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Former Angeles City mayor Atty. Edgardo D. Pamintuan named new chairman of state-owned Clark Development Corp. (CDC)
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Retired military officer Emmanuel Salamat appointed as CDC director
Former Angeles City mayor Atty. Edgardo D. Pamintuan has been appointed as the new chairman of state-owned Clark Development Corp. (CDC).
Pamintuan’s appointment was announced by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea in a February 5 letter to the CDC Board of Directors.
Pamintuan, in a statement, said his new role “is not foreign to me,” as he had been chairman of Subic-Clark Alliance for Development Council from 2006 to 2010.
CDC president and chief executive officer Manuel Gaerlan, in a separate statement, said Pamintuan’s chairmanship “will be a big boost to the vision we have set forth for the corporation.”
He noted that Pamintuan “has served in various capacities in local government, as a cabinet member and presidential adviser, and in international panels and undertakings.” Gaerlan added that Pamintuan was instrumental in opening access to Clark Freeport Zone and other centers of economy by helping create connectivity to major expressways.
Just last January, Gaerlan, who was previously a director of CDC, was appointed as its president and CEO.
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Also appointed to the CDC Board as director is retired lieutenant general Emmanuel Salamat.
Salamat is a member of Philippine Military Academy class 1985 and a former commandant of the Philippine Marines and commander of the Armed Forces of the Philippines-Northern Luzon Command. He was also the administrator of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System from 2019 until early this year.
CDC, which was created in 1993, is an attached agency of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority, which manages the Clark Freeport Zone in Pampanga as a premier investment and business center.
