He is active both in public accounting and in the teaching profession. From 1983 to the present he has served as faculty at the Ateneo Graduate School of Business and is currently the head of the Finance department. He was previously connected with a Philippine Universal Bank and the leading CPA firm. He obtained an MBA degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of the East. He has LIB units at the Ateneo Law School.