Cosco Capital, Inc. (COSCO)

Cosco Capital, Inc. (COSCO)

Board of Directors

 
Mr. Lucio L. Co
Chairman of the Board
 

Aside from his chairmanship in Cosco Capital, Inc., Mr. Co also holds vital positions in other PSE-listed companies: he is the Chairman of The Keepers Holdings, Inc., and a Director of Puregold Price Club, Inc. and Philippine Bank of Communications (PBCOM).

He concurrently acts as the Chairman and President of: Bellagio Holdings, Inc., Canaria Holdings Corporation, Ellimac Prime Holdings, Inc., Invescap Incorporated, Puregold Duty Free, Inc., and Puregold Properties, Inc.; and the Chairman of the following companies: Alcorn Petroleum and Minerals Corporation, Entenso Equities, Inc., NE Pacific Shopping Centers Corporation, PG Holdings, Inc., Pajusco Holdings Corporation, Puregold Duty Free (Subic), Inc., Puregold Finance, Inc., Puregold Realty Leasing & Management, Inc., San Jose City I Power Corp., Makabayan Holdings Incorporated, Union Energy Corporation, and Union Equities, Inc.

Furthermore, he is a duly elected member of the Board of Directors of the following companies: Bacolod Real Estate Development Corporation, Catuiran Hydropower Corporation, Cleangreen Energy Corporation, Forbes Corporation, Grass Gold Renewable Energy (G2REC) Corporation, Karayan Hydropower Corporation, Kareila Management Corporation, LCCK & Sons Realty Corporation, Inc., Meritus Prime Distributions, Inc., Montosco, Inc., League One Finance and Leasing Corporation, Pamana Water Corporation, Tower 6789 Corporation, Illido Management Corporation, KMC Realty Corporation, Negros Water Company, Patagonia Holdings Corp., PPCI Subic, Inc., S&R Pizza Harbor Point, Inc., S&R Pizza, Inc., and VS Gripal Power Corporation; and a member of the Board of Trustees of Luis Co Chi Kiat Foundation, Inc.

Mr. Co has been an entrepreneur for the past 50 years.

 
Mr. Leonardo B. Dayao
President
 

Mr. Dayao is the President of the Company. Mr. Dayao also holds the following positions in other PSE-listed companies: Vice-Chairman of the Philippine Bank of Communications, and Executive Director of Puregold Price Club, where he served as the President from 2005 to 2014.

Concurrently, he is the Chairman and President of Fertuna Holdings Corp.; Chairman of Catuiran Hydropower Corporation, Grass Gold Renewable Energy (G2REC) Corporation, Kareila Management Corporation, League One Finance and Leasing Corporation, Pamana Water Corporation, PSMT Philippines, Inc., S&R Pizza, (Harbor Point) Inc., S&R Pizza, Inc.; Vice-Chairman of Ayagold Retailers, Inc.; President of NE Pacific Shopping Centers Corporation, Puregold Duty-Free (Subic), Inc., Puregold Finance, Inc., San Jose City I Power Corp., Union Energy Corporation; Vice-President of Alerce Holdings Corp., Bellagio Holdings, Inc., KMC Realty Corporation, Puregold Duty-Free, Inc., Puregold Properties, Inc. and Union Equities, Inc.; and Director of Canaria Holdings Corporation, Entenso Equities Incorporated, Karayan Hydropower Corporation and Puregold Realty Leasing & Management, Inc.

Mr. Dayao is a Certified Public Account. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Commerce from the Far Eastern University. He completed the Basic Management Program at the Asian Institute of Management and earned units in MBA from the University of the Philippines-Cebu.

 
Mrs. Susan P. Co
Vice-Chairman
 

Mrs. Co is the Vice-Chairman of the Company. She is also the Chairman of Puregold Price Club, Inc. and a Director of the Philippine Bank of Communications (PBCOM), which are both PSE-listed companies.

