FINEX Institute Directors and Officers

On top of having a degree in Psychology from the Philippine Normal University, Mharicar is also a chartered business administrator and has earned several HR certifications in compensation and benefits, Labor Relations and Talent Acquisition. She also completed the Ayala Group Leader’s Program under Harvard Business Publishing, Digital Business Strategies under Columbia Business School, and Executive Development Program under Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Mharicar began her career in an HR consulting and headhunting firm. Ten years later, she rose to become its Chief Operating Officer. Equipped with a wealth of experience in HR, she then moved on to head the Talent Acquisition group of Globe Telecom, a leading telecommunications company in the Philippines. Later on, she became Director of HR Shared Services of the said company, serving for almost five years. In 2015, she took over Asticom as General Manager and three years later, became President and CEO up to the present.

Her work is focused on Strategy and Organizational Design, Engineering, and Development, including the design and definition of Competency Frameworks, Policies, and Procedures.

She is a Board Director and Vice-President for Internal Affairs of the Financial Executives Institute
of the Philippines (FINEX), a Board Trustee of the Shareholders Association of the Philippines (SharePhil), and a member of the Council of Presidents of AIESEC Alumni Philippines. She is also a member of the Women’s Business Council Philippines ( WomenBiz).

Before her consulting days, Mignon built her career in Finance, becoming Chief Financial Officer and then General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of Otis Elevator Company in the Philippines. She was also a micro entrepreneur, co-owning religious book shops located in the malls, a company providing international administrative services, and a very micro call center.

Mignon is a Certified Public Accountant. She has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration
and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration and Accountancy, both from the University of the Philippines. She has also taken executive courses from the University of Virginia and Yale University, as well as with Hyper Island.

He is also the Chairman of RCBC Securities, Inc., the brokerage arm of the RCBC Group.  Prior to this, he was the President and CEO of RCBC Capital Corporation, the investment banking arm of the RCBC Group.  Mr. Gomez has had more than 30 years of investment banking experience and has helped steer the domestic investment banking industry as President of the Investment House Association of the Philippines for several terms.  Mr. Gomez holds a MBA degree having graduated with distinction from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium and a Bachelor of Science degree, major in Management Engineering, from the Ateneo de Manila University.

She is currently Senior Vice President and Chief Finance Officer for Philippine Operations of ACEN Corporation, the listed energy arm of the Ayala Group of Companies.

Before joining ACEN, she was the Group CFO and Treasurer of Solar Philippines. Prior to this she was with SM Investments Corporation as Vice President for Investments Portfolio and CFO and Treasurer of Sagittarius Mines, Inc. She was also CFO of Alphaland Corporation.

Jing graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Law with a Juris Doctor degree (cum laude, Class Salutatorian) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Accountancy (cum laude). She holds a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School. She is admitted to practice law in the Philippines and New York. She is also a member of the faculty of the College of Law of the University of the Philippines.

She has been a member of FINEX since 2014. She is currently the Co-Chairperson of the Young Finance Officers Committee and was the Co-Chairperson of the 2023 FINEX Week Committee. She is an active member of the Arts and Culture Committee and the 2024 FINEX Week. 

He is currently Head of Philippines Corporate Finance and Capital Markets at CLSA and President and CEO of CLSA Exchange Capital, Inc, and has worked on over 100 capital markets and mergers & acquisitions mandates worth over US$ 14.0Bn in total. From 2018 to 2021, he served as the President & CEO of CIMB Bancom Capital where he started the Philippine investment banking business of CIMB.

Paolo is concurrently an Adjunct Professor at the Asian Institute of Management, where he teaches courses in Investment Banking, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sustainable Business Models, and Entrepreneurial Finance & Valuation. He previously taught at the Ateneo de Manila University J. Gokongwei School of Management, the University of the Philippines School of Economics and Department of Sociology, and at Robert Morris College in Chicago, Illinois.

Paolo has a BS (cum laude) & MA Economics from the University of the Philippines School of Economics and an MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he graduated at the top of his class with a perfect 4.0 GPA. In 2019, he finished the Program for Leadership Development (alternative Executive MBA) at the Harvard Business School.

Aside from being the CFO, Chief Compliance Officer, and Treasurer, Toti also leads the Ayala Land group of firms as Director of AREIT, Inc. and Treasurer of Ayala Land Logistics Holdings Corp.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Ateneo de Manila University and a graduate from the Philippine Trust Institute. He was awarded the Andres K. Roxas scholarship at the Asian Institute of Management, where he earned his Master in Business Management degree.

Prior to that, she was a Partner in Audit and Assurance before she moved to AS, in which she has gained a wide-ranging experience in the audit of local and multinational companies in various industries.  

Mai has been in public accounting for nearly 35 years. She has significant experience in supporting local businesses and foreign investors with their private equity investment acquisition and disposals which includes due diligence, valuation, transaction structuring and post-acquisition support.  She also has experience in supporting family businesses and corporations to transform their corporate governance and internal control systems and business processes.

She also leads the Firm’s Brand & Communications & Business Development Group, which handles public relations and business development.

