Strategic Partners

Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. Worldwide, our 135,000 people are united by our shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality. We make a difference by helping our people, our clients and our wider communities achieve their potential.

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Ernst & Young refers to the global organization of member firms of Ernst & Young Global Limited, each of which is a separate legal entity. Ernst & Young Global Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, does not provide services to clients.

SGV Foundation, Inc.

The SGV Foundation, Inc. (SGVF) was organized in 1966 to fulfill SGV & Co.’s commitment to social development, mainly through education.

SGVF firmly believes that the country’s greatest resource is its people, having “Investing in People” as its main thrust.  This is the reason behind the Foundation’s full support for the Entrepreneur Of The Year program’s objectives to honor successful and civic-conscious entrepreneurs and to promote role models for aspiring entrepreneurs.

SGVF is a member of the League of Corporate Foundations, the Association of Foundations, and the Makati NGO Network. SGVF is affiliated with CIVICUS, an international alliance dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world.

Department of Trade and Industry

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) serves as the government's primary coordinative, promotive, and facilitative arm for trade, industry and investment activities. It acts as the catalyst for intensified private sector activity to accelerate and sustain economic growth through a comprehensive industrial growth strategy; a progressive and socially responsible liberalization and deregulation program; and through policies designed for the expansion and diversification of both domestic and foreign trade.

The DTI roadmap is guided by the following:

  1. Support for entrepreneurs, particularly micro, small and medium enterprises;
  2. Sustainable investments in industries and infrastructure;
  3. Strategic export promotion;
  4. Service environment and culture, upholding DTI as an agency of choice;
  5. Stable prices and consumer welfare.

The end goal is to grow and expand Philippine trade and industry as the means to generate jobs and raise incomes, so that Filipinos may enjoy continuing improvements in their quality of life.

Ateneo Graduate School of Business

The Ateneo Graduate School of Business (AGSB), a unit of the Ateneo Professional Schools of the Ateneo De Manila University, established in1966 as an institution of higher learning, focuses on students based in the workplace and who are engaged in the world of power and wealth. It is also an intensely Jesuit and deeply Filipino institution that commits itself to a unique value proposition that highlights that the value of business is not only profits but for nation building.

As an excellent business school, AGSB's thrust is to be PRIMUS INTER PARES - "first among equals," recognizing that its students come from the ranks of working professionals and entrepreneurs, who regardless of position, are considered leaders and change agents in their respective organizations. The School has been adjudged the number one MBA school by the Commission on Higher Education among 199 MBA schools in the country.

The AGSB is committed to forming excellent managers and leaders who will navigate their organizations to success while being propelled by the conviction that profit is an enabling tool to be used in the service of nation building.

As a Jesuit learning institution, the AGSB's mission is to form men and women to become not only more effective executives and entrepreneurs, but also better Filipino citizens in a globalized world - not only smarter business people but more importantly fully human, with a profound understanding of their relationship to their countrymen and to their God.

In celebration of its 40th anniversary in 2006, AGSB has called upon itself through its Jesuit traditions and character and has hoisted the clarion call to all its constituencies to listen and to act upon - that "our country is our business."

Development Bank of the Philippines
The Country's Premiere Development Bank

In the Philippines, development financing institutions play a pivotal role in the quest for sustainable growth and development, and at the helm of the country's march toward progress is the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP).

DBP, then known as the Rehabilitation Finance Corporation, was created in 1947 to provide credit facilities for the development of agriculture, commerce and industry and the reconstruction of properties damaged by the war. It was reorganized into the DBP in 1958, which marked the bank's shift from rehabilitation to broader activities which included capital formation and employment generation, particularly in the countryside. In 1998, the DBP charter was further amended, increasing the bank's authorized capital stock from P5 billion to P35 billion, among others, and paving the way for the pursuit of other activities that allowed it to fulfill its development mandate more meaningfully.

