Ram is the audit analytics lead of Aboitiz Power Corporation Internal Audit Group. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). Currently, he has more than 8 years of total professional experience where the last 7 years were spent in the internal auditing practice. Envisioning to become a next-generation internal auditor, he keeps on innovating and upscaling his skillsets not only to prepare for the Future of Work, but for the tall order of disruptive technology that will change the current business landscape and the traditional ways of performing an audit.

With that, being said, he is the project owner of ADAPT - Agile Data Analytics & Planning Tool that enables the internal audit function to identify risks, weaknesses in controls, and opportunities for improvement quickly and effectively through a continuous auditing approach by leveraging on the existing data analytics and visualization tools. Control and risk assessments are now performed automatically and more frequently with the use of data analytics scripts. This enables the internal audit function to add more value by doing less.

He is also one of the Robotics Process Automation Citizen Developers of Aboitiz Power Corporation. As a holder of such distinction, he will spearhead the innovation and digital leap of the internal audit function by developing robots that will automate the entire audit process from planning to reporting and issues resolution monitoring.

Aside from being an internal audit practitioner, he is also a part-time college instructor at Cebu Institute of Technology – University handling accounting review courses. When he’s not at his desk, you can find Ram playing basketball or playing NBA2K in his Nintendo switch.

Shiela currently serves as the Chief Internal Audit Executive of Monde Nissin Corporation and a member of Board of Trustees of Institute of Internal Auditors-Philippines. She has a vast experience in financial audit, internal audit, financial and control risks assessment, risk management, review of operations and financial controls, regulatory compliance and fraud investigations.

Prior to joining Monde Nissin in 2020, Shiela served as the Head of Group Internal Audit of AIA Philam Life for seven (7) years. Shiela also worked for three (3) years as Head of Internal Audit of Splash Corporation and had a ten (10) year stint with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Manila and London where she acquired her deep external audit experience from vast array of clients of various industries.

Shiela is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor, a Certified Fraud Examiner and a Certified External Quality Assessor of Internal Audit Activity. Shiela has also successfully completed the Certification for Trust Operations and Investment, a Fellow of Life Management Institute Management and a Graduate Member of Institute of Corporate Directors.

Mark is a Risk Assurance Cybersecurity and Privacy Executive Director of PwC Philippines, leading both the information security and data privacy practice of the Firm. He primarily focus on readiness assessments covering the client’s IT, information security management, business continuity management and data privacy. In addition, he leads the delivery of various vulnerability assessment and penetration testing. Mark is well versed in ISO family of standards of 27000, for information security, ISO 29000, for privacy, and ISO 22300, for business continuity.

He has more than 16 years of professional work experience in various industries in the areas of Information System and Internal Auditing, Information and Cyber Security, IT Governance and Risk Management, Data Privacy and Business Continuity. He was a former Data Protection Officer and led the consulting engagements in Data Privacy compliance.

Tessa is currently a State Auditor II for the Commission on Audit where she engages in the audit of the accounts and activities of government agencies and was awarded as Gawad Kahusayan Awardee for the 2020 Search for Outstanding COA Officials and Employees.

She is a former Board of Trustee of the Institute of Internal Auditors – Philippines (IIAP). She served as the Audit Committee Co-Chairman for the year 2019 and Remuneration Committee Co-Chairman for 2020.

She has experiences as ASEAN Corporate Governance Scorecard Assessor of Publicly Listed Companies, Insurance Companies and GOCCs for the Institute of Corporate Directors and Performance Governance System Validator for the Institute for Solidarity in Asia.

She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy at San Beda College where she graduated as Cum Laude.

She was ranked 1st place in the September 2015 examination for the Diploma in International Financial Reporting Standards (DipIFRS) by the International Federation of Professional Managers, was conferred with the William S. Smith Certificate of Honors Award for the year 2018 by IIA-Global, was awarded as top scorer for the March 2021 examination for Certified Capital Markets Specialists (CCMS) by the Capital Markets Institute of the Philippines and also ranked 1st place in the July 2021 Certified Technical Analysts (CTA) exams by the Society of Technical Analysts – Philippines.

