, state, and local levels of government in the U.S.
Thomas is the founder and CEO of AMAGI, a software company that harnesses technology, security, and data to empower organizations in industries like government, finance, e-sports, and more. He is the lead instructor of Amagi Academy, the most advanced, technical academy in the Philippines offering courses in software, blockchain, and data science. He is also the founder of several of the largest and most active developer communities in the Philippines including Manila JavaScript, BackEnd/DevOps PH, and Manila Analytika.
Phil Leifermann
Business Development Director-Southeast Asia, of Wolters Kluwer/TeamMatePhil Leifermann is responsible for the TeamMate audit management and data analytic solutions in Southeast Asia. He is one of the region’s most respected management assurance experts, specialising in governance,internal audit,IT audit,risk management and compliance.
He has over 30 years of consulting experience, and has successfully completed projects throughout the Asia Pacific region. Before joining
Wolters Kluwer, he was the Managing Director at Insight Consulting for 16 years and a Director at Pricewaterhouse Coopers for 14 years. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Western Australia, a Bachelor of Business majoring in accounting and information systems from the Southern Cross University and many professional certifications from IIA, ISACA and ACFE.
Emiliano Librea III
Partner & CIO, Head of Advisory Services at Grant Thornton PhilippinesThird Librea is the leader for advisory services at P&A Grant Thornton, the member firm of Grant Thornton in the Philippines.
As advisory services leader, Third brings over 19 years of experience providing total service delivery to clients for operational, transactional and dispute management advisory engagements across many different industries. These services range a wide gamut of advisory work, which include internal audit, governance and risk management, operational improvement, change and program management, IT management, business intelligence and analytics, M&A advisory, capital markets support, due diligence, valuations and fraud solutions.
After being CIO of the Firm for 9 years, he now chairs the Technology Committee of the partnership, which provides oversight over all IT operations, security and technology change initiatives throughout the firm.
Third is a certified public accountant and a certified information systems auditor. He is also certified in risk and information systems control. He is currently the Vice President of and a member of the Board of Trustees of ISACA Manila.
He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and accountancy from UP Diliman, took up IT project management at the Asian Institute of Management, and participated in Grant Thornton’s Senior Leadership Programme at the Saïd (pronounced sa-yeed) Business School of the University of Oxford.
Ramon Lopez
Secretary at Department of Trade & IndustriesRamon M. Lopez is the Secretary of Department of Trade & Industry (DTI). His extensive government experience with the Presidential Management Staff (PMS), DTI, and the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) in the early part of his career provided him with a solid background on macroeconomic and industry policy and program development that allowed him to adopt a more holistic trade approach when he moved to the private sector and became a top executive of a major Philippine food and beverage company for over 23 years. He led the entrepreneur advocacy Go Negosyo for 12 years until he was called to serve again under President Rodrigo Roa Duterte's administration as the DTI Secretary. He chairs several institutions under DTI such as the Board of Investments (BOI), the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL), the Small Business Corporation (SB Corp), the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), and several councils for MSME Development, Export Development, and Price Coordination. He also chaired the ASEAN Economic Ministers when the Philippines assumed Chairmanship in 2017, and is a founding member of the World Economic Forum-ASEAN Regional Strategy Group and Stewardship Board for International Trade and Investment System. He has received several awards such as: the Honorary Agora in Nation Building Award; the Nation Builders Award for Government Service for his role as prime mover in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise (MSME) development; and the Philippine Innovation Man of the Year Award in 2017 for the promotion of social entrepreneurship through innovation. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of the Philippines and topped his Master’s Degree in Development Economics at Williams College, Massachusetts.
Tricianne Manabat Zingapan
IA Head at Coca Cola PhilippinesTricianne leads the Internal Audit function for the Makers and Sellers of the Coke We Know. She has built solid business experience in her career. She has been part of various leadership teams in Coca-Cola Bottling, and in the Oil & Gas, IT and Services industries, managing various business priorities which include people and organizational development; operational areas, such as revenue management and process efficiency; and, strategic areas such as business turn-around, M&A and business models. She has lived and worked half of her career overseas in Singapore, North and Latin America but enjoys native durian. She is a CPA and holds a BS in Business Administration and Accountancy degree with the University of the Philippines, and a Master’s degree at the JL Kellogg Graduate School of Business majoring in Finance, Strategy, Marketing, International Business and Managerial Economics. In her current role, she leads the evolution of the IA function to be a strategic Third Line of Defense to build capability in addressing the important risks of our time.
