Bienvenido S. Bautista, was elected as an Independent Director of RLC on May 13, 2021. He has been President or Managing Director of many companies in the Pharmaceutical and Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Industries: Universal Robina Corporation, Kraft Foods South/Southeast Asia, San Miguel Beer, San Miguel Foods, Kraft General Foods Philippines, Warner Lambert Indonesia and Philippine International Trading Corporation – Pharma. Currently he is an Independent Director of Flexo Manufacturing Corporation, Mega Global Corporation, Directories Philippines Inc. and YMCA Makati. He is Chair of the Audit Committee of the Ateneo De Manila University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors and currently is a member of the teaching faculty; was a former Trustee, where he was the Chair of the Fellows Committee. He was a Director of Ayala Pineridge Corporation where he was president for 7 years, and Director of QBE Seaboard Insurance where he was the chair of Related Third-Party Transactions Committee. He was a Director of Goldilocks Bakeshop where he was Head of the Finance and Business Development Committee and member of the Audit Committee. He was also a Chairman and Director of DPP Ventures (Domino’s Pizza). He was part of the start-up of the Luxid Rotary Microfinance and Credit Cooperative in Pasig where he was Coop Secretary.
Mr. Bautista graduated from the Ateneo De Manila University with a degree in Economics and took his MBM from the Ateneo Graduate School of Business. Mr. Bautista was the first Asian and Filipino to be appointed Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Jakarta International School, he is an Agora Awardee for Excellence in Marketing Management, a CEO Excel awardee for Excellence and Boss of the Year given by the Philippine Association of Secretaries.
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