Chris is the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) and a Partner for Advisory Services of P&A Grant Thornton. As the CSO, he is leading the Firm’s sustainability practice as well as the integration of sustainability into the Firm’s operations. He has served as the Partner in Charge of Training of the Audit & Assurance Practice Area, Head of Branches, and Oversight Partner for Internal Audit and Compliance of the Firm.
With over 20 years of experience, Chris has led high-profile due-diligence audits of international and local companies in a wide range of industries. In 2022, he joined the Advisory Services Practice of P&A Grant Thornton and focused on developing its Sustainability Practice, which he now leads. He has significant experience in fraud and forensics, financial risk advisory, transaction advisory, and internal audit and compliance (anti-money laundering and data privacy).
Prior to his elevation to partnership, Chris assisted in the Firm’s Technical Standards Group for six years while performing his regular client servicing responsibilities. He also assisted the Risk Management Partner in implementing the Firm’s risk management policies. He also holds a European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) Global Individual Accreditation as a coach/mentor practitioner from the EMCC.
Under P&A’s Global Secondment Program, Chris spent two years in Chicago where he worked for the US branch of Grant Thornton (GT US). He participated in one of the largest reconstruction projects of GT US, involving one of the USA’s major healthcare providers at that time.
Chris holds a master's degree in management from the Asian Institute of Management. He also completed the Executive Leadership Program at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He finished as summa cum laude from Far Eastern University’s Accountancy Program.
Memberships
- Philippine Sustainability Reporting Committee – Committee Member
- Auditing and Assurance Standards Council – Committee Member and Former Secretary
- Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants – Member and Former Secretary, Committee on Sustainability & Integrated Reporting
- Association of Certified Public Accountants in Public Practice – Former Director
- Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines
- Far Eastern University Alumni Foundation Inc. (FEU Alumni Association) – President
- Rotary Club of Makati – Vice President and Director for Club Administration, and former Chairman of Disaster Relief, Director for Community Service, and Comptroller
- Makati Rotary Club Foundation, Inc. – Former Trustee and Corporate Secretary
Awards
- Green and Gold Awardee (Outstanding Alumnus), Far Eastern University
- Rotary Club of Makati (RCM) – Rotarian of the Year (2018 and 2017), Director of the Year (2020 and 2017) and Chairman of the Year (2019 and 2014)
