Filipino, 70 years old, has been the Assistant Vice President for Technical Operations since March 22, 2024. He is a licensed Mechanical Engineer. He started his mining career in the Company in 1977 and was involved in various operations and projects such as Benguet Gold Operations (BGO), Benguet Antamok Gold Operations (BAGO), and Benguet Canada Ltd. – Ecuador Project. He left in 1990 to seek an opportunity to work abroad and joined local construction and mining companies, to name a few: Apex Mining Co. Inc., Paramina Earth Technologies, Inc., Besra Vietnam, Peti Trading Inc., Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company, and TVIRD-BGSP. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Mapua Institute of Technology in 1976. He attended a course in Management at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) in 1987 and Entrepreneurship at the University of the Philippines-Diliman in 1996.