Geronimo Z.

Velasco

Ronnie Velasco was a mechanical engineer who won the 1977 Management Man of the Year
award, as well as the first president of Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC). He was the
chairman of Republic Glass Holdings Corp, which used to own the pioneer factory that supplied
70 percent of Philippine glass requirements for home and building construction since the year
1956. The firm then sold its shares in Republic-Asahi Glass Corp. to its Japanese partner Asahi
Glass in the year 2001. He also served as energy minister from the years-1978 to 1986, wherein
he implemented the strategic goal of reducing the dependence of the Philippines on imported oil.

Diosdado “Dado” Banatao

This Filipino is a high-tech entrepreneur and innovator in Silicon Valley California. He is an

electrical engineering cum laude graduate from the Mapua Institute of Technology, a prestigious
engineering school in the Philippines. He also has a master’s degree in electrical engineering and
computer science in Stanford University. He is credited for having developed the first 10-Mbit
Ethernet CMOS with silicon coupler data-link control and transceiver chip, the first system logic
chip set for IBM, as well as the local bus concept and the first Windows Graphics accelerator
chip for PC’s. He is co-founded Mostron, Chips and Technologies and S3 graphics.

Lucio C. Tan

He is a science and history buff who studied chemical engineering at Far Eastern University in
the Philippines, as a working student. According to a Philstar article, he said he attended night
and Sunday classes. He is a self made tycoon, who continues to read nonstop until now. He is
ranked as the third richest billionaire in the Philippines for 2016, with a net worth of
US$4Billion.
David Consunji

Consunji is a civil engineering graduate from the University of the Philippines, a prestigious
university in the Philippines. He is ranked by Forbes as the fifth richest billionaire in the
Philippines with a net worth of US$3 Billion. He is big in construction with DMCI, as well as
infrastructure, real estate, minin and power.
Francis Chua

Chua is an industrial engineering, cum laude graduate from the University of the Philippines. He
is president of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce & Industry (PCCI) and is also former
member of the UP Board of Regents
Ramon S. Ang

Ang is a mechanical engineering graduate from Far Eastern University and is the Vice-
Chairman, President and Chief Operating Officer of San Miguel Corporation. He is transforming
San Miguel Corp. form a beer giant into a more diversified conglomerate that has huge
investments in infrastructure, energy, and other fields. Because of his bold and strategic reforms,
beer and foods now constitutes only 20 percent of San Miguel’s total business. He is also
Chairman of Cyber Bay Corporation and Eagle Cement Corporation.

Henry Lim Bon Liong

Lim is a mechanical engineering graduate from the University of the Philippines. He is a leader
in Philippine paper products with Sterling Paper Group. In the past years, he is being known as a
pioneer of hybrid rice technology, with his SL Agritech Corp, he is working to promote
Philippine rice self-sufficiency

Bayani Fernando

Fernando is a mechanical engineering graduate of Mapua. He is formerly known as the Metro

Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman, and the mayor of Marikina, a city in the
Philippines. Before he entered the world of politics, he was the founder of the BF Group of
Companies, with construction, steel, manufacturing and real estate businesses. Fernando built the
country’s tallest building, the tallest hoping malls, as well as industrial and residential
subdivisions and other facilities. According to Fernando, engineers like him “are more practical
and prefer to focus more on solving problems.”
  Discipline: Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (with honors)
 Alma Mater: Northwestern University
 Fortune 500 Rank: 23 (-3)
 Total Compensation (FY 2013): $13,965,677

Nigel Paul Villarete

Nigel Paul C. Villarete (born September 18, 1962) is a Filipino civil engineer and urban
planner. He is the General Manager of the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA), located
in Mactan Island, Lapu-lapu City, Cebu, Philippines, and the Chief Executive Officer of the
Mactan-Cebu International Airport Authority (MCIAA).[1]

Prior to his appointment to MCIA, Villarete served as the City Administrator of Cebu City in
2001 to 2003, and its City Planning and Development Coordinator[2] from 2003 to 2010. He was
also Chief of the Infrastructure Development Division of the National Economic and
Development Authority (NEDA) – Regional Office No. 7 in 1989 to 1994.[3] He is a Member of
the Board of Civil Engineers of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC)[4] of the
Republic of the Philippines.

Academic background
Villarete completed his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (BSCE), magna cum laude,
from the Cebu Institute of Technology (CIT) in 1983. He earned his Master of Engineering
(M.Eng.) from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Bangkok, Thailand in 1986.[5] In 1999,
he completed hi Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning (DURP) from the University of the
Philippines – School of Urban and Regional Planning (UP-SURP) in Diliman, Quezon City,
Philippines.

Professional background
Villarete started his engineering career in the academe, as a Member of the Faculty, Civil
Engineering Department of the Cebu Institute of Technology in 1983. In 1986, he was appointed
as the Head of the Civil Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Architecture, of
the University of the Visayas (UV) in Cebu City, Philippines.

In 1989, he was appointed as Monitoring and Evaluation Engineer of the Province of Cebu, and
later was appointed as Chief of Infrastructure of NEDA Reg. 7, a post he held until 1994. In
1995, Villarete then became the Manager for Planning, Studies, and Development (PSAD)
Division, of SCHEMA Konsult, Inc. (SKI) – Cebu Office. In 1999, he was also appointed as
Senior Lecturer II at the University of the Philippines Visayas – Cebu College (UPVCC),
Management Division, and taught Urban Planning subjects until 2010.

In 2001, then Mayor Tomas Osmeña appointed Villarete as City Administrator of Cebu City.
After two years, Osmeña appointed Villarete as City Planning and Development Coordinator, a
position he held until October 25, 2010, when he was appointed as General Manager of the
Mactan-Cebu International Airport, CEO of MCIAA. During his term in the Cebu City
Government, former mayor Osmeña had particularly tasked Villarete with the city's two major
projects: as Project Manager of the South Reclamation Project (SRP), and as Project
Development Officer of the Cebu City Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). He publicly stated his
preference for Villarete to stay with the project.[6][7] In September 2009, Nigel Paul Villarete was
appointed by former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as a Member of the Board of
Civil Engineering, Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), which is the official Philippine
Government agency who gives the Licensure Examination[8] for the professional practice of Civil
Engineering, and to regulate the practice of the profession under the Civil Engineering Law.[9]

Current appointment
Following his election as the fifteenth president of the Republic of the Philippines last May 10,
2010, President Benigno Aquino III has selected Nigel Paul C. Villarete to head the Mactan-
Cebu International Airport (MCIA).[10][11][12] This move was supported by the Liberal Party
(President Aquino's party) in Cebu[13] and by Cebu City's incumbent mayor, Michael L. Rama,[14]
who stated his support for Villarete, in response to Cebu Provincial Governor Gwendolyn Garcia
who stated that the Presidential endorsement was not assurance for Villarete.[15] He was selected
by the MCIAA Board on October 20, 2010,[16] and on October 26, 2010, Nigel Paul Villarete
assumed office as the Chief Executive Officer of the Mactan-Cebu International Airport
Authority (MCIAA)[17] replacing Brigadier General Danilo Francia (Ret.). The appointment was
welcomed by Governor Gwen Garcia.[18][19]