Rizalina G. Mantaring

She was CEO & Country Head of Sun Life Financial Philippines from 2009 – 2018, Chief Operations Officer of Sun Life Financial Asia, responsible for IT & Operations across the region, from 2008-2009, President of the Management Association of the Philippines in 2019, and President of the Philippine Life Insurance Association in 2015.  

Ms. Mantaring was recognized by prestigious award-giving bodies, among which were the Asia Talent Management award at CNBC’s 2017 Asia Business Leader Awards, the 2018 Executive Champion of the Year from the Asia Insurance Review and the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Award (Financial Services, Philippines) in 2016.

Ms. Mantaring is an independent director of Ayala Corporation, First Philippine Holdings Corporation, Universal Robina Corporation, PHINMA Corporation, Maxicare Healthcare Corporation, GoTYME Bank and East Asia Computer Center Inc. She is also a director of Sun Life Grepa Financial Inc. She is a Trustee of the Makati Business Club and Philippine Business for Education.  She is also a Fellow of the Foundation for Economic Freedom.

In 2010, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the UP College of Engineering, she was named one of the college’s 100 Most Outstanding Alumni of the Past Century. In 2019 she received the PAX award, the highest award conferred by St. Scholastica’s College on an outstanding alumna.

A graduate of the University of the Philippines with a B.S. Electrical Engineering degree (cum laude), Ms. Mantaring has an M.S. Computer Science from The State University of New York at Albany and is a Fellow of the Life Management Institute (with distinction).