Other Directorships and Experience
He is a Senior Legal Counsel of Angara Concepcion Regala & Cruz Law Offices (ACCRALAW); incumbent President of the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX); former President of the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) and continues to serve MAP as the Chairman of the Membership Committee, National Issues Committee and Management Man of the Year Search Committee. He previously served as President, CEO and Director of Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc. (PSE), President & CEO of Securities Clearing Corporation of the Philippines (SCCP), and President of the Shareholders’ Association of the Philippines (SharePHIL).
Outside InLife, Francis is a Director of Converge Information and Communications Technology Solutions, Inc. (a Publicly Listed Company) and Alphaland Corporation; Non-Executive Director of Air Asia Aviation Group Limited (Malaysia) and an Independent Director of Union Bank of the Philippines or UBP (a Publicly Listed Company) and First Philippine Holdings Corporation. He is a Trustee of SharePhil, CIBI Foundation, Inc.,Judicial Reform Initiative, Inc., Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX), Chairman and Trustee of Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX) Research Foundation, Inc., Vice-Chairman of FINEX Academy, Inc., and a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD). He is a member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), Philippine Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the Advisory Committee for the Asian Principles of Business Restructuring Project of the III and Asian Business Law Institute.
Academic and Professional Qualifications
Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) and Bachelor of Philosophy (magna cum laude) degrees from University of Santo Tomas; Bachelor of Laws (Second Honors), Ateneo de Manila University; Master of Laws from the University of Pennsylvania, USA; member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, Philippine Bar Association, New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association; Fellow, Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD).
2021 Seminars Attended
He attended InLife’s 2021 Annual Corporate Governance Training (ICD’s Distinguished Corporate Governance Speaker Series); ICD’s Advanced Corporate Governance Training; Union Bank of the Philippines (UBP) University’s “Refresher Course for Directors on Anti-Money Laundering, Countering the Financing of Terrorism, and Countering Proliferation Financing”.