Meet Noel Bedayo, Managing Director of Philippines Operations

Noel Bedayo was recently promoted to managing director of Affinity Express Philippines Operations. In this role, he is responsible for building a high-performing team and overseeing day-to-day operations.  He will also work to expand our interactive, editorial and newspaper teams.  Noel has joined the Senior Business Team and reports directly to CEO Ken Swanson.

Noel started with Affinity Express in April of 2008 and has built a strong rapport with colleagues locally and globally.  As the head of S.P.E.E.D. (Services and Products Engineered for Excellence and Development), Noel mentors and consults with our business leaders in the area of process planning, pricing, and metrics-driven strategies and improvements.

Noel is glad to have been part of the growth of our Manila office, and says:

Designing Cards for Military Care Packages

Continuing our dedication to community service, we recently worked to design cards to go into military care packages that Operation Gratitude ships to members of the American services stationed internationally. I received a request from Lisa Cypers Kamen and was happy to volunteer our services.

I passed the request on to Melchizedek Fernandez, Senior Graphic Designer for Marketing based in the Manila office, and he created these designs that Lisa was very happy with. Thanks, Mel!

Business Processing Association Philippines Networking Event

I was recently privileged to be invited to a networking dinner hosted by the Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPA/P). This Global Sourcing Meeting held on July 29 in New York was part of a larger event, the World BPO Forum.

Affinity Express has a close relationship with the Philippines, not only because we have one of our large offshore production centers located in Manila, but also because our parent company, Ayala Corporation, is one of the oldest and largest conglomerates in the Philippines. I was excited that this event would allow me to network with other people who have business interests—or are interested in doing business—in the Philippines.

The event started with a welcome address by the Consul General of the Philippines. We then had a presentation by the CEO of the BPA/P on “Why the Philippines?” Of course, I’m already sold on this topic, but I attended with interest nonetheless.

Later on, I was invited to address the gathering. It was exciting to stand in front of a hundred or so senior business executives and talk about Affinity Express and our presence in the Philippines, hoping that our experience would be of some use to others.