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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Premium Leisure Corp.’s Board of Directors is responsible in fostering the long-term success of the Corporation – to sustain its competitiveness and profitability in a manner consistent with its corporate objectives and the best interests of its stockholders and other stakeholders. The Board determines and reviews annually, together with Management, the Corporation’s vision, mission, goals and strategies. The Board guides and takes the lead in the development of and approves the Company’s business objectives and strategies annually, and monitors their implementation in order to sustain the Company’s long-term viability and strength. The Board of Directors shall meet at least (6) times a year, with meetings scheduled before or at the start of the year.
New Directors are provided an on-boarding/orientation session by the Chief Compliance Officer. This session provides discussion about the Company’s vision, mission, core values, its business, corporate objectives as well as the By-Laws, Articles of Incorporation, Board Charter, corporate structure and best corporate governance practices. In addition, the new Directors are appraised about financial reporting , relationships with management and investors, and significant regualtions on compliance and listing requirements.
The Company also provides general access to training courses to its directors as a matter of continuous professional education as well as to maintain and enhance their skills as directors, and keep them up-to-date in their knowledge and understanding of the Company’s business.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
(elected to serve the 2024-2025 period)
WILLY N. OCIER
| Age: | 67 years old |
| Designation: | Chairman, Executive Director Chairman, Executive Committee |
| Date of 1st Election: | June, 1999 |
| No. of Years in the Board: | 23 years |
Professional and Educational Background:
Mr. Willy Ocier, 67, is an Executive Director and Chairman of Premium Leisure Corp. He is also the Chairman and Director of Belle Corporation, APC Group, Inc., Pacific Online Systems Corporation, Total Gaming and Technologies, Inc. and PremiumLeisure and Amusement, Inc. and Vice Chairman of Highlands Prime, Inc. He is the Chairman and Director of Tagaytay Midlands Golf Club, Inc., and one of the Directors of The Country Club at the Tagaytay Highlands, Inc. Mr. Ocier is also the Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Philippine Global Communications, Inc., He is a Director of Leisure and Resorts World Corporation. He also sits as a Director to the following unaffiliated corporations, IVantage Equities, Philequity Management, Inc., Abacore Capital Holdings, Inc. and Toyota Corporation Batangas. He was formerly President and Chief Operating Officer of Eastern Securities Development Corporation.
Mr. Ocier graduated from Ateneo de Manila University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. In recognition of Mr. Ocier’s corporate leadership and role in providing employment opportunities to Filipinos, the University of Batangas conferred him a degree in Doctor of Humanities, honoris causa.
Directorship in Other Publicly Listed Companies:
- Belle Corporation – Executive Director (Chairman)
- Pacific Online Systems Corporation - Chairman of the Board and Chairperson, Executive Committee
- APC Group, Inc. - Director (Chairman)
- Leisure & Resorts World Corp. - Director (Non-Executive)
- Abacore Capital Holdings, Inc., - Director (Non-Executive)
- Vantage Equities Inc., - Director (Non-Executive)
ARMIN ANTIONIO B. RAQUEL SANTOS
| Age: | 56 years old |
| Designation: | Executive Director President and Chief Executive Officer |
| Date of 1st Election: | July, 2017 |
| No. of Years in the Board: | 6 years |
Professional and Educational Background
Mr. Raquel Santos, 56, Filipino, is the Executive Director and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Premium Leisure Corp. (PLC) as well as its subsidiary, PremiumLeisure and Amusement, Inc., He is also the President and Chief Executive Officer of Belle Corporation and Pacific Online Systems Corporation. He is also a Director of APC Group, Inc., Pinoy Lotto Technologies Corporation, Sagittarius Mines, Inc., Tagaytay Highlands International Golf Club, Inc., Manila Golf and Country Club and member of the Board of Trustees of Melco Resorts (Philippines) Foundation Corporation.
