Executive Profile

Rafael Fernandez de Mesa likes to open with a joke. In another life, he says, he might have been the first Rafa people talked about. Instead, that distinction belongs to Rafael Nadal. Fernandez de Mesa found his arena elsewhere, trading baseline rallies for balance sheets.

In January 2023, as East West Banking Corp. entered a new leadership chapter, Jerry G. Ngo became chief executive officer, bringing a lifelong belief that banking is “the physiology of the economy”—the system that keeps commerce alive.

Edwin R. Bautista is a distinguished Filipino banking executive with over three decades of leadership experience in the financial services industry. Appointed president and chief executive officer of Philippine National Bank (PNB) effective April 29, 2025, he leads one of the country's largest and most established banking institutions at a pivotal stage of strategic modernization and growth.

Romeo D. Uyan, Jr. is the president, chief executive officer and director of China Banking Corporation, a role he assumed on April 1, 2023 following confirmation by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ Monetary Board.

Ramon See Ang, born on January 14, 1954, in Tondo, Manila, is one of the country’s most influential corporate figures.