JRI BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Chairman

Alex, both a Certified Public Accountant and lawyer, is the Chairman Emeritus of PwC Philippines and served as Chairman and Senior Partner for eight years. He was the firm’s Environment, Sustainability and Governance (ESG) practice leader and was the co-leader of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisition practice. 

He is the founding partner of the law firm Cabrera & Company, a member firm of the PwC network.

Alex is a member of the Higher Education & Teacher Education Development Committee of the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM2), a joint educational body tasked to solve the education crisis. He is also Board Adviser of the Philippine Business for Education, a non-profit organization advocating for education reforms.

Alex is the Chairman of Integrity Initiative, Inc., a private sector led movement to fight against graft and corruption. Alex is the Vice Chair of ARISE-Philippines, an NGO focused on disaster risk management. He is a member of the Finance Board of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila.

He is the President of Isla Lipana & Co. Foundation, an organization that focused on social initiatives for schools, underprivileged students and indigenous communities.

Alex was one of the recipients of the Accountancy Centenary Award of Excellence given by the Professional Regulator Board of Accountancy early last year. He was awarded the prestigious Honorary Life Member by the Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountant (PICPA) in 2020. He had been named CEO of the Year at the Asia Leaders Awards 2019. PICPA previously granted him the Outstanding CPA in Public Practice Award in 2015 and the Young Achiever in Public Practice Award in 1998. 

His Sunday column in the Philippine Star called “As Easy as ABC” which Alex wrote from 2013 to 2022, was a three-time finalist for the Catholic Mass Media awards.

Vice Chairperson  

Benedicta “Dick” Du-Baladad is a multi-awarded accountant-lawyer and the Founding Partner, Chair, and CEO of Du-Baladad and Associates. She is a prominent leader whose expertise is evident throughout her 30 years in the practice; with her repertoire spanning from being a former official of the country’s tax authority to head of the tax department of a leading auditing firm.

Dick is also a recognized business leader with various directorship positions in various organizations and Foreign Chambers. Her expertise makes her a valuable and much-sought-after resource speaker often invited to seminars and fora organized by prestigious associations such as the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Management Association of the Philippines, and the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines, among others. She is also currently a professor of Taxation at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) and the University of the Philippines (UP).

Her clients and stakeholders benefit greatly from her knowledge and proficiency in high-end tax advisory, tax disputes and refund claims, transfer pricing, and advocacy. Her sector expertise includes banking and financial institutions where she has authored 3 books on the taxation of banks, insurance, and other financial intermediaries.

She was named National Leader for Southeast Asia-Corporate Tax in the 2022 edition of Who's Who Legal (WWL) Thought Leaders and recognized as the Tax Dispute Resolution Lawyer by Women in Business Law (2021). She is consistently ranked by Asia Business Law Journal as one of the Philippines’ top 100 lawyers and as the only Elite Tax Practitioner in the Philippines by Asia Profiles. She is a recipient of the CPA Centenary Award of Excellence from the Board of Accountancy and has been awarded as a Distinguished Alumna of the University of Santo Tomas. And just recently, she was named one of the Top 15 Female Lawyers in Asia 2024 by Asian Legal Business.

Dick’s community involvement is done through the BDB Law Foundation which she founded in 2014 to help address the gaps in humanitarian, cultural, and socio-civic developments by focusing on projects for improving the quality of education, sustained livelihood, clean environment and better health. The Foundation, in coordination with DECS, has already built several school buildings under its build-a-school program, located in remote places in the country.

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. Lopez is currently the President of the Energy Lawyers Association of the Philippines and a Vice President at publicly listed First Gen Corporation. 

A lawyer and industrial engineer with a master’s degree in finance, Atty. Lopez has served in various capacities in both the government and private sectors. He was the Chief of Staff of Senator Sergio R. Osmeña III in the 14th and 15th Congress of the Philippines and has been involved in legislation, congressional oversight, and legislative inquiry work in energy, banking, finance, governance, public corporations, agriculture, environment and natural resources, and social justice. 

With over thirty years of extensive experience in the energy industry, his expertise is multifaceted.  A father of three, Atty. Lopez takes special interest in the confluence of energy development, climate justice, and sustainability principles in view of building a better future for the younger generations.

Membership Committee Chairman 

Mr. Drilon is presently the Vice Chairman & President of the Institute for Solidarity in Asia (ISA), and Governor of the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP).. 

