Fereira holds an MBA degree from the University of California — Los Angeles, an MS in Marketing Management Development from Syracuse University – New York, and a BS Microbiology from the University of the Philippines. He was the first Filipino and first Asian to serve as president of the Syracuse University Graduate School of Sales Management and Marketing.
After his post-graduate studies in Lunar Microbiology, he became the first Filipino to work on the Bio-Satellite Project of the Apollo 11 first moon landing of the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA).
Fereira has also about three decades of extensive experience in business management, marketing and trade promotion. He has served in various capacities in the private sector, government, and professional and civic organizations.
In the private sector, Fereira presently serves as chairman and president of Pharmafere Inc., president of Chemotrex International, Inc. and chairman and president of Pharmatex Inc.
He has served in the government as assistant general manager of the National Development Co. (NDC), chairman and president of First Cavite Industrial Estate, Inc., and director of Manila Gas Corp., Philippine Phosphate Corporation, Philippine International Trading Corp. (PITC), and was Parañaque’s first planning and development action officer.
He has served as well as president of the Pharmaceutical Executives of the Philippines, president of the Sales and Marketing Executives International of the Philippines, and president of the World Association of Pharmaceutical Distributors in New York, USA, among others. He has also been involved as chairman and president of various socio-civic and charitable organizations for the less privileged people and "special children."
Other elected officers of the MAP for 2003 are David L. Balangue, vice chairman and deputy managing Partner of Sycip Gorres Velayo & Co. (SGV) as vice president; Benjamin R. Punongbayan, managing partner of Punongbayan and Araullo, as treasurer; Vitaliano N. Nañagas II, chairman of the Development Bank of the Philippines, as assistant treasurer; and Cayetano W. Paderanga Jr., president and CEO of CIBI Information Inc., as secretary.
The other members of the MAP board of governors are Zorayda Amelia C. Alonzo, chairman and CEO of Small Business Guarantee and Finance Corp.; Jose A. Concepcion III, president and CEO of RFM Corp.; Baltazar N. Endriga, chairman of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP); and Jesus M. Zulueta Jr., managing director of ZMG Signium Ward Howell International.