Maynilad’s Mon Fernandez named 2018 MAP president
RAMONCITO “Mon” Saldua Fernandez is the president of the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) for 2018. He is the 69th president of the MAP since its inception in 1950.
Mr. Fernandez is the president and CEO of Maynilad Water Services. He holds directorships in Metro Pacific Investments Corp., Metropac Water Investments Corp., and some subsidiaries of PLDT including Pacific Global One Aviation Company, Tahanan Mutual Building and Loan Association, and First Pacific Leadership Academy.
He has been the president and CEO of Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC), Tollways Management Corp. and MPCALA Holdings. He has been with the First Pacific/MVP Group since 1994, first under the packaging business and later under the Telecoms Group. He has led the tollways group in its expansion projects, and championed strategies and programs on customer service satisfac- tion, innovation and a performance-driven culture that has promoted profitability and growth of the organization. Under his term, the total length of toll roads owned by MPTC has increased from 90 kms to 350 kms with profitability increasing nearly threefold.
He has varied experiences in industrial marketing, controllership, materials management, logistics, administration and international carrier business.
Mr. Fernandez will lead the MAP in 2018 along with other Board members including Dr. Donald Lim, CEO of Dentsu Aegis Network Philippines, as VP; Rizalina Mantaring, CEO and country head of Sun Life Financial Philippines, as treasurer; Cesar Romero, country chairman of Shell Companies in the Philippines, as asst. treasurer; and Maria Carolina Dominguez, president and CEO of John Clements Consultants, Inc., as secretary.
The other Board members are Rene Almendras, president and CEO of AC Infrastructure Holdings Corp., Romeo Bernardo, managing director of Lazaro Bernardo Tiu & Associates; Alfredo Pascual, special adviser of the University of the Philippines; and Peter Wallace, chair of Wallace Business Forum.