Lourdes Celestial G. Dipasupil - Assistant Vice President, Head of Research

Chelsea has been with the company since 1997. Immediately preceding her current post, she was Associate Director for Research at the Vickers Ballas Securities Phils. Inc. (1994). Her cumulative experience in stockbrokerage research total almost ten years. This includes being an analyst at the Morgan-Grenfell Securities Phils Inc. (1993), and Philippine Asia Equity Inc. (1990). She has acquired investment related exposure as a portfolio manager at the PCIBank- Trust Division (1994) and supervising analyst at Credit Information Bureau Inc. (1986). Prior to this, she was an industry analyst at the Department of Trade and Industry (1983). Chelsea holds an AB major in Economics (1979) and MBA degrees from the University of the Philippines (1986). She also graduated in Masters of Policy Science from the Saitama University as a Monbusho scholar of the Japanese government (1992). Her industry coverage includes banking, economy, telecommunications, and broadcasting/media.