The BPI’s Asset Management and Trust Corp. (AMTC) has recently appointed Maria Theresa Marcial Javier as its new president and chief executive officer effective June 15, 2022. She replaces Shiela Marie U. Tan, who headed the same unit since 2018.
Ms. Marcial has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, specifically in the fields of strategic planning and finance. She is also considered an expert in corporate banking, debt and equity capital markets, and investment management and trust.
Prior to being assigned to her new post, she was previously the Chief Finance Officer, Chief Sustainability Officer, and the head of Strategy and Finance at BPI where she was responsible for the bank’s strategic planning, accounting, financial control, capital management, balance sheet analytics, as well as corporate legal affairs and litigation, and investor relations.
She also held various leadership positions at the Fund Managers Association of the Philippines, the Trust Officers Association of the Philippines, the Capital Markets Development Committee of the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines, the Market Governance Board of Philippine Dealing & Exchange Corp., and the National Advisory Council of World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in the Philippines.
Marcial is also a fellow of the Foundation for Economic Freedom, a trustee and treasurer of the WWF, a treasurer of the BPI Foundation, and board director of the Philippine Inter-Island Sailing Federation. She completed her Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and was also recognized as one of the Top 25 Most Influential Women in Asset Management in Asia by the Asian Investor, and Most Outstanding Alumnus of the University of the Philippines (UP) in Los Baños.
In a statement, she said, “It is an honor to take charge of a company with an unrelenting commitment to providing the investing public with the best options and services that will help them build wealth and reach their goals. Looking ahead, we will continue to pursue excellence in fund management and steer towards the direction of shared success.”