Board of Directors

Mr. Consing is the chairman of ACEN and has been a director of the company since April 2021. He holds the following positions in publicly listed companies: president and chief executive officer of Ayala Corporation and vice chairman of Ayala Land, Globe Telecom and BPI. He has been a member of the Ayala Group management committee since April 2013. He is the chairman of the Philippine Dealing System Holdings and the College of St. Benilde. Concurrently, he holds the following positions in the Ayala Group: chairman of AC Logistics Holdings Corporation, AC Infrastructure Holdings Corporation, AC Industrial Technology Holdings, AC Ventures Holding, and AC Mobility Holdings; vice chairman of ACEIC and Ayala Healthcare Holdings; and director of Asiacom Philippines and ACEN International. Mr. Consing is currently the vice chairman of BPI’s executive committee, and a member of BPI’s nomination committee. He is a board trustee of the Philippine-American Education Foundation and the Manila Golf Club Foundation. He is a board of director of Filgifts.com. He has been a member of the Trilateral Commission since 2014.

Mr. Consing was a senior managing director of Ayala Corporation and the 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 of director of its management company and its life insurance joint venture. He served as chairman and president of the Bankers Association of the Philippines from 2019-2021, and president of Bancnet, Inc. from 2017-2021. He was a director of the Singapore listed Yoma Strategic Holdings, and the Myanmar-listed First Myanmar Investment Public Company Limited. Mr. Consing has served as an independent board director of four publicly-listed companies in Asia: Jolibee Food 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 Hongkong-based Asian Youth Orchestra, the US-Philippines Society, and Endeavor Philippines.

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

Mr. Ablaza is a director in publicly listed companies Advanced Info Services, PLC (Thailand), iPeople, and Roxas and Company. He is also a director in other Philippine corporations operating in the fields of retail banking, property development, education, infrastructure, and health. He is also a member of the board of trustees in a number of non-profit foundations engaged in social initiatives, namely Ayala Foundation, BPI Foundation, and Gawad Kalinga Foundation. He previously served as director of the Company from 1 July 2019 until 18 March 2021.

Mr. Ablaza retired from full-time executive work in 2017, after performing various corporate executive roles over a period of 43 years. His experience spanned a variety of industries: FMCG, agribusiness, retail banking, telecommunication and water distribution. He served as president and CEO of Manila Water from June 2010 to April 2017. Prior to this, Gerry was the chief operating officer of Globe Telecom in 1997, and its president and CEO from 1998 to April 2009.

He graduated as summa cum laude and obtained his degree in Liberal Arts (Honors Accelerated Program), major in Mathematics from the De La Salle University.

Eric Francia is the President and CEO of ACEN Corporation and serves on its board of directors. He is also a Senior Managing Director and member of the Management Committee of Ayala Corporation. Under his leadership, Ayala established its energy platform from a standing start in 2011, to become one of the largest renewable energy platforms in the region, with ~4,800 MW of attributable renewables capacity across Asia Pacific.

Mr. Francia has also led pioneering initiatives in early coal retirement, including the successful completion of the world’s first market-based Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM).

Mr. Francia earned a Master’s Degree in Management Studies at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, graduating with First Class Honors. He received his undergraduate degree in Humanities and Political Economy from the University of Asia & the Pacific, graduating magna cum laude.

Mr. Zobel de Ayala is a director of ACEN. He is Director of publicly listed companies Globe and AyalaLand Logistics Holdings Corp. He is the co-CEO of AC Industrials, the industrial technologies arm of the Ayala Group which manages a portfolio of companies in the manufacturing and mobility industries. He specifically oversees AC Motors (since rebranded to AC Mobility) as its CEO, managing a mobility portfolio comprised of automotive distribution, dealerships, aftermarket services, and electric vehicle infrastructure businesses. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of AC Industrials, Isuzu Philippines, Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd Singapore (YSH), BPI Capital Corporation, among others. Prior to his roles in AC Industrials and AC Mobility, he was the co-Head of the Strategic Development Group and Head of Business Development and Digital Ventures of Ayala Corporation. Before joining the Ayala Group, he was an Analyst at Goldman Sachs Singapore under the Macro Sales Desk (Securities Division).

