By Sam S. Escolano
MPTC held its Build As One Annual (BAO) Strategic Management Conference 2022 last August 11 and 12, 2022 at the Hyatt Regency Manila, City of Dreams. The said conference was attended by managers of all MPTC Business Units, which includes NLEX Corporation.
This year’s BAO featured a plethora of fireside discussions with well-known personalities who expounded on I-CARE Values corporate values, as follows:
- Innovation – Juana Catalina Rodriguez, Stanford GSB Seed-Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies Executive Coach
- Corporate Sustainability – Rahul Gupta, McKinsley & Company Solution Leader and Associate Partner / Senior Expert on Sustainability
- Agility – George Royeca, Angkas Co-Founder and CEO, and Gian Ebao, Maya Chief Technology Officer
- Responsiveness – Lito Villanueva, RCBC Chief Innovation and Inclusion officer
- Excellence – Hidilyn Diaz, Olympics Gold Medalist

The fireside discussions allowed in-depth interviews and responses to conference attendees’ queries as facilitated by this year’s BAO host, JC Alelis.

BAO 2022 also featured the official launch of the I-CARE theme song and the I-CARE logo. More importantly, it also featured the managers’ commitment to the strengthened corporate values, which was led by REF.


Truly, as the now-popular values slogan goes, “I-CARE starts with me”.
1Gian Ebao photogtaph taken from https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/startups/red-dot-payment-increases-revenue/

Sam S. Escolano, Tollways Development and Engineering. Sam is a manager of Contracts Administration for the NLEX expansion projects. He is deeply into music, leadership, and service. He loves life, his family, and his NLEX family.