Filipino, 66 years old, was elected as Independent Director of BPI in April 2024. He is currently a member of the Bank’s Personnel and Compensation, Retirement/Pension, Risk Management and Audit Committees. Mr. Paner is also an Independent Director of ENEX Energy Corp. since April 2021. He was likewise an Independent Director of ACEN Corporation from April 2020 to April 2021 and ALFM Funds from January 2022 to March 2024.
Mr. Paner was formerly the Chairman of BPI’s Asset & Liability Committee and was a member of the Management Committee and Asset Management Investment Council. Mr. Paner also served as a Director of BPI Europe Plc, Santiago Land, Citytrust Finance Corp., Citytrust Insurance Brokers, Citytrust Investment Phils., Citytrust Securities Corp., and Citytrust Realty Corporation. He was Treasurer and Trustee of Kaisahang Buhay foundation, a child and family welfare organization promoting support for unwed mothers, orphan care and adoption from 2015 to 2020. He likewise served as President of the Money Market Association of the Philippines (MART) in 1998 and was the Vice Chairman of the Bankers Association of the Philippines’ (BAP) Open Market Committee until 2019. Mr. Paner was a faculty member of the BAP-ATENEO School of Banking until 2019.
After working with Ayala Investments and Development Corporation (1979-1981) and Family Savings Bank (1981-1985), Mr. Paner joined BPI in 1985 when the Bank acquired Family Bank & Trust Company, Inc. Later, in 1989, he became part of Citytrust, the consumer banking arm of Citibank in the Philippines, which BPI also acquired in 1996. He served as the Treasurer and Head of BPI’s Global Markets Segment, where he was responsible for managing the Bank’s interest rate and liquidity gaps, as well as its fixed income and currency market-making, trading, and distribution activities both in the Philippines and abroad, until his retirement in 2019. Prior to this, he was responsible for other businesses of the bank which included Risk Taking, Portfolio Management, Money Management, Asset Management, Remittance, Overseas Banking and Private Banking.
Mr. Paner obtained an A.B. Economics degree from Ateneo de Manila University in 1979 and completed various courses in Business and Finance, including Strategic Financial Management in 2006 and the Advanced Management Program in 2009, both at the Harvard Business School in Boston.
Mr. Paner is a director of ENEX Energy Corp., a publicly-listed company.
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