Mr. Zobel de Ayala holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from Columbia Business School, New York. He graduated from Harvard University with a Primary Concentration in Government.

Mr. Urquijo joined the Ayala Group Management Committee as Chief Sustainability and Risk Officer (CSO/CRO) of Ayala Corporation in August 2023.

He was previously Vice President for Business Development at Ayala Corporation’s listed energy platform, ACEN Corporation. During his tenure at ACEN, he led the initiatives to expand the group’s portfolio of assets in the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar and Indonesia. Most recently as country manager for Indonesia, he established ACEN’s office in Jakarta. These initiatives resulted in 500MW of operating wind and solar assets in Vietnam and over 2GW of pipeline projects for ACEN across the region.

Prior to his time at ACEN, Mr. Urquijo served as the Head of Business Development for AF Payments, Inc., a joint venture between the Ayala Group and Metro Pacific which was awarded and successfully delivered on a concession to modernize the ticketing system of the LRT 1, LRT 2 and MRT 3. He and the AF Payments team created the Beep Card payment system, which delivered the country’s first interoperable public transport payment card, integrating the rail commute of the 1.5 million commuters who use the LRT and MRT daily, with buses and retail use cases.

In addition to his CSO/CRO role, he is currently a Director of BPI, BPI/MS Insurance, IMI, AC Industrial Technology Holdings, Inc., AC Ventures Holdings Corp., Merlin Solar Technologies, Inc., Merlin Solar Technologies (Phils.), Inc. and Chairman of Klima 1.5 Corp. He is also Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Ayala Foundation.

He is an advisor to the Board of the Philippine Rugby Football Union and is the current President of the Notre Dame Club of the Philippines. He is also an Executive Committee member of the INSEAD Alumni Association of the Philippines and a Trustee of WWF Philippines.

Prior to joining the Ayala Group, Mr. Urquijo was an associate at JP Morgan in New York.

He received his MBA from INSEAD in France and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame in the US.

Ms. Goh is a director of ACEN. She is head, Asia ex-China at GIC Infrastructure. She has coverage responsibility for the Asia-Pacific region with prior experience investing in the US and Europe. GIC was established in 1981 as a private company, wholly owned by the government of Singapore, to manage the foreign reserves of Singapore. It is one of the world’s largest global investors, with well over US$100 billion of assets in more than 40 countries worldwide. Ms. Goh has been a member of GIC’s infrastructure practice since 2008.

Ms. Goh has a master’s degree in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics with Statistics for Finance from Imperial College London.

Mr. Travers is a director of ACEN. He has occupied senior executive roles in the energy sector for more than 25 years and is experienced in multi-disciplinary projects covering global markets, mergers and acquisitions, deal structuring and project development. He has been active in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia leading teams developing conventional and renewable energy projects for ENGIE, a global electricity utility and energy service company.

Prior to leaving ENGIE in 2019, he occupied positions of senior vice president for business development in Indonesia and General Manager for ENGIE Renewables Australia, which was responsible for the development of 2 GW of wind and solar projects. He is currently active in the clean energy and climate tech sectors in Australia and Indonesia. He is a director of New Energy Nexus Ventures, the Southeast Asian venture manager of New Energy Nexus, the world’s largest ecosystem of cleantech accelerators and funds.

Mr. Travers, GAICD, has a PhD in Electrical Engineering, bachelor degrees in Engineering and Science from University of NSW

Mr. Lester is an independent director of ACEN. He was formerly managing director with leading independent investment banking firm, Evercore, and held senior executive positions with J.P. Morgan & Co, The Rohatyn Group, and KPMG. He has advised on numerous landmark public and private market M&A transactions, private and public equity and debt investments and financings across a broad spectrum of industries including: power generation, renewable technologies, forestry products, natural gas distribution, engineering/infrastructure consulting services, petroleum refining and distribution, industrial products, consumer products, medical products, real estate, banking and investment management, among others.

