Juan Carlos L. Syquia

Filipino, 53 years old, is Head of Corporate Banking. Prior to taking on this role in 2018, he was the President of BPI Capital Corporation and Co-Head for Investment Banking for the Bank. He has over 28 years of work experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining BPI Capital Corporation in June 2016, Mr. Syquia was the Country Head of Corporate Clients for Standard Chartered Bank in the Philippines serving in that role from late 2011. In that role, he was principally responsible for wholesale banking coverage strategy of the bank in the Philippines. Mr. Syquia spent 17 years with the ING Group where he started with the Baring Brothers & Co. in 1994. Within the banking group of ING, he took on various roles in relationship management, corporate finance origination, and investment banking execution. His last role in ING Bank was as the Head of Corporate Finance at ING Bank Manila. In 2007, he moved to a regional role as Head of Strategy and Business Development at ING Asia Pacific Ltd., the regional hub of ING Group’s life insurance and asset management practice. Mr. Syquia is a product of the Bank’s Officer Training Program which he completed in 1990 during his first stint at the Bank of the Philippine Islands. In 1991, he was assigned to Cebu where he formed part of a two-man team that established the Corporate Banking Division desk in Cebu. He carries an MBA Degree (Honors) with a concentration in Finance and International Business from Fordham University, NY as well as an AB degree in Management Economics from the Ateneo de Manila University.