Atty. Euney Mata-Perez explains how career women can build themselves up for a post-
CEO stint in corporate boards. She herself took the Professional Directorship Program
(PDP) and various seminars and workshops even as a junior lawyer partner some
twenty years ago. “I knew back then I already wanted to be a corporate director,” she
shares with BUSINESS OUTLOOK hosts Salve Duplito and Ron Cruz. Today, her
preparations are paying off as she sits in several publicly-listed companies as an
Independent Director.
She also encourages companies to ensure their boards are diverse not only in gender
and age but in competencies. Watch Atty Euney as she promotes how organizations
like NOWCD can also provide mentoring to budding directors as well as providing a
pool of directors for forward-thinking companies to choose from. “They keep giving the
excuse ‘we don’t know any women directors’ so here we are at NOWCD,” she
enthuses.
THOUGHT LEADERS episode
In a recent episode of THOUGHT LEADERS , a show hosted by Cathy Yap Yang, Atty.
Euney Mata-Perez shares about her inspiration from a woman Chair, the late and
former Senator Helena Benitez who saw chairing a board meeting , when Perez was
still a Girl Scout. Then to her years as a junior partner in a law firm, she shares her plan
to be a director someday. That day has come. Atty/ Euney now sits in several boards,
including a publicly-listed company as well as NGOs.
She talks about how networking and joining groups like NOWCD can help someone in a
career move towards the B-suite.