Mr. Apollo Bello Tanco was appointed to our Board as a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director on 23 January 2019.
He was re-designated as an Executive Director and the Chief Operating Officer on 4 March 2019. On 31 December 2022, he was re-designated as a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director. Following the restructuring of our Group, on 1 January 2024, he was redesignated as Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer. He graduated cum laude from the Central Philippine University, Iloilo City, with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce, majoring in Accounting in 1987. He earned his Master of Arts in Applied Business Economics from the University of Asia and the Pacific in 1994. He is also a Certified Public Accountant who passed the Philippine licensure exams in 1987. He was the Head of Project and Strategic Management Group and a member of the Management Committee of Avida Land Corp., a subsidiary of Ayala Land.
He also served as an Assistant Vice President of Ayala Land and has been with Ayala Land for 29 years. Prior to this, he was the Project Development Manager involved in the master planning of Nuvali and other major land development projects of Ayala Land. He is currently serving as a director of our Group and is also a director of Avaland Holdings Berhad, a non-listed public company.
Save for the above, he does not hold any other directorship in public companies and listed issuers in Malaysia.