Cezar Consing

Mr. Consing is the President and Chief Executive Officer of publicly-listed Ayala Corporation (“AC”) and has been a Director thereof since 3 December 2020. He has been a member of the Ayala Group Management Committee since April 2013. He is also a Director of the Bank of the Philippine Islands (“BPI”) and Globe, both of which are publicly-listed subsidiaries of AC. He is also advisor of the board of ALI. He is the Chairman of Philippine Dealing System Holdings and its three operating subsidiaries since 2010. He is also a Director of the Myanmar-listed First Myanmar Investment Public Company Limited. Concurrently, he is the Vice Chairman of AC Infrastructure Holdings Corporation, AC Industrial Technology Holdings, Inc., AC Energy and Infrastructure Corporation, and Ayala Healthcare Holdings, Inc., and a Director in Asiacom Philippines, Inc. Mr. Consing is Vice Chairman of BPI’s executive committee, and a board director of its investment bank, microfinance bank and asset management company. He is currently a board trustee of the Philippine-American Educational Foundation, which selects the Fulbright scholars, a member of the National Mission Council of De La Salle Philippines, a board trustee of the College of St. Benilde, and a board trustee of the Manila Golf Club Foundation. He is a board director of Filgifts.com. He has been a member of the Trilateral Commission since 2014. Mr. Consing was a Senior Managing Director of AC and President and CEO of BPI from 2013 to 2021. In the latter capacity, he served as the chairman of BPI’s thrift bank, investment bank, UK-registered bank, microfinance bank, property and casualty insurance joint venture and leasing and rental joint venture and board director of its asset management company and its life insurance joint venture. He served as Chairman and President of the Bankers Association of the Philippines from2019 – 2021, and President of Bancnet, Inc. from 2017 – 2021. Mr. Consing was a Partner of The Rohatyn Group from 2004 – 2013. He headed its Hong Kong Office and its private investing business in Asia and was a board director of its real estate and energy and infrastructure private equity investing subsidiaries. He worked for J.P. Morgan & Co. in Hong Kong and Singapore from 1985 – 2004. He headed the firm’s investment banking business in Asia Pacific (ex Japan) from 1997 – 2004 and served as President of J.P. Morgan Securities (Asia Pacific) Ltd. As a senior Managing Director, Mr. Consing was a member of the firm’s Global Investment Banking Management Committee, its Asia Pacific Management Committee, and its Global Managing Director Selection Committee. Further, he worked for BPI from 1981 – 1985, joining as a management trainee and eventually rising to Assistant Vice President. During this period, and on a part-time basis, he taught Economics in theMBA program of De La Salle University. Mr. Consing has served as an independent board director of four publicly listed companies in Asia: 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). He has served as a board director of the Singapore-based SQREEM Technologies, the Singapore-listed Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd, the Hongkong-based Asian Youth Orchestra, the US-Philippines Society, Endeavor Philippines, and La Salle Greenhills.

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