Cezar P. Consing

Co-Vice Chair, Non-Executive Director

• Globe Director since April 2021 and last re-elected on April 25, 2023
  

• Globe Board Committee membership:
  - Finance Committee (Chairman)
  - Executive Committee (Co-Vice Chairman)

Mr. Consing, Filipino, 63, has served as Director since April 2021 and Co-Vice Chairman of the Board since November 2022. He is President and Chief Executive Officer of Ayala Corporation, a position he has held since August 2022 and has been a board director of Ayala Corporation since 2020. He has been Vice Chairman of Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) since 2022 and first joined the BPI board in 1995. He is Vice Chairman and Director of ACEN Corporation (formerly known as AC Energy Corporation) and advisor of the board of Ayala Land Incorporated. Mr. Consing is also vice chairman and board director of AC Energy and Infrastructure Corporation, AC Infrastructure, AC Industrials, AC Health, and Asiacom Philippines Inc. He is also a board director of First Myanmar Investment Public Company Limited (2021 to present). He is Chairman of Philippine Dealing System Holdings and each of its operating subsidiaries, positions he has held since 2019. He is currently a board trustee of the Philippine-American Educational Foundation, which selects the Fulbright scholars, a member of the National Mission Council of De La Salle Philippines, a board trustee of College of St. Benilde, and a board trustee of the Manila Golf Club Foundation. He is a board director of Filgifts.com. He has been a member of the Trilateral Commission since 2014.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Prior to being President and CEO of Ayala Corporation, Mr. Consing served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) from 2013 to 2021. He served as chairman of BPI's thrift bank, investment bank, UK-registered bank, microfinance bank, property and casualty insurance joint venture, and leasing and rental joint venture, and board director of its asset management company and its life insurance joint venture. Mr. Consing first worked in BPI's corporate planning and corporate banking divisions from 1981 to 1985. He worked for J.P. Morgan & Co. in Hong Kong and Singapore from 1985 to 2004 and headed the firm’s investment banking business in Asia Pacific from 1997 to 2004 and President of J.P. Morgan Securities (Asia Pacific) Ltd. As a senior Managing Director of J.P. Morgan, he served as a member of the firm’s global investment banking management committee and its Asia Pacific management committee. He was a partner at The Rohatyn Group from 2004 to 2013, headed its Hong Kong office and its private investing business in Asia, and was a board director of its real estate, and energy and infrastructure private equity investing subsidiaries.

Mr. Consing has served as an independent board director of four publicly listed companies in Asia: Jollibee Foods Corporation (2010-2021), CIMB Group Holdings (2006-2013), First Gen Corporation (2005-2013), and National Reinsurance Corporation (2014-2019), where he also served as Chairman (2018-2019). He also served as Chairman and President of the Bankers Association of the Philippines from 2019 to 2021 and was President of Bancnet, Inc. from 2017 to 2021. Mr. Consing has served as a board director of the Singapore-based SQREEM Technologies, the Singapore-listed Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd (2021-2022), the Hongkong-based Asian Youth Orchestra, the US-Philippines Society, Endeavor Philippines, and La Salle Greenhills.

Mr. Consing graduated with a degree of A.B. (Accelerated Program) Economics (Magna Cum Laude) from De LaSalle University in 1979 and M.A. Applied Economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1980.

DIRECTORSHIP IN OTHER PUBLICLY LISTED COMPANIES

Ayala Corporation, Bank of the Philippine Islands and ACEN Corporation. All of which are listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange.

He also holds a directorship in First Myanmar Investment Public Company Limited (Myanmar).