BJ has more than 30+ years of experience in strategy and finance from some of the largest corporations in the Philippines.

He was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Strategist at JG Summit where he led M&A, strategic finance, & business development for the Group and presided over landmark deals, which includes the acquisition of JG’s telco, Sun Cellular. He was also concurrently Senior Vice President in Universal Robina Corporation, Robinsons Land Corporation, Cebu Pacific, and Robinsons Retail Holdings.

Prior to joining JG Summit in 2002, he was the Senior Vice President and Chief Corporate Strategist at RFM Corporation and PSI Technologies. He was also Chief Economist and the Director of the Policy and Planning Group at the Department of Trade and Industry.

He holds a BA in Economics from the University of the Philippines and an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management.

Fun Fact: BJ is a pastor at Greenhills Christian Fellowship and jokes that he’s only a part-time professional. He is also a music enthusiast -- his musical passions are the guitar and choral conducting.

Ian comes from a telco & financial services background where he held senior executive roles in Oriente (founded by ex-Lufax veterans), Mynt (backed by Ant Financial), and BPI Globe BanKO (1st mobile phone-based bank in the PH). He was a tech lending pioneer focused on driving inclusive access to credit while building a sustainable loan portfolio through mobile technology & big data.

Prior to this Ian managed & delivered enterprise-wide & C-level strategic programs at Globe Telecom, the leading telco in the Philippines. He focused on the consumer business (mobile, fixed & wireless broadband, MVNO) driving initiatives in sales & distribution, product development, new business development, strategic investments, and transformation management.

Fun Fact: Ian is passionate about technology, fintech, data, and gaming. At one point in time he wanted to be a professional drummer but he found out that he is better with numbers than keeping rhythm.

Mara has more than 15+ years of extensive strategy & finance experience across the JG Summit Group.

She started her career in JG’s management training program where she focused on strategic finance projects for the Land and Retail businesses. Mara moved on to take care of route planning and revenue management for Cebu Pacific, the leading airline in the country.

She transitioned to strategy & finance roles within JG Summit and its companies, focusing on corporate finance, capital markets, M&A, business development, and investor relations, becoming Director of Investor Relations in 2013. In 2017, she was appointed CFO for Danone Universal Robina Beverages (JV between Danone and URC) and had a brief stint as the Head of Investor Relations & Compliance Officer for Eagle Cement.

Mara graduated cum laude with BBA in Business Administration at Siliman University and completed her MS in Finance at the University of the Philippines - Diliman.

Fun Fact: While Mara’s a driven and inspired professional, she's a self-proclaimed homebody. Cooking and binging movies & series at home brings her a lot of joy.

Caesar has more than 20+ years experience as a technology leader across financial services, telco, logistics, and retail. His passion for payments led him to take leadership roles in Cashalo and VMoney, where he led the development of their payments platforms as Director of Technology & Payments and Director of Mobile Applications respectively. In logistics, he was the founding CTO of Xend, a pioneer within the digital logistics industry in the Philippines.

Prior to this he founded a software development shop where he provided development & technology consulting to a diverse set of clients. Caesar spent his formative years at Information Gateway & Entertainment Gateway Group developing content products for local (Globe, Smart, and Sun) and US telcos.

Fun Fact: Caesar is a true-blue technologist — he is passionate about discovering emerging technologies and thinks of them as crime scenes that need to be solved. He used to be in a rock band, and still loves writing songs and jamming with friends. He also likes reading books, especially in the mystery/fantasy genre and does not shy from more risqué titles. His favourite stories are from Neil Gaiman and Steve Berry.

Myles is a product manager and a pioneer of the fintech lending space in the Philippines. He has held multiple product management roles in Mynt (Ant Financial investee in the Philippines) and BPI Globe BanKO (1st mobile first bank in PH).

He managed non-traditional loan products and credit scoring technologies to provide users with ’thin files’ to get access to credit. He launched GScore, the 1st public credit score in the Philippines made available through the GCash app, and managed a consumer lending product & portfolio, Instaloan, the first fully digital microloan product that relied on non-traditional data and a fully automated underwriting process.

Myles is a two-time awardee of the Chairman’s Prize in innovation, the Ayala Group’s highest innovation award. He holds a BS in Manufacturing Engineering with a specialization in Mechatronics and Robotics from De La Salle University.

Fun Fact: Myles has an insatiable curiosity when it comes to technology and data. Outside of work, he's a gamer and a collector of gunpla plastic models.

Erwin is a finance professional with 10+ years experience in research, financial management, and governance.

He began his career as an auditor for KPMG in their Silicon Valley office and pursued various finance roles in the private and public sectors. In the private sector, he has worked as an equity analyst for COL Financial Group and was a corporate planning manager for the #1 Philippine mall operator, SM Supermalls.

