Philab Holdings Corporation announces new president
PHILAB Holdings Corp., a local health sciences enabling company, has recently announced the entry of Atty. Darlene Marie B. Berberabe to the company as its new president and chief executive officer (CEO).
Ms. Berberabe has been CEO of the state-run Home Mutual Development Fund (Pag-IBIG) since 2010 before joining Philab and was recognized as the “Asia CEO of the Year Award for Public Sector Leadership” and awarded as one of “The Outstanding Women in Nation’s Service for Government Service” by the TOWNS Foundation both in 2013.
Known for her integrity and excellence in public service, she hopes to continue in her public service, this time, in the private sector.
“Philab’s mission of making health care a priority — viable and affordable to everyone regardless of their wealth or lack of and stature in life, appealed to me, and I thought, I want to be part of this,” Ms. Berberabe said.
Ms. Berberabe graduated summa cum laude from UP Diliman (BA Philosophy, 1989) and salutatorian of the class 1999 of the College of Law in UP where she also taught from 1988 until 2008. Prior to pursuing law, she secured a Master of Arts Degree in Philosophy in 1995 in the same institution.
Philab former president and CEO Tom Navasero now sits as the Chairman of the Board.
Aside from Ms. Berberabe, the company’s new board includes Jun Tsusaka, managing partner, chief investment officer of Nippon Sangyo Suishin Kiko Ltd. and former head of TPG Capital and Goldman Sachs Mergers and Acquisitions; Edgardo Faylona, a global oncologist and pathologist based in Nevada USA; Exequiel VillaCorta, Jr., a director of BDO Leasing and Finance, Inc. and Premium Leisure Corp.; Wai Leong Chan, an Eric Salmon & Partners consultant and cofounder of DTCA Private Limited; and Sylvia A. Navasero, a Philab director since 1971.