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.
