Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation approved by the Board of Directors at the regular meeting held on July 25, 2022. Appointment/Election of Ms. Erika Fille T. Legara as an Independent Director of the Bank, Member of the Audit and Compliance Committee, the Corporate Governance Committee (Director Vaughn F. Montes will step down as member for this purpose), and Related Party Transactions Committee, and her interlocking positions (subject to BSP/other regulatory approvals, as may be required). Ms. Legara is known for co-leading the crafting and co-authoring of the National AI Roadmap of the Philippines, which is set to guide the country into becoming an "AI Center of Excellence." The role was part of her task as a policy advisor for the Philippines's Department of Trade and Industry-Competitiveness and Innovation Group.

Prior to the National AI Roadmap project, Ms. Legara was responsible for the design of the curriculum of the first formal data science graduate program in the Philippines, AIM's MSc in Data Science program, which was ranked in the top 3 across analytics programs in the whole Far East Asia by Eduniversal--an annual ranking of business schools and universities in over 150 countries. Prior to assuming her role as a Senior Scientist at the Analytics, Computing, and Complex Systems Lab at the Asian Institute of Management, she was a Research Scientist at the leading government think tank Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore for five years. Ms. Legara graduated cum laude from the University of the Philippines ("UP"), Diliman with the degree of BS in Physics.

She obtained her MS and PhD in Physics also in UP Diliman. She also took up Leading Smart Policy Design at JF Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Executive Education in 2021.