{"id":53222,"date":"2022-12-19T12:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T04:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=53222"},"modified":"2022-12-19T12:22:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T04:22:23","slug":"pldt-and-smarts-panlilio-is-acas-ceo-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2022\/12\/19\/pldt-and-smarts-panlilio-is-acas-ceo-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"PLDT and Smart\u2019s Panlilio is ACA\u2019s CEO of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PLDT and Smart President and Chief Executive Officer Alfredo S. Panlilio has been recognized as CEO of the Year at the recently concluded Asia Communications Awards (ACA), the annual recognition program for outstanding telco players organized by London-based industry publication <em>Total Telecom<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI share this CEO of the Year honor with my leadership team and our over 17,000-strong workforce at PLDT Group,\u201d Panlilio said. \u201cHow timely that the ACA highlighted our ongoing group-wide transformation, having learned so much as one PLDT and Smart family since we launched it earlier this year. It is a journey that has deepened our commitment to the nation\u2019s digital transformation and understanding of PLDT Group\u2019s pioneering influence on Philippine society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following an assessment by a panel of judges and industry votes, Total Telecom Managing Director Rob Chambers recognized Panlilio\u2019s role in PLDT\u2019s full year 2021 performance and transformation. \u201cHe&#8217;s led great improvements in customer experience, market share, and profitability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PLDT\u2019s Consolidated Service Revenues grew 6% to Php182.1B and Home connected a record 1.13M new fiber customers,\u201d Chambers announced during ACA\u2019s virtual ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Total Telecom also lauded landmark social initiatives under Panlilio\u2019s leadership, particularly education improvements for over 6,000 students under the School-in-a-Bag program and digital trainings for over 1,700 farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ACA and its global counterpart, the World Communication Awards, trace their roots back to 1999. PLDT and Smart also bagged nominations under the ACA\u2019s Operator of the Year, Crisis Response and Social Contribution categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following an assessment by a panel of judges and industry votes, Total Telecom Managing Director Rob Chambers recognized Panlilio\u2019s role in PLDT\u2019s full year 2021 performance and transformation. \u201cHe&#8217;s led great improvements in customer experience, market share, and profitability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":53223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[368,379,343,96,2727,1656],"class_list":["post-53222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-award","tag-pldt","tag-smart-communications","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53222","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=53222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}