Admiral Quirico V. Evangelista served with distinction for 36 years in the Philippine Navy. He is a complete naval professional: having completed his Junior Billets aboard ships; flown the Islander aircraft; orchestrated clean-ups of beaches; conducted lectures on naval operations; wrote intelligence analysis and reports, all in preparation for higher Naval Commands.Parallel to these activities are the Naval Badges earned: Command-at-Sea, Aviator Wings, and Instructor Badges. Admiral Evangelista has received numerous medals, plaques, and certificates of recognition both from the Navy and the maritime world. More important assignments came later with his promotion to higher ranks:

• As Director of NOCOP, he initiated maritime industry activities and organized PCG units to increase awareness in marine environment protection.
• As Commander of NAG, he emphasized airborne Maritime Patrol and established the Aviation School. For the fleet, Admiral Evangelista had commanded a total of five vessels that conducted patrol and transport missions such as Election Run and deployment Rotation of Army Troops.
• As the Superintendent of NCSC, he designed and implemented a naval staff curriculum for middle grade officers. The next Three Major Commands of the Philippine Navy earned for him his Star ranks.
• As Commander of Ready Force, he administered the six Naval Task Forces, and orchestrated the successful conduct of naval exercises.As Commander of Naval Forces North, he deployed naval forces and helped national agencies in responding to natural disasters.
• As Commander of Naval Education and Training Command (NETC), he was dedicatedly instrumental to the upgrade of curriculum of EP Rating Courses, and to the development of knowledge and skill of instructors.

Under the principle of “training first prior assignment,” the Navy sent Admiral Evangelista for his basic and advance schooling at Cavite; an environmental impact assessment course at Aberdeen; Masters in Defence Studies at Canberra; and National Security course at Nazareth.

In recognition of worthy accomplishments, Admiral Evangelista prides himself most as a recipient of the Presidential Legion of Honor Degree of Officer, the three Distinguished Service Star Medals, and the PMA Distinguished Alumni Award.  His community services include being a Camp Chief of Boy Scout Regional Jamboree; Master of the Lodge, F&A Manager; and a Knight Commander of KOR.Admiral Evangelista and his wife, Helen, raised their four “Anak ng Mandaragat” children at the Naval Officers’ Village at BNS.  He is currently busy finishing the publication of his notes for use in his lecture tour.

VAdm. Emilio C. Marayag AFP (Ret)
Chairman

Commo Mariano S Sontillanosa PN (Ret)
Member

Capt Tomas D Baino PN (Ret) retired from the Philippine Navy in 2004 as Navy Captain.He was a former Commander of the Naval Research and Development Center, Naval Sea Systems Command of the Philippine Navy.  He had undergone orientation seminars at the Hydrodynamics Laboratory in the UK Defense Evaluation Research Agency (DERA), under the sponsorship of the UK Ministry of Defense, England in 1998.He served as Naval Architect Ship Acquisition Consultant with PCG/DOTr for 3 years from 2017 to 2020.

Vicky Viray Mendoza
Executive Editor

Vicky Viray Mendoza is a retired veteran of the World Bank Group HQ in Washington DC, having served 11 years in IBRD and 15 years in IFC, and survived. Her main expertise is in operations research, analysis and evaluation at various levels (project, corporate, sector, country, region). She has written several country impact evaluation reports for the Board; served as lead analyst for sector evaluation studies; and performed corporate and project level evaluations, as well as technical assistance evaluations, for the Independent Evaluation Group. But her favorite of them all is to evaluate the maritime transport sector.

Currently, Vicky is taking her Masters in Legal Studies (MLS) at the American Military University in West Virginia. She completed the ECNS course at NDCP in Camp Aguinaldo in 2016; Masters in Business Administration (MBA) at University of Maryland in 2009; a post graduate diplomate in International Finance and Global Markets (IFGM) at Georgetown University in Washington DC in 2000; and  Masters in Public Administration (MPA) at George Washington University in Washington DC in 1997. For her undergraduate studies, she majored in BSC Business Management, BSC Corporate Accounting, and AAS Entrepreneurship (1977-81) at Assumption College San Lorenzo, Makati, Philippines.