Francisco C. Sebastian

Chairman

65, Filipino

Mr. Sebastian is concurrently the vice chairman of Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company and GT Capital Holdings, Inc. He is also a director of Metro Pacific Investments Corporation, and Federal Land, Inc.

He joined the Metrobank Group in 1997 as president of First Metro, a position which he held for 13 years until 2011 when he became chairman.

Mr. Sebastian joined Ayala Investment and Development Corporation in 1975 and was seconded in Hong Kong. He worked as an investment banker in Ayala International Finance Limited and then Filinvest Finance (HK) Ltd. until 1984. He then started his own corporate and financial advisory firm based in Hong Kong, Integrated Financial Services Ltd., which he managed until he returned to the Philippines to join the Metrobank Group in 1997.

Mr. Sebastian graduated Magna Cum Laude with an AB degree in Economics Honors from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1975.

Arthur Ty

Vice Chairman

52, Filipino

Mr. Ty currently serves as the chairman of Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company, vice chairman of Philippine Savings Bank, chairman of Metropolitan Bank (China) Ltd., and chairman of GT Capital Holdings, Inc.

He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in BS Economics and obtained his Master's degree in Business Administration from Columbia University.

Rabboni Francis B. Arjonillo

President/Director

 60, Filipino

Mr. Arjonillo was appointed president and director of First Metro on January 1, 2016. He is concurrently the chairman of First Metro Securities Brokerage Corporation. He has more than three decades of extensive international and local banking experience.

He spent 18 years in Citibank with most recent roles as consumer bank treasurer in Australia and country treasurer in Vietnam where he was the founding chairman of the Vietnam Bond Market Forum, the precursor of the Vietnam Bond Market Association. Prior to joining First Metro, he was the head of Treasury and Investment Banking Sector of Land Bank of the Philippines. Right before that, he was the chief risk officer of China Bank. He started his banking career in Bank of the Philippine Islands as a management trainee and had a brief stint with UCPB.

Mr. Arjonillo was also a former president and director of the Money Market Association of the Philippines and vice president of the ACI Financial Markets Association, where he also acted as organizing committee chairman of its 18th Asia Pacific Foreign Exchange Congress.

He was an assistant professorial lecturer at De La Salle University, teaching courses in Economics and Finance for nine years. He regularly conducts lectures in the Bankers Association of the Philippines’ Treasury Certification Program. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors.

Mr. Arjonillo holds an AB Economics degree from De La Salle University and a master’s degree in Business Management from the Asian Institute of Management.

Ismael G. Cruz

Director

74, Filipino

Mr. Cruz has over 30 years of experience in investment banking in the Philippines and in other parts of Asia. He spent 17 years of his career in Hong Kong where he became chief executive of three regional merchant banking organizations: Ayala International Finance Ltd., Filinvest Finance (HK) Ltd., and Elders Finance Group of Australia. He served as governor of the Philippine Stock Exchange and the Makati Stock Exchange for several years. He was also governor of the Subdivision and Housing Developers Association.

Currently, he is the president of the Philippine Association of Securities Brokers and Dealers, Inc.; governor of the Market Governance Board of the Philippine Dealing System, Inc. and the Makati Commercial Estate Association, Inc.; trustee of the Securities Investor Protection Fund, Inc.; an independent director of Penta Capital Investment Corp.; the founder and president of IGC Securities, Inc.; and the chairman and president of Carmen Homes, Inc. Mr. Cruz is also a member of the Capital Markets Council of the Philippines.

He holds a BS Economics degree and completed academic requirements for a Master in Business Management degree from the Ateneo de Manila University. In 1981, he was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines in the field of International Finance.

Martin Q. Dy Buncio

Director

54, Filipino

Mr. Dy Buncio has served as a director since 1995 and brings with him over 23 years of experience in interdisciplinary management.

Currently, he is the chairman of the board of Pro-Oil Corp. and Pro-Auto Parts. He is also the president/director of Banam Global Holdings Corp.; president of Proline Sports Center Inc., HJ Marketing, Design Products Manufacturing, Proline II Mercantile, DYBCOM CORP., and Integra Development Corp.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from De La Salle University.

Philip G. Soliven

Independent Director

57, Filipino

Mr. Soliven is the president and country representative of Cargill Philippines, Inc., the main operating company and the parent company of Cargill’s various businesses in the Philippines. He is also the commercial director for various Food Ingredients and Bio-Industrial (FIBI) businesses and the president of Philippine Bio-Industries, Inc., a Cargill joint venture.

