MANAGEMENT SERVICES GROUP
The Management Services Group (MSG), supervised by Atty. Michel Kristian R. Ablan, ensures operational efficiency within the Department by providing support services to all units to properly equip them in the performance of their respective functions.
Within the MSG are the offices/units: Finance Service (FS), Human Resource and Administrative Service (HRAS), Information Systems Management Service (ISMS), Liaison Office for Legislative Affairs (LOLA), Planning and Management Service (PMS), and Resource Generation and Management Service (RGMS).
The Offices and their respective Officials under MSG are the following:
Finance Service (FS)
Manages the financial program and a financial monitoring system to ensure fund availability and proper utilization.
Human Resource and Administrative Service (HRAS)
Designs, implements, and institutionalizes the HRD program, which is aimed at transforming DTI into an agency of choice.
Provides logistical services (procurement, transport, cashiering, security, and all other utility services) to facilitate operations of all DTI functional and support groups.
Information Systems Management Service (ISMS)
Designs and implements all information technology (IT) initiatives of the DTI.
Communications and Information Service (KMIS)
Makes available trade and industry information, as well as converts said information into knowledge products.
Prepares trade and industry-related materials and publications, and serves as the repository of trade and industry data and information through the DTI website and Library, among others.
Planning and Management Service (PMS)
Coordinates and monitors implementation of DTI operating plans and programs, and assesses performance versus targets set and cost effectiveness.
Resource Generation and Management Service (RGMS)
Undertakes project development, resource generation, coordination and monitoring and evaluation of DTi foreign-assisted projects.
Coordinates and monitors DTI’s special programs including gender and development (GAD), persons with disabilities (PWD), senior citizen, and POPCOM-related concerns.
Legal Service (LS)
Provides legal support to the various DTI bureaus and agencies
Maria Asuncion H. Cruzada
Director
Finance Service
Joel R. Cruz
Director
Human Resource and Administrative Service
Rolando T. Medrano Jr.
Director
Information Systems Management Service
Engr. Robert Alvin T. Arceo
Director
Planning and Management Service
Lydia R. Guevarra
Director
Resource Generation and Management Service
Atty. Marco Maat is the Legal Service (LS) Director of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and concurrently designated by the DTI Secretary as the Second Alternate Chairperson of the DTI – Construction Industry Authority of the Philippines (CIAP) Board.
He also served as the Executive Director of the CIAP, an attached agency of the DTI and was designated as Secondary Alternate Representative of the DTI for the National Housing Authority (NHA) Board of Directors, and DTI Alternate Representative to the NEDA Board Committee on Infrastructure and its Technical Board (INFRACOM-TB).
Director Maat was also previously designated as the DTI’s Deputy Department Legislative Liaison Officer and the Vice-Chair for the Government of the Export Development Council – Networking Committee on Legislative Advocacy and Monitoring (NCLAM).
Tasked by previous DTI Secretaries to promote, advocate and formulate policies in relation to the legislative priorities of the Department, Atty. Maat significantly contributed, with his team, an innovative formulation of the DTI’s Legislative Agenda. He and his team also provided bill drafting services and assistance to several bureaus of DTI, as well as assisted DTI in key policy initiatives. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was part of the legal and policy team that contributed to the issuances of guidelines relevant to DTI’s and IATF’s COVID-19 response in 2020 & 2021.
For over a decade, he has been involved in legal work and has extensive experience in legal writing, policy formulation, legislative bill drafting, and legislative advocacy. Withal, as a lawyer, his comprehensive and in-depth professional understanding of both commercial and political law has lent him an incisive and acute grasp of the legislative process in the Philippines.
He is a dedicated public servant with the intention to further help the Government, especially on bringing back the energy to the economy and properly serve the Filipino people. He believes that his profession is not only for himself nor for his family but also for the society. For him, rule of law should prevail and every right should be respected
Agaton Uvero is currently an Assistant Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in charge of the Liaison Office for Legislative Affairs. He has previously worked in various capacities in the House of Representatives, Senate, Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and Department of Finance (DOF).
Early in his career, he worked as an international trade manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers before setting up a consulting partnership which specializes in international trade, logistics and supply chain. He has provided advisory services and training for many of the Top 1000 corporations, multinational firms, professional and industry associations and business chambers.
He has worked on various technical assistance programs funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and USAID. In 2017, he authored the book “Understanding International Trade, Tariffs and Customs”. A lawyer and a licensed customs broker, he has degrees in Philosophy and Law (Juris Doctor) from UP Diliman and is an alumnus of East West Center (New Generation Program). He is a lecturer at the UP Law Center and Ateneo School of Law (MCLE Program) on topics such as international trade, tariff and customs.