The Corporation’s members of the Board are elected during the Corporation’s Annual Stockholders’ Meeting. The Corporation has three (3) executive directors, two (2) non-executive directors and two (2) independent directors.

The following are nominated as directors of the Corporation:

Jonathan Gerard A. Gurango, 64, Filipino, served as an independent director of the Corporation from August 11, 2014 to 2022. He assumed the position of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer effective June 6, 2022. Mr. Gurango has a solid track record in forming and running successful software companies. He founded Match Data Systems (MDS) in Seattle, USA in 1987, MDS Philippines in 1991, and MDS Australia in 1996. In 1999, he sold MDS to Great Plains Software, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2001. Mr. Gurango served as the Asia Pacific Regional Director for Microsoft Business Solutions, before he left in 2003 to form Gurango Software. In 2007, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame for Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professionals, in recognition of his mastery of software technology and business. In 2006, the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship acknowledged him as one of the country’s Ten Most Inspiring Technopreneurs. After leading Gurango Software into the most successful Microsoft Dynamics partner in the Philippines, he co-founded several software start-ups and was the President of the Philippine Software Industry Association until 2014. He is presently the Chairman of the Capiz ICT Council, and a director of SERVIO Technologies, Kation Technologies, OfficeGuru, TendoPay, and the Mijares-Gurango

Craniofacial Foundation. Mr. Gurango studied Industrial Engineering at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City. He also studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.

Alexander D. Corpuz, Filipino, 55, was appointed as Director and President of the Corporation effective February 1, 2019. He has also been the Corporation’s Chief Finance Officer since 2014 and Chief Information Officer since 2018. Mr. Corpuz has 31 years of experience in the field of finance, ten years of which was in investment and commercial banking. He was Vice President of Bank of America in 2001, before serving as CFO for Liberty Telecoms, Information Gateway, Mañosa Group of Companies and Hatchd Inc. Mr. Corpuz holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from University of the Philippines, Diliman, Cum Laude. He obtained his Masters in Business Management from the Asian Institute of Management, Makati City. He is a member of the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX). 

Fernando Jude F. Garcia, Filipino, 48, has been the Chief Technology Officer and Director of the Corporation since November 2001. He was also appointed as Treasurer effective February 1, 2019. He also served as Corporate Secretary of the Corporation until December 2014. He created the Corporation’s Griffin Platform, the mobile consumer content gateway and platform for all of the Corporation’s mobile consumer content products and services. He also created the Corporation’s modular middleware system that can easily integrate with any modern billing gateway. He is the chief engineer responsible for the Corporation’s software architecture and systems integration. Examples of such systems and protocols are the following: SMS (CIMD2/EMI-UCP/SMPP), MMS (EIAF/MM7), Voice Services (SIP), Billing/IN (Diameter/UCIP/ParlayX2.1), Security (IPSEC), Publish-subscribe Systems and Video Streaming (RTMP/HLS) and blockchain technology (BTC/ETH). He is also responsible for architecting the Corporation’s fully Cloud-based system infrastructure. Before founding the Corporation, he was a software developer in iAyala. Mr. Garcia holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Physics from the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City.

Wilfredo O. Racaza, Filipino, 73, has been a Director of the Corporation since November 2001.Mr. Racaza has 49 years of marketing and finance experience under his belt. He was the head of New Business Development in Mobil Oil Philippines for 15 years. He previously worked as an insurance executive in Manulife Financial Philippines for 33 years. He is a Registered Financial Consultant (Graduated Cum Laude in May 2015). He has garnered numerous accolades and multiple awards such as Branch of the Year recognitions and consistent agency sales awards. He has been a consistent awardee in the General Agents and Managers Association (GAMA) of the Philippines from 2003 to Present. Mr. Racaza holds a Bachelor of Science in Commerce Degree Major in Accountancy from Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan in Cagayan de Oro City.

