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Guest: Brett Russo

Presenter: Henry Acosta

Guest Bio: Brett Russo is a licensed Real Estate Agent on the Gold Coast with over 15 years experience and have an outsourcing company based in the Philippines specialising in providing trained Virtual Assistants for Real Estate Agents and Agencies.

Segment overview: Outsource Workers is an Australian based company that specialises in providing fully trained virtual assistants based in the Philippines for Australian and New Zealand Real Estate Agencies and Agents. Outsource Workers is an innovative and service oriented company that exists to develop and deliver constantly evolving outsourcing solutions which contribute substantially to their clients’ success.

Address: 

Australia – PO Box 269, Mermaid Beach, Qld 4218

Philippines – Philexel Business Centre, Roxas Highway, Clark Freeport Zone, Philippines

Contact: (INT’L) 1300 727 147

Website: www.outsourceworkers.com.au

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Guest: Alex Garcia

Presenter: Henry Acosta

Guest Bio: Canecio Nick Mesias aka Alex Garcia is the CEO of Virtual Assistants 4 Real Estate Investors (VA4REI) and Virtual Assistants 4 Real Estate Agents (VA4REA) and the founder of VA Davao, a famous local group of Virtual Assistants and one of the founding officers of Davao Virtual Assistants Association (DVAA), one of the largest local group of remote workers. After spending nearly a decade working remotely and marketing for his startup company, Alex knows what truly drives conversions, and it’s not mastering the marketing flavor of the week. It’s how well you connect with the heart-beating people you’re trying to help and communicate your understanding back to them. Alex holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Bachelor of Secondary Education Major in English from the University of Southeastern Philippines (USEP).

Segment overview: In this episode, CEO of Virtual Assistants 4 Real Estate Investors Alex Garcia joins us to share insights about their company. VA4REI‘s goal is to help Real Estate Investors increase productivity by eliminating their daily grunt works in the most efficient way possible. Alex takes a vision and makes it reality through strategy development. He intuitively sees the threads of opportunity that wind through a company, brings them together into a coherent whole, helps others extend their thinking, and drives material business advantage. He has connections to different Real Estate gurus in the US, like Duncan Weirman, Tim Cook, and Rony Velasquez. In addition to his extensive home-based and marketing experience, Alex is a trained sales, customer and technical support consultant in some of the known BPO industry in the Philippines. For the past two years, the company has grown from 1 to more than 25 clients across the United States. From 1 employee they grew to more than 15 employees and the company’s trajectory is going higher and higher each month.

Address: Unit 2G, 2nd Floor, RC Kids Apartelle, #73 East DBPO Village, Ma-a, Davao City

Contact: (INT’L) +1 321-200-0155

Website: www.va4rei.com

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Guest: Joe Mojica  

Presenter: Henry Acosta

Guest Bio: Jun Mojica is a 17-year veteran in the BPO industry, who had worked with some of the leading BPO organizations servicing Fortune 500 companies. He had held every imaginable role from frontline customer service representative to Vice-President, working for various verticals providing front office, back office, and KPO solutions for clients. He’s now utilizing his vast experience as a Managing Director for one of the fastest-growing new BPO companies in Manila to provide high-quality and results-driven services to companies seeking outsourced solutions for their businesses.

Segment overview: Joe Mojica joins us in this segment to talk about Aptus Global Solutions, a BPO company that frees you from the burden of recruiting the right staff, training and management, allowing you to focus on your core business processes.

Address: 20th Floor AIC Burgundy Tower, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City, 1208 Metro Manila

Contact:(LOCAL) (02) 706 3554

Website: www.aptus.ph

To know more about Aptus Global Solutions, listen to the podcast below.

The interview will start at 00:50 mark of the podcast episode.

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Guests: Dr. Marie Gabrielle Laguna-Bedia and Lakshmanan Mariyappan

Presenter: Henry Acosta

Guest Bio: Dr. Marie Gabrielle Laguna-Bedia is the Managing Director of Eternus Global Outsourcing. She is a board-certified internist, a pharmacologist-researcher and an experienced entrepreneur. She has worked for more than a hundred businesses around the world for content writing, SEO, copywriting and medical research for more than 10 years. In 2003 she started working remotely for web development companies in Russia, New York and Singapore as a content developer, web designer and SEO strategist.  She has also served as a pharma researcher for Ina Research, a Japanese company specializing in clinical trials in collaboration with Novartis and Cardiocore Labs for 3 years. She is the main author of a college textbook “Pharmacology for Allied health Professions, First Edition and the owner of Meds at Sea Pharmacy and Distribution, a drugstore and drug distributor/wholesaler in Western Visayas.  

Lakshmanan Mariyappan is the CEO of Eternus Global Outsourcing. He has worked in the analysis and development of web applications and services in PHP as a Senior Developer and Software Engineer. He is the author of Facebook Feed FBF plugin in WordPress, which was downloaded for more than 60,000 times. He was a graduate of MSc in Bioinformatics in GRD College of Sciences in Coimbatore, India after finishing his B.S. Microbiology degree. He also serves as one of the writers and editors of Scriptus Medical Research, a medical informatics news site and a co-author of “Pharmacology for Allied Health Professions”.  

Segment overview: Eternus Global Outsourcing is a global information technology and medical KPO company that offers offer technology solutions to business around the world by combining scientific, medical and biopharmaceutical knowledge and technology expertise. In this interview, we are joined by their CEO, Lakshmanan Mariyappan together with Dr. Marie Gabrielle Laguna-Bedia, Managing Director of Eternus Global Outsourcing

Address: SEAOIL Barotac Nuevo Commercial Complex, Barotac Nuevo – Zarraga Rd, Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo City, 5007 Iloilo

Contact Number(LOCAL): (033) 528 8083

Website: www.eternusglobal.com

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Guest: Jamie McBrien

Presenter: Henry Acosta

Guest Bio: Jamie McBrien is a Director at optiBPO, who assists companies set up dedicated offshore operations in the Philippines. They also have offices in Sydney and London. He is also a Director of optim2, which provides consulting services to CFOs on optimising the Finance organisation.  Jamie is considered a leading expert in optimising back office functions, including leading transformational programmes of work, improving business processes, and building shared services and offshore teams.  He has previously held management consulting roles at Parson Consulting, Deloitte and PwC.  He has an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management, and a Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Commerce from the Australian National University.

Segment overview: Jamie McBrien talks about his company called optiBPO, which provides onshore support for companies in Australia, New Zealand and Europe. With more than 20 years of experience in offshoring and outsourcing services, Jamie strongly believes that Philippines is one of the best countries who can deliver success to your outsourced business. Having a strong command of the English language, highly educated staff, skilled workforce, and culture are just some of the few things that makes this country stand-out when it comes to outsourcing compared with other nations.

SYDNEY

Address: Level 8, 84 Pitt St, Sydney, NSW 2000 Australia

Contact Number: +61 2 8071 4150

LONDON

Address: L 41 Corsham St, London N1 6DR, United Kingdom

Contact Number: +44 20 3239 3693

Website: www.optibpo.com

To know more about optiBPO, listen to the podcast below.

The interview will start at the 00:50 of the podcast episode.

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