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Mr Rolando C Gapud, Chairman

Mr Rolando C Gapud has over 35 years of experience in banking, finance and general management, having worked as CEO of several Philippine companies, notably Security Bank and Trust Company, Oriental Petroleum and Minerals Corp and Greenfield Development Corp. He was also the COO of the joint venture operations of Bankers Trust and American Express in the Philippines. He has served in the Boards of various major Philippine companies, including the Development Bank of the Philippines, the development finance arm of the Philippine Government. Mr Gapud is also a Director of Bharti Del Monte India Private Ltd, a joint venture of DMPL with the Bharti Group of India. He holds a Master of Science in Industrial Management degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Mr Joselito D Campos, Jr, Executive Director

Mr Joselito D Campos, Jr is Chairman and CEO of the NutriAsia Group of Companies, a major food conglomerate in the Philippines. He is also Chairman of Fort Bonifacio Development Corp and Vice Chairman of Ayala-Greenfield Development Corp, two major Philippine property developers. He was formerly Chairman and CEO of United Laboratories, Inc and its regional subsidiaries and affiliates. Unilab is the Philippines’ largest pharmaceutical company with substantial operations in the Asian region. Mr Campos is the Honorary Consul in the Philippines for the Republic of Seychelles. He is Chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Manila and is a Trustee of the Asia Society in the Philippines, the Philippines-China Business Council, the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship and the World Wildlife Fund-Philippines. He is also a Director of Bharti Del Monte India Private Ltd, a joint venture of DMPL with the Bharti Group of India. Mr Campos holds an MBA from Cornell University.

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Mr Edgardo M Cruz, Jr, Non-Executive Director

Mr Edgardo M Cruz, Jr is a Certified Public Accountant. He was a member of the Board and a Senior Executive Officer of the United Laboratories, Inc and its various subsidiaries both in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia for 14 years. He also served in the same capacity at Greenfield Development Corporation in the Philippines. Moreover, Mr Cruz has over 10 years of banking experience. At present, aside from being a Director and Corporate Secretary of the NutriAsia Group of Companies, he is also a member of the Board of Fort Bonifacio Development Corporation in the Philippines. Mr Cruz earned his MBA degree from the Asian Institute of Management after graduating from De La Salle University.

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Mr Godfrey E Scotchbrook, Independent Director

Mr Godfrey E Scotchbrook is an independent practitioner in corporate communications, issues management and investor relations with 37 years experience in Asia. In 1990, he founded Scotchbrook Communications and his prior appointments included being Regional Director of Burson-Marsteller, one of the world’s leading public relations companies and an executive director of the then publicly listed Shui On Group. A proponent of good corporate governance, he is an Independent Director of Boustead Singapore Ltd and Hong Kong-listed Convenience Retail Asia and Pacific Access, the Asian affiliate of the Koç Group. He is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Management Association and also of the British Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

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Mr Patrick L Go, Independent Director

Mr Patrick L Go is CEO of Paramount Life & General Insurance Corporation and Investment Advisor to the DWS Global Agricultural Land & Opportunities Fund. Mr Go has over 20 years of experience in corporate finance and venture capital having worked for Credit Suisse First Boston, Bank of America Asia Ltd and Bankers Trust Company. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the Darden School, University of Virginia.

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Dr Emil Quinto Javier, Independent Director

Dr Emil Quinto Javier is a Filipino agronomist widely recognised in the international community for his academic leadership and profound understanding of developing country agriculture. He is currently the President of the Philippine National Academy of Science and Technology and Scientific Advisor to the Philippine Secretary of Agriculture. He had served as Philippine Minister of Science and President of the University of the Philippines. He was the first and only developing country scientist to Chair the Technical Advisory Committee of the prestigious Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). He was Chairman of the Board of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI); Chair and Acting Director of the Southeast Asia Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA); and Director General of the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center (Taiwan). He holds doctorate and masteral degrees in plant breeding and agronomy from Cornell University and the University of Illinois. He completed his bachelor’s degree in agriculture at the University of the Philippines at Los Banos.

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Mr Kwek Gim Song Benedict, Independent Director

Mr Benedict Kwek Gim Song is the Chairman of PST Management Pte Ltd which is the manager and trustee of Pacific Shipping Trust, listed on the Singapore Exchange. He also serves on the Boards of Ascendas REIT, NTUC ChoiceHomes and NTUC Club. Mr Kwek, with over 30 years of banking experience, was the President and CEO of Keppel TatLee Bank. He has held various key positions at Citibank in the Philippines, Hong Kong, New York and Singapore. He holds a Bachelor of Social Science (Economics) degree from the then University of Singapore and attended a management development programme at Columbia University in the US.

Mr Joselito D Campos, Jr, Managing Director & Chief Exeuctive Officer

(See above)

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Mr Luis F Alejandro, Group Chief Operating Officer

Mr Luis F Alejandro has over 25 years of experience in consumer product operations and management. He started his career with Procter & Gamble where he spent 15 years in Brand Management before joining Kraft Foods Philippines Inc as President and General Manager. Later, he joined Southeast Asia Food Inc and Heinz UFC Philippines, Inc, two leading consumer packaged condiment companies of the NutriAsia Group, as President and Chief Operating Officer. He was most recently President and Chief Operating Officer of ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation, a leading media conglomerate in the Philippines. Mr Alejandro holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Ateneo de Manila University and an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management.

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Mr Richard W Blossom, Senior Vice President

Mr Richard W Blossom is President of GTL Limited, DMPL’s principal export arm, and is Managing Director of the Company’s Singapore-based subsidiary, DMPL Management Services Pte Ltd. He has over 30 years experience in general management, marketing, sales, distribution and logistics of fast moving consumer goods, having served as President of Pepsi Cola Asia Pacific, PepsiCo Foods Asia Pacific, Revlon Asia Pacific, and CEO of Dohler Asia and EAC Consumer Products. Mr Blossom obtained his MBA in Marketing from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

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Mr Ignacio Sison, Chief Financial Officer

Mr Ignacio C O Sison has about 20 years of finance experience spanning treasury, corporate planning and controllership. He was previously Vice President, Corporate Controller, and Vice President, Treasury and Corporate Development, of DMPI, and Finance Director of the Company’s subsidiary in Singapore. Before joining the Company in 1999, he was CFO of Macondray and Company, Inc. He also worked for SGV & Co, the largest audit firm in the Philippines, and Pepsi-Cola Products Philippines, Inc. Mr Sison holds a MS in Agricultural Economics from Oxford University. He also has a MA degree, Major in Economics, from the International University of Japan; a BA in Economics, magna cum laude, from the University of the Philippines; and an International Baccalaureate at the Lester B Pearson United World College of the Pacific in Canada.

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Mr Anthonio E S Ungson, Chief Legal Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer

Mr Antonio E S Ungson is Chief Legal Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of DMPL. He is also Head of the Legal Department of Del Monte Philippines, Inc since March 2007. Prior to joining the Group in 2006, Mr Antonio E S Ungson was a Senior Associate in SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan in Manila, where he served various clients for eight years in assignments consisting mainly of corporate and transactional work including mergers and acquisitions, securities and government infrastructure projects. He also performed litigation work and company secretarial services. Mr Ungson is a lecturer on Obligations and Contracts and Business Law at the Ateneo de Manila University Loyola School of Management. He obtained his Bachelor of Laws from the University of the Philippines College of Law and completed his undergraduate degree in Economics, cum laude and with a Departmental award at the Ateneo de Manila University.