Jerry U. Rapes, BSIE 1988
WORK EXPERIENCE
• COMPANY: Amihan Global Strategies Philippines (http://amihan.net/)
POSITION: President (2018 – Present, Managing Director (2014 – 2017)
Some Major Projects:
– Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation – Acts as Practice Executive for the Data Analytics engagement. The strategic intent is to support the building of the Ultimate Mobility Experience in the company.
– Pioneer Insurance – Acts as Practice Executive for the Digital Transformation efforts in the company. As a result, Pioneer has been able to build digital infrastructure for customer engagement, e-commerce, big data & analytics.
– Talas Data Intelligence, Inc. (subsidiary of PLDT, Inc.) – Manages the relationship with the Big Data Team of PLDT when the implementation of its data lake started in 2015.
– Golden ABC, Inc. (Penshoppe, Regatta, For Me, Memo, Oxygen, Red Logo) – Acts as the Practice Executive for the Digital Transformation engagement of the group.
• COMPANY: Exist Global (http://www.exist.com/)
POSITION: Chief Executive Officer (2010 –2014), General Manager (2007–2008), Vice President for Sales & Marketing (2006 – 2007)
Major Projects:
– St. Luke’s Medical Center – Manages the relation with the SLMC hospitals in BGC and QC when it undertook its technology transformation project in 2009.
– Globe Telecom – Manages the relationship with Globe when the Team built the www.globe.com.ph portal in 2009.
• COMPANY: G2iX, Inc.
POSITION: Vice President for Asia Pacific Sales (2008 – 2010)
Global Gateway Innovation Exchange (G2iX) provides the integrated business presence of Exist Global, Morph Labs and MaestroDev.
• COMPANY: AUR Marketing Corporation
POSITION: Vice President for Sales and Marketing/General Manager (1992 – 2006)
AUR is a distribution company who represented international brand names.
• COMPANY : Sycip, Gorres & Velayo
POSITION : Consultant (1988 – 1991)
COMMUNITY RELATIONS
• Founding President of DevCon Foundation [ www.devcon.ph ], a non-profit organization that aims to showcase the “”IT Pinoy Talent”” through unconferences, geekups, and bootcamps. He continues to serve as advisor to the Devcon Team.
• Previous board of the DOST UP Cebu TBI, CebuInIT (http://www.cebuinit.org/), CebuInIT is a Technology Business Incubator (TBI) made possible by UP Visayas Cebu College and DOST-PCASTRD.
• Served a VP of Cebu Education Development Foundation for IT (CEDF- IT), (http://cedfit.org/), a consortium dedicated to workforce development initiatives in the ICT and IT-Enabled Services industries.
• Previously served as Member of the Board of Trustees representing the ICT industry under the Cebu Chamber of Commerce & Industry (CCCI) (http://cebuchamber.org/)
• Former Chair for International Marketing Committee and the board of directors of the Philippine Software Industry Association (2010- 2011) (http://www.psia.org.ph/) the recognized association of Filipino software innovators that promotes the Philippines’ software development capabilities.