Ryan has more than 16 years of experience in the Information Technology (IT) audit and consulting engagements covering IT Governance and Risk Management, IT General Controls, Business Process Reengineering, and SOX 404/JSOX Compliance for clients in the Telecommunications, Consumer Products and Retail, Oil and Gas, Power and Utilities, Mining, Manufacturing and Gaming industries.

He graduated with a degree in Accountancy, Cum Laude, from the Far Eastern University. He placed 4th in the 2004 CPA Board Examinations and was also a global topnotcher, placing 1st worldwide in the 2007 CIA Examinations. He completed the Executive Development Program of the Kellogg School of Management in Northwestern University, USA in 2014.

He is also the current Chair of the IT Committee of the Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) and incumbent Chairman and President of the Institute of Internal Auditors Philippines.

Pam Gregorio is the Human Capital Director of PwC
Philippines since 2012. She has over 23 years of experience
in various areas of Human Capital work, including talent
acquisition and on-boarding, resource planning,
performance management, compensation and benefits,
learning and development, organizational development,
practice development, global mobility, and diversity and
inclusion.

Pam is trained and licensed to conduct various leadership
development and coaching courses for Development
Dimensions, Inc. and the Seven Habits of Highly Effective
People.

Pam received the Academic Excellence award upon
completing a Master in Industrial Relations degree,
specialising in Human Resource Development, at the
School of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of the
Philippines (UP) Diliman. Prior to this, she completed a
Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, Cum Laude, also in
UP Diliman.

Anthony is currently the Internal Audit Director/Chief Audit Executive at Converge ICT Solutions Inc.

He previously serves as the Megawide Group’s Chief Audit Executive. He also worked as the Chief Audit Executive at 2GO Group, Inc. A former IT Audit Manager of Premiere Bank now Security Bank Savings as well as Senior Audit Systems Specialist of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth).

Anthony brings over 22 solid years of professional experience as an Internal Auditor from different industries like Government, Banking, End-to-End Supply Chain, Construction, Transportation, and Telecommunications. Thus, possess varied exposure and experience on audit – financial, compliance, information
system, and operations.

He graduated from San Beda College with his bachelor’s degree and earned his MBA from National College for Business and Arts. He is also a CIA, CISA, and Certified ISO 31000 Lead Risk Manager.


Currently, serves as the Assistant Treasurer and member Board of Trustee of IIA Philippines.

Lito Villanueva is the Executive Vice President, Chief Innovation and Inclusion Officer of RCBC. Concurrently, Mr. Villanueva is the Chief Digital Transformation Advisor for the Yuchengco Group of Companies, one of the oldest conglomerates in Asia. He is also the founding chairman of Fintech Alliance.ph, the Philippines' largest organization of digitally-enabled companies that generates over 90% of FinTech-initiated transactions volume in the country today.

Mr. Villanueva is the Philippines’ leading and award-winning thought leader on digital transformation and inclusive digital finance. He has over 20 years of experience in banking, telecommunications, payments, development finance, advisory, regtech, and financial technology. In the span of his career, he has covered over 30 markets in Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa with his various roles in the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), Land Bank of the Philippines, PLDT-Smart Communications, Voyager Innovations, PayMaya, International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group, and Visa. He collaborated with regulators in promoting enabling regulations towards inclusive innovations and interoperability. As a digital inclusion and transformation advocate, he institutionalized the country’s first code of conduct and code of ethics, providing a wider industry framework towards greater consumer protection in partnership with all regulators.

He has merited over 70 global and regional awards for championing innovations on financial inclusion and scaling digital initiatives for the unbanked and underserved. These accolades include being named one of the Top 100 FinTech Leaders in Asia, Mr. Fintech of the Philippines by BizNewsAsia, as Chief Innovation of the Year by the London-based The Banker, and among the Top 100 Filipinos on LinkedIn in 2021.

He released various publications including The Uncharted Beyond: The Taxonomy of FinTech in the Philippines and the award-winning three volumes of the Inclusive Digital Finance Report. He is also a member of the Inclusion Executive Committee of the Global Impact FinTech (GIFT) Forum, Singapore-based AIBP Advisory Board, and Chairman of the South Africa-based Alliance of Digital Finance Associations. He is also the founding president of the BSP Governor Nestor A. Espenilla Jr. Institute for Growth towards National Inclusion, Transformation, and Empowerment (IGNITE).

He finished the Cambridge Intellect Leadership Programme in 2019 on Digital Transformation by Design at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education in the United Kingdom. Earned two graduate degrees: Master of Arts in public administration with magna cum laude honors from the University of Santo Tomas (UST), and Master in National Security Administration from the National Defense College of the Philippines as a state scholar, and its youngest graduate, thus far. His undergraduate degree is in political science also in UST. He was also the first two-term elected president of the UST AB Student Council during his college years.