Adaptive Technology for Rehabilitation, Integration and Empowerment of the Visually Impaired

Where the blind can see through computers

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

ATRIEV is a computer school for the blind established for and by the blind in 1994 to fully utilize adaptive technology in facilitating equal access to education, employment, and similar opportunities. We conduct computer-literacy training and related programs for persons with visual impairment, guided by the vision of their integration into the mainstream in schools, workplaces, and similar social institutions and processes.

ATRIEV’s Board of Trustees is composed of dedicated and reputable members of the Philippine society. They are pioneers or experts in business, academe and information technology. ATRIEV is proud to have gathered together these reputable men and women to help in achieving the organization’s dream in making the future brighter for the Filipino blind.

ATRIEV’s Board of Trustees:

Peter L. Wallace

Chairman

With a Big Heart

ATRIEV Chairman of the Board and President of the Wallace Business Forum

To many, Mr. Peter Leslie Wallace is the most prominent political and economic forecaster of the Philippines. His own company, The Wallace Business Forum (formed in 1982 and formerly EIU Philippines Inc.) provides advisory services to more than 160 multinational corporations and aid agencies in the country, as well as advising successive Philippine governments on foreign investment. Wallace has developed extraordinary connections and contacts, and is an important voice for business within government. His analyses and forecasts have been recognized as balanced and insightful. The Australian magazine, Business Review Week, listed Mr. Wallace as the tenth of the 20 most prominent Australians in Asia.

But to ATRIEV, Peter Leslie Wallace is a man of dedication and commitment. He has a big heart in helping the blind not through dole outs but by giving the blind an opportunity to learn and to earn.

Born in Australia on June 3, 1939, Peter Wallace began work in 1957 as a cadet engineer with the then Amalgamated Wireless of Australia. A career in sales led him to Manila in 1970 where he worked as a marketing manager and chief executive before founding AYC Consultants in 1982. He was chief executive of 3 multinational companies in Manila during the period 1975 to 1981. He has been active in the community as President of the Australian New Zealand Chamber of Commerce (a role he served for 10 years) and he is still a director, on the Board of iAcademy, the Tower Club, Universal LRT Corporation and The Forum for Family Planning and Development. He was Commodore of the Manila Yacht Club, is President of the Caliraya Lake Conservation Society and is a member of almost every business chamber and association.

Being a resident of the Philippines for 30 years, Peter Wallace has seen the Philippines more than any Filipino has. His warmth and hospitality is very much Filipino. Peter is also married to a Filipina, the former Estee Rivera and has 2 children now studying at universities in Sydney. In fact, they already celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.

In April 2002, Mr. Wallace was invited to a graduation. It turned out to be a graduation of blind students of ATRIEV. Thus inspired by the way these blind students put so much effort in bettering themselves and their situation and beat the odds by learning computer skills, Mr. Wallace through his companies has been helping out ATRIEV through fundraising, assembling the board of directors, generating publicity for the organization, and general advice. Mr. Wallace personally markets the skills of ATRIEV graduates in the ICT field, especially for corporate transcription services. Mr. Wallace personally attends to key concerns of the organization especially in moving ATRIEV forward.

With the challenge of wanting to do more, Wallace Business Forum and AYC Consultants have given deeper meaning to the celebration of their 25th anniversary on November 29, 2007. The Wallace Business Forum has donated to ATRIEV money that was otherwise intended for the 25th anniversary cocktails of the company. It has become Mr. Wallace's personal mission to try to find a better life for the vision-impaired.

From Peter Wallace’s very own words “These young people had fought against all the odds to make something better of their lives — not to be just beggars on the streets. … Because they were helping themselves. Not just sitting back waiting for a hand out.”

Monico V. Jacob

ATRIEV Vice Chairman and STI Education Services Group President

Monico Jacob has a unique background that depicts quality service, commitment and genuine leadership. He specializes in energy, corporate law and corporate recovery and rehabilitation work.

Prior to achieving chairmanship and executive positions in various government and private companies, Jacob began his career as an active trial lawyer. He first joined government in 1986 as associate commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission where he carried out needed reforms in the capital market and introduced the express lane program.

