2023 JUDGE'S PROFILE

Maria Luisa “MaLu” Inofre
Chief People Officer
Aboitiz Power Corporation
As the Chief People Officer, MaLu is at the helm of cultivating an agile and resilient workforce that will drive the transformation of AboitizPower across its businesses in generation, distribution, retail electricity services and potential new businesses. At AboitizPower, its people are key in achieving its 2030 ambition of growing its generation portfolio to a 50:50 balance between its renewable energy and
thermal capacities.
Under her leadership, the company continues to power the future of current and future team members with its People@Core program. This program aims to attract, optimize and retain talents, the company’s most valuable resource, in a future ready workplace towards achieving transformative and disruptive business outcomes.
Because of her stellar track record in driving employee engagement and empowerment, MaLu is a wellrespected and well-loved leader across AboitizPower. She started her career in the transport business of the Aboitiz Group and has since then held various leadership positions within and outside of the AboitizPower, the group’s power company.
Before coming back to AboitizPower, MaLu was the Director for Human Resources at Convergys handling an 18,000-strong workforce across 9,000 sites.
MaLu is among the primary allies of the LGBT+ community in AboitizPower and she firmly believes that to be able to have an engaged and mpowered workforce, one must first feel safe, included, and valued. That is why top of her agenda at AboitizPower is to be purposive in driving diversity, inclusion and belongingness.
For MaLu, no one gets left behind. Everyone matters at AboitizPower.
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Maria Luisa “MaLu” Inofre
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