If the
Insurance Commission (IC) has a Walk of Fame, this person’s star would surely
be firmly and reverently planted among the brightest ones.
Boss
Rey, as we fondly call him, has been in IC for 36 years, 33 of it with the
Actuarial Division, and the last three years with the Statistics and Research
Division.
This
January 2017, he will no longer be officially part of the Commission as he will
be retiring – a decision he painstakingly made, torn as he was between love for
family and profession, and in the end, becoming convinced that he has already
given a better part of his life to the latter and it is time to give more of
himself to his family.
A
reliable “soldier” to all the Insurance Commissioners he served (from the late
Commissioner Gregoria Cruz-Arnaldo to former Commissioner Emmanuel F. Dooc),
one can hardly name an important project of IC that he was not involved with –
Increase in capitalization, PERA, Bancassurance, Pre-Need IRR, Insurance Code
Amendment, and many others. But among all these, he will probably be best
identified with Microinsurance.
He was
there, a source of expertise, from the very start. And his name will always
shine, along with the other pioneering microinsurance champions (think of the
late Commissioner Evangeline Crisostomo-Escobillo, the late Sir Itoy Almario,
and other who’s who in
Microinsurance) who laid the groundwork for this program.
Boss Rey, for sharing your expertise in
insurance regulations, for sharing the best part of your life with us, for
making IC a better office because you became a part of it, we salute you. You
are a soldier worthy of your stars. We will miss your presence, especially your
pranks that lighten up our sometimes weary spirits, we will miss our go-to guy,
Attorney-out-law cum Consultant Vergara, but we celebrate the beginning of a
new chapter in your life. May you find the coming years – decades and decades
of them – to be as rewarding, fulfilling and satisfying as your previous 36
years, if not more.
Here’s
to extended sleep, more opportunities for apostolate
activities, and closer relations with PAL!
Reynaldo Vergara
April Daisy Lopez
Laila Garcia
Lourdes Ramos
1 comment:
Happy retirement boss rey
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