Cezar P. Consing

Mr. Consing served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) for eight years from 2013 to 2021, and was also a Senior Managing Director of Ayala Corporation, BPI’s controlling shareholder. Mr. Consing is the chairman of Philippine Dealing System Holdings and its three operating subsidiaries, a position he has held since 2019. Mr. Consing is a director of the following listed companies, namely: Ayala Corporation, Globe Telecom, Inc., and AC Energy Corporation. He is also a director of the Singapore-listed Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd. and the Myanmar-listed First Myanmar Investment Public Company Limited.

Mr. Consing first worked for BPI, in corporate planning and corporate banking, from 1981-1985. He worked for J.P. Morgan & Co., based in Hong Kong and Singapore from 1985-2004. He headed the firm's investment banking business in Asia Pacific from 1997-2004, the last five years as President of J.P. Morgan Securities (Asia Pacific) Ltd. As a senior Managing Director of J.P. Morgan, he was 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 2004-2013, headed its Hong Kong office and its private investing business in Asia, and was a Board Director of its real estate, energy, and infrastructure private equity investing subsidiaries.

Outside his association with BPI and the Ayala Group, Mr. Consing serves on the board FILGIFTS.com, SQREEM Technologies and Endeavor Philippines. He has also served as an independent board director of the following companies: 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).

Mr. Consing has also served on the board of the Hong Kong-based Asian Youth Orchestra. He is a Board Director of the US-Philippines Society and the Philippine-American Educational Foundation, and a trustee of the College of St. Benilde, La Salle Green Hills, and the Manila Golf Club Foundation. Mr. Consing has been a member of the Trilateral Commission since 2014.

Mr. Consing received an A.B. Economics degree (Accelerated Program), magna cum laude, from De La Salle University, Manila, in 1979. He obtained an M.A. in Applied Economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1980.