DANIEL GABRIEL M. MONTECILLO
Independent Director
Dennis Montecillo is a management consultant, leadership speaker and facilitator, independent board director and executive coach. He is currently a senior consultant to the International Finance Corporation and to Ayala University in its Leadership Acceleration Program as well as several private, mid-sized Philippine corporates. He has been a guest lecturer at the Asian Institute of Management and was also formerly a CXO facilitator and speaker of Deloitte University Asia Pacific at its various management training programs in Singapore. He received his certification as an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) from the International Coaching Federation (ICF).
He retired as Executive Vice President and Group Head of the Corporate Client Segment of the Bank of the Philippine Islands in 2018, where he was responsible for nationwide banking coverage of the firm’s corporate clients. Immediately prior to this role, he was President of BPI Capital Corporation and Chairman of BPI Securities Corporation, the bank’s investment banking and securities subsidiaries. He served for 4 ½ years.
During his time at BPI, he was responsible for the reorganization of the corporate bank into two significant business initiatives, i.e., the Corporate Bank for large multinationals and domestic corporates, and the Business Bank, which services the small and medium-sized corporates in the country.
While at BPI Capital, he recast the investment bank into the leading domestic firm in the industry and competed successfully for business with the country’s top corporates against the established international investment banking firms in the country. During his tenure, the firm won several international awards for excellence. During his tenure, among the more notable Philippine corporates that the firm took to the public capital markets are Max’s Group, Store Specialists, and Metro Retail Stores Group.
Prior to returning to the Philippines, he spent 17 years in Hong Kong where he was CEO and founding equity partner of Diamond Dragon Advisors for three years, Asia’s first private equity fundraising firm and before that, CEO of Fidelis Holdings for three years. Fidelis was the international real estate investment company of the Ayala Group of Companies.
He has 21 years of international investment banking experience, having worked in New York and Hong Kong at Bankers Trust, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley. During this time, he was part of and managed business development and transaction teams in corporate, real estate and leveraged finance, derivatives, private equity, mergers & acquisitions, and equity and debt capital markets.
Dennis is a fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors (Philippines) and a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), the Rotary Club of Manila and an associate member of the Singapore Institute of Directors.
He is an independent director of Metro Pacific Hospital Holdings, Inc. (MPHHI), a holding company with interests in 19 hospitals nationwide, Maybank Kim Eng Capital (Philippines), Inc., an investment bank that is a subsidiary of Maybank of Malaysia, and Raslag Corporation, a private renewable energy company. He is also a director of the global board of International Care Ministries, an NGO devoted to the rural ultrapoor in the Philippines.
He has an MBA and MA from Stanford University in California, USA and bachelor’s degrees in Management of Financial Institutions and Behavioural Sciences (magna cum laude) from De La Salle University in the Philippines.