Edwin Natividad
Chief Audit Executive at National Grid Corporation of the PhilippinesMr. Edwin Natividad has more than 20 years of professional experience in the field of accounting, finance and auditing. He got his Accounting Degree at the University of Santo Tomas and his Masters in Business Administration from the University of the Philippines. He also got his Leadership Management Program from the Harvard Business.
He started his career with SGV & Co and held various senior positions in Finance and Auditing both locally and abroad. He held the positions of Finance Controller and Finance Director for a big retail conglomerate. And have been a Chief Audit Executive for the following companies: Aboitiz Transport System Corporation, Astro All Asia PLC in Malaysia, Smart Communications, ABS-CBN and currently with National Grid Corporation of the Philippines.
Carmela Leticia Pama
CRO/DPO at PNBFirst Senior Vice President, is the Bank’s Chief Risk Officer and Data Protection Officer of the PNB Group. A Certified Public Accountant, she obtained her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Accountancy degree from the University of the Philippines and Masters in Business Administration degree from the Stern School of Business, New York University. She started her banking career with Citibank N.A. (Phils.) where she held various positions in the areas of Treasury Trading and Marketing, and Operations and Quality Development. She left Citibank with the rank of Vice President and moved to Banco Santander to open its operations in the Philippines. She moved back to Citibank, N.A. (Phils.) in 1996 to head various operation units. Prior to joining PNB on October 9, 2006, she was a Consulting Services Practice Manager at Oracle Corporation (Phils.) from 1999 to 2005, with project implementation at the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Further to her role as CRO, she also coordinates the ICAAP implementation of the PNB Group. The ICAAP is the enterprise-wide program to ensure the group continually reviews its level of risk and ensures the adequacy of capital commensurate to its risk taking abilities. She assumed the role of Data Protection Officer (DPO) for PNB Group in December and is tasked to roll out the implementation of RA 10173 - Data Privacy Act.
With more than 33 years of corporate experience, she provides a well-rounded expertise in the operations, technology and risk management areas of the bank.
Atty. Ivy Patdu
Deputy Privacy Commissioner at NPCIvy Patdu is the Deputy Commissioner of the National Privacy Commission. She is a physician, lawyer, and health advocate. She has built her professional career by bridging the disciplines of medicine and law, specializing primarily in Health Law and Privacy. She has immersed herself in research and policy development, contributing to the discourse on Health Information Privacy through her contributions in various publications, and as a member of National Health Data Privacy Experts Group of the National eHealth Program. She was tapped to assist in developing the Privacy Guidelines for the Philippine Health Information Exchange, one of the first sectoral privacy regulations in the country.
Before being appointed to the National Privacy Commission, she practiced medico-legal and risk-management, serving as counsel for hospitals and physicians. She also served as consultant for privacy and other legal issues, including her work with the University of the Philippines Manila National Telehealth Center for the development of legal frameworks for Health Information Privacy, Telemedicine and other eHealth initiatives.
She obtained her Doctor of Medicine degree in the University of the Philippines College of Medicine under the Integrated Liberal Arts and Medicine Program. She then obtained her Juris Doctor Degree, with scholastic second honors, from the Ateneo de Manila School of Law, ranking 10th in her graduating class. She eventually became chosen participate in the Global digital Leader's Exchange, as part of the US Department of State's International Visitors Leadership Program. She currently teaches Legal Medicine in the Ateneo de Manila School of Law and San Beda College of Law Alabang.
Marvin Pe
ERM Head at SM Prime Holdings, Inc.Marvin is currently the Vice-President for Enterprise Risk Management of SM Prime Holdings, Inc. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accountancy from Centro Escolar University. He has completed his Masters in Management Degree, with distinction, from the Asian Institute of Management.