She is also a graduate of the Philippine Stock Exchange Certified Securities Specialists Course as Bronze Bull awardee. She also completed the Asian Institute of Management’s certificate courses on Blockchain 101 and Futures thinking.

Roel is currently the IT Audit Manager at Monde Nissin Corporation. Before joining Monde Nissin, he was an Assistant Manager for Risk and Controls at Alaska Milk Corporation and Senior Control Analyst at Philip Morris International.

He is a Certified ISO20K Auditor and Information Technology Infrastructure Library V3 Certified. He graduated with a degree in BS Accountancy.

Roel is a member of ISACA and IIA Philippines.

Joseph is both a CPA, CIA and CISA with more than 20 years of experience in the field of Internal Auditing, Quality Assurance, Management and Tax Advisory, and the Academe.

Currently, he is the Director for Corporate Planning of Tao Corporation, a leading supply-chain services company, one of the top 500 companies in the industry, and top 100 companies in the Philippines in terms of consolidated revenue and President of I Can Capital Lending, Inc. He is responsible for facilitating the establishment of risk management process in Tao community of companies and for enhancing the implementation of risk-based internal audit approach. In his short stint with the Tao Corporations he has facilitated the establishment of risk management framework and initial risk management in TriDharma Marketing Corporation which one of the top earning subsidiaries of Tao Corporation. Before moving to his current company, he was the Internal Audit Manager, (Department Head) of East-West Seed Company, Inc. (EWSCI), the leader in tropical vegetables seed in Southeast Asia with sister companies in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, South Africa, China, and Myanmar. He was responsible for the establishment of the first Internal Audit Function in the Group. He also introduced Enterprise Risk Management in the company facilitating the first risk assessment exercise by the Board of Management (BOM) and the first risk management workshop by the functional managers. He reports functionally to the President and administratively to the Country General Manager. He also performs internal audit reviews of East-West Seed International, East-West Regional Operating Headquarters, East-West Thailand and Hortigenetics Reearch SE Asia.

He is also a CPA review lecturer in the Baliuag University teaching Management Advisory Services and Theory of Accounts. He also teaches in the Baliuag University College of Business Administration and Accountancy on the subject of Managerial Accounting, Management Consultancy, Managerial Finance, Advance Accounting 2 and Tax Planning, among others. Baluiag University is the first and only autonomous private university in Bulacan.

His past professional work experiences included his being an Internal Audit Head of Sports and Gaming Entertainment (SAGE), an on-line gaming company. He also had a stint in AMA Education System as Internal Audit Supervisor.

He also worked in Asahi Allglass (Asia) Pte. Ltd., Singapore as Quality Assurance Supervisor cum Assistant Management Representative. Among his responsibilities is to assist the QA Manager cum Management representative in overseeing the consistent daily operations of the Quality Management System, preparation for the ISO:9000 -9003 Certification and the Australian Product Certification, among others. Notable among his achievements is the general review and revision of the Quality Assurance Manual of the company and he authored the 3-point quality check which was adopted as part of the standard quality procedures.

He also worked in RBL Fishing Corporation as an Internal Audit Staff.

Joseph is an active member of IIA Philippines as former Chair of Marketing Committee – IIA-P and resource speaker for public run and in-house seminars.

Howell V. Mabalot is the President and Chief Trainer of HVM Training Services which provides Continuing Professional Development programs for professionals in the workplace. He is a Fellow of Royal Institute of Management Singapore, a world-class multidisciplinary professional organization which recognizes excellence globally. He is a PRC (Professional Regulation Commission) accredited author and speaker for the Continuing Professional Development of the members of the Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA). He took up BS Computer Engineering at Adamson University and has also attended the Ateneo Graduate School of Business.

He has twenty eight years of experience in the areas of leadership training and development, people management, sales, marketing, consultancy, public speaking and teaching. As a trainer for Organizational Development, he has taught and conducted seminars for organizations such as the Asian Development Bank, Asian Institute of Management Continuing Professional Development Program for Japan International Cooperation Agency, Canadian Chamber of Commerce, SM Retail, Robinsons Retail Holdings, Inc., Toyota, Honda, Siemens, NEDA, National Nutrition Council, Department of Health, Philippine Intellectual Property Office, UP Diliman, Maxicare, Subic Bay Marine Exploratorium Inc., Panasia Energy, Inc. and DMCI to name a few, and has spoken at National Summits for Executives, HR, Sales, Marketing, and Administrative Professionals.