Today, DBP performs all the functions of an expanded commercial bank but its primary objective remains to be the provision of banking services principally to serve the medium and long-term needs of agricultural and industrial enterprises with emphasis on small and medium-scale industries. The bank is a major conduit of official development assistance funds from multilateral and bilateral institutions which allows it to influence sustainable economic growth, through the provision of resources, for the continued well-being of the Filipino people.

DBP also seeks to benefit micro, small and medium-sized entrepreneurs through its lending and technical assistance programs. To entrepreneurs, DBP extends the much-needed financial boost to help them grow and expand their business and facilitates specialized technical assistance such as marketing, research and development, business advisory and capability-building.

As a bank for the environment, DBP works with businesses in advocating environmental protection amidst industrialization. It supports investments in water treatment, new and renewable energy, alternative fuel, rural power projects, solid and hazardous waste management, and pollution control. DBP is the first Philippine bank to be ISO 14001 certified for its successful establishment and implementation of an Environmental Management System (EMS).

DBP also strives to make life better for every Filipino by financing social services and community development projects towards the delivery of health care, education, power, housing, water, eco-tourism, and other basic services, especially in remote areas.

DBP remains ever ready to meet its development targets -- steadily taking multiple steps forward to prepare the Philippines for the opportunities and challenges of a progressive future.

Philippine Business for Social Progress

The Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) is the largest corporate-led, non-profit social development foundation in the Philippines.

PBSP is at the forefront in the fight against poverty through trailblazing programs developed and implemented with the strategic commitment of more than 230 PBSP member-companies. PBSP's membership consists of large, medium-scale and small enterprises committed to the common goal of empowering the poor through the practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR).

PBSP operates nationwide, with programs in Education, Health and Water, Area Resource Management, and Enterprise Development.

PBSP's Small and Medium Enterprise Credit Program (SMEC) lends to financial intermediary institutions and NGOs as conduits, which in turn provides credit to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. PBSP's Business Advisory Program (BAP) also offers business advisory services to MSMEs.

Since its inception in the 1970s, PBSP has provided over P 6.6 billion in grant assistance and development loans, implemented over 6,000 social development projects, and benefited over 4 million Filipinos.

Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc.

The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) traces its roots back to  the country’s two former bourses: the Manila Stock Exchange (MSE) which was founded in 1927, and the Makati Stock Exchange (MKSE) which was established in 1963. In 1992, the MSE and the MKSE merged into what is now known as PSE.

The unification of the two entities marked the start of an intensified program to improve the operations and management of the PSE. Having been wrought out of the crucible of reforms, the PSE continually introduces operational and policy innovations in order to attract more investors and assure the growth of the local capital markets. It maintains two yet unified trading floors, powered by the MakTrade System, which assures an investor that his or her trade order is matched with the best bid/best offer regardless of which floor the orders are placed.

The reforms also paved the way for non-brokers to control majority of the 15-man Board of Directors and for more stringent disclosure rules to be put in place for the protection of investors.

The PSE is implementing the reforms as it strives to live up to its role as one of the main engines of economic growth. Part of PSE’s programs and projects aims to enhance business buildup in the country by helping entrepreneurs get the equity they need to start or expand their projects.

The PSE believes that such support for Filipino entrepreneurs, especially the aspiring ones, benefits not only businessmen, but also ordinary Filipinos, who stand to gain from employment and livelihood opportunities that follow the buildup in  capital and the formation of new enterprises.

For more details on how the PSE can help enhance investments and develop the local capital markets, log on to www.pse.com.ph.

Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship

Professor Klaus Schwab created the World Economic Forum as an independent not-for-profit foundation in 1971 and built it into the foremost global partnership of business, political, intellectual and other leaders of society committed to improving the state of the world.  In 1998, Klaus Schwab and his wife Hilde decided to create a complementary foundation, the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, with the purpose to promote social innovation.

The Schwab Foundation and the World Economic Forum work in close partnership to provide social entrepreneurs with unparalleled platforms at the country, regional and global levels that highlight social entrepreneurship as a key element to advance societies and address social problems in an innovative and effective manner.