Thereafter, Jacob became general manager of the National Housing Authority where he successfully introduced the joint venture approach to low cost and socialized housing. As chief executive officer of the Home Development Mutual Fund, popularly known as the Pag-IBIG Fund, Jacob decentralized operations and established regional offices nationwide. He also introduced various programs that brought back membership to the Fund.

Jacob once more proved his fine leadership abilities as chairman and CEO of Petron Corporation, where he presided over its privatization. He implemented and led the partnership of the government with Saudi Aramco in Petron and also presided over the initial public offering (IPO) of Petron shares which has been hailed since as the most successful IPO in the country. He retired from Petron at the close of the Ramos Presidency in July of 1998.

Jacob also became chairman and CEO of the Philippine National Oil Company and all of its subsidiaries. There, he presided over the privatization of the PNOC Dockyard and Engineering Corporation.

Lately, as a partner of the Jacob & Jacob Law firm, he has been heavily involved in corporate recovery work including rehabilitation receiverships and restructuring advisory.

Among his clients are Uniwide Group of Companies; ASB Holdings, Inc.; RAMCAR Group of Companies; Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Company of Manila, Inc.; Petrochemicals Corporation of Asia-Pacific; All Asia Capital and Trust Corporation (now known as Advent Capital and Finance Corporation); and Nasipit Lumber Company, Inc.

Jacob is also a member of the Permanent Rehabilitation Receiver Committee of Philippine Airlines. He is also active in policy formulation for corporate recovery. He is a member of the Board of Directors of MERALCO, PhilSteel Corporation, Steel Corporation, Filipino Merchant Insurance Corporation, Jollibee Foods, Inc., and iAcademy.

At present, Jacob serves as president and CEO of STI Education Services Group; vice chairman of CBV Asset Management Corporation; chairman of CEOs Inc. – a business and management consulting firm; and Vice Chairman of ATRIEV, the only computer school for the blind in the Philippines.

Augusto C. Lagman

ATRIEV Trustee, STI Education Services Group Founding Director, and Systems Standards Institute (SSI) Chairman & CEO

Aside from heading Systems Standards, Inc., Augusto Lagman heads seven other IT companies and sits on the board of 1st e-Bank and Aurotech Corporation. He is more popularly known as the founding chairman of STI College but was also the president of Dataprep Philippines, Inc. from 1974 to 1987 and Computer Associates, Inc. from 1968 to 1973.

Lagman is a BS Mechanical Engineering graduate of the University of the Philippines. Owing to his past and current participation in undertakings to promote and invigorate the IT sector, he was accorded by the UP Alumni Engineers the Achievement Awardee for IT Industry Development. From his alma mater in elementary and high school, he was granted the Centennial Awardee for Science and Technology.

Lagman has been active in industry associations, serving as President of the following leading IT organizations: South East Asia Regional Computer Confederation (SEARCC), Philippine Computer Society (PCS), IT Association of the Philippines (ITAP), and IT Foundation of the Philippines (ITFP). He was also elected as the Chair of the IT Committee of the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP). Moreover, Lagman became the private sector representative of the National Information Technology Council (NITC) in 1994-2000 and the IT & E-Commerce Council (ITECC) from 2000-2002. He also sits at the Board of ATRIEV, the only computer school for the blind in the Philippines. He was also appointed by the Department of Trade and Industry as the Industry Captain of the electronics sector.

Thomas Ng

ATRIEV Trustee and CEO of GENASHTIM Party Limited

Thomas was formerly the president and country manager of Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) in the Philippines. Headquartered in Zurich, ABB is among the leading global power engineering companies. Thomas had been with the ABB organization for a total of 19 years in Malaysia, Hongkong, Switzerland, Poland and China.

In between he worked, for 4 years, as the Asia Pacific Director for British global packaging group Rexam plc, heading operations in Hongkong, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, and New Zealand, and worked on joint ventures and acquisitions in India, Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand.

