EMPERADOR DISTILLERS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board
- Vice Chairman of the Board
Mr. Tan was first elected as Director and Chairman of the Board on August 28, 2013. He holds position in the following other listed companies:
Job Titles:
- Corporate Secretary
- Senior Corporate Legal Counsel
Ms. Llovido was first elected as Assistant Corporate Secretary on 20 May 2019 until her appointment as Corporate Secretary on April 30, 2020.
Ms. Llovido concurrently serves as Senior Corporate Legal Counsel of Emperador Distillers, Inc. She is an experienced in-house counsel with 14 years of practice in mergers and acquisitions, financing, regulatory compliance, transactional contracts negotiation, data privacy, litigation, labor and intellectual property law. She is the data privacy officer of Emperador Inc. and Emperador Distillers, Inc.
Job Titles:
- Chief Finance Officer, Corporate Information Officer and Compliance Officer
Ms. Inting was first elected as Compliance Officer and Corporate Information Officer on 28 August 2013.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the AUDIT COMMITTEE
- Chairman of the CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE
- Independent Director
- Member of the BOARD RISK OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
- Senior Fellow
Prof. Soriano was first elected as Independent Director of our Company on May 16, 2016. He is an Asean Family Business Coach, Book Author and the Executive Director of the Wong + Bernstein Strategic Advisory Group.
An active member of the Singapore Institute of Directors (SID), Prof Soriano is currently a Senior Fellow on Governance at the IPMI International Business School in Jakarta, a former Governance Consultant of the International Finance Corporation/World Bank Group and spent two decades as faculty, chair of the Marketing Cluster and Program Director for Real Estate at the Ateneo Graduate School of Business in Manila. He was also a former President of the Association of Marketing Educators.
He holds a B.A. in History from the University of the Philippines, an MBA from De La Salle University, and Doctorate Units at the UP National College of Public Administration. He also completed an Executive Diploma in Directorships at the Singapore Management University and pursued Executive Education at the National University of Singapore Business School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
Ms. Tan was first elected as Director and Treasurer on 28 August 2013. She holds position in the following other listed companies:
Mr. Tan was first elected as Director on 28 August 2013. He is also the Corporate Secretary and Executive Director of Emperador Distillers, Inc. and the Vice President for New Product & Innovation and the Head of Research & Development He is concurrently Director of Anglo Watsons Glass, Inc., ProgreenAgricorp, Inc.,Consolidated Distillers of the Far East, Inc., Emperador Brandy, Inc., The Bar Beverage, Inc., The Andresons Group, Incorporated, and Yorkshire Holdings, Inc. Mr. Tan graduated from Southern New Hampshire University with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Accountancy.
Mr. Tan, was elected as Director on 04 October 2017. He holds position in the following other listed companies:
Job Titles:
- Independent Director
- Chairman and Independent Director of STI Education Services Group, Inc
Mr. Jesli A. Lapus is currently Chairman and Independent Director of STI Education Services Group, Inc. since 2013 and Chairman of LSERV Corporation since 2012. He is Independent Director of Information and Technology Academy (iAcademy) since 2010, Philippine Life Financial Assurance Corporation since 2012 and STI Education Systems Holdings, Inc. since 2013. He is also an Advisor of Radiowealth Finance Company, Inc. He is a former Chairman of the Board of Investments, Philippine Exports Zone Authority, National Development Corporation, Export Development Council, Export Development Council, Micro, Medium and Small Enterprises Council (MSMED), Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) and Manila Tytana Colleges. He is a former Board Member of the Land Bank of the Philippines, Philippine Airlines, Meralco, and Union Bank of the Philippines; former Governor/Trustee of the Asian Institute of Management, Management Association of the Philippines, and Bankers Association of the Philippines; and former Advisor of Philplans First, Inc.
As a top executive in the private sector, he has successfully managed celebrated firms and a universal bank in attaining industry leadership. As the youngest President and CEO of the Landbank of the Philippines at 42 years old, Lapus steered the bank from number 18 to become the 3rd biggest in the banking industry. As the first Filipino and the youngest Managing Director of the German multinational company Triumph International (Phils.), Inc. from 1979-1985, he led it to become the biggest manufacturing operation of its kind in the world making it a top Philippine exporter and employer.At 23, he was the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) of the Ramcar Group where he engineered mergers and acquisitions which established Ramcar as the undisputed market leader in the country. At age 20, he was Auditor-in-Charge and Management Consultant at SGV& Co.
Mr. Lapus has the distinction of having served in the cabinets of three (3) Philippine Presidents in the following capacities: Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry, Secretary of the Department of Education, President and CEO of The Land Bank of the Philippines, and Undersecretary of the Department of Agrarian Reform. He had been elected member of the Philippine Congress for three consecutive terms in 1998-2007 where he spearheaded many famous legislation such as the 2005 Fiscal Reform Measures (EVAT, SinTaxes, Tax Amnesty and Attrition Law).
Mr. Lapus has been elected by the 180-country international organization, the United Nations Educational and Scientific Council (UNESCO) in Paris, France as a member of its Executive Board.He also served as the President of the South East Asian Ministers of Education Council (SEAMEO).
Mr. Co was first elected as Director and President on 28 August 2013.