RCBC: Eugene S. Acevedo is the current President and CEO of Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC), founded in 1960 in Manila, with assets estimated at 1.181 trillion pesos ($20.8 billion). He actually graduated with a BS in Physics (high honours) from the University of San Carlos. With over 30 years’ experience, Acevedo began his career at Citibank, where he was an Executive Trainee in 1987. By 1995, he was Vice President at Citibank Hong Kong and, in 1997, became Treasury Marketing Head of Citibank Manila. He took higher managerial positions, before being appointed Managing Director in 2005 and was Country Treasurer for the Philippines and then Hong Kong. In his last post at Citi, he led the Hong Kong/Taiwan/Macau Global Markets Cluster, and was Treasurer of Citicorp International Ltd. He also joined Philippine National Bank as its President and CEO from 2010-2011, later moving on to become SEVP of Union Bank. At Union Bank, he led six acquisitions and built a mass market business. He completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard, and has likewise completed specialist certificate courses in data science, fintech, AI, and blockchain cryptocurrency from the British Computer Society, the Wharton School, The Blockchain Council, Johns Hopkins University, MIT, and Oxford University.
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