Concurrently, she is the Chairman and President of Cosco Price, Inc., Chairman of Kareila Management Corporation, Tower 6789 Corporation, President of Makabayan Holdings Incorporated, and Director of Bellagio Holdings, Inc., Blue Ocean Holdings, Inc., Canaria Holdings Corporation, Ellimac Prime Holdings, Inc., KMC Realty Corp., Meritus Prime Distributions, Inc., Montosco, Inc., NE Pacific Shopping Centers Corporation, PG Holdings, Inc., Patagonia Holdings Corp., PPCI Subic, Inc., Premier Wine and Spirits, Inc., Puregold Duty Free (Subic), Inc., Puregold Duty Free, Inc., Puregold Properties, Inc., Puregold Finance, Inc., Puregold Realty Leasing & Management, Inc., San Jose City I Power Corp., S&R Pizza (Harbor Point), Inc., S&R Pizza, Inc., Blue Origin Holdings Incorporated, Illido Management Corporation, Union Energy Corporation, and Union Equities, Inc.

Mrs. Co graduated from the University of Santo Tomas and received a Bachelor of Science degree in Commerce.

 
Mr. Levi B. Labra
Director
 

Mr. Labra is one of the Company's Executive Directors. He also acts as the Board Consultant of Puregold Price Club, Inc., and a Director of Philippine Bank of Communications (PBCOM), which are both PSE-listed companies.

Before joining the Company, he worked at Procter & Gamble (P&G) for 35 years where he served as the Sales Head and a management committee member for 20 years. He also served as the P&G’s Regional Sales Manager for three years, building sales organizations and systems for India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and Thailand.

He graduated Cum Laude from the University of San Carlos in 1978 with a degree of Bachelor of Science, major in Business Administration.

 
Mr. Roberto Juanchito T. Dispo
Director
 

Mr. Dispo is currently the President/CEO of League One Finance and Leasing Corporation, Chairman of Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Company of Manila, Inc., Mercantile Insurance Corporation, Blacksburg Corporation, Pontificio Collegio Filipino in Rome, and Vice Chairman of New San Jose Builders.

Mr. Dispo was the former Vice Chairman and President of Cirtek Philippines from 2016 to 2019 and CEO of Quintel USA/UK from 2017 to 2019. He became President of First Metro Investment Corporation from 2011 to 2015 and Senior Vice President and Executive Vice President of First Metro Investment Corporation from 1998 to 2010. He was a former Deputy Treasurer of the Philippines, National Treasury, Department of Finance from 1990 to 1997.

Mr. Dispo started his career as a Financial Analyst in the Department of Trade and Industry from 1988 to 1990 and as an Administrative Officer in the Department of National Defense from 1987 to 1988.

Mr. Dispo graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Economics from San Sebastián College, Manila, in 1984. He then took a Bachelor of Science major in Management from the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila in 1990 and a Master’s in Business Administration from the same school in 1991. He completed a Diploma Program from the International Banking and Finance Economic Institute, the University of Colorado, in 1994 and a Master?s in Business Economics from the University of Asia and the Pacific in 2014.

He has been a member of the Money Market Association of the Philippines since 1998 and FINEX since 2012. Mr. Dispo was the 2014 CEO of the Year awardee given by the Asia CEO Awards and became a Finalist in CNBC Asia Best CEO in 2014.

 
Ms. Cecilia C. Borromeo
Independent Director
 

Ms. Borromeo has served the Company as an Independent Director since 2023. She was the President and CEO of the Land Bank of the Philippines from March 2019 to May 2023, President and CEO of the Development Bank of the Philippines from January 2017 to February 2019, and Executive Vice President in various sectors and departments in the Land Bank of the Philippines from 1989 to 2017.

Ms. Borromeo graduated from the University of the Philippines with a Bachelor of Science in Agribusiness in 1979. She took a Master's in Business Administration from Dela Salle Business School from 1980 to 1982 and a Post Graduate Course in Advanced Bank Management from the Asian Institute of Management in 1995 and Pacific Rim Bankers Course in the University of Washington, USA in 2015.

