Personal Summary

Prof. Federico C. Gonzalez

Executive Position Held:

• President/CEO, San Miguel Properties, Inc. (real estate arm of the SMC Group, handling real estate asset management and disposition), Oct.1, 1990 – Dec.31, 1998.
• President & Vice Chairman, Home Insurance and Guaranty Corp. (HIGC – the government housing agency mandated to offer credit insurance to government and private funders of housing projects and mortgages), to which Pres. Cory Aquino appointed Dickie as CEO; this required him to implement major organizational changes and financial rehabilitation in the post-Marcos years, April 1986 – February 1990.
• Corporate advisory The AVEGON electrical manufacturing venture, which he was nominated as COO

Educational Background:

• BS Mechanical Engineering (Magna Cum Laude, 1964) at the De La Salle College
• MS Industrial Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1966),
• A dedicated teacher, full-time and part-time at various stages, in the DLSU College of Engineering, Graduate School of Business, and College of Computer Studies; his first assignment was in the Mechanical Engineering Department, COE, in 1968.
• On his advocacy and academic career, Dickie has developed a passion for Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation, which he has been researching, training, mentoring and consulting since 2005.