Industry groups endorse Panga as next PEZA chief
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Amid the leadership clamor at the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), industry groups show support for the agency’s officer-in-charge Tereso Panga.
Various industry and ecozone groups have endorsed Panga as the next director general of PEZA.
IT and Business Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP), Philippine Ecozone Associations (PHILEA), the Semiconductors and Electronics in the Philippines, Foundation, Inc. (SEIPI), the Cavite Export Zone Investors Association (CEZIA) and the Mactan Export Processing Zone Chamber of Exporters and Manufacturers (MEPZCEM) have submitted separate letters of endorsement to President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.
“He has been a figure of stability and a source of assurance for IT-BPM registered Business enterprises, especially as the sector navigated work-from-home or hybrid work. Even before his appointment as OIC, Panga has always gone above and beyond for the industry, always accessible and ready with a listening ear and sound advice that’s grounded in his institutional knowledge of PEZA policies and a deep understanding of the IT-BPM sector’s needs that will ensure sustained job creation and retention,” IBPAP president and CEO Jack Madrid said.
Madrid said that IBPAP believes that PEZA under the leadership of Panga would regain its important role in crafting innovative strategies to attract investors in the IT-BPM sector.
“Additionally, we believe Panga will enable PEZA to deliver its mandate of stimulating countryside development through the establishment of more IT Parks in new growth areas outside the metropolis as ready locations for IT-BPM companies,” Madrid said.
“We at SEIPI firmly believe that Panga will be an asset in your economic team and in your aim to industrialize the country and in support of DTI’s science, technology and innovation-driven industrialization strategy,” SEIPI president Danilo Lachica said endorsing Panga.
PHILEA president Francisco Zaldarriaga said the group is confident that Panga would be vital to speeding up the country’s industrialization.
Meanwhile, in a statement, PEZA Employees’ Association expressed their full support for Panga.
“It is under the dynamic leadership of OIC Panga that the authority has come into its best shape. In just a short term, OIC Panga has already instituted reforms in PEZA that were all highly favored by the locators, developers, stakeholders, and PEZA employees,” PEZA Employees’ Association president Grethel Tan said.
