Arthaland Corporation announced that majority of the Board of Directors of the Corporation still constitutes a quorum, and after the Nomination Committee vetted his qualifications, Mr. Fernan Victor P. Lukban was elected as Independent Director of the Corporation to act as such for the remainder of the term of Mr. Emmanuel A. Rapadas who resigned on 30 September 2019. Effective date of appointment is October 23, 2019. Mr. Lukban, Filipino is a leading consultant in Family Business, Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Governance. He advises family boards of over a dozen of the most progressive and better governed family businesses in the country. His interests include helping build and grow family businesses, installing good governance practices and poverty alleviation. Over the recent years, he has put special focus on developing Base of the Pyramid Initiatives (BOPI) in various provinces in the Philippines. He spent much of his early professional years in the academe helping establish and grow the University of Asia & the Pacific where he still participates as a consultant, mentor and guest lecturer.