John Eric Francia

President & Chief Executive Officer

Eric is President & CEO of ENEX Energy Corp. He is the President and CEO of ACEN Corporation and serves on its board of directors. He is also a Senior Managing Director and member of the Management Committee of Ayala Corporation. Under his leadership, Ayala established its energy platform from a standing start in 2011, to become one of the largest renewable energy platforms in the region, with ~7GW of attributable renewables capacity across Asia Pacific.

Mr. Francia has also led pioneering initiatives in early coal retirement, including the successful completion of the world’s first market-based Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM).

Mr. Francia earned a Master’s Degree in Management Studies at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, graduating with First Class Honors. He received his undergraduate degree in Humanities and Political Economy from the University of Asia & the Pacific, graduating magna cum laude.

Hannielynn Tucay

Treasurer & Chief Finance Officer

Hannielynn is the Chief Finance Officer and Treasurer of ENEX Energy Corp. She is concurrently the CFO and and Head of Business Development of ACE Thermal, Inc. (to be renamed as Klima 1.5 Corp.). She is a director and former General Manager of ACE Shared Services, Inc. She was the former Head of Corporate Finance of ACEN. She was also the former Controller and FP&A Head, of ACEIC, and former Finance Head of ACEIC’s Retail Business Unit.

Prior to joining ACEN, she was the former Deputy CFO and FP&A Head of ALI Capital Corp. She has over 20 years’ experience in various finance roles in companies including the Ayala Land Group, Roche Diagnostics, Diageo, and Punongbayan and Araullo.

Hannielynn is a Certified Public Accountant. She graduated from the University of Baguio with a degree in Accountancy.

John Philip Orbeta

Chief Administrative Officer;
Chief Human Resources Officer &
Chief Risk Officer

JP Orbeta is the chief human resources officer, chief administrative officer, and chief risk officer of ACEN (formerly AC Energy) and ENEX Energy Corporation. He is also a director at ACE Endevor, Inc. and ACE Shared Services, Inc.

JP was a managing director at Ayala Corporation, where he served as chief human resources officer and group head for Corporate Resources from 2005 to September 2021. Today, he serves on the Boards of several companies across the Ayala Group, including AC Industrials and AG Legal and is currently the chairman of the Ayala Multi-Purpose Cooperative (Ayala Coop). Previously, he was the president and CEO of Ayala Automotive Holdings Corporation, Automobile Central Enterprise, Inc. and Ayala Aviation. He also previously served as a director on the Boards of BPI Family Bank, ALFM Mutual Funds, AC Health and Ayala Foundation. Prior to joining Ayala Corporation, he was the vice president and global practice director of the Human Capital Consulting Group at Watson Wyatt Worldwide (now Willis Towers Watson).

JP completed his advanced management programs at Harvard Business School, IMD and INSEAD, and holds a degree in A.B. Economics from the Ateneo de Manila University.

Raymundo Reyes, Jr.

General Manager

Raymundo Reyes, Jr. is the General Manager of ENEX Energy Corp. He served as a member of the Company's Board of Directors from February 2013 to December 2021. After a short teaching and graduate assistantship stint at the U.P. Department of Chemistry and Department of Geology and Geography, he started his career as a geologist with the Philippine National Oil Company in 1976 and was subsequently seconded to the Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies. He joined the Company as Exploration Manager in 1987, and became its Vice President for Exploration in 1994. He is concurrently the President & COO of Palawan55 Exploration and Production Corporation, and Vice President of Maibarara Geothermal, Inc., a joint venture between ACEN, PetroGreen Energy Corp., and PNOC Renewables. He is also a Director of Palawan55 Exploration and Production Corporation since February 2013, and Maibarara Geothermal, Inc. since April 2016.

Ray holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Master of Science in Geology degrees from the University of the Philippines and is both a licensed Geologist and Chemist.

Dodjie D. Lagazo

Corporate Secretary;
Compliance Officer &
General Counsel

Dodjie Lagazo is an Executive Director and the Head of Legal and Regulatory of ACEN Corporation (formerly AC Energy Corp.). As Head of Legal and Regulatory, he spearheaded the development and implementation of the ACEN group’s corporate legal strategy, as well as governance and compliance programs.

Dodjie concurrently serves as the Corporate Secretary of ENEX Energy Corp., and Assistant Corporate Secretary of ACEN Corporation. He was a Director and member of AG Counselors Corporation’s Management Committee from January 2014 to July 2017. Prior to joining Ayala, he worked with the law firm of SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan.

Dodjie earned his Bachelor of Laws Degree from the College of Law of the University of the Philippines, Diliman, and ranked sixth in the graduating class of 2003. He received his undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of the Philippines, Diliman, graduating magna cum laude.