Filipino, 36 years old, was elected as director of BPI in September 2022. Mr. Urquijo is a member of the Bank’s Risk Management Committee and Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee. He serves as a Director of ACEN Corporation, AC Ventures Holding Corp., AC Industrial Technology Holdings, Inc., AC Infrastructure Holdings Corporation, and Integrated Micro-Electronics, Inc., and Chairman of Klima 1.5 Corp. He is also Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Ayala Foundation and an Independent Advisor to the Board of Directors of Ayala Land, Inc.
Currently, he is the Chief Sustainability and Risk Officer (CSRO) of Ayala Corporation. He was previously Vice President for Business Development at Ayala Corporation’s listed energy platform, ACEN Corporation. During his tenure at ACEN, Mr. Urquijo led initiatives to expand the group’s asset portfolio in the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Most recently as country manager for Indonesia, he established ACEN’s office in Jakarta. These initiatives resulted in 500MW of operating wind and solar assets in Vietnam and over 2GW of pipeline projects for ACEN across the region. He continues to be a member of the Board of Directors of several foreign affiliates of ACEN Corporation.
Mr. Urquijo served as director of BPI AIA Life Assurance Corporation (formerly BPI-Philam Life Assurance Corporation) from 2021 to 2022. He held a key manager position in the Corporate Strategy and Business Development Group of Ayala Corporation from 2016 to 2020. He was a founding member and Head of Business Development of AF Payments, Inc. from 2014 to 2016, a joint venture between Ayala Corporation and the Metro Pacific group which won a Public Private Partnership (PPP) concession to replace the ticketing system of the LRT and MRT of Metro Manila with a unified contactless ticketing system, called the Beep Card. The Beep Card was the first interoperable transport card in the Philippines. He started his career at J.P. Morgan in New York in 2010 where he served as an analyst and associate until 2013.
Mr. Urquijo is a Trustee of the Asian Institute of Management, Hero Foundation, and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Philippines. He also serves as Director of the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines.
Mr. Urquijo graduated with a degree in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame in 2010 and received his M.B.A. from INSEAD in 2018.
Mr. Urquijo is a director of the following publicly-listed companies: Integrated Microelectronics Inc. and ACEN Corporation.
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