He also represents Cargill on the board of C-Joy Poultry Meats, Inc., a Cargill-Jollibee Foods joint venture. Mr. Soliven joined Cargill in 1995 as a Singapore-based manager in the Financial Markets Trading Group, then Cargill’s proprietary financial trading business. He managed the group’s investment portfolio for the Philippines and subsequently moved to the Philippines where he assumed the country lead role concurrent with his responsibilities as Asia Pacific regional treasurer.

He began his professional career with the First National Bank of Boston, Manila branch, as a foreign exchange trader. In 1984, he moved to the bank’s corporate headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts to assume a role in corporate banking. In 1985, he was assigned in Hong Kong as manager of the bank’s corporate banking business. During his six years in Hong Kong, he occupied a number of positions across Corporate Loan Recovery, Treasury Sales-Foreign Exchange, Debt Trading and Trade Services. In 1991, he relocated to Singapore as vice president for corporate banking covering clients in Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand.

Mr. Soliven is currently a director of the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, and is also chairman of its Agribusiness committee. In addition, he serves as a director at the Rotary Club of Makati, as well as a member of the U.S. ASEAN Business Council, Makati Business Club, and Management Association of the Philippines.

Mr. Soliven holds a degree in Business Management from the Ateneo de Manila University.

Rufino Luis T. Manotok

Independent Director

68, Filipino

Mr. Manotok held several key positions at Ayala Corporation: senior managing director, chief financial officer, chief information officer, and head of Strategic Planning Group. He was also a member of the Senior Management Committee of the Ayala Group of Companies. He also served as the chairman and president of Ayala Automotive Holdings Corp., Honda Cars Makati, Inc., Isuzu Automotive Dealership, Inc., Isuzu Iloilo Corporation, and Prime Initiatives, Inc.; president and treasurer of Mandaue Primeland, Inc.; president of Honda Cars Cebu, Inc.; chairman of Ayala Aviation Corporation; and director of Globe Telecom, BPI Family Bank, Ayala Systems Technology, Inc., AC International Finance Ltd., and AYC Holdings Limited.

Mr. Manotok finished his AB Economics degree from the Ateneo de Manila University and obtained his master’s degree in Business Management from the Asian Institute of Management. He also completed the Advanced Management Program of Harvard Business School.

Raphael Perpetuo M. Lotilla

Independent Director

59, Filipino

Mr. Lotilla remains active in policy studies. He currently serves as a trustee of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies, and chairs the board of the Center for the Advancement of Trade Integration and Facilitation and of the Asia-Pacific Pathways to Progress Foundation.

Mr. Lotilla is an independent director of several private companies and foundations, and sits as a member of the advisory board of the Ateneo de Manila University Professional Schools.

He was Secretary of Energy of the Philippines from 2005 to 2007, having previously served as Deputy Director General of the National Economic and Development Authority, and president and CEO of the government-owned Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp.

He previously served as Regional Programme director of the Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia, a regional project funded by the Global Environment Facility and implemented by the United Nations Development Programme.

Mr. Lotilla was a professor of Law at the University of the Philippines where he also obtained his law, psychology, and history undergraduate degrees. He received his Master of Laws from the University of Michigan.

Joshua E. Naing

Director

 58, Filipino

Mr. Naing is a seasoned banker with over 30 years of experience. He started his career with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas until he joined the Metrobank Group in 1989 as OIC. For 11 years since 2002, he served as controller. He also held several directorship positions in the following companies: Global Business Power Corporation; Cebu Energy Development Corporation; Metrobank Technology, Inc.; Data Serve, Inc.; Philippine AXA Life Insurance Corporation; Multi Currency FX Corporation; Toyota Manila Bay; Metro Remittance (Spain), S.A.; Metro Remittance (Italia), S.p.A.; and MBTC Remittance GmbH (Vienna); and Metro Remittance Center, Inc. (USA).

From 2013 to present he has been the head of the Financial Control Sector of Metrobank. Concurrent to his position as senior executive vice president of Metrobank, he also serves as director of Manila Medical Services , Inc. since April 2018, Metro Remittance (Hong Kong) Limited since 2009, and MB Remittance Center (Hawaii), Ltd. since 2010.

Mr. Naing earned his BSC Accountancy degree from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.