Jaime Z. Urquijo

Filipino, 35 years old, was elected as director of BPI in September 2022. Mr. Urquijo is a member of the Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee. He also serves as a director of AC Industrial Technology Holdings, Inc., Merlin Solar Technologies, Inc., Merlin Solar Technologies, Inc. (Philippines), AC Ventures Holdings Corp., BPI/MS Insurance Corporation, Integrated Micro-Electronics, Inc., and as Chairman of Klima 1.5 Corp. He is also Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Ayala Foundation.

He is currently the Chief Sustainability and Risk Officer (CSRO) of Ayala Corporation. He was previously Vice President for Business Development at Ayala Corporation’s listed energy platform, ACEN. During his tenure at ACEN, Mr. Urquijo led initiatives to expand the group’s portfolio of assets in the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Most recently as country manager for Indonesia, he established ACEN’s office in Jakarta. These initiatives resulted in 500MW of operating wind and solar assets in Vietnam and over 2GW of pipeline projects for ACEN across the region.

Mr. Urquijo served as director of BPI AIA Life Assurance Corporation (formerly BPI-Philam Life Assurance Corporation) from 2021 to 2022. He held a key manager position in the Corporate Strategy and Business Development Group of Ayala Corporation from 2016 to 2020. He was a founding member and Head of Business Development of AF Payments, Inc. from 2014 to 2016, a joint venture between Ayala Corporation and the Metro Pacific group which won a Public Private Partnership (PPP) concession to replace the ticketing system of the LRT and MRT of Metro Manila with a unified contactless ticketing system, called the Beep Card. The Beep Card was the first interoperable transport card in the Philippines. He started his career at J.P. Morgan in New York in 2010 and was an analyst and associate until 2013.

Mr. Urquijo is the president of the University of Notre Dame Alumni Association of the Philippines, an executive committee member of the INSEAD Alumni Association of the Philippines, an advisor to the board of the Philippine Rugby Football Union and a member of the National Advisory Council of WWF Philippines

Mr. Urquijo graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame in 2010 and received his M.B.A. from INSEAD in 2018.