In the public sector, he has worked in the executive and legislative branches as a corporate governance officer for Governance Commission for GOCCs and as a political affairs officer in the House of Representatives.

Erwin has passed the California Board of Accountancy exams and is working on passing the CFA Level III exam.

Fun Fact: Besides watching his favorite movies and TV shows, Erwin spends most of his time balancing his attention to his three young sons.

Mr. James is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of JGSHI. He had been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of JGSHI since January 1, 2002.

He is also the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Oriental Petroleum and Minerals Corporation and Chairman of Cebu Air, Inc. He is Chairman Emeritus of Universal Robina Corporation, Robinsons Land Corporation, JG Summit Petrochemical Corporation, and JG Summit Olefins Corporation.

He is the Vice Chairman of Robinsons Retail Holdings, Inc. and a director of Marina Center Holdings, Private Limited, United Industrial Corporation Limited, and Hotel Marina City Private Limited. He is also the President and Trustee of the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation, Inc.

He has been a director of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) since November 3, 2011. He is a member of the Technology Strategy Committee and Advisor of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of PLDT. He was elected a director of Manila Electric Company on December 16, 2013.

Mr. James received his Bachelor of Science degree and Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Lance is President and CEO of JG Summit Holdings, Inc. JG Summit is one of the leading Philippine Conglomerates with core businesses in real estate, food, air transportation, financial services, & petrochemicals. The Group has investments in the telecommunications and power industries. It is a regional player with businesses in Southeast Asia and Australasia.

He is Chairman of Robinsons Retail Holdings, the Philippines’ second largest retailer; Vice Chairman of Manila Electric Company; and trustee and secretary of the Gokongwei Brothers Foundation, Inc.

He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Science from the University of Pennsylvania, Summa cum laude.

Fun Fact: Lance is a voracious reader, especially fond of biographies and business books. He loves to travel with his family, discovering new places, enjoying new activities, and most importantly, spending time with them. He is an entrepreneur at heart, and is often found looking for the next big business idea.

BJ has more than 30+ years of experience in strategy and finance from some of the largest corporations in the Philippines.

He was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Strategist at JG Summit where he led M&A, strategic finance, & business development for the Group and presided over landmark deals, which includes the acquisition of JG’s telco, Sun Cellular. He was also concurrently Senior Vice President in Universal Robina Corporation, Robinsons Land Corporation, Cebu Pacific, and Robinsons Retail Holdings.

Prior to joining JG Summit in 2002, he was the Senior Vice President and Chief Corporate Strategist at RFM Corporation and PSI Technologies. He was also Chief Economist and the Director of the Policy and Planning Group at the Department of Trade and Industry.

He holds a BA in Economics from the University of the Philippines and an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management.

Fun Fact: BJ is a pastor at Greenhills Christian Fellowship and jokes that he’s only a part-time professional. He is also a music enthusiast -- his musical passions are the guitar and choral conducting.

Lisa is the Founder & CEO of Summit Media, the largest digital lifestyle publisher in the Philippines and among the top three outdoors media operators. Under Lisa’s leadership, Summit Media was one of the first publishing companies in the Philippines to completely shut down their print business and fully go digital. She was involved in growing Jobstreet to become the #1 job portal in the Philippines prior to its sale to SEEK.

She concurrently leads JG Summit’s Digital Transformation Office, the division responsible for driving digital initiatives across the Group and the General Manager of Gokongwei Brother’s Foundation.

Lisa has a BA in Communication from Ateneo de Manila University and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University.

Fun Fact: Lisa enjoys reading, watching Netflix, and attending art shows.

Brian is currently the General Manager of URC Global Exports where he oversees sales to over 50 countries, with customers principally in North Asia, the Americas, Africa & Middle East, with products from URC’s plants across the ASEAN region. He has more than 20+ years general management experience across telecom, real estate, and food industries.

He was previously CEO for the Singapore, Malaysia, and Brunei businesses of URC and the CFO of Ding Feng Real Estate (DFRE) China Group of Companies. During his telco years he worked at Sun Cellular (acquired by PLDT in 2011) as the Head of Corporate Planning and later Managing Director of Digitel One, its enterprise business.

Brian sits on the boards JG Summit Petrochemical Corporation and several of the DFRE companies in China, and is a Senior Advisor at RobinsonsBank.

He started his career in consulting with Booz Allen & Hamilton in New York, USA. He graduated cum laude with a BA degree from Harvard University and an MBA degree from Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA program.

Fun Fact: Brian is a life long learner, fascinated by history, technology, and science in general. In his spare time he enjoys reading, running, swimming, and spending time with family. He’s recently started playing the saxophone again.