The Big Move: Rey Untal joins PH-owned Pointwest

by Elton Gagni / October 29, 2021

Movement within the IT and business process management (IT-BPM) industry is a constant as jobseekers and career shifters explore where their next adventure will take them. However, a high-profile movement as big as this announcement would never go unnoticed.

Maintaining his post as president and CEO, Rey Untal moves from the IT and Business Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP) to proudly 100 percent Filipino-owned IT solutions and services company, Pointwest.

Headquartered in Manila, Pointwest Technologies provides consulting, technology, and outsourcing services. It offers next generation application development and management, independent validation, business consulting, enterprise application management, support and integration services as well business process services for the financial, insurance and healthcare industries. The profile alone fits well to Untal’s three-decade long career in IT consulting and outsourcing.

In Pointwest, Untal hopes to be part of the journey that will further establish the company as the template of what a “true Pinoy pure play IT-BPM company” will look like — a Filipino organization delivering digitally-enabled services and solutions globally, heavily leveraging the unique Filipino brand of service.

“The organizations which will be viewed as having successfully navigated the pivot in the reimagined world are those that will be able to scale up quickly into everything digital,” Untal shared. He also described Pointwest as “nimble enough” to continually redefine how business is done with offerings and capabilities supporting its digital thrust.

“We’re not just a service-only organization but we’re also into digitally-enabled services and developing platforms and products that will help accelerate the necessary transformation of companies that we will be engaging with,” he said.

Coming in with extensive IT-BPM experiences including IBPAP, Untal has become an instrumental voice in pushing for its continued growth and global competitiveness amid headwinds like the rationalization of income tax of foreign investors, implementation of a moratorium on approvals in metro ecozones, and the most recent COVID-19 pandemic.

Untal expressed how humbled he is for this “rare and unique” opportunity to serve a sector that has “profoundly and positively” impacted the lives of so many Filipinos. On making the shift, he explained, “Every few years in this association role, you need to inject fresh change to give the organization an opportunity to bring in another leader who will reassess and help define where we want to bring the industry. It was not a question of whether I was going to step down at some point, but it was really about discerning the right time.”

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