Rolando Gapud is a Filipino businessman and current Executive Chairman of the Board of Del Monte Pacific Restricted (DMPL). DMPL owns and operates a group of corporations that caters to today’s customer requires for premium high quality, healthy food and beverage goods. In February 2014, DMPL acquired the customer food company of Del Monte Corporation in the Usa, which has been renamed Del Monte Foods, Inc.

In 1961, Rolando Gapud graduated with honors from Ateneo University in Manila, Philippines, exactly where he received his B.A. in Mathematics. In 1964, he received a Master of Science degree in Industrial Management in the Massachusetts Institute of Technologies.

Through his studies, he researched management theory in depth and went on to publish a book titled “A Measure of Info Method Efficiency”.

Since the early 1970’s, Rolando Gapud has served as CEO and sat around the board of a variety of organizations active in locations ranging from pharmaceuticals to banking, operating from diverse geographical locations including Manila, Hong Kong, New Delhi or San Fransisco.

For the detailed list of positions held, click here.

Rolando Gapud is also involved in a quantity of community development projects, either on his personal private time, or via Del Monte’s corporate social responsibility initiatives. His contributions involve the promotion of higher education by way of donations for the Sloan College of MIT, exactly where he's a member on the Asian Executive Board, also as community improvement initiatives within the Philippines, where DMPL operates the largest integrated pineapple plantation within the planet. You can find a lot more information about these activities around the Community Engagement web page.