{"id":47762,"date":"2022-02-16T10:21:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T02:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=47762"},"modified":"2022-02-16T10:21:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T02:21:26","slug":"filipino-industry-veteran-joins-advance-ai-as-country-manager-for-phl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2022\/02\/16\/filipino-industry-veteran-joins-advance-ai-as-country-manager-for-phl\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino industry veteran joins\u00a0ADVANCE.AI\u00a0as country manager for Phl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/advance.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\">ADVANCE.AI<\/a>, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company that provides digital identity verification, enterprise fraud and risk management solutions, has appointed industry veteran Michael Calma as its Philippines Country Manager to lead and grow its&nbsp;commercial business.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ADVANCE.AI&nbsp;is part of Advance Intelligence Group, a&nbsp;Singapore-based tech unicorn&nbsp;backed by key investors SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Warburg Pincus, Northstar, Vision Plus Capital, GSR Ventures and Singapore-based global investor EDBI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Calma has over 20 years of experience in software development, systems integration, managed services, complex deal structuring, social enterprises and IT education. Prior to&nbsp;ADVANCE.AI, Michael was Country General Manager at DDLS Aboitiz Philippines, a social enterprise startup. Before that, he held senior leadership roles at Dimension Data, MDI-Novare, NEC and also co-founded two tech startups fresh out of college. He graduated with a Computer Science degree from the University of the Philippines and holds an MBA from the same university.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Calma, Philippines Country Manager of&nbsp;ADVANCE.AI, said: \u201cI\u2019m very excited to join&nbsp;ADVANCE.AI&nbsp;at a time when Filipino consumers are shifting en masse to digital channels and services. More than ever post-Covid, banks and financial services enterprises need a trusted and reliable technology partner who can anticipate and address potential friction points across the end-to-end customer journey. We strive towards&nbsp;<em>bayanihan&nbsp;<\/em>(communal unity) with other technology providers, enterprises, and regulators towards accelerating a digitally empowered and financially inclusive Philippines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ADVANCE.AI\u2019s client roster includes&nbsp;Philippines\u2019 credit bureau agency CIBI Information, Standard Chartered, CIMB Niaga, Shopee and Home Credit.<br><br>In 2020,&nbsp;ADVANCE.AI&nbsp;was ranked on&nbsp;LinkedIn\u2019s Top 10 Start-ups in Singapore, awarded&nbsp;\u201cBest International Fintech\u201d at India\u2019s Fintech Awards&nbsp;and listed in the&nbsp;\u201cNext Global Tech 50: Artificial Intelligence\u201d shortlist&nbsp;by global investment research firm Equal Ocean. In 2021, it was named a member of the&nbsp;global Fintech Power 50 list.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADVANCE.AI\u00a0is part of Advance Intelligence Group, a\u00a0Singapore-based tech unicorn\u00a0backed by key investors SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Warburg Pincus, Northstar, Vision Plus Capital, GSR Ventures and Singapore-based global investor EDBI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":47763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[100,96,2727,1656],"class_list":["post-47762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-appointment","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}