A chartered accountant by training, Thomas started his career with Coopers and Lybrand in Auckland, New Zealand. When he returned to Malaysia in 1980, he helped start up the Brown Boveri subsidiary in Kuala Lumpur. After 8 years, he was posted to ABB China, based in Hongkong.

In the early 1990’s, he was sent to Poland to join a team of specialist to restructure ABB’s substantial acquisitions in Eastern Europe. Thereafter, he returned to Asia, as the Managing Director for ABB China Investment Ltd., to start up ABB’s first manufacturing joint ventures in China.

He then left ABB to join Rexam plc, as their Regional Director for Asia Pacific, based in Hongkong. After several years, he was enticed by ABB to return as President and Country Manager for Philippines.

Thomas is the elected Chairman of the Young Presidents Organisation (YPO) in the Philippines for 2003-2004, and was also a member of YPO in Melbourne. He is currently the Chairman of the YPO Pan Asian Chapter, and serves on the Regional Board. He has been guest speaker at the AIM and Ateneo MBA programs.

Joaquin E. Quintos IV

ATRIEV Trustee and Director Strategy and Business Development, IBM ASEAN

Joaquin E. Quintos IV, “Jajo” to colleagues, is finally leaving his post as country general manager of IBM Philippines (IBMP) after almost five years and will assume a new role as chief executive officer of IBM Daksh Philippines, the company’s BPO arm.

However, Jajo will become chairman of the entire IBM Philippines group of companies that includes subsidiaries IBMP, IBM Solutions Delivery, IBM Business Services, and IBM Daksh.

In short, Jajo will hold a dual post -- as CEO of IBM Daksh and chair of IBM Philippines group.

Jajo served as IBM Philippines’ General Manager since July 1, 2002. He has revenue and profit responsibilities for IBM’s Philippine operations, which is considered the largest information technology supplier of hardware, software and services, in league with the Philippines’ top 500 corporations.

Jajo returns to IBM Philippines from corporate headquarters in Somers, New York, where he was Director for Worldwide Sales of IBM’s Software Group from January 2000 to June 2002. He led and managed the mid-market software sales team with worldwide responsibility, capping a six-year international management stint with IBM in the United States and the ASEAN/South Asia region.

In ASEAN/South Asia, Jajo was also General Manager of the Software & e-business (January 1998 to December 1999) and S/390, Storage and Printers Groups (April 1996 to December 1997) where he held profit and revenue responsibilities for both business units in the region which covers the countries of Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Brunei.

Jajo joined IBM Philippines in 1982 as a systems engineer, then went on to become systems engineering manager, account services manager, senior consultant of IBM’s Consulting Group based in Singapore, division manager for finance and public sector industries, and a director of the IBM Philippines board. A 20-year veteran at IBM, Jajo is credited for pioneering the Software and Services divisions of the Philippine subsidiary in 1991.

Jajo is a graduate of the University of the Philippines at Diliman, Quezon City, with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering degree, cum laude. He is married for 14 years to the former Kristen Suarez, with whom he has two daughters. Jajo’s personal interests include both sports and the arts.

Christine H. Matriano

ATRIEV Trustee and Head of Corporate Communication, Holcim Philippines, Inc.

Christine Matriano has had 24 years of solid experience in Corporate Communications and Public Relations in multi-national companies and non-profit organizations. Among her professional strengths and competence are in designing strategic communications plans, implementing full-cycle communication programs, and providing relevant advisories to top level management in the areas of employee communications, public relations, and industry trends.

Christine is currently the Head of Corporate Communications at Holcim Philippines, Inc., a part of the global construction materials company - Holcim group headquartered at Zurich, Switzerland. As Head of Corporate Communications, she is responsible for steering internal and external communications that will create a positive and desirable reputation for Holcim Philippines, Inc.

Prior to Holcim, Christine was Director of External Affairs at TeleTech Holdings, Inc., a global business process outsourcing (BPO) company. In this role, Ms. Matriano was tasked to establish and maintain strong networks in government, the media, and the business community; and to position the company as a leader and employer of choice in the BPO industry.