He is the TV host of the business talk show ‘The Business Portal: On The Corporate World’ on Global News Network GNN which is seen nationally via Destiny Cable, all over Asia via G-Satellite and all over the world via GNNTV-Asia.com. GNN’s The Business Portal is the recipient of the prestigious Kuala Lumpur Asian Star Quality Awards' Best Morning Business Show for 2010.

A firm believer in Filipino excellence, he started in 2010 the “What Makes A Global Filipino Seminar” campus/corporate tour which to this day aims to motivate and inspire Filipinos to aspire for greatness and to inform them of the keys to make it big in the time of globalization. He has brought the program to Adamson University, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Technological Institute of the Philippines, Informatics, PAMET, MIMAROPA Regional I.T. Congress, Junior People Management Association of the Philippines (JPMAP), Junior Philippine Institute of Accountants (JPIA), and the Philippine Daily Inquirer Career Expo from 2010 onwards.

Mags is currently the Audit Manager and SOX Leader for a fintech company based in Pasadena, California. His previous work experiences include Internal Auditand Finance Operations before relocating to the USA. In his spare time, he's developing a GRC software using low code cloud tools with the aim of democratizing access to sophisticated audit and risk management software.

Jane is currently a Professional Development Consultant where she performs various training & consulting services. She also conducts various in-house or public run seminars on internal auditing, controllership and financial statement literacy for top organizations in the country. Prior to this, she was the Area Controller for Refinery Division in Petron Corporation with the overall function of handling controllership, internal auditing, risk management coordination and selected finance functions in Petron’s Refinery in Bataan.

Jane is a distinguished Toastmaster and Accredited Quality Assessor and Validator.

She graduated from the University of the Philippines with a degree of B.S Business Administration Major in Accounting. She is the Past President of the Institute of Internal Auditors-Philippines in 2008.

Ms. Tomas holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration major in Accounting and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of the East. She ranked 2nd place in the CPA Board Examinations. She also completed the academic requirements for Master’s Degree in Business Administration at the Ateneo de Manila University. She also finished the Strategic Finance and Control course in IMD Switzerland.

After the CPA Board Examinations, she joined SGV & Co. She then moved to San Miguel Corporation as Financial Analyst and rose from the ranks to become its Senior Vice President & Director of Group Audit until 2007. She joined Splash Corporation in September 2009 as Executive Assistant to the CEO and Head of Investor Relations, and soon after was appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Finance Officer. In 2015, she became the Company’s President and Chief Operating Officer and retired last June 15, 2022.

She is presently a member of the Boards of Directors of Seaoil Philippines and Splash Corporation. And, former member of the boards of Barrio Fiesta Manufacturing Corporation, Inc., Prime Global Distribution Corporation, Moondish Corporation, PT Splash Cahaya (Indonesia), Splash H&B Limited (Nigeria), and Splash Global PTE Limited (Singapore).

Ms. Tomas is a Past-President of the Institute of Internal Auditors - Philippines, and currently a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors of the Philippines, and used to be a member of the faculty of the University of Asia and the Pacific.

Chams is a Director in P&A Grant Thornton. She has more than 12 years of experience as an internal audit practitioner doing assurance reviews, SOX testing, business process reviews, internal and external quality assessment reviews and control self-assessment reviews.

She has an extensive experience in providing internal audit services to companies in various industries including banks, non-banks financial institutions, insurance, real estate, construction, mining, power, petroleum, utilities, telecommunications, transportation, retail, distribution, industrial manufacturing, food and beverage, financing, investment holding companies, BPOs, educational institutions and non-stock, not-for-profit organizations.

Chams is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Project Management Professional (PMP®) and has a Certification in Risk Management Assurance. She graduated with a degree in BS Accountancy at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines – Manila.

She is a current IIA Philippines Board of Trustee and is a proud mother of 2 boys.