Martin Yupangco

Founder

Martin Yupangco has over 33 years of international consulting experience specializing in business intelligence, investment research, analysis, due diligence and transaction advisory services to clients with investing activities throughout Asia. His consulting practice has also focused on complex transactions, competitor & market insight, government & regulatory affairs, reputation management, stakeholder relations and communications.

He currently serves as Senior Vice President for Strategy & Risk at First Philippine Holdings Corporation, a family holding company with principal interests in clean and renewable energy, premium real estate, manufacturing, and construction. He brings extensive experience from leading Optima Strategies and Investor Resources Counselors, an investment advisory, risk management, and alternative funder.

Prior to founding his firms, he was Director and Head of Research at Elliott Investment Management, a US activist fund, where he designed and developed investment strategies and led due diligence for distressed, arbitrage, and event-driven trades. He also served as Director at Alvarez & Marsal’s Singapore office, leading their Southeast Asia Dispute Analysis & Forensics practice. Earlier roles include Vice President at International Risk (now FTI Consulting), Managing Director and Head of Investigations and Business Intelligence at Kroll Associates (Hong Kong, Singapore, New York), and Regional Representative for ORC, Inc. (now Mercer Consulting).

Mr. Yupangco holds an MSc in International Operations Management from the Arthur D. Little School of Management (Cambridge, MA) and a BA in Business and Government from Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY).