Cezar 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 & Chief executive officer of Ayala Corporation, and Vice Chairman of BPI, Ayala Land, Inc., and Globe Telecom, Inc.
He is Chairman or Vice Chairman of many of the Ayala Group’s unlisted companies. Mr. Consing is Chairman of the Philippine Dealing and Exchange Corporation. He is a non-executive director of the Private Infrastructure Development Group, an infrastructure development and finance organization owned by the governments of Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. He
is a member of the Trilateral Commission. He is a member of the boards of trustees of the Philippine-American Educational (Fulbright) Foundation, the Philippines – Japan Economic Cooperation Committee, De La Salle University, and the Manila Golf Club Foundation.
Mr. Consing was President & CEO of BPI from 2013-2021. He was a Partner & Co-Head for Asia of the Rohatyn Group, a global alternative asset manager with a focus on the emerging markets, from 2004-2013. He was an investment banker with J.P. Morgan & Co. from 1985-2004. For seven years, Mr. Consing was the Head or Co-Head of Investment Banking for Asia Pacific and President of J.P. Morgan Securities Asia. He worked for BPI from 1981-1985.
Mr. Consing has previously served as Chairman of Philippine Dealing System Holdings, Chairman of the College of St. Benilde, Chairman and President of the Bankers Association of the Philippines, President of Bancnet, and Chairman of the National Reinsurance Corporation, and independent director of Jollibee Foods Corporation, CIMB Group Holdings Berhad and First Gen Corporation. Mr. Consing has previously served as a board director of the Asian Youth Orchestra, the US-Philippines Society, Endeavor Philippines, and International Care Ministries.
Mr. Consing obtained an M.A. in Applied Economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received a degree in AB Economics (Accelerated Program), magna cum laude and the gold medal for Economics from De La Salle University, Manila.
