UBS promotes female leadership with Women and Finance 2025 forum

May 24, 2025
6:20PM PHT

Insider spotlight:

  • UBS Philippines hosts “Passing the Torch” women’s leadership forum
  • Myrna and Liza Yao, Vicki and Cristalle Belo share succession insights
  • Event part of ongoing Women and Finance series launched in 2023
  • Over 100 women leaders have participated in the series to date
  • UBS calls for stronger ecosystem for female business leadership

UBS Philippines marked the latest installment of its Women and Finance dialogue series on May 24, 2025, spotlighting female leadership across generations with the theme “Passing the Torch: The View from Mothers and Daughters.”

The forum featured prominent mother-daughter business tandems: Myrna Yao and Liza Yao-Bate of Richprime Global Inc., and Dr. Vicki Belo and Cristalle Belo-Pitt of the Belo Medical Group. Each shared insights on growing their respective enterprises and managing the generational handover of business leadership.

“Through our UBS Women and Finance dialogue sessions, we continue to discuss the key themes that are pertinent to female leaders of today,” said Robby Go, country head of UBS Philippines. “Our guest speakers today are not only successful businesswomen and trailblazers, they have also built a strategy of transitioning their business to the next generation.”

(From left to right) Kristina Chua, executive director; Liza Yao-Bate, managing director, Richprime Global; Myrna Yao; president and CEO, Richprime Global; Min Lan Tan, managing director; Robby Go, country head, UBS Philippines; Dr. Vicki Belo, founder and medical director, The Belo Medical Group; and Cristalle Belo-Pitt, co-founder and managing director, Intelligent Skincare./Contributed Photo

Launched in 2023, the UBS Women and Finance initiative has since drawn over 100 female CEOs, corporate leaders, and entrepreneurs in the Philippines. Discussions have ranged from the evolving role of women in finance to building effective teams, increasing financial literacy, and achieving financial independence for women.

The event highlighted the growing influence of women as a critical economic force. UBS officials emphasized the importance of cultivating an ecosystem to support emerging female leaders, especially in a country with a high rate of women-led enterprises.

More than 50 distinguished and accomplishedwomen attended the successful fourthinstallment of the Women and Finance DialogueSeries. CLICK TO SEE FULL IMAGE./Contributed Photo

Among the notable past speakers of the series are Ayala Land Inc. CEO Anna Ma. Margarita Dy, Hotel101 Global CEO Marianna Yulo, Focus Global CFO Angela Sy, GCash chief strategy officer Rowie Zamora; Ana Lorenzana De Ocampo, president and CEO of Wildflour Group; and Converge ICT president Grace Uy.

More than 50 women leaders participated in the fourth edition of the forum, reinforcing UBS’s commitment to advancing gender diversity in finance and business.

— Edited by Daxim L. Lucas

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