Carlo Joaquin Tadeo Lopez Katigbak (born April 24, 1970) is a

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executive and the current president and

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of Philippine entertainment and giant media conglomerate,

ABS-CBN Corporation ABS-CBN Corporation is a Filipino media company based in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is the largest entertainment and media conglomerate in the Philippines. It is a subsidiary of Lopez Holdings Corporation which is owned by t ...

Education

Katigbak attended

Ateneo de Manila University , mottoeng = Light in the Lord , type = Private, research, non-profit, coeducational basic and higher education institution , established = December 10, 1859 , religious_affiliation = Roman Catholic (Jesuits) , academic_aff ...

, where he graduated with a

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degree in 1991. He later completed

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in 2009.

Career

Katigbak commenced his career as a financial analyst for First Pacific Capital Corporation in 1992. He entered

SKY Cable Corporation Sky Cable Corporation, doing business as Sky, is a Telecommunications in the Philippines, Filipino telecommunications company based in Diliman, Quezon City. A subsidiary of the media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corporation, ABS-CBN, the company offe ...

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-CBNmobile ABS-CBN Mobile (stylized as ABS-CBNmobile) was a cellular telephony service provider in the Philippines owned and operated by ABS-CBN Convergence, a subsidiary of ABS-CBN. ABS-CBNmobile formerly uses the network infrastructures of Globe Telecom ...

, and

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. He was appointed as

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of the

on March 1, 2015. On December 18, 2015, ABS-CBN Corporation announced that Katigbak would be the new

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and

of the company starting on January 1, 2016, replacing

Charo Santos-Concio María Rosario Navarro Santos-Concio (born October 27, 1955), popularly known as Charo Santos-Concio or simply Charo Santos (), is a Filipino people, Filipino media executive and actress. She is the host of ''Maalaala Mo Kaya'', the longest-runni ...

, 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 Eugenio Gabriel "Gabby" Lopez III (born August 13, 1952) is a Filipino-American businessman who was the CEO (1993–2013), chairman (1997–2018) and chairman emeritus (2018–2020) of ABS-CBN Corporation, the largest entertainment and media co ...

Personal life

Katigbak is married to Charisse, whom he 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.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Katigbak, Carlo L. ABS-CBN executives Living people López family of Iloilo Filipino chief executives Place of birth missing (living people) Ateneo de Manila University alumni 1970 births