Board of Directors

Marilyn A. Victorio-Aquino

Non-Executive Director

AGE: 67
CITIZENSHIP: Filipino
FIRST ELECTED DIRECTOR: April 18, 2013
LAST RE-ELECTED DIRECTOR: June 25, 2023

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Ms. Aquino was educated at the University of Santo Tomas (A.B.) and the University of the Philippines (LL.B., cum laude). She placed second in the 1980 Philippine Bar Examinations and was admitted to the practice of law in the Philippines in 1981.

BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND/ EXPERIENCE
Ms. Aquino joined Sycip Salazar Hernandez and Gatmaitan Law Offices in the Philippines in 1980 where she became a partner in 1989. Her practice focused on banking, finance and securities, construction and infrastructure, investments, mergers and acquisitions, and mining and natural resources.

Ms. Aquino is an Associate Director of First Pacific Company Limited, which she joined in 2012. She is the President of First Coconut Manufacturing, Inc. and a Director of Philex Mining Corporation, Philex Gold Philippines, Inc., Silangan Mindanao Mining Company, Inc., Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company, and Maynilad Water Services, Inc. She was appointed Chief Legal Counsel and Senior Vice President of PLDT Inc. in January 2019, and was elected Corporate Secretary in January 2022.

Listed companies in the Philippines of which Ms. Aquino is currently a director:
  1. PXP Energy Corporation
  2. Philex Mining Corporation
  3. Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company