Mai graduated with a bachelor’s degree in accounting, cum laude, from the University of the East. She has also completed the Management Development Program of the Asian Institute of Management, as well as the Strategic Marketing Management Program of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Mai has also received EMCC Global Individual Accreditation (EIA) as a coach and mentor practitioner from the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).

She also holds various executive and/or directorship positions in the subsidiaries and affiliates of the group.  She was previously a Senior Vice President of SM Investments Corp. (Property Group) and CFO of Malayan Insurance Co., Inc.    She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of the Philippines-Diliman, Philippines and a Certificate of Special Studies in Administration and Management from Harvard University, USA.

She has audited various listed companies in the Philippines and other companies in industries such as consumer products and retail, business process outsourcing, media and entertainment, manufacturing, hospitality, mining, and oil and gas. She also served as a partner in the Transaction Advisory Services practice where she provided financial due diligence, business valuations, and financial reporting valuations review.

Edith earned her Master’s Degree in Business Management from the Asian Institute of Management and attended the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California in 2001. She graduated cum laude from the University of the Philippines-Diliman with a degree in Business Administration and Accountancy and placed 13th in the CPA board examinations.

Antonio Ramon Ongsiako

On a Thursday morning on March 5, many years ago, Tonyboy was born to Edmundo “Baby” de la Paz Ongsiako, Sr. and Hideliza “Delly” Paraiso Tambunting.

When Tonyboy was a toddler, his parents discovered that not only he is a cute toddler but also he is very smart and intelligent. They placed him in a school that would fully utilize his talents. Xavier School, a Jesuit run institution of superior learning was where he finished his elementary and high school.

At the Ateneo de Manila University, Tonyboy enjoyed his college days and studied Economic and History.

Tonyboy started his career as an Account Officer with Planters Development Bank. He then moved to Producers Bank as a Corporate Account Officer (Manager level) and he reported directly to FINEX members Vicente Sarza and Bingo Dejaresco. After a stint in banking and because of the economic situation in the Philippines at that time, he tried his hand in becoming an entrepreneur. He made a bid to become a United States military contractor to operate the Pacific Stars and Stripe Bookstores in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. Surprisingly, he won the bid and for 3 years operated the Pacific Stars and Stripes Bookstores.

Currently, Tonyboy is the President/CEO of PowerNet Systems Corp, an network solutions provider (www.powernet.com.ph), President/Director in Deed Realty and Development Corp., House of Ongsiako, Inc.,. In early 2012, Tonyboy started negotiations with Generika Drugstore/Actimed for the possible franchise of Generika Drugstore. In September 2012, he partnered with his sister and brother-in-law, Margarita and Emmanuel Tan Climaco to establish Generika Ongsiako and Generika Paraiso. They established their first franchise store in October 2012 and their second franchise store in March 2013. As of October 2015, they have 5 franchise stores in the Eastern Makati area, Villamor, and the Tondo, Manila area. Tonyboy has also invested in several real estate properties such as an office condominium unit in Valero St., Makati City, a commercial space in Sta. Rosa Laguna and several smaller studio/1-bedroom type condominium units for lease.

Business is not only Tonyboy’s interest. He believes in making lives better for our more unfortunate brothers. He became a member of the Rotary Club of Makati South in 1995.

He served in various positions in the Club and was the 2002-2003 President. He is also an Assistant Governor and Deputy Chairman of the Coral Reef-Environment Committee for District 3830 (RY 08-09). He also joined Finex (Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines) in 1998. He joined several committees at Finex; Junior Finex Committee, Membership Committee, Environment Committee and the Programs Committee. He is the 2005 & 2006 Junior Finex Chairman. He was a director (2006 to 2010) and was Executive Vice President of FINEX in 2009. Again, he served in FINEX as Director is 2017, 2018 and as Vice President and Director in 2019 and 2020. He was a Trustee for the FINEX Foundation in 2021 and 2022. Currently, he is a Director of FINEX for 2023-2024.

Tonyboy is a mountaineer and he belongs to the AMCI Mountaineering Club (formerly Ayala Mountaineers) where he served as President in 2004. He is also the 2001, 2007, 2018 Chairman of the Board of Trustees of AMCI. He has also finished two (2) full (42km.) marathons: Pasig River Marathon in 2006 and the Hong Kong Marathon in 2008. In 2002, he finished the AUDAX 200KM cycle ride in March 2022 and in December at Subic 2022.

He is also a National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI) Master Scuba Diver, a certified Nitrox diver, Rescue Diver and a dive professional with a Dive Master (NAUI#49497) certification.

He was an advisor of the Department of Finance for the Tax Reform (TRAIN) package for the capital markets. Bing has been a Chairman, President and CEO, Board Director and Senior Vice President of several financial institutions, publicly listed corporations and non-profit organizations. He is also an Independent Director of a government financial institution, an agency of the DOF.

He graduated from the University of the Philippines with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree. He also has a Masters in Business Management degree from the Asian Institute of Management.

Prior to joining the PDS Group, she worked at BPI Capital Corp. and Citigroup (New York). She has been a member of Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX) since 2011 and is currently a FINEX board director. 

Ms. Zulueta earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Legal Management from the Ateneo de Manila University and her Global Professional MBA in Finance from Fordham University in New York, USA.