An Ilonggo from Bacolod City, Dom Legario is 52. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Negros Occidental - Recoletos in Bacolod and is a Registered Electrical Engineer. Also trained with the Philippine Air Force, he would have been a pilot, if not for his eyesight deficiency.

Dom became an OFW early in his working life. After completing a cadetship course with Manila Electric Company (MERALCO) in 1979, Dom was hired as Project Engineer with MERALCO Industrial Engineering Services Corp. He went to Saudi Arabia in 1988 where he stayed for almost nine years. He worked on very large electrical projects. He returned to the Philippines for a three-year stint with private contractors and proceeded to Guam in 1999-2003, working mostly for US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) projects. He braved to move to Baghdad, Iraq in 2003 and has been there since. He is currently working with Washington International, Inc., one of the Prime Contractors for the rebuilding of Iraq.

Dom has project-managed mammoth projects involving Electrical Work Design, Construction, Inspection and Management for Power Transmission Distribution Lines, and Overhead and Underground System for Power Plants, Substations, High Rise Buildings, Commercial Complex and Industrial Plants. At one point, he was responsible for the selection & deployment of 88 Filipino professional and skilled workers to handle life support facility and operation and maintenance for the Iraq Currency Exchange Project.

Apart from English, Pilipino and Ilonggo, Dom also speaks and reads Arabic. Married to his faithful wife Reyne Mendoza Legario from Tanauan City, Batangas who has remained in the Philippines all these years to look after their growing children, Dom aims to be reunited with his family back in the Philippines one day to set up his own business. He wishes to go into the field of renewable and eco-friendly undertakings such as Green Fuel manufacturing from WVO (waste vegetable oil) and Coco Fibers. He has four sons: Reydhom who is 25 and an Architecture graduate, Ryan who is 23 and works with him in Iraq, Rex Joseph, 19, presently a 3rd Year AB Political Science student and the youngest, Ralph Abraham, 5 years old.

With his long years as an OFW especially in the Middle East, Dom has naturally developed extensive contacts among OFWs through his travels in Thailand, Hongkong, Singapore, Saipan and Palau. Dom hopes that most of them would join him in investing in OFI Bank. He is also very familiar with the remittance operations in the Middle East and keen to start soonest.

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