Board of Directors

Napoleon L. Nazareno

Director

He was elected Director last May 25, 2011. Mr. Nazareno is the President and CEO of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) and Smart Communications, Inc. (SMART) and PLDT Communications and Energy Ventures (PCEV). He is Chairman of the Board of Wolfpac Mobile, Inc., Smart Broadband, Inc., i-Contacts Corporation, and Airborne Access, Inc., and President of Connectivity Unlimited Resources, Inc., which are subsidiaries of Smart. He is a Board Member of the GSM Association Worldwide; a Non-Executive Director of Hong Kong-based First Pacific Company Ltd., a Director at Manila Electric Company (Meralco), Wireless Applications Community (WAC), ACeS Philippines Cellular Satellite Corporation, where he is also the President, PLDT Global Corporation and ePLDT, Inc., and recently, Digital Telecommunications Philippines Inc. (Digitel), and Digitel Mobile Phils. Inc. Outside of his work in the PLDT Group, Mr. Nazareno generously shares his expertise with other organizations in his capacity as Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Governors of the Asian Institute of Management, Governor of the Management Association of the Philippines, Member of the Council of Advisors of the De La Salle University (DLSU)– Graduate School of Business, Partner-member of the Philippine Business for Social Progress, and Philippine-Thailand Business Council, Pacific Basin Economic Council, among others. He obtained a Master’s degree in Business Management at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) in 1973 and also took the INSEAD Executive Program at the European Institute of Business Administration in Fountainbleau, France in 1983.