He is the Vice Chairman of the Center for Excellence in Governance (CEG), Senior Executive Director of the PwC Executive Coaching Group, Board Adviser & Founding President of the Iloilo Economic Development Foundation (ILEDF), and Co-Founder of the Shareholders Association of the Philippines (SharePhil)

Among his previous roles are: Former Independent Director of the Metrobank Group; Former Chairman of Keyland Corporation and Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD); Former CEO/COO of Ortigas & Co., Ayala Land Subsidiaries CHI and CPVDC, Jardine Davies Sugar, Philippine Fuji Xerox and Philtranco/FMMC Group companies;  

He is an alumnus of the University of the Philippines, University of the East and the University of Asia & the Pacific.

He authored two books: Patriots on the Street and Crafting Your Own Roadmap

Audit Committee Chairman

Atty. Maniego is a Fellow and 2024 Chairman of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD). He also serves as the Senior Policy Advisor of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities, Chairman Emeritus of the Energy Lawyers Association of the Philippines, Trustee of the Justice Reform Initiative, and independent director of Raslag Corporation and Armscor Global Defense Inc. 

He was Chairman of the National Renewable Energy Board from September 2010 to June 2016, and spearheaded the implementation of the Feed-in Tariff, Net Metering, Green Energy Option Program, Renewable Portfolio Standards and other mechanisms under the Renewable Energy Act. During his tenure, new renewable energy plants of around 2,000 MW were installed. His previous positions included being Co-Champion of the Power and Energy Working Group of the National Competitiveness Council from 2017 to 18, Chairman of the UP Engineering & Research Foundation (UPERDFI) from 2015 to 17, and Energy Advisor to the Climate Change Commission from 2017 to 20. At present, he is an Adviser to UPERDFI, and lecturer at the Ateneo School of Government and ICD. He is a member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines and MAP.

He earned his BS Industrial Engineering and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of the Philippines. His post graduate studies include Top Management Program from AIM, Senior Business Executive Program from UA&P, and Advanced Engineering from Carl Duisberg Gesselschaft Germany. He is a certified graduate of the Kaplan & Norton’s Balanced Scorecard, a Climate Reality Project Leader, and obtained 14 certificates in renewable energy development, climate finance and green banking from the Renewable Academy of Berlin. Pete has more than 50 years’ experience in C- level positions in the energy, metals, beverage, semiconductor, IT, munitions, construction, and venture capital sectors and the academe.

Trustee

Mr. Panlilio, Chair of Maya Bank and Director of PLDT/SMART, is the 2025 President of the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP).

He is also an Independent Director on the Boards of the Philippine Veterans Bank and Vivant Corporation.

With PLDT as a long-time supporter of the Philippines’ digital transformation, Al is among the founding members under the Digital Infrastructure pillar of the Private Sector Advisory Council (PSAC), which was formed in July 2022.

Al served as President and CEO of PLDT from June 2021 to December 2023 and SMART from August 2019 to December 2023. He was the SVP and Head of Customer Retail Services and Corporate Communications at MERALCO from Sept 2010 to June 2019. 

An advocate of the value of sports in maintaining a strong republic and international relations, he is a member of the FIBA Central Board and Executive Committee of the FIBA Asia Board. He is President of the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) and the MVP Sports Foundation. He is also First VP of the Philippine Olympic Committee and Chair of the National Golf Association of the Philippines, and he headed the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 Philippine local organizing committee.

He holds a BSBA (Computer Information Systems) from San Francisco State University and an MBA from J. L. Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University and the Hongkong University of Science and Technology.

Trustee

Mignon Ramos is Managing Director and Principal Consultant of Roadmaps and Beyond Inc., her work focusing on organizational design and re-engineering, as well as long-term strategy, including for key projects for the Justice Sector of the Philippines.

Mignon represents the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines in the Justice Reform Initiative Board.  She is Board Director and Vice President for Internal Affairs of Finex.  She is also Board Trustee for the Shareholders Association of the Philippines.  She has also served in Board Trustee and Adviser positions for AIESEC in the Philippines, Special Olympics Philippines, and St. Scholastica’s College Alumnae Foundation Inc., and as a member of the Strategy Committee of the Partners for 21st Century Education, a US-based Education organization.

Mignon has both a Master in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Accountancy from the University of the Philippines.