Prior to this appointment, Ms. Matriano was Director of Communications of TeleTech’s Philippine Operations. In this capacity, Ms. Matriano had pioneered TeleTech Philippines’ Strategic Communications Program which helped catapult TeleTech into its current stature as the fastest growing BPO Company in the Philippines. As Director of Communications, Ms. Matriano managed over 20 employees across eight large customer management centers in The Philippines. These world class facilities offer a range of BPO services to customers in Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Before joining TeleTech, Ms. Matriano was a senior communications officer at San Miguel Corporation, the Philippines’ largest food, beverage, and packaging conglomerate. In San Miguel, Ms. Matriano created and implemented strategic communications programs geared at enhancing management and employee communications, promoting industrial harmony, and building a wholesome and engaging workplace. Ms. Matriano led the initiative to decentralize many of San Miguel’s Packaging Division’s employee development and employee communications programs to the manufacturing plant level. She successfully achieved this by empowering communications teams to plan, organize, and implement projects and activities.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications from the University of the Philippines and has earned credits in the Master of Communications program also from the University of the Philippines.

Jose Fernando Camus

ATRIEV Trustee and Leechiu and Associate Chairman

EXPERIENCE – Current Positions Held

TOTAL CONSOLIDATED ASSET MANAGEMENT, INC.

• Presently holding the position of President since December 2006.

LEECHIU & ASSOCIATES, INC. (L&A), a member of FPDSavills International

• Presently holding the position of Chairman. L&A represents SAVILLS PLC in the Philippines and is regarded as one of the major players in the Real Estate industry, offering general brokerage and various comprehensive property consultancy services.

FIRST ENGINEERING LIMITED

• Country representative since March 2000 and at present the company has deployed 89 Filipino engineers to Network Rail, assigned to maintain the Rail System from Manchester to Scotland.

FIRST BATANGAS INDUSTRIAL PARK, INC.

• President of this industrial estate development company which consolidated 117 hectares in Bauan, Batangas in 1995, which will be converted from an industrial estate to a residential project in joint venture partnership with Sta. Lucia Realty Corporation.

CHEMREZ

• Independent Director since March 2003.

ABACUS CONSOLIDATED RESOURCES & HOLDINGS, INC.

• Independent Director since June 1999.

EXPERIENCE – Past Designations

BASES CONVERSION DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

• Member of the Board of Directors of this government-owned corporation from July 1998 to May 31, 2001

• BCDA was mandated to accelerate the conversion and development of the former baselands, and the promotion of the social and economic development of Central Luzon in particular, and the country in general.

FORT BONIFACIO DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

• Held the position of Director of this development firm since July 1998 to March 31, 2001.

• Anticipated to be one of the newest Commercial Business District, FBDC’s transformation of former military base – Fort Bonifacio into such, has already began with several residential developments, retail, commercial and institutional facilities.

PHILIPPINE NATIONAL RAILWAYS

• Held the position of Chairman of this government-owned corporation from October 1999 to March 31, 2001.

GAMMON PHILIPPINES (1998-2000)

• Acted as the Business Development Consultant in establishing a joint venture between Gammon HK and Makati Development Corporation (an affiliate of Ayala Land, Inc.) in the Philippines.

W.T. PARTNERSHIP PHILS (1992-1998)

• Assisted Mr. Paul Lowndes in establishing W.T. Partnership in the Philippines. The venture became one of the first major Quantity Surveying Company having local business undertakings.

DIRECT FUNDERS MANAGEMENT & CONSULTANCY, INC.

• Held the position as Chairman from 1989 to 1997

MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS

TAGAYTAY HIGHLANDS COUNTRY CLUB, INC.
Member

VALLEY GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB.
Member

VALLE VERDE COUNTRY CLUB.
Member

INSTITUTE OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS.
Fellow

EDUCATION

Graduate Studies : Master in Economics, University of Asia and the Pacific

University Studies : Bachelor of Sciences in Business Administration (Major in Economics), Ateneo De Manila University

Secondary Education : The American School

Primary Education : The American School