Betty Siy-Yap

SyCip Gorres Velayo & Co. provides accountancy and taxation services. The company provides assurance, tax, risk, and business advisory services to corporate clients through nine offices across the country. The company offers its services to different types of industries like chemicals, business services, communications, construction, energy, entertainment, financial services, hospitality, real estate, and technology and utilities. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Makati, Philippines.

Global Business Power Corp. distributes electricity in the Visayas Region and Mindoro Islands. It operates through its subsidiaries which includes Cebu Energy Development Corp., Panay Energy Development Corp., Toledo Power Co., Panay Power Corp., GBH Power Resources, Inc., Global Energy Supply Corp. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Makati City, Philippines.

The Philippine Dealing and Exchange Corp (PDEx) is licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as an Exchange under the provisions of the Securities Regulation Code (SRC). In this capacity, PDEx provides a centralized & efficient infrastructure for trading securities which ensures price discovery, transparency and investor protection. In July 2006, SEC formally recognized PDEx as a Self-Regulatory Organization (SRO) in the Inter-Dealer Market and is thus vested with the responsibility of formulating the requisite market rules, undertaking surveillance and enforcing compliance in the inter-dealer market. In November 2007, the SEC expanded the SRO registration of PDEx to cover the Inter-Professional Market, and in February 2008, its SRO authority was expanded to cover its members in all markets within the PDEx Trading Systems. Trading on the PDEx platform is done through a state-of-the-art trading engine called X-Stream that was developed by Computershare Markets Technology and customized for Philippine market conditions. Trading Participants are provided a front-end system (the Fixed Income Trading Workstation, FITW) through which quotes can be entered and/or amended and where transactions are eventually executed. The electronic system displays live bid and offer quotes and publishes transaction data to Trading Participants allowing for price discovery. In addition, real-time fixed income market information is published on subscription basis through the PDEx MarketPage locally, and through PDEx data pages on REUTERS globally.

Meralco Industrial Engineering Services Corp. provides general engineering, consulting, construction, operations and maintenance services. It specializes in electrical and mechanical facilities and infrastructure such as power transmissions, distribution systems and networks including development works, electro-mechanical and testing commissioning of substation equipment. The company was founded in December 1973 and is headquartered in Pasig City, the Philippines.