New outsourcing initiative launched in NY

“Philippine outsourcing has taken a giant step forward with the launch of the new Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Council,” said Rene “Butch” Meily, president of the Philippine American Chamber of Commerce-New York at a reception at the Philippine Center in Manhattan April 4.

The reception was the formal launching of the new BPO Council which was formed by the chamber earlier this year to promote the Philippines as a business process outsourcing destination.

More than 40 corporate executives attended the reception. JP Morgan Chase Senior Vice President for Card Services David DeLellis praised the Philippines as an “increasingly attractive destination” for outsourcing business.

The BPO council’s first elected president was Mr. David Kinnear who is president of DDC HRO, one of the world’s leading providers of onshore/offshore data processing and human capital BPO solutions.

Kinnear reiterated the many opportunities awaiting companies that locate to the Philippines. He said his company, HRC DDO, has been operating in Tacloban, Leyte for the last 15 years with 10 primary BPO facilities and over 3,000 local IT workers. He added that the time had come for the Philippines to take center stage in the world outsourcing scene.

Consul General to New York, Cecilia Rebong, noted that the Council is yet another manifestation of a dynamic and productive public-private sector cooperation to generate interest in the Philippines’s offshoring capabilities.

Meily, who heads the chamber, serves as special adviser on IT matters to the Philippine Ambassador to the United States. He is also an executive of Philippine Long Distance and Telephone, the country’s largest telecommunications company.


Josephine Romero of the Philippine Trade Office in New York gave a presentation on the advantages of the Philippines as a BPO destination. She noted, among others, that the Philippine outsourcing industry generates over $3 billion a year in revenues and has created 250,000 jobs in such areas as call centers, software development, animation, legal and medical transcription, engineering design and back office operations in finance, accounting and such high value operations as equity and mergers and acquisition analysis.

The Philippine American Chamber of Commerce-New York was established in 1920. It is one of the oldest bilateral business organizations in the U.S.

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