Carlo Joaquin Tadeo L.

Katigbak
CEO of ABS CBN Corporation

Carlo López Katigbak (born April 24, 1970) is a

filipino executive and the current president and CEO of Philippine

entertainment and media conglomerate, ABS-CBN Corporation.

Katigbak entered Ateneo de Manila University  where he graduated

with a Bachelor of Science  in Management Engineering  degree in

1991. He later attended Harvard Business School's six-week

Advanced Management Program in 2009. Katigbak commenced his

career as a financial analyst for First Pacific Capital Corporation in

1992. He entered SKY Cable Corporation  in 1994. He served as

Corporate Finance Manager and has held various positions in

Corporate Planning, Provincial Operations and Finance at Sky Cable.

He was responsible for establishing the presence of the company's

services outside Metro Manila since the company's TV operation was

predominantly in the metropolis. Katigbak helped Sky Cable establish

presence in key cities around the Philippines. He was appointed as

first managing director of the Pilipino Cable Corporation in 1998.

In 1999, Katigbak moved to ABS-CBN where he was tasked to build

an online business which led to the establishment of a company

named ABS-CBN Interactive. For six years served as the managing

director of ABS-CBN Interactive Inc., which created and managed

websites of ABS-CBN and its subsidiaries. From 2005 to 2011,

Katigbak served as chief operating officer of Sky Cable.

He was named president of Sky Cable in 2013. During his tenure the

company released the Digibox and reintroduced Sky Cable's

broadband products, He is also the managing director of Bayan

Holdings Corporation. Katigbak served as the head of ABS-CBN

Access group, where he oversaw the strategy formulation and

performance of Sky Cable Corporation, ABS-CBN mobile, and ABS-

CBN TV Plus. He was appointed as Chief Operating Officer of

the ABS-CBN Corporation in March 1, 2015.

On December 18, 2015, ABS-CBN announced that Katigbak would be

the new president and CEO of the company starting on January 1,

2016 replacing Charo Santos-Concio who would retire from the

position. Santos-Concio would still serve the company in other

capacities as chief content officer, President of ABS-CBN University,

and executive adviser to Chairman of the Board, Eugenio Lopez III.

Katigbak is married to a woman he first met in his job at Sky Cable.

He pursued her when she quit after a year of working with the

company. He and his wife have a son.