Mr. Lester previously served as non-executive director on various boards of banking, financial and investment companies during his career and has been licensed by relevant Securities, Futures and Investment Ordinances as a professional corporate adviser and investment manager in multiple jurisdictions including: U.S.A., Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Mr. Lester is a Chartered Accountant Fellow with Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. He holds a first class honors, master’s degree for Financial Management, and a bachelor’s degree in Commerce, both from the University of Queensland.

Ms. Ocampo is an independent director of ACEN. She has also been an independent director of publicly-listed company ENEX Energy Corp. since April 2022. She is currently a consultant to the Ricardo Energy and Environment Consulting Firm, a United Kingdom-based company, for a project entitled “The Philippines Grid Diagnostic and Roadmap for Smart Grid Development.” Said project is under the funding support of the United Nations Office for Project Services, with the main task of establishing and developing governance issues to implement the project.

Ms. Ocampo served as president of the Philippine Electricity Market Corporation, a nonstock, nonprofit private organization that governs the country’s wholesale electricity spot market, from 27 March 2009 until 31 July 2017. Her experience includes developing energy policies and programs as undersecretary of the Department of Energy from May 2005 to December 2007. She was also involved in electric utility system regulation, planning and technical feasibility of electric power generation, transmission and distribution systems including granting of electric franchises to both electric cooperatives and private distribution utilities. She has extensive knowledge of energy regulation including petroleum and electricity pricing and competition rules and has provided consulting services to legislators on electricity pricing, particularly on the power purchased adjustments. She was also a consultant in the World Bank’s project on Electric Cooperatives system loss reduction program and to the USAID under the Asia Foundation in its project to introduce the open access and competition in the coverage of Philippine Economic Zone (PEZA). She was a board member (February 1996 to June 1998) and Chairman (August 1998 to August 2001) of the Energy Regulatory Board (now Energy Regulatory Commission). She served as a Division Chief (October 1979 to November 1988) and a director (December 1988 to February 1996) of the National Electrification Administration.

Ms. Ocampo is a certified public accountant. She earned her master’s degree from the University of the Philippines, Diliman, and holds bachelor’s degree Commerce, major in Accounting from the Republic Central Colleges in Angeles City, Pampanga.

Mr. Ang is an independent director of ACEN. Concurrently, he is also an independent director of BPI Capital Corporation, BPI Asset Management and Trust Company, BPI AIA Life Assurance Corporation, BPI/MS Insurance Corporation, and
BPI International Finance Limited (based in Hong Kong). He was formerly an independent director of BPI Securities Corporation (August 2022 – February 2023); part of the Philippine office of the International Finance Corporation (2000-2018) of which he was head (Resident Representative) from 2007-2015; CFO of the Philippine International Air Terminals Company (1998-2000); director for Global Structured Finance, New York City branch of Australia New Zealand Bank (1994-1998); vice president for Trade and Commodity Finance, New York City branch of Generale Bank (1988-1994); assistant vice president in the Asia Division, Irving Trust Company in New York City (1985-1988); budget analyst for the Philippine National Oil Company (1982-1983); and lecturer at the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of the Philippines – Diliman (1981-1982).

Mr. Ang earned his master’s degree in Business Administration (with Distinction) from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of the Philippines, graduating summa cum laude.

Ms. Heras-de Leon is an independent director of ACEN. She previously served as managing director and member of the management committee of Ayala Corporation and president of Ayala Foundation. She was also vice president for policy, government and public affairs of Chevron Geothermal Philippines Holdings where she led corporate affairs for Chevron’s geothermal and natural gas interests and activities in the Philippines.

Ms. Heras-de Leon has held various leadership positions in Greater Houston Partnership and First City National Bank of Texas. She was a former trustee of Assumption Antipolo, Museo de La Salle, Word Wildlife Fund-Philippines and Asia Society Philippines. She also served on the Advisory Board of Texas Children’s Hospital and Asia Society Texas.

Ms. Heras-de Leon holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a bachelor’s degree in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia.