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A Great Filipino Visionary and Business Executive
Cezar T. Quiambao to receive Honoris Causa during PUP’s Graduate School and Open University’s Commencement Exercises on April 25
Cezar T. Quiambao, a man of humble beginnings but with a great vision, is the recipient of a Doctor of Humanities (Honoris Causa) degree from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines Graduate School (GS) and Open University’s 2013 Commencement Exercises, April 25.
An acclaimed business executive who not only marked his name in the Philippines but also in Asia and the world will also be the guest speaker of the GS and OU Graduation Rites to be held at SM Cinema 5 in SM City, Sta. Mesa.
Quiambao is not only a self-made man but one who has persevered to be the best in his field. A Certified Public Accountant (CPA), he carries with him over three decades of executive experience in varied industrial activities; infrastructure and development projects; information technology applications; management knowhow and corporate planning; banking, finance, and investments.
A Giant in Landmark Projects in the Philippines
Quimbao is also best-known for his landmark projects.
The Automated Elections of the ARMM Region of August 2008 was history in the making. It was the first successful electronic voting process, conducted by the Strategic Alliance Holdings Inc., or SAHI, with Quiambao as its president and chairman.
The LTO-IT Stradcom project is another “first” in major Philippine government computerization using the Build-Own-Operate (B-O-O) option under the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOO-BOT) Law. The US 80 million-dollar Stradcom B-O-O company has fully modernized the operations of the LTO.
Another project is the computerization of the Land Registration Authority (LRA) spearheaded by Lares, a US 120 million dollar B-O-O land titling system inter-connecting all LRA’s Registries of Deeds nationwide and integrating critical business processes on-line.
The PUP GS and OU 2013 Graduation Rites esteemed guest speaker is also a visionary who wants to bring the country into the mainstream of universal progress. His Metro Manila Skyway phase-one project, a US$515 million elevated toll way that runs atop the existing South Luzon Expressway, is a part of an overall US$2.5 billion road network that will interconnect the South Luzon and North Luzon Expressways.
Highly-respected Business Executive in Indonesia and Philippines
As a CPA, Quiambao started his career in the pharmaceutical industry as a financial and accountancy executive. He then joined the wood products industry in Indonesia, serving as Executive Vice President of PT Green Timber Java from 1977 to 1982.
In 1984, he ventured into the Indonesian construction industry where he was involved in major projects up to 1993. Quiambao was one of the key figures in ensuring the completion of several major foreign-funded road projects in Sumatra and Java. He also managed the construction of the Lhoksumawe airfield conceived by Mobil Oil to serve the needs of the world’s largest natural gas processing complex in Sumatra.
Quiambao came back to the Philippines in 1994 and stood at the forefront of BOO/ BOT-related interaction between the public and private sectors. As such, he has been instrumental in the successful development, implementation and operation of various projects.
Quiambao is also the founder and director of the CSF Rural Bank of Bayambang, Inc.
As member of the Philippines, Inc., the Philippine Business for Social Progress, the Management Association of the Philippines, and many other prestigious business organizations, he actively participated in the government’s socio-economic programs. Quimbao strongly advocates a strong government-private sector partnership to improve service to the Filipino people.
Cited as “the local boy who made good,” Cezar always took to heart his hometown of Bayambang in Pangasinan, a sleepy third class town that has benefitted immensely from the companies that he put up and headquartered in that place.
Now, Bayambang, Pangasinan, thanks to the tax payments of the companies that Quiambao established in the country, has a yearly income worth of P150 million making it a first-class municipality.
On the other hand, his contribution to Bayambang went beyond tax payments. He also presided over the financing and worthy start-up projects in his hometown and supported the needs of indigent public school students.
Quiambao is a B.S. Accountancy graduate of the University of the East (UE) and passed the Certified Public Accountancy (CPA) Board Exams in 1969.
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