Company Profile
Philippine Auto Club Inc. develops motoring solutions for individuals and corporate clients so that practically the only things these clients will have to worry about is putting fuel into their cars and driving off. Everything else, Philippine Auto Club (P.A.C.) will take care of.
Leading the way in simplifying the motoring experience, P.A.C. in 2003 launched the Philippines’ first membership-based emergency roadside service to have a nationwide coverage. P.A.C. members needing towing and other emergency roadside services can simply call the ICE PAC (In Case of Emergency call Philippine Auto Club) hotline 24 hours a day, seven days a week. With over 200 tow trucks on standby in key towns and cities all over the country, help is never too far away.
For corporate clients, P.A.C. Fleet Management Solutions looks after every aspect of administering over a fleet-from vehicle acquisition to repairs to driver training-so that these companies could focus on their core businesses. To better serve companies operating nationwide, P.A.C. Fleet Management Solutions was among the industry’s first fleet management service providers to cover key cities in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. P.A.C. also pioneered the three-pronged approach to fleet management covering Vehicle Management, Driver Management, and Information Management.
P.A.C. Fleet Management Solutions has a formidable technical team behind it, bannered by one of the country’s top automotive race engineers, Francisco “Pacho” Blanco. Mr. Blanco’s automotive expertise makes him one of the most in-demand race engineers in the Philippines.
P.A.C. is also committed to:
a. Helping reduce the impact of motoring on the environment by:
* Promoting fuel-efficient driving techniques
* Reducing tailpipe emissions
b. Promoting road safety
c. Improving Filipinos’ driving skills and upgrading the driver education system
P.A.C., while still known as Drive Online Inc., started out as a car website publisher in 2001.
Management Profile
Eric S. SorianoPresident & General Manager
Eric Soriano is the architect behind Drive Online Inc.’s transformation from a car website publishing company to Philippine Auto Club (P.A.C.), a leading motoring solutions provider. He spearheaded the development of P.A.C.’s various motoring and Fleet Management solutions.
Soriano has a well-rounded automotive background. He has taken advanced driving courses from some of the country’s top racecar drivers including JP Tuason, Kookie Ramirez, Mike Potenciano, and Vip Isada. Soriano has also seen action in quite a few amateur motor sports including the 2007 Ford Focus Cup. He was also a member of the 2001 Honda City Media Challenge champion team. This die-hard car enthusiast deepened his understanding of cars by taking certificate courses in Automotive Mechanics from the Meralco Foundation.
He has been facilitating Driver Training seminars since 2005. This part-time motoring journalist-he is the Motoring Editor-at-Large of Manual magazine-is the head instructor for P.A.C.’s Driver Training courses.
Soriano is working on his Master in Entrepreneurship degree from the Asian Institute of Management.
Francisco “Pacho” Blanco
Technical Director
Francisco “Pacho” Blanco is quite well known in automotive circles. Blanco splits his time between his Philippine Auto Club commitments and his duties as Chief Engineer and Technical Consultant of AutoPlus (Phils.), a leading performance and modifications shop.
Since making the Philippines his home in 2000, the Colombia-born race engineer has been behind numerous track victories of top Filipino race car drivers competing in touring cars, drag, and Formula 3. Other cars he has worked on have set several speed records in the US, Colombia, and the Philippines.
Blanco has also had considerable success as a race car driver. He was the Ford Lynx Cup Novice Series Champion in 2005. Last season, Blanco served as race car driver, racing instructor as well as chief engineer for the Velocity Valvoline Racing Team competing in the Philippine Touring Car Championship.
Julius Victa
Fleet Manager/Business Manager
One of the pioneers in Philippine Auto Club’s Fleet Management business, Julius Victa wears two hats as the company’s Fleet Manager as well as its Business Manager. Victa played a key role in developing the fleet management processes for Kimberly-Clark Phils. Inc., Philippine Auto Club’s first major fleet management client.
Victa credits much of his operations and management expertise to his three-year stint at U-BIX Corp. One of the highlights of his U-BIX work experience was being put in charge of setting up U-BIX’s operations in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in 2003.
Victa earned his BS Electrical Engineering and MBA degrees from the University of the Philippines (Diliman).
Roger Guillermo
Operations Manager
In addition to being in charge of day-to-day operations at Philippine Auto Club’s new base in Greenhills, Mandaluyong City, Roger Guillermo has also been heavily involved in marketing and in the development of P.A.C.’s proprietary Fleet Management System software.
Guillermo derived most of his management, operations, and business expertise from his more than 10 years work at Procter & Gamble in the different fields of Production Operations, to Customer Logistics.
Guillermo earned his BS Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of the Philippines (Diliman).
