Margot Torres is the Managing Director of McDonald’s Philippines, the largest market in Asia Business Unit and 10th largest market in McDonald's world. She also serves on the Board of Directors of RMHC Philippines.

Her McDonald’s career began in Marketing in 2003 and became Managing Director in 2018. Her leadership is marked by being a champion of creative excellence, digital transformation, and sustainability.

Outside McDonald’s, she is a sought out thought leader. She has received recognition from the country’s top institutions -- Agora Award for Marketing from Philippine Marketing Association, 1st CMO-of-the-Year Award from Tambuli, Campaign Asia’s Women Leading Change Award and CEO Excel Awards for Communication from the International Association for Business Communicators.

She served 2 terms as President of the Philippine Association of National Advertisers and Digital Marketing Association.

During the pandemic, she led the private sector communications for the public-private partnership initiatives in managing the country’s COVID-19 crisis and vaccination roll-out.

Currently, she sits on the board of Philippine Business for Education and Philippine Business for Social Progress as well as MMA APAC.

Margot is also a member of NextGen Organization of Women Corporate Directors and Filipina CEO Circle.