Before joining SM Prime Holdings, Inc., Marvin was a Partner of SyCip Gorres Velayo & Co. (SGV), the member firm of EY in the Philippines. He had over 14 years of experience devoted mainly to Fraud Investigations and Dispute Services (FIDS) works on fraud investigation, compliance, internal audit and forensic data analytics. As a member of the Philippines FIDS team, Marvin has led or has been involved in most of the firm’s fraud and compliance related projects. As a member of the Philippines FIDS team, Marvin has led or has been involved in most of the firm’s fraud and compliance related projects.
Marvin is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Information Systems Auditor and has a Certification in Control Self-Assessment.
Scott Porter
Partner at EY LAScott Porter is a Partner in the EY Advisory Services practice. Scott has over twenty years of
experience providing assurance, technology, operational and risk consulting services to a broad
range of global public and privately held companies. His experience includes developing and implementing enterprise
risk management strategies, including governance and compliance practices. Scott has primarily served clients in the
Technology and Media & Entertainment sectors.
Scott serves as the United States, West Region Internal Audit Leader and Co-Director for the Entrepreneur Of the Year
(EOY) program. He is also the executive sponsor for the EY Alumni Council in Greater LA.
Prior to joining EY in 2003, he spent eight years with Arthur Andersen’s Assurance and Business Consulting practices.
Scott currently serves as Co-Chair of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation’s Digital Medial &
Entertainment Council, is a member of the Board of Directors for the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, and has been
involved in numerous advisory boards at the University of Southern California. He is the past Chairman of the USC
Marshall Partners (SF/SG Valleys), past President of the USC Accounting Circle Board and past member of the USC
Alumni Association Board of Governors. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award presented by the USC
Leventhal School of Accounting.
Scott received a B.S. in Accounting from the USC Leventhal School of Accounting and a M.B.A. from the USC
Marshall School of Business. He is a Certified Public Accountant (California) and a member of the American Institute
of Certified Public Accounts.
Patricia-Ann Prodigalidad
Senior Partner at ACCRA Law OfficePatricia-Ann T. Prodigalidad specializes in commercial and criminal litigation (particularly cases involving banking, securities, corporate rehabilitation and insolvency, white collar crime, antitrust and anti-money laundering issues) and in ADR (especially commercial and construction arbitration).
She has authored a number of legal articles, published locally and internationally, on an array of topics with focus on ADR. She has participated as a speaker, panelist or reactor in a number of international and local conferences on ADR, construction and insolvency.
Ms. Prodigalidad is a member of several local and foreign professional organizations and is currently the National Secretary of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines. Ms. Prodigalidad is part of the ASEAN Law Association Philippine Chapter’s Standing Committee on ADR.
She is an arbitrator of the Philippine Dispute Resolution Center, Inc., the Philippine Construction Industry Arbitration Commission and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre. She is an accredited dispute board adjudicator (having passed the Fédération Internationale Des Ingénieurs-Conseils [FIDIC] Dispute Board Adjudicator Assessment Workshop in 2012).
The Chambers Asia Pacific Guide ranked Ms. Prodigalidad as one of the leading lawyers in the field of Dispute Resolution in the Philippines for the years 2016, 2017 and 2018. She is described as a “very bright and very active" commercial litigator, praised for her "imaginative and creative" arguments and commended for her “deep understanding of litigation procedures”. Ms. Prodigalidad has also been consistently ranked by the Asialaw Leading Lawyers (from 2014 to 2018) as one of the most highly acclaimed legal experts in the field of Dispute Resolution. Recently, based solely on testimonials of in-house lawyers, she was recognized as one of the In-House Community Commended External Counsel of the Year for being a “very responsive counsel who understands our business”. Since 2012 to the present, Ms. Prodigalidad has been cited as among the key practitioners and experts in the field of Asset Recovery by Who’s Who Legal 100.
Ms. Prodigalidad obtained her Bachelor of Laws’ degree from the University of the Philippines in 1996, where she graduated cum laude and finished as the Salutatorian of her class. She then proceeded to rank 1st in the 1996 Bar Examinations. She obtained her master of laws degree in 2004 from Harvard University.
Bonifacio Sam
Chairman at Philippine AirlinesExperienced Chairman with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit organization management industry. Skilled in Business Process, Enterprise Risk Management, Internal Audit, CISA, and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). Strong entrepreneurship professional with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) focused in Accounting from Xavier University (PH).
