JRI BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Chairman

Atty. Lim is the current Chairman of the FINEX Academy Inc., immediate Past President of the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX), a Past President of the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) and a  former president of the Shareholders Association of the Philippines (SharePhil).  

He is a Senior Legal Counsel  at ACCRALAW and previously served as  President and Chief Executive Officer of the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) from 2004 to 2010.  Currently, he is on the board of a number of public companies.  Atty. Lim also served as the Co-Chairperson of the Rules on e-Commerce and Notaries Public sub-committees of the Supreme Court and is presently  a member of the sub-committees on Commercial Courts, Evidence, and DNA Evidence.   

Atty. Lim is  a law professor of the Ateneo Law School and the San Beda College Graduate School of Law, a professional lecturer of the Philippine Judicial Academy (PHILJA), and the current Vice-Chair of its Commercial Law Department.  Mr. Lim has  also authored several legal books/articles that were published in both local and international publications.

Vice Chairperson  

Alexander Cabrera is the Chairman Emeritus of PwC Philippines effective 1 July 2021, after being the firm’s Chairman and Senior Partner for two consecutive terms.   
Both a Certified Public Accountant and lawyer, he specializes in tax planning, business restructuring and reorganizations, and integrated tax, legal, and accounting advice. He attended business courses at Harvard Business School, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and IESE Business School.  

He is the managing partner of Cabrera & Company. Alex was also a board member in PwC’s Southeast Asia Regional Consulting practice.  

Alex is the Chairman of the Integrity Initiative Inc. (II, Inc.), and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of ARISE-Philippines, an NGO focused in disaster risk management.  He previously chaired the Management Association of the Philippines’ (MAP) Tax Committee and the Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ (PICPA) Taxation and Legislation Committee.  

Alex has been named CEO of the Year at the Asia Leaders Awards 2019. He received the Outstanding CPA in Public Practice Award in 2015 and as Young Achiever in Public Practice Award in 1998 from PICPA.  His Sunday column in the Philippine STAR, “As easy as ABC”, has been a three-time finalist at the Catholic Mass Media Awards.

President    

Mr. Pascual serves on the Advisory Council of Prime Energy Resources Development and was the 2020 president of the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX), 2021 chairman of the FINEX Research & Development Foundation, Inc. and 2022 chairman of the FINEX Academy, Inc. He also currently serves as Treasurer of the Integrity Initiative.  

He was  CFO, Vice President - Finance & Treasurer and Chief Risk Officer of Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation and has held various senior positions in the Shell group of companies both locally and overseas.   

Among the awards and citations he received are: the CFO of the Year from ING and the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines in 2014, the Professional Degree Award for Industrial Engineering from the University of the Philippines College of Engineering and U.P. Alumni Engineers in 2015, and the Global Management Accounting Hall of Fame Award from the Institute of Certified Management Accountants (Australia) in 2017

Compliance Officer

Atty. Villanueva is  a senior partner of the Villanueva Gabionza & Dy Law Offices.  He is also the  Executive Secretary for the Administrative Tribunal of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and  is a member of the  Board of Trustees of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD)  and  the Chairman of the Corporate Governance Committee of the Management Association of the Philippines (M.A.P.)
Atty. Villanueva was previously   Chairman & CEO of the Governance Commission for GOCCs (GCG) and  former Dean of the Ateneo de Manila Law School  where he remains as a professorial lecturer in Corporation Law, Agency & Trusts, Partnerships & Joint Ventures, and Law on Sales.
He is author of leading legal books: Commercial Law Review, Philippine Corporate Law, Agency & Trusts, Partnerships & Joint Ventures, Law on Sales, and Law and Practice on Philippine Corporate Governance, which garnered the 2009 National Book Award on Professions given by the National Book Development Board and the Manila Critics Circle.

Audit Committee Chairman

Currently the Chairman of the Energy Lawyers Association of the Philippines, Mr. Maniego is a professional industrial engineer, ASEAN engineer, lawyer, economist, management executive and consultant, and professorial lecturer with more than 50 years of experience in senior executive positions in the energy, metals, beverage, semiconductor, IT, munitions, construction, & venture capital sectors and the academe.   
Served as Chairman of the National Renewable Energy Board from 2010 to 2016, during which almost 2.000 MW of RE sources were installed. Currently, chairman of the Energy Lawyers Association of the Philippines; trustee of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD); adviser to the Climate Change Commission, the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities, and the UP Engineering Research & Development Foundation; lecturer in the Ateneo School of Government,  UP Law Center and ICD; director of Armscor Global Defense Inc. and RASLAG Corp.; and member MAP, IBP, UPAA, UPAE, UPERDFI, BEAI, etc.

Trustee

Mr. Hinchliffe is the Executive Director for AmCham Philippines. He arrived back in the Philippines after a 12 year absence that saw him working in Texas, Taiwan, Malaysia and Indonesia. He officially began his position with AmCham Philippines on December 1, 2012.
A Texan, with a BS degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Ebb was based in the Philippines from 1993 – 2000. He is married with one child.
He has spent 22 of the last 25 years in Asia Pacific which includes 21 years with a US-based pump manufacturing company, 6 years with a prominent semiconductor company, and the last 4 years in the service Industry.

Trustee

Ms. Magleo is a certified public accountant and is the co-founder and CFO  of Paynamics Technologies, Inc.   

During her career, she held various executive finance and management posts in  Philippine domestic oil companies, having been Vice President-Finance and ultimately, President of an independent oil player for 21 years.   

She is a member (and former Director) of the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX) and sits on the Board of DIC Philippines. She is an active member of various religious and civic organizations.