Vicente T Paterno

	Complete Name:	Vicente T. Paterno
	Nickname:	"Ting"
	Highest / Last Position Held:	Former Minister
	Department / Institution:	Ministry of Industry

Government Positions Occupied
Agency	Year	Highest Position Occupied
Board of Investments, under OP, then within Dept of Industry	1970-1979	Chairman
Department (later Ministry) of Industry	1974-1979	Secretary (later Minister)
Ministry of Public Highways	1979-1980	Minister
Philippine National Oil Company	1986-1987	Chairman and President
Office of Executive Secretary, OP	1986-1987	Deputy Executive Secretary for Energy
Senate of the Philippines	1987-1992	Senator; Chairman, Committee on Economic Affairs, and of Committee on Accounts
Council of Senior Economic Advisers, OP	1998-1999	Member (Sr. Eco. Adviser)

Current Work and Position
Name of Institution		Position
Philippine Seven Corporation (and 3 subsidiary companies; now non-executive)		Chairman, Board of Directors
First Philippine Holdings Corporation		Independent Director
Benpres Holdings Corporation		Independent Director & Chair, Audit Committee
Bishops Businessmen's Conference for Human Development (BBC)		National Co-Chairman for Business Sector

Area of Expertise
(Graduate Mechanical Engineer, UP and MBA, Harvard University) - Industrial Management (Retail, Electric Power, Cement)
Financial Management (was CFO of Meralco, 1964-1970)
Entrepreneurship and Corporate Management - was Founding Partner and CEO from 1984 to 2000 of retailer company, Phil. Seven Corp. current sales volume about Pesos 5 billion

Former Senior Government Officials