is an independent director of the Company. He currently the Independent Director of Cebu Air, Inc. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of First Philippine Holdings Corporation, First Gen Corporation, Energy Development Corporation, and several of these companies’ subsidiaries.

Prior to joining Energy Development Corporation and First Gen Corporation, Mr. Tantoco worked with the management-consulting firm Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc. in New York and London as well as Procter and Gamble Philippines. Mr. Tantoco serves as a Trustee in the board of several non-profit organizations – Cebu Pacific Foundation, Inc., Oscar M. Lopez Center For Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management Foundation, Inc., and The Eugenio Lopez Foundation, Inc.

Mr. Tantoco obtained his B.S. Business Management degree from the Ateneo de Manila University where he graduated with honors, and his MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.