BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Mr. ROLANDO B. VICTORIA

Chairman

The Executive Director of ASKI Philippines and a Certified Public Accountant, Mr. Victoria received his college diploma at the Araullo Lyceum (now Araullo University) in Cabanatuan City, with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Commerce. He also obtained a special course in Program for Development Managers at Asian Institute of Management. 23 years in the microfinance industry, Mr. Victoria is known as one of the pioneers of microfinance in the Philippines which made him held the presidency in various microfinance councils and attended international trainings and exposures around the globe. Currently, he is the Board Member of ABS-CBN Bayan Academy for Social Entrepreneurship, Microfinance Council of the Philippines, Inc (MCPI) and Central Luzon Association of Microfinance Institutions, Inc. (CLAM). Mr. Victoria is also the President of Risk Management Solution, Inc. (RIMANSI) and the Vice Chairman of Alliance of Philippine Partners in Enterprise Development (APPEND). A true servant at heart, he extends his service to his pastoral community in the municipality of Talavera and was the former President of FAMILIA Foundation of Nueva Ecija, Inc.

MR. ETHAN HAN SU KIM

Vice Chairman

Ethan Han Su Kim is Managing Director of Crossfire International Pte Ltd, a Singapore company providing services in trading, investments, Real Estate, management, manpower and financial consultancy. Currently, he also ministers with TEL (Training Evangelistic Leadership; HQ in Texas, USA & ministries in China, India, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam). TEL specializes in equipping individuals and groups in the areas of personal, mass evangelism and disciple-making. He was a Board member of World Evangelical Fellowship (WEF) from 1995 to 2005, when Dr Jun Vencer was International Director of WEF. While from 2003 to 2004 he became the Deputy Program Director of Billy Graham South East Asia Congress on Evangelism He also served as the Chairman of Asian Evangelists Commission, an association for Evangelists in Asia founded by Dr. Greg Tingson for five years. And was the Chairman of Luis Palau Singapore Mission from 1986 to 1987. For two decades he served with the Navigators in Malaysia, Japan and Singapore after graduating from Singapore Bible College in 1967.Since 1960, Ethan is an active member of a religious organization in Singapore called Brethren Church. He and his wife Irene, worships at Bethesda Bedok-Tampines Church, where Irene serves on the pastoral staff.

MS. SUE CHOW

Board Member

A veteran banker who helm the IT reins of several MNC banks, Sue has over 20 years of relevant work experience. In her corporate days, she has implemented and pushed forth innovative and cutting edge solutions. Her charming personality and outstanding business acumen and skills has excited business partners and clients. She possesses a sharp focus in her business and had advised clients and witnessed their fast track growth through her business empowerment and enabling skills. She has a particular flair of handling complex business environments and she is well liked by business peers for her integrity and tenacity to stick through and make the deal work. Sue is savvy with procuring and management consultancy of mega projects spanning across many industries and beyond many regions. Her exposure had included varied industries which includes infrastructural projects, real estate, ports, project financing, HR training, green technologies as well as many others. Her formal professional qualifications include a Master of Commerce and Bachelor of Science from University of New South Wales. Sue is currently the Managing Director of P-Cube International based in Singapore, a company she founded to pursue her passions in TFI (Technology, Finance and Information) and coalesced them into the business and humanitarian projects she undertakes.

MR. PATRICK SIM

Board Member

Mr Sim never received much in terms of formal education and at the age of 18 left school quickly to enlist in the fledging Singapore Air Force. Being in the first pioneering recruits, he served 6 years as an aircraft technician hoping to somehow get a flying position. It never happened. Leaving the air force, he took up a sales career that led him into accounting systems, cookware and real estate. In 1976, with funds from a real estate career, he funded his own private training to obtain a flying license ending up in being absorbed into Cadet Pilot training with Singapore Airlines. He served 15 years rising to a Senior First Officer and leaving in 1992. He then spent 2 years in association with Orix Commodities and Commodities Corp. in the testing and development of an options trading system. The project came to a halt when Commodities Corp. was acquired in a surprise takeover by Goldman Sachs. Very much a “hands on” person, (All that I have come to know and learn in life, came from all the things that I have done…and all the things I have not!!!) Mr Sim continued with the development of the Arbitraged Options Trading model on his own, a passion of 30 years which resulted into the creation of PS Capital, a private Arbitraged Hedge Fund, presently in a startup stage.

MRS. MARIA L. CALLING

Board Member

The Chairman of ASKI Philippines, Mrs. Calling is the wife of the late ASKI Philippines Chairman and President Dr. Gemillano Calling. Serving ASKI Philippines for 2 years and 5 months as the previous Board Member and Auditor, she has the passion and generosity to share her blessings by helping out the needy. She is a registered nurse and worked in United States from 1963-1965. She has years of professional nursing educator experience and on top of this, is her becoming Dean for College of Nursing in Cabanatuan City Colleges from 1975-1983. After which, she focused in managing their family business and in assisting her daughter who established a foundation called Giving Assistance through Vocational Education which sponsors scholarships for less fortunate yet deserving students.

MS. IRMA L. COSICO

Chief Operating Officer

Irma is the Chief Operating Officer of ASKI Global Ltd. She has been in the microfinance industry in various capacities for almost fifteen years, was Managing Director of ABS-CBN Bayan Academy for Social Entrepreneurship & Human Resource Development until March 2010. She headed the Microfinance Operations of the ABS-CBN Bayan Foundation from 2003 to 2005 and the Client Services Group from 1999 to 2002. Irma also served as Consultant to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 2002 where she assisted in the design of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project – Philippine Business Initiatives in Rural Development. She was commissioned by Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Corporation (HSBC) in 2006 to do a study on Franchising Microfinance.Irma was one of the pioneers of the Alliance of Philippine Partners in Enterprise Development, a network of Philippine Christian-based MFIs and was seconded as Project Coordinator of the Microfinance Council of the Philippines in 1998. She took her MS Development Communication in the University of the Philippines Los Baños and Master in Public Administration in Carleton University Canada as a CIDA scholar. She also holds a Master in Entrepreneurship degree from the Asian Institute of Management.