The influential Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) has elected Ramoncito Fernandez, the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of water concessionaire Maynilad Water Services Inc., as its new president for 2018.
Fernandez is the 69th president of the MAP, which has been promoting management excellence for nation-building since its inception in 1950.
Fernandez holds directorships in Metro Pacific Investments Corp., Metropac Water Investments Corp. and some subsidiaries of PLDT Inc. including Pacific Global One Aviation Company, Tahanan Mutual Building and Loan Association, and First Pacific Leadership Academy.
He has been the president and CEO of Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC), Tollways Management Corp. and MPCALA Holdings.
He has been with the First Pacific/MVP Group since 1994.
A BS Industrial Management Engineering graduate of De La Salle University, Fernandez also holds an MBM from the Asian Institute of Management.
He completed his Advanced Management Program of IESE (Spain)/University of Asia and the Pacific in 2014.
Fernandez will lead the MAP in 2018 along with other board members including Donald Lim of Dentsu Aegis Network Philippines (vice president); Rizalina Mantaring of Sun Life Financial Philippines (treasurer), Cesar Romero of Shell Companies (assistant treasurer) and Maria Carolina Dominguez of John Clements Consultants Inc. (secretary). —DORIS DUMLAO-ABADILLA