Eliseo A. Aurellado, Ph.D., MBA, CPA

President

Eliseo A. Aurellado is the President of Southeast Asia Interdisciplinary Development Institute (SAIDI) Graduate School of OD.

He is a CPA, management practitioner, academician and entrepreneur with more than 40 years\' experience in public accounting, controllership, general management, management consultancy services, and business practice. He holds degrees in BBA, Accountancy, magna cum laude (University of the East), MBA, Beta Gamma Sigma (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and PhD (Southeast Asia Interdisciplinary Development Institute). He is one of the peer reviewers of the Horizon Publishing Company in the US that issues professional journals.

He started his career with SGV & Co., CPAS, worked with Deloitte Haskins & Sells, CPAs in New York, became First Vice President of PCIBank, President and CEO of PCIB Property Care, Inc., Audit Partner of R.S. Bernaldo & Associates (CPAs), and Audit Director of ML Aguirre & Co, CPAs.

He is former Cluster Chair of Finance Faculty at the Ateneo Graduate School of Business, a position he held for 13 years. He still teaches accounting, finance and strategic management courses in Ateneo\'s MBA programs. He is also a lecturer at Ateneo\'s Center for Continuing Education (CCE) and part-time faculty of CCE\'s Master in Entrepreneurship program.

He is Vice Chairman of the Board and COO of Metro Stonerich Corporation, a Triple A, ISO-certified construction company catering to big-time developers, Chairman of the Board of Metrorich Realty and President of Metrorich Builders Corporation.

He is a member of CPA professional organizations such as PICPA, ACPAPP and ACPACI. He is a former member of the Professional Regulations Commission Board of Accountancy that regulates the accountancy profession and administers licensure examinations for CPAs. He was also a member of CHED\'s Technical Committee on Accountancy that created three new Bachelor\'s degree programs in accountancy.

He is Past President of the Rotary Club of Downtown Manila and former director of AMCI Mountaineering Club. He is a commissioned officer of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Reserve Command with the rank of Lt. Colonel.