Atty. Beenedista “Dick” Du-Baladad, the founding accomplice and CEO of Du-Baladad & Associates (BDB Regulation), is the brand new Administration Affiliation of the Philippines (MAP) president for 2023. She is the seventy fifth MAP president.
Becoming a member of Dick on the MAP 2023 Board of Governors are Isla Lipana & Co./PwC Philippines Chair Emeritus and ESG Chief Alexander “Alex” B. Cabrera as VP; DITO CME COO Ddonald Lim as Treasurer; HSBC Philippines Treasurer, Head of Markets and Securities Providers, and Member of ExCom Maria Corazon “Corrie” D. Purisima as Asst. Treasurer; IT & Enterprise Course of Affiliation of the Philippines (IBPAP) Senior Advisor to the Board Karen B. Batungbacal as Secretary; Mind Belief, Inc. ChairCielito “Ciel” F. Habito, as Governor; P&A Grant Thornton Founder Benjamin “Ben” R. Punongbayan; PHINMA Company President and COO Chito B. Salazar as Governor; and Globe Fintech Improvements, Inc. (GCash) President and CEO Martha “Marts” M. Sazon as Governors.
Atty. Du-Baladad brings to the desk a stable expertise in administration – an accountant and a lawyer, with a joint diploma of Masters of Regulation and Worldwide Tax Program on the Harvard College, USA.
Her expertise, experience, dedication, and robust will, all contributed to creating BDB Regulation one of many main tax and company legislation corporations at this time resulting in its constant recognition as an impressive tax legislation agency by worldwide rating our bodies, together with the Chambers and Companions, Worldwide Tax Evaluate, Authorized 500 and Asia Authorized Enterprise.
Du-Baladad is a multi-awarded lawyer. She was named Nationwide Chief for Southeast Asia – Company Tax within the 2022 version of Who’s Who Authorized (WWL) Thought Leaders and is constantly ranked by Asia Enterprise Regulation Journal as one of many Philippines’ prime 100 attorneys (2018-2022). A extremely regarded identify within the discipline of taxation, she has been acknowledged for consecutive years as an Elite Tax Practitioner by Worldwide Tax Evaluate, a Band 1 Main Lawyer by Chambers and Companions, and a Tax Dispute Decision Lawyer by Ladies in Enterprise Regulation.
She was the president of the Monetary Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX) in 2017. She spearheaded the creation of the FINEX Academy as a middle of studying and excellence on capital market growth within the nation. From 2019 to 2022, she served because the Co-Chairman of the Capital Market Growth Council (CMDC).
A former official of the Bureau of Inside Income (BIR), she served in numerous posts in places of work concerned in operations, coverage formulation and authorized. One in all her important contributions within the BIR was the organising of and designing the organizational construction of the Giant Taxpayers Service (LTS).
She moved to the personal sector in 2001 and shortly thereafter grew to become the president of the Tax Administration Affiliation of the Philippines (TMAP), a premiere group of tax practitioners within the nation. These useful insights into each the private and non-private sectors and her notable goal pondering are attributes that serve her properly in her function as a marketing consultant of the federal government on numerous tasks, together with these on tax reforms, pension reforms and capital market growth initiatives.
At the moment, she serves as director of assorted firms and NGOs, each right here and overseas. Included in her directorships are: Asia Pacific Director for WTS International (Netherlands), Vice Chair of Financial institution of Commerce (BankCom), and Trustee of Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Trade (PCCI), Institute of Company Administrators (ICD) and Ladies Enterprise Council of the Philippines. She can also be a professorial lecturer on the School of Regulation of College of the Philippines (UP) and College of Santo Tomas (UST). As a topic professional in Taxation, she has written books on the specialised taxation of the banking, insurance coverage and monetary intermediation sectors.
In 2015, she established the BDB Regulation Basis figuring out schooling as a prime precedence. From its inception to date, the Basis continues to construct and donate faculty buildings, clinics and different services to public faculties in far–flung areas nationwide That is to assist present entry to good schooling and allow conducive studying surroundings to those areas the place sources are scarce. As she all the time voice out, ‘kahit isang bata lang na makapag-aral sa bawat pamilya, aangat and buong pamilya nila (a minimum of one school graduate for each Filipino dwelling can save an entire household from poverty).
Gifted with a artistic aspect, Dick can also be a author, a painter, a clothier and a lover of nature. She is a proud mom of 4 boys.
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