Formerly, he was Chief Finance Officer of Aboitizland, Inc., Cebu Industrial Park, Inc. and Mactan Economic Zone II and First Philippine Electric Company. He was also former Governor of the Board of Investments (BOI), served as Assistant Secretary with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Vice Chairman and CEO of Philippine Retirement Authority (PRA), Executive Vice President of Philippine International Trading Corporation (PITC), and Deputy Administrator of Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA). His experience includes stints with multinational companies; Securities 2000 Inc. (Singapore Technologies Group) and First Chicago Trust Company of New York.
Mr. Raquel Santos holds a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Dartmouth College, U.S.A. and Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Major in Finance from Iona College, U.S.A.
Directorship in Other Publicly Listed Companies
- Belle Corporation – Executive Director | President and Chief Executive Officer
- PremiumLeisure and Amusement, Inc. – Executive Director | President and Chief Executive Officer
- Pacific Online Systems Corp. - Executive Director | President and Chief Executive Officer
GREGORY L. DOMINGO
| Age: | 69 years old |
| Designation: | Director |
| Date of 1st Election: | April, 2024 |
| No. of Years in the Board: | 1 year |
Professional and Educational Background:
Mr. Domingo, Filipino, 69, is currently a Board Adviser to SM Investments Corporation, a Board Director of BDO Private Bank, the private bank subsidiary of Philippine’s largest bank, an Independent Director of Alternergy Holdings Corporation, a publicly listed renewable energy company, and a Board Director for a few other smaller companies. He worked in the private sector for the last 40 years and served twice in the Philippine government – once as Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry from July 2010 to December 2015 and the other as Head of the Board of Investments from May 2001 to April 2004. During his stint in the government, he chaired the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Trade Ministers meetings in 2015 and was a Vice Chairperson of the World Trade Organization Ministerial meeting in Nairobi in 2015. He is credited as a key person in the takeoff of the business process outsourcing industry in the Philippines.
He had a distinguished banking career in the U.S spanning 15 years with institutions such as First Boston, Drexel Burnham Lambert and Mellon Bank eventually becoming a Managing Director in the Treasury group of Chemical Bank before deciding to return to the Philippines in the mid 1990s.
He holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from the Asian Institute of Management and a Master of Science in Operations Research from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Management Engineering at the Ateneo de Manila University.
Directorship in Other Publicly Listed Companies:
- SM Inveastments Group - Board Adviser
- BDP Private Bank - Board Director
- Alterenergy Holdings Corporation - Independent Director
JACINTO C. NG, JR.
| Age: | 54 years old |
| Designation: | Director |
| Date of 1st Election: | April 2024 |
| No. of Years in the Board: | 1 year |
Professional and Educational Background
Mr. Ng, 54, Filipino, is a non-executive director of Belle Corporation since August 2000. He is a member of the Executive Committee, Audit Committee, and Risk Oversight Committee of Belle Corporation.
He is the Group Executive Officer of the Joy~Nostalg Group, Founder and Chairman of the Joy~Nostalg Foundation, a member of the Rebisco Foundation, XS86 Men for Others Foundation, Inc., Xavier School Educational Trust Fund and Xavier School Inc.’s Board of Trustees. He is a director of Tagaytay Midlands Golf Club, Inc.
Mr. Ng, Jr. holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture from the University of the Philippines.
Directorship in Other Publicly Listed Companies
- Belle Corporation - Non-executive Director
ATTY. MA. GRACIA M. PULIDO-TAN
| Age: | 68 years old |
| Designation: | Lead Independent Director |
| Date of 1st Election: | June, 2021 |
| No. of Years in the Board: | 2 years |
Professional and Educational Background:
Atty. Tan, 68, Filipino, is an independent director of the Company. She is likewise an independent director of Belle Corporation and Pacific Online Systems Corporation. She is the former Chairperson of the Commission on Audit, Undersecretary of Finance and Commissioner of the Presidential Commission on Good Government. She is currently a Trustee of the International Budget Partnership, an international NGO based in Washington DC, USA. She is also a member of the Tax Faculty of the Philippine Judicial Academy. She is a director of several Philippine corporations, a tax consultant and legal adviser of some private clients, and an accredited Arbitrator of the Construction Industry Arbitration Commission, Philippines and Philippine Dispute Resolution Center, Inc, Philippines.
