Vince is chairman of Alternergy and Solar Pacific, Philippine renewable power companies in wind, hydro and solar. As Philippine Energy Minister from 2001 to 2005, he promoted clean indigenous energy and crafted an ambitious renewable energy policy framework. He served briefly as Deputy Minister for Industry and was vice chairman of the Philippines’ Renewable Energy Board.

Vince first became involved with WWF in 1989 by arranging debt-for-nature swaps. He was a founding trustee and chairman of WWF-Philippines, and later elected a member of WWF-International Board. Currently he is a trustee of WWF-China, a Board member of WWF US, and a member of advisory boards of Bhutan Foundation, Coca-Cola FEMSA Philippines, New Zealand Trade Enterprise, Pictet Clean Energy Fund, and Yale Center for Business and Environment.

Vince had 17 years’ experience first in Latin American debt restructuring at Mellon Bank, and later in debt capital markets and private equity in emerging countries at Lazard in London, New York and Singapore. He was a Partner at Lazard Frères in New York as head of its Emerging Markets Group and later a Managing Director of Lazard Asia in Singapore.

Vince then founded Next Century Partners, a private equity firm in Singapore, and founded Asian Conservation Company, a venture philanthropy that acquired El Nido Resorts, an eco-tourism destination in Palawan.

Vince is a director of ST Telemedia, the Temasek media holding company, of Banco de Oro, the largest Philippine bank, and was a director of EDC, Asia’s largest geothermal company, of Del Monte Pacific, and of Northwind, the first wind farm in Southeast Asia.

He holds an MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a BS in Business Economics from University of the Philippines, and was a Yale World Fellow where he lectured an MBA class on renewable power. He resides in Manila and enjoys diving, yoga, and zen meditation.