Oscar M. Lopez, Filipino, has served as Chairman of INAEC Aviation since 1998. He is Chairman Emeritus of Lopez Holdings Corporation, First Philippine Holdings Corporation, First Gen, EDC and Rockwell Land Corporation, all publicly-listed companies. He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Lopez Group Foundation and Eugenio Lopez Foundation. He completed his master’s degree in Public Administration at the Littauer School of Public Administration (now the John F. Kennedy School of Government) at Harvard University, where he also earned his Bachelor of Arts (BA, cum laude).

Eugenio L. Lopez III, Filipino, has served as Director of INAEC Aviation since 1997. He is President of Lopez, Inc. and the Chairman of the Board of ABS-CBN Corporation and Sky Cable Corporation; He is the vice chairman of Lopez Holdings Corporation. He is a Director of First Gen and First Philippine Holdings Corporation, all publicly-listed companies. He was the CEO of ABS-CBN until 2012. He graduated with a BA in Political Science from Bowdoin College, and has an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Manuel M. Lopez, Filipino, has served as Director of INAEC Aviation Corporation since 2010. He was the Philippine Ambassador to Japan until June 2016. He continues to be a Director of Manila Electric Company, where he served as Chairman and CEO from 2001 to 2010. He also serves as Chairman and CEO of Lopez Holdings Corporation, and Chairman of Rockwell Land Corporation, all publicly-listed companies. He holds a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Business Administration, and pursued advanced studies in Financial and Management Development at the Harvard Business School.

Herminio C. Brion, Filipino, served as Director of INAEC Aviation since August 7, 2008. He was INAEC’s Officer-in-Charge from 1996 to 2000 and its Aviation Manager from 2000 to 2008. He has served as the Officer-in-Charge for Maintenance of Helicopter and Cessna Citation Aircraft for Meralco from 1968 to 1993. He graduated as an Associate in Aircraft Maintenance Engineering at FEATI University in 1959. Mr. Brion is one of only two in the Philippines who gained the honor of Master Technician on Hawker Beechcraft King Air 350 at Flight Safety International in Kansas, U.S.A. He obtained aircraft ratings for Cessna Citation 500, heavy maintenance on JT-15D4 engines, and Bell Jet Ranger II Helicopter, all from training academies in the United States, and for EC135 Helicopter from Eurocopter Training in Germany.

Federico R. Lopez, Filipino, served as Director of INAEC Aviation Corporation since 2007. He is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of First Philippine Holdings Corporation (FPH), First Gen Corporation (First Gen), Energy Development Corporation (EDC), all publicly-listened companies. He is Vice-Chairman of Rockwell Land Corporation, Treasurer of Lopez Holdings, and a Director of ABS-CBN. He earned his BA (cum laude), with a double major in Economics and International Relations, from the University of Pennsylvania.

Benjamin R. Lopez, Filipino, is Director and President of INAEC Aviation since July 26, 2007. He is also Senior Executive Vice President of Lopez, Inc. a member of the Board of Directors of various subsidiaries such as First Balfour, Inc., First Philec and First Philippine Utilities Corp. He has been Vice President of First Philippine Holdings Corporation since 2006. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Affairs in 1992 from the George Washington University and an Executive Masters in Business Administration degree at the Asian Institute of Management in 2001.

Francis Giles B. Puno, Filipino, served as Director of INAEC Aviation Corporation since 2016. He is President and COO of First Philippine Holdings Corporation since October 1, 2015. He is Director of First Gen’s subsidiaries and affiliates. He has a BS in Business Management from the Ateneo de Manila, and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Chicago, Illinois.

Arturo T. Valdez, 70, Filipino, became an Independent Director of INAEC Aviation in 2018. He served as Undersecretary of the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) from 1996 to 2004 and was appointed Special Envoy to the Middle East from October 2007 to March 2008. He also served as Undersecretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) from 2016 to 2017 and Head of the National Anti-Environmental Crime Task Force (NAECTF) of the DENR. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the OML Center for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management Foundation since July 2013 until the present. A passionate mountaineer, he led the first Philippine Mt. Everest Expedition in May 2006 when the Philippine flag was first planted at the peak of Mt. Everest. He also led the “first and only women traverse” of Mt. Everest in May 2007, a feat unsurpassed in the history of Himalayan mountaineering until today. After finishing the 2008 Mt Everest Marathon, he went directly to the sea and built the “Balangay,” an exact replica of an ancient seacraft (320 A.D.) dug up in Butuan City. Together with his Filipino crew, Mr. Valdez sailed the Balangay around the Philippines and Southeast Asia for 15 months, solely powered by the wind and steered by the stars. Mr. Valdez was an American Field Service scholar and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Santo Tomas (1970)

