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With a history that is close to a century, RHI owns and operates the largest milling operations in the Philippines, the second largest sugar refinery, and one of the pioneering bioethanol plants in the country.
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Board of Directors
MANUEL V. PANGILINAN
Vice Chairman
% Shareholdings - 0.005%
69 years old
Been a member of the RHI Board of Directors since December 3, 2013.
Education
Mr. Pangilinan has been awarded four (4) Honorary Doctorate degrees in Humanities (Honoris Causa). First to confer him was San Beda College in 2002; second was the Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro in 2007; Holy Angel University in Pampanga in 2009; and the Far Eastern University in 2010. Mr. Pangilinan graduated cum laude from the Ateneo de Manila University, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics and obtained his Master’s degree in Business Administration from Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
Experience
He was elected to the Board of Directors on 3 December 2013 and is the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors, a member of the Executive Committee and the Chairman of the Executive Compensation Committee. Mr. Pangilinan founded First Pacific Company Limited in 1981 and served as its Managing Director until 1999. He was appointed Executive Chairman until June 2003, when he was named CEO and Managing Director. Within the First Pacific Group, he holds the positions of President Commissioner of P. T. Indofood Sukses Makmur Tbk, the largest food company in Indonesia.
In the Philippines, Mr. Pangilinan is the Chairman of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) and the Manila Electric Company (Meralco). He is also the Chairman of Smart Communications Incorporated, PLDT Communications and Energy Ventures Incorporated (formerly Piltel), Beacon Electric Asset Holdings Incorporated, Metro Pacific Investments Corporation, Landco Pacific Corporation, Medical Doctors Incorporated, Colinas Verdes Corporation (operating the Makati Medical Center and Cardinal Santos Medical Center), Davao Doctors Incorporated, Riverside Medical Center Incorporated in Bacolod City, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Asian Hospital Incorporated, Maynilad Water Services Corporation (Maynilad), Mediaquest Incorporated, Associated Broadcasting Corporation (TV5), Philex Mining Corporation, Philex Petroleum Corporation and Manila North Tollways Corporation.
Outside the First Pacific Group, Mr. Pangilinan was a member of the Board of Overseers of the Wharton School of Finance & Commerce, University of Pennsylvania, USA. He was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ateneo de Manila University. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of San Beda College. He also serves as Chairman of PLDT-Smart Foundation, Inc and of the Hong Kong Bayanihan Trust, a non-stock, non-profit foundation which provides vocational, social and cultural activities for Hong Kong’s foreign domestic helpers. On February 5, 2007, Mr. Pangilinan was named the President of the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP), a national sport association for basketball. In January 2009, Mr. Pangilinan also assumed the Chairmanship of the Amateur Boxing Association of the Philippines (ABAP), a governing body of the amateur boxers in the country. Also, in October 2009, Mr. Pangilinan was appointed as Chairman of the Philippine Disaster Recovery Foundation (PDRF), a non-stock, non-profit foundation established to formulate and implement a reconstruction strategy to rehabilitate and rebuild areas devastated by recent floods and other calamities. He is also the Chairman of the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), a social action organization made up of the country’s largest corporations; Vice-Chairman of the Foundation for Crime Prevention, a private sector group organized to assist the government with crime prevention; and a member of the Board of Trustees of Caritas Manila and Radio Veritas-Global Broadcasting Systems, Inc.. Mr. Pangilinan was also a former Commissioner of the Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission and a former Governor of the Philippine Stock Exchange. In June 2012, he was appointed as Co-Chairman of the newly organized US-Philippines Business Society, a non-profit society which seeks to broaden the relationship between the United States and the Philippines in the areas of trade, investment, education, foreign and security policies, and culture.
Awards
Mr. Pangilinan has received numerous prestigious awards including Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines (TOYM) Award for International Finance (1983), The Presidential Pamana ng Pilipino Award by the Office of the President of the Philippines (1996), Best CEO in the Philippines by the Institutional Investor (2004), CEO of the Year (Philippines) by Biz News Asia (2004), People of the Year by People Asia Magazine (2004), Distinguished World Class Businessman Award by the Association of Makati Industries, Inc. (2005), Management Man of the Year by the Management Association of the Philippines (2005), Order of Lakandula (Rank of Komandante) by the Office of the President of the Philippines (2006). He was voted as Corporate Executive Officer of the Year (Philippines) and Best Executive (Philippines) at the 2007 and 2008 Best-Managed Companies and Corporate Governance Polls conducted by Asia Money. Mr. Pangilinan also received the Best CEO award from Finance Asia Magazine (2012) and the Executive of the Year Award from the Philippine Sports Writers Association (PSA) (2014).