Washington SyCip is the Founder of the SGV Group, a leading firm of auditors and management consultants. He is one the founders of the Asian Institute of Management and serves as Chairman of its Board of Trustees and Board of Governors. He is member of the Board of Overseers of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the American International Group and the Council on Foreign Relations. He sits on the Board of a number of major corporations in the Philippine and abroad. Mr. SyCip graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce and Master of Science in Commerce (Meritissimus) from the University of Santo Tomas, Philippines and obtained a second Master of Science in Commerce from Columbia University, New York (admitted in Beta Gamma Sigma, Honorary Business Society).