Judith Sungsai
Senior Director of Central Point of Contact Department IJudith Sungsai is currently the Senior Director of the Central Point of Contact Department 1 of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). She oversees the offsite supervision of the large/complex banking groups comprising about 50% of the total assets of the financial system. She previously handled policy development and onsite supervision.
“Judith”, as fondly called, was also involved in financial stability initiatives of the BSP and other regulatory agencies where she chairs a couple of its workstreams. She also chairs one of the expert level training courses of the BSP on Macroprudential Supervision that focuses on financial stability under the Professional Excellence Program for Bank Supervisors. She was also the BSP representative to the Executives Meeting of East Asia Pacific Central Banks (EMEAP) – Working Group on Banking Supervision, a regional forum of central banks.
Judith, a Certified Public Accountant by profession, holds a Masters Degree on Public Policy from the Graduate School of Policy Science in Tokyo, Japan. She is also a visiting fellow of the Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland. She is blissfully married to another BSPer, Henry Sungsai.
Aris Talapian
Solutions Consultant at ACL Asia PacificAris Talapian is a key member of ACL’s Solutions Consulting team who specialises in building relevant, value-driven solutions for our customers & prospects.
With more than 15 years of experience as Finance Professional and as Technology Consultant, Aris has worked in various areas in Finance organizations from Assurance, Finance Operations, Controllership and FP&A. In his previous role as a Consultant, Aris has implemented ERP System to global organizations in different industries like healthcare, finance and BPO. Aris is a global professional with work experience in USA, Dubai, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Philippines.
Aris earned his undergraduate degree in Business Administration & Accountancy from the University of the Philippines - Diliman. He is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
Brian Tenorio
Chairman and Founder of LGBT Chamber of CommerceTehran-born Filipino-American Brian Tenorio is a Manila/New York-based design manager and strategic design and communications specialist. He is CEO & Founder of design firm Brian Tenorio & Company, and coffee start-up retail chain KapeTayo Coffee. He is a founding Board Member of the Communication Design Association of the Philippines. He is also the Chair and Founder of the Philippine LGBT Chamber of Commerce.
Tenorio is also an International Consultant for Branding and Design at the Asian Development Bank and the World Health Organization (Western Pacific Regional Office), after his training with the Language and Communications Programme of the United Nations Headquarters in New York, while doing his academic research focus on National Design Policy Frameworks for Developing Countries (via the Design Management Graduate Program of Pratt Institute in New York).
He has 18 years of experience in Design, Development work, Innovation-work, and Entrepreneurship. He has worked as a Graphic Designer with award-winning projects for clients Jaime Zobel, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, among others. He is also a Filipino Shoe Designer up until his 2008 retirement from the Philippine Fashion scene. Tenorio was the Head of Jury of the second Adobo Design Awards in 2012. He is also one of main proponents of the Design Competitiveness Act of the Republic of the Philippines in 2012. Tenorio developed and taught the Design for Development program at his alma mater, the Ateneo de Manila University in 2012.
Mark Joseph Ubalde
Columnist at Manila TimesJoseph Holandes Ubalde is an award-winning journalist with over a decade’s experience in digital media.
He has worked as a multimedia journalist for some of the country’s top news sites, namely: GMANews.TV, VERA Files, and InterAksyon. He has won two writing awards for his feature on absentee mothers in 2009 and the overseas Filipino worker migration in 2011.
He also taught online journalism at his alma mater in UP Diliman and worked for three years as consultant for the Asian Development Bank for its recently- launched knowledge management portal. He was a Chief Consultant for New Media of the Presidential Communications Operations Office, where he helped write the social media policy for all civil servants. The administrative order is set to be signed by the President and will make all government workers responsible, accountable, and more service-oriented in social media.
“Seph,” was also an anchor on News5, delivering hourly news and weather updates on television from 2011-2015. In 2013, he headed the pioneering social TV portal of the network, www.News5.com.ph. Under his lead, the website reached 48 million unique hits in a single month. He also grew the social media presence of the group from over 177,000 Facebook likes in August 2015 to 1.2 million organic likes in just a year.
He has been invited to talk all over the Philippines and abroad on topics about digital content and social media. He is now a trainer on social media for Radio Veritas Asia consultant for a cybersecurity firm and writes a weekly column on social media for ” The Manila Times.”