Former Accenture director Ike Amigo is new IBPAP CEO

MANILA — The IT-Business Process Association of the Philippines has tapped former Accenture executive Ike Amigo to help steer the outsourcing industry to its next growth chapters as president and CEO of the industry association effective December 1.

Amigo said he aims to help the industry upgrade to higher-level jobs to earn a bigger share of the global pie.

“It is certainly an additional half a million jobs for the Philippines in a span of five or six years and that is certainly exciting. But it comes with a challenge because we cannot just sit on our laurels and think that whatever we have done today will translate to those jobs we are talking about,” Amigo told InterAksyon.com after his announcement.

“We need to be reinventing ourselves in our industry particularly in moving to the higher value chain,” Amigo added.

The IBPAP last October bared its 2022 roadmap, where the industry targets to grow revenues from $25 billion to $40 billion and its workforce from 1.3 million to 1.8 million — about half a million of whom are seen to come from outside Metro Manila.

Amigo has been in Accenture since 1994, serving as the managing director of the Dublin-based multinational company’s local operations from 2004 to 2013. He was appointed as IT director of Ayala Foundation prior to his appointment in IBPAP.

Amigo’s appointment was announced by Benedict Hernandez, chairman of the IBPAP executive committee, at the culmination of the association’s IT-BPM summit last Oct. 28.

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