MCBL Board of Directors

As President and CEO, Neil is responsible for overseeing MCBL's business strategy and operations, and leveraging the synergies and combined strengths of Manulife and China Bank as it continues its performance as one of the Philippines' high-performing bancassurance companies.

Neil has a wealth of experience in leading bancassurance partnerships, multi-channel distribution, and business transformation. Prior to joining another regional insurer in 2018, where he was Director for Group Partnership Distribution, Neil was Chief Bancassurance Officer for Manulife Singapore. There, he was responsible for the overall development of our bancassurance operations in the country, including Strategy, Distribution Operations, Business Development, Sales, and Learning & Development.

As President and CEO, Rahul is responsible for the development and execution of Manulife's strategy in the Philippines, supercharging the business so we can continue making every day better for more Filipinos.

Hora is an insurance industry veteran, having taken on various sales and distribution leadership roles in operations, agency, and bancassurance across geographies. He joins Manulife from another multinational insurance company, where he held distribution roles at market and regional levels, and most recently led their life and non-life insurance operations in the Philippines

An investment banker with over two decades of trading, financing, and structuring experience in the Asia Pacific region, Romeo was previously the President of China Bank Capital and the Managing Director of UBS AG-Singapore Branch and Barclays Capital. He graduated cum laude from the Ateneo de Manila University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Engineering, and with Distinction from the Johnson Graduate School of Management in Cornell University, New York, with a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA). He has had extensive training on banking, securities and futures products, fraud awareness, Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, environmental and social risk, AML, and corporate governance. 

Patrick has a deep experience in banking starting with Citibank N.A. as the Vice-President for Global Consumer Bank where he held positions of increasing responsibility such as Treasury and Investments Director, Retail Bank Business Director and Insurance Director. He then became HSBC Manila Branch’s Senior Vice-President for Premier and Wealth Management , and thereafter the President and CEO of HSBC Savings Bank (Phils) Inc. He was also a two term President of the Chamber of Thrift Banks. Patrick also served as the Philippine Bank of Communications Executive Vice President and Head of Trust & Wealth Management, and China Banking Corporation's Senior Vice President and Trust Officer.

Patrick graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of the Philipines-Diliman with a degree in Business Administration and Accountancy. He also graduated with distinction from Hult International School of Business in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a Master’s degree in Management. He placed 7th in the National Certified Public Accountants Exam.