Atty. Tan served as Chairman of the United Nations Independent Audit Advisory Committee, the first Filipino to have been elected to this 5-member Committee. She is also a professor at the University of the Philippines for Mandatory Continuing Legal Education.
Backed by four decades of professional work in the Philippines and abroad as a private law and accounting practitioner, government official, arbitrator and international consultant. She is an expert in the fields of legal, finance, audit, governance, dispute resolution and administration.
She graduated from the University of the Philippines in 1977 with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Accountancy and in 1981 with Bachelor of Laws. In 1987, she obtained her Master of Laws (Tax) from the New York University. She is a Certified Public Accountant.
Directorship in Other Publicly Listed Companies:
- Belle Corporation – Independent Director
- Pacific Online Systems Corporation - Independent Director
LAURITO E. SERRANO
| Age: | 63 years old |
| Designation: | Independent Director Member, Corporate Governance Committee Member, Related Party Transactions Committee and Compensation and Remuneration Committee |
| Date of 1st Election: | April, 2023 |
| No. of Years in the Board: | 1 year |
Professional and Educational Background:
Mr. Serrano, 63, Filipino, is an Independent Director of the Company.He concurrently serves as Independent Director of Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation, Axelum Resources Corp., and Anglo-Philippine Holdings, Inc. He is also a director in privately-held MRT Development Corporation. As independent director in listed entities, Mr. Serrano serves as chairman or member of such companies’ audit, compliance, and risk committees. Mr. Serrano is a former partner of the Corporate Finance Consulting Group of SGV & Co.
He is a Philippine Certified Public Accountant and has a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Harvard Graduate School of Business. His area of specialization is Financial Advisory and Corporate Finance in a broad range of clients and industry sectors.
Directorship in Other Publicly Listed Companies:
- Pacific Online Systems Corporation - Independent Director
- Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation. – Independent Director
- 2Go Group, Inc. – Independent Director
- Axelum Resources Corp. – Independent Director
- Anglo Philippine Holdings Corporation - Independent Director
PAQUITO L. OCHOA, JR.
| Age: | 62 years old |
| Designation: | Independent Director |
| Date of 1st Election: | April, 2024 |
| No. of Years in the Board: | 1 year |
Professional and Educational Background:
Atty. Ochoa, 62, Filipino, founded PNO Management and Legal Consulting in September 2016 after completing his term as a government official. He is currently the President of Manuel L. Quezon University (MLQU) from October 2020.
He is a founding member and partner (on leave) of Marcos Ochoa Serapio Tan Law Firm from 2006 to 2010 and a partner in De Mesa & Ochoa Law Offices from 1995 to 2001.
Atty. Ochoa served as Executive Secretary (Office of the President, Republic of the Philippines) from July 2010 to June 2016. During this period, he also chaired various national government committees among which were, the National Organizing Committee of the 2015 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and National Organizing Committee on the Visit of His Holiness Pope Francis in January 2015. He is the longest serving Executive Secretary to date and the only individual to serve the full term of a President.
He also served as City Administrator of the Quezon City Local Government from January 2003 to June 2010 during which period, he introduced prudent spending practices which together with improved revenue collection, allowed the City Government to balance its budget and achieve unprecedented increase in income.
After his career in public administration (from 2016 to present), Atty. Ochoa focused on leading a team that provides advisory services in two major areas: 1) financial advisory services which include conduct of customary financial due diligence; analysis of business operations, financial condition, and prospects; evaluation of debt capacity and capital structure alternatives; financial restructuring; pre acquisition and post-acquisition evaluation; negotiations leading to Transactions (BOT or JV); and 2) legal and regulatory compliance which include legal due diligence; preparation of contracts and other documents covering transactions, including negotiations; and compliance with government rules and regulations.
Atty. Ochoa holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the Ateneo De Manila University (class of 1985). He completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Santo Tomas in 1981.