She was awarded the Outstanding CEO Award in May 2023 by the Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia and the Pacific, the 2021 Distinguished Alumni Award for Corporate Governance in the field of Banking and Finance in February 2022 by the University of the Philippines Alumni Association and 2019 Outstanding Alumna of College of Economics and Management (CEM) of the University of the Philippines, Los Baños (UPLB).

 
Atty. Lily K. Gruba
Director
 

Ms. Gruba is the Founding Partner of Gruba Caganda Advincula Melo & de la Fuente (Gruba Law), Director of Asia United Bank, Executive Director for Fr. Joaquin Bernas' SJ Center for Continuing Legal Education, and Faculty Member in Ateneo de Manila University College of Law. She was a Bar Examiner for Taxation in 2019 and 2007 and Commercial Law in 2012. She was an Associate Dean for Fr. Joaquin Bernas' SJ Center for Continuing Legal Education from March 2003 to May 2018; She was also the Undersecretary in the Department of Finance from July 1998 to January 2001; and Vice-President and Special Assistant to the President General Counsel in the Land Bank of the Philippines from 1987 to 1992. Atty. Gruba authored three books: A Survey of the Amendments Introduced by Train Law, 2019; Guide Notes and Cases on Tax Remedies, 2018; and Guide Notes and Cases on the General Principles of Taxation and the Organization of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, 2016.

She was nominated Tax Lawyer of the Year for Southeast Asia in 2023 (Legal500) and one of The Philippines Top 100 Lawyers from 2018 to 2024 (Asia Business Legal Journal). She speaks English, Filipino, Fukien, and Mandarin.

She graduated from the University of Santo Tomas in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, and a Bachelor of Laws from the Ateneo Law School, Ateneo de Manila University in 1976. She was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 1977. She took a Master of Law in 1981 from the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington D.C., United States of America.

 
Mr. Ramon Jesus P. Paje
Independent Director
 

Mr. Paje has served as Independent Director of the Company since 2022.

Dr. Paje served as Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) under President Benigno S. Aquino III from 2010-2016. As DENR Secretary, he implemented, among others: Total Logging Ban, which saved our forests for the future generations; National Greening Program, which improved the country’s forest cover; Geohazard Mapping, which significantly enhanced the country’s disaster preparedness; and the upgrading of fuel standard from Euro 2 to Euro 4, significantly decreasing the fuel’s Sulfur content from 500 ppm to 50 ppm thus reducing air pollution. Likewise, Secretary Paje pursued the Philippine claim to the Benham Rise (now Philippine Rise), through the efforts of the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA), resulting in the approval by the United Nations in April 2012 and increasing the country’s territorial waters and natural wealth by more than 13 Million hectares. He also signed for the Republic of the Philippines, the historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change on April 22, 2016.

 
Mr. Antonio S. Abacan, JR.
Independent Director
 

Mr. Abacan served as a Monetary Board Member of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas from July 2017 to July 2023. He has held several executive positions within the Metrobank Group, including Group Vice-Chairman, Senior Adviser for First Metro Investment Corporation, and Chairman of the Board for various companies such as Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company, Toyota Financial Services (Phil). Inc., Sumisho Motor Finance Corporation, Manila Doctors Hospital, and Manila Tytana Colleges, Philippine Charter Insurance and Honorary Chairman for Orix Metro Leasing and Finance Corporation.

Additionally, he served as Director and Corporate Secretary of the Bankers Association of the Philippines and as President of Metropolitan and Bank Trust Company for 14 years, Philippine Savings Bank, and Data Serv Corporation.

Mr. Abacan was the Director for Banking, Finance, and Taxation at the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Governor of Makati Commercial Estate Association, and a member of the Management Association of the Philippines. He also serves as a Senior Adviser for the Metrobank Foundation and as a Member of the Board of Trustees for GT Metro Foundation and Piso for Unity, Peace, and Progress Foundation.

Mr. Abacan earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from the Mapua Institute of Technology, majoring in Banking and Finance, and from Far Eastern University, majoring in Accounting. He completed an Executive Program at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, California, United States. Additionally, he was granted an honorary Doctorate in Business Administration (Honoris Causa) from the Philippine Women?s University.

 

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