Joanne De Asis

Ms. Joanne De Asis is the Senior Adviser for Morgan Stanley & Co. (Morgan Stanley), an American multinational investment bank and financial services company listed at the New York Stock Exchange. Since she joined Morgan Stanley in 1977, Ms. De Asis rose through the ranks as she worked at the New York and London offices where she was involved in various cross-border strategic alliances, capital markets, and investment banking deals focusing on Asia and Pacific Regions. In 2005, she returned to Morgan Stanley in New York to serve as its Managing Director. In later years, she was instrumental in setting up the Morgan Stanley business in the Philippines and continues to run it via offices in Hongkong and Singapore.

Ms. De Asis is the Founder and Chairman of Globe Capital Partners LLC, a New York-based boutique investment and private equity bank, since 1998.

She sits on several advisory boards, locally and globally, including International Institute for Strategic Studies in London; Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands in California; and Walton’s Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas; World Economy Council at the Aspen Institute, Colorado; and the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) of the AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). Ms. De Asis served as Advisor to the Treasury Department of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas from 1984 to 1985; Director of Dillon Read & Company based in New York from 1986 to 1988; and Managing Director of Credit Suisse First Boston based in New York from 1989 to 1998. In 1999, she was chosen to be Grand Marshall, with then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani, in the tri-state area representing Filipinos. She was Chairman of the Philippine-American Chamber of Commerce in New York City.

Ms. De Asis obtained her degree in Bachelor of Arts, Major in Communication Arts, from Maryknoll College, and Master of Business Administration from Columbia University in New York, U.S.A. She also completed the Executive Management Program from Stanford University in Palo Alto California, U.S.A. She is an independent director of Easycall Communications Philippines, Inc., a publicly-listed company. She is not connected with any government agency or instrumentality.