MANILA, Philippines — Jose Teodoro Limcaoco, president and CEO of the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), won in the Executive Leader category, while Maryanne Kepui, whose 20-year career spans government, corporate enterprise, and the not-for-profit sector, won in the
Senior Communication Professional category in the 2023 Communicator of the Year Awards.
The award winners will be honored in person at the 2023 Communicator of the Year Awards ceremony during the IABC Asia Pacific regional conference “Fusion 2023: Making Waves Together” in Bali, Indonesia on Sept. 4 and 5.
As a leader who routinely calls employees to commend them for a job well done, Limcaoco or TG as he is more popularly known in the Philippines, has taken efforts to shape BPI’s culture built on the bank’s core values of being nurturing, acting with integrity, being customer obsessed, and pursuing excellence.
Limcaoco has a solid professional background, having served as Ayala Corp.’s chief finance officer, chief risk officer, and chief sustainability officer from 2015 to 2021. He was also the president and CEO of AC Ventures Holding Corp, and was a director of publicly-listed companies such as Globe Telecom, Inc., Integrated Micro-electronics Inc., and SSI Group, Inc. He also served as a director of a number of Ayala group companies, including those involved in education, energy, infrastructure, industrial technologies, and healthcare.
Kepui, who brings a multi-disciplinary approach to her work, is an accomplished senior communication professional who has applied her expertise to projects ranging from high-profile, national government change campaigns to multi-billion dollar hospital infrastructure projects and transformation initiatives for global mining companies.