Ben­jamin R. Lopez was appointed as INAEC pres­i­dent in 2006. He is con­cur­rently vice pres­i­dent of First Philip­pine Cor­po­ra­tion (FPH), a pub­licly listed com­pany. He was sec­onded to FPH’s prop­erty devel­op­ment sub­sidiary, Rock­well Land Cor­po­ra­tion, from 1993 to 2003, where he held var­i­ous man­age­ment posi­tions. He is a mem­ber of the board of direc­tors of First Bal­four, Inc. and var­i­ous sub­sidiaries of the FPH group. He has a Bach­e­lor of Arts degree in Inter­na­tional Affairs con­cen­tra­tion in eco­nom­ics from the George Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­sity, Wash­ing­ton D.C. (1992) and an Exec­u­tive Mas­ters in Busi­ness Admin­is­tra­tion from the Asian Insti­tute of Man­age­ment (2001).

Aldi Dexter P. Ampong joined INAEC as Head of Commercial in 2011 and was appointed as General Manager in January 2015. He previously worked for Alpha Aviation Group Philippines (formerly Clark Aviation), first as Head of Strategy and Business Development from 2008 to 2010 and then as General Manager until 2011. He served the Philippine Army from 1994 to 2006. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from the Philippine Military Academy in 1994 and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the Asian Institute of Management in 2008, after completing graduate courses with concentration in Finance at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Gilbert M. Tabberrah joined INAEC as corporate pilot in 2000 and was appointed as INAEC Head of Operations in 2011. With the establishment of INAEC North Aviation Corporation (INAEC North) to expand INAEC’s operations at the Clark Freeport Zone, Capt. Tabberrah was appointed as its General Manager effective January 2017.  Prior to joining INAEC, he worked for the Air Transportation Office (ATO) from 1999 to 2000 as an ATO check pilot for rotary and fixed-wing aircraft, and at Philippine Airlines as DC-10 S/E systems engineer (1990-1993) and as Fokker F-50 captain (1994-1997). A Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering graduate of Adamson University, he underwent Undergraduate Pilot Training as an aviation cadet (1977-1978) of the Philippine Air Force (PAF) Flying School. He then served with the PAF 205th Helicopter Wing (1979-1980) and 250th Presidential Airlift Wing (1980-1990). He has over 9,800 hours of flying time and is qualified to pilot the following aircraft: Learjet 45; YS-11; Fokker F-50; SKA 350; and AS350 B2.

Capt. Edgar Allan C. Carreon joined INAEC as a corporate helicopter pilot in 2009, after a distinguished career of more than 20 years with the Philippine Air Force, where he retired as a Colonel in the same year. In addition to his pilot duties, Capt. Carreon was also served as INAEC’s Flight Safety Officer in 2016
until his appointment as Head of Operations in 2019. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering degree in Holy Angel University in 1988. Thereafter, he underwent pilot training with the 100th Training Wing at the Fernando Air Base from 1988 to 1989 before becoming a full-fledged helicopter pilot with the Philippine Air Force.

Glenn E. Perez was appointed as Head of Quality and Safety in 2012 and, in September 2015, as Head of the Corporate Services Group. He worked as Quality, Environment, Safety, and Health Corporate Program Manager for the Lopez Group Business Excellence unit, under Lopez Holdings Corporation, since 2006. In that capacity, he served as second party consultant/auditor of INAEC. He worked for ECC International (2001-2005) as senior management system consultant and operations manager and for Kisho Sakata Electronics (1998-2001) as senior quality assurance engineer. A licensed mechanical engineer, he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Batangas State University. He is currently enrolled in the Ateneo Regis – MBA Program of the Ateneo Graduate School of Business.

Constantine A. Cano was appointed Head of Maintenance in 2013 and as Head of Quality and Safety in September 2015. He worked as director of Quality Control and Safety at Eurocopter Philippines, Inc.; as manager for Quality at Air Philippines Corporation; as senior Aviation Safety Regulation officer for the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines; and as fulltime technical/engineering instructor for Air-link International Aviation College. A licensed aeronautical engineer, he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering, from PATTS College of Aeronautics. He also completed the Aircraft Maintenance Technician Course in the same institution. He has current licenses as an aircraft mechanic, aircraft specialist, and ground instructor.