Alberto Fenix

Alberto Victor Pil Fenix, Jr. (nicknamed Bert or Vic) was born in Manila but grew up in Cotabato City where he finished his grade school (1956) and high school (1960) graduating Valedictorian in both, at the Notre Dame of Cotabato. He was named One of the Five Outstanding High School Students of the Philippines in 1960 after a nationwide search sponsored by Philippine Airlines.

He then studied at the Ateneo de Manila University, graduating Cum Laude in 1964 with an A.B. Mathematics degree. He was a Foreign Student Leader Grantee in 1964 by the United States State Department and he had the opportunity to visit several Universities in the United States in the summer of 1963. He was named One of the Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines in 1964.

Fenix immediately pursued graduate studies in Industrial Management at the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, graduating with an S.M. (1966), and a Ph.D. (1968), with distinction as a Sloan School of Management Fellow and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, respectively.

Fenix is married to Isabelita Banac and has seven children

Career

While in the United States, Fenix worked as a Teaching Fellow in M.I.T., a Computer Systems Consultant at the B.F. Goodrich Company in Akron, Ohio, and as an Securities Investment Analyst at The Boston Company, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts.

Since coming home to the Philippines in 1970, Fenix has been a business entrepreneur, organizing, starting and developing businesses where he serves as Officer, Director and Stockholder. His experience has been in many areas of business. Currently, he is President and CEO of Newtech Pulp, Inc., Ivoclar Vivadent, Inc., and Fenix Management and Capital, Inc. He is also a Member of the Board of Directors of several companies.

He also contributes his time serving in government Commissions and Governing Boards. He was a Member of the Governing Board of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, the Presidential Commission for Educational Reform, the Presidential Commission for Constitutional Reform, the Mindanao Development Council, among others. He is currently a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Angeles University Foundation, and a Member of the Board of Regents of the Southern Leyte State University.

Fenix is an acknowledged business leader, having been National President of the Metalworking Industries Association of the Philippines, and the country’s largest business organization, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He continues to be an ex-officio Member of the PCCI Board as President Emeritus .