BIZ BUZZ: Panlilio, Layug join Vivant boards
Cebu-based Vivant Corp. is beefing up its brain trust with the appointment of former PLDT chief executive and Management Association of the Philippines president Alfredo S. Panlilio as independent director.
Panlilio brings to the publicly listed conglomerate extensive leadership experience from his key roles on the boards of the MVP Group, including Manila Electric Co. and Smart.
Vivant said in a statement that with Panlilio’s long and distinguished career across the dynamic energy and technology sectors, he would add “strategic depth and governance strength as Vivant continues to deepen its leadership bench.”
Vivant has likewise appointed former Department of Energy Undersecretary Jose M. Layug Jr. to the board of Vivant Energy Corp., the group’s power generation and energy solutions business unit.
Layug, a senior partner in Divina Law, is considered one of the country’s experts in Philippine energy law and has been helping the Vivant group since 2022. Most recently, he chaired Vivant’s related party transactions and corporate governance committees, while also sitting on the audit and risk and sustainability committees.
Vivant said that the appointment of Panlilio and Layug “reflects Vivant’s efforts to align leadership with the evolving needs of the conglomerate—strengthening strategic oversight and governance at the corporate level, while reinforcing technical and sectoral expertise at the subsidiary level.”
With these, Vivant is in a better position to compete with the bigger boys in the vibrant energy sector.