Mercedita S. Nolledo, 81, Filipino, has been a Director of the Corporation since November 2001. Atty. Nolledo is currently a director of Anvaya Golf and Nature Club, Inc., and Michigan Holdings, Inc. and a member of the Advisory Board of Ayala Land, Inc. and Bank of the Philippine Islands. She is the Chairman of BPI Investment Management Corporation. She is currently an independent director of D&L Industries, Inc. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of Ayala Foundation, Inc. and BPI Foundation, Inc. She has served as a director of Cebu Holdings, Inc. from 1993 to 2006 and of Ayala Corporation from 2004 to 2010. Atty. Nolledo was formerly Corporate Secretary and General Counsel of the Ayala Group of Companies and the Senior Managing Director of the Ayala Corporation. She served as Executive Vice President, director and Corporate Secretary of Ayala Land, Inc. and as the firm’s Treasurer. Atty. Nolledo placed second in the Certified Public Accountant exams in 1960 and also placed second in the 1965 bar exams. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, magna cum laude, from the University of Philippines. Atty. Nolledo holds a Bachelor of Laws degree, cum laude, from the University of the Philippines.

Imelda C. Tiongson, 56, Filipino, has been an Independent Director of the Corporation since May 7, 2020. She is currently the President of Opal Portfolio Investments (SPV-AMC) Inc. and recently appointed Chairperson and Independent director of Pru Life UK PH and Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Open Finance Oversight Committee.  

In addition, she is also involved in several advocacy organizations; Trustee of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) and Head of Technology Governance Committee, Vice Chairwoman of the Governance Committee of the Management Association of the Philippines, Trustee of Fintech Alliance.ph and Head of Techno Ethics and Trustee of Fintech Philippines Association. She is also a lecturer of various organizations namely; ICD and  Ateneo Graduate School of Business – Center for Continuing Education.

She previously held senior executive positions in National Australia Bank and Philippine National Bank with an aggregate total of 22 years. She was also a Director of Vitarich Corporation and a Board Advisor of East Asia Power Corporation as Creditor-nominee, representing PNB. 

Ms. Tiongson also participated in the Technical working groups which drafted the Revised Corporation Code which was enacted in 2019 and the Financial Rehabilitation and Insolvency Act of 2010. 

Ms. Tiongson obtained her Bachelor of Business in Accountancy from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She also completed a Master Class on Remedial in Asian Institute of Management (AIM), Master Class in Blockchain/Cryptocurrency facilitated by Terrapinn and Master Class in Risk/Audit conducted by Worldbank ICD.

Bartolome Silayan Jr., 53, Filipino has been an independent director of the Corporation since May 7, 2020. He is currently the President of Phoenix One Knowledge Solutions Inc. (“Phoenix One”), a technology corporate training and solutions company which he started in 2005. He is also the President of Cafisglobal Inc, a boutique software services company serving clients in Australia. Prior to Phoenix One, he also founded Mind Stream Inc. in 2001, the franchise holder of NIIT, the largest technology education company from India. Before he became an entrepreneur, he was the Philippine Country Head of The Pillsbury company in 1997. He worked in Hongkong and China in 1994 as Marketing Manager for the Quaker Oats company handling the Gatorade brand. He finished BS Business Management from Ateneo de Manila University and obtained his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg school of management.

Christopher Pineda Monterola, 46, Filipino, is the Corporation’s newly-elected independent director. He was elected in November 18, 2022. He is a physicist and machine learning scientist, an educator, and an entrepreneur. He is currently the Head Professor and Aboitiz Chair in Data Science in the Aboitiz School of Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (“Aboitiz SITE”). He is also the Executive Managing Director and Principal Scientist of the Analytics, Computing, and Complex Systems Laboratory at the Asian Institute of Management (“AIM”) and an Academician at the Philippines’ National Academy of Science and Technology. Prior to joining Aboitiz SITE and AIM, he held various teaching and research expertise positions in several prestigious universities around the world, such as the University of the Philippines, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of the Complex Systems in Germany. A published author, he has more than 100 publications on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Complexity Science, Computational and Statistical Physics, Social Networks, Biological and Granular Physics, Predictive Analytics, Project Management, and Data Analytics. His dedication and passion for innovation and technology were recognized when he became the recipient of various international and local awards from the academe and the research field. Such prestigious awards include the 2016 Country Prize Winner (Singapore), the 2016 SMRT Most Innovative Solution Award and the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) Outstanding Young Scientists Award, among others.