Mr. Dante Dominic Macaraeg Abando was appointed to our Board as a Non-Independent and Non-Executive Director on 22 February 2023.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of the Philippines in 1986 and earned his Master’s degree in Business Administration in 1995 from the same university. In 2012, he completed the Executive Programme on Real Estate Management at Harvard University Graduate School of Business.
He is a Senior Vice President and a member of the Management Committee of Ayala Land. He currently heads Makati Development Corporation (“MDC”) and subsidiaries – the construction arm of Ayala Land where he is responsible for managing the organisation, developing strategies and plans, aligning and integrating the project management activities in the project development process and taking the lead in transforming MDC to ensure delivery of all Ayala Land products.
He does not hold any other directorship in public companies and listed issuers in Malaysia.