Ms. Rizalina G. Mantaring, Chair of the Sun Life Financial Group of Companies in the Philippines, is the guest speaker during the recognition ceremonies of the U.P. Cesar E.A. Virata School of Business to be held at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, 24 June 2018 at the University Theater. Mantaring has an M.S. Computer Science from the State University of New York at Albany and a B.S. Electrical Engineering (cum laude) from the University of the Philippines. She is a Fellow of the Life Management Institute (with distinction) and one of the U.P. College of Engineering’s 100 Most Outstanding Alumni of the past century.

There are 346 graduates with 134 BSBA, 74 BSBAA, 102 MBA, 32 MS Finance, two MS Management and three PhD. Leading the graduates are Joanne Lynsley T. Go, BSBAA, summa cum laude, and Diego Alberto B. Nepomuceno, BSBA, summa cum laude. There are 185 honor graduates (89% of Class 2018):  two with summa cum laude honors, 57 with magna cum laude honors and 126 with cum laude honors. 

Among the graduates is UP-VSB assistant professor Maria Regina Lucia M. Lizares who will graduate with two degrees, a Master of Science in Management and a Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration.