Alex V. Buenaventura, LANDBANK CEO and President
Alex Valdez Buenaventura assumed as LANDBANK’s 9th President and CEO in November 2016.
Mr. Buenaventura has 36 solid years of rural banking experience, dealing with small entrepreneurs, agro-industrial enterprises, farmers, cooperatives and other key economic players.
Before joining LANDBANK, he was the long-time president and director of One Network Bank (ONB), the country’s largest rural bank in terms of assets, network of branches and net income. ONB is known to be a proponent of inclusive banking and a leading player in Mindanao. During his tenure at ONB, Mr. Buenaventura focused on serving the unbanked and underbanked rural areas in southern Philippines.
A veteran banker, Mr. Buenaventura is the former president of the Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines (RBAP) and executive director of the Rural Bankers Research and Development Foundation Inc.
Mr. Buenaventura also served as chairman of the Board of Trustees of Ateneo de Davao University and trustee of Holy Cross of Davao College Inc. and Davao del Norte State College in Panabo City.
From 1995 to 1998, he was the private sector representative for Mindanao of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development (SMED) National Council.
Mr. Buenaventura is no neophyte in public service as he served the local government of Panabo City as chairman of the Municipal Industrialization Task Force and director of the Municipal Water District from 1994 to 1996.
An academic achiever, Mr. Buenaventura graduated with honors from elementary to his post-graduate studies. He earned his degree in AB Economics Honors Program at the Ateneo de Manila University and completed his Master’s in Business Administration at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.
