Gerardo A. Borromeo is the Chief Executive Officer of the Philippine Transmarine
Carriers (PTC) Group of Companies, a diversified company with strategic
initiatives and business interests in shipping and maritime services, real estate,
energy and fuel distribution, healthcare and aviation. He serves as Vice President
for External Affairs of the Filipino Shipowners Association (FSA) and has been
reappointed as Vice Chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS).
Mr. Borromeo is also a member of the Board of Governors of the World Maritime
University (WMU) in Sweden and serves as Chairman of its Executive Board. For
two consecutive terms, he served as President of InterManager, an international
trade association of global ship managers; the only Filipino to be elected to this
leading post. For his valuable contributions to the Philippine maritime industry, Mr.
Borromeo was honored by MARINA with the TIMONEL Maritime Achievement
Award in 2014 and was the first Filipino to be awarded the distinguished Seatrade
Personality of the Year Award at the Seatrade Maritime Awards Asia in 2015.
A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA where
he earned his Bachelors and Masters Degrees, Mr. Borromeo represents MIT as a
Regional Chair and Educational Counselor for the Philippines, while also serving
as a member of the Executive Board of MIT’s Sloan School of Management.