IAOP Expands Globally with New Regional Advisory Boards
New Boards to Promote Regional Outsourcing in Latin America, Northern Europe, Middle East & North Africa, and Asia

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY, Sept. 2 -- The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals® (lAOP®) is strengthening its global presence by establishing advisory boards in key regions around the world.

The association has formed Regional Advisory Boards made up of outsourcing leaders from top companies in Latin America, Northern Europe, Middle East & North Africa, China and Pacific Rim, with more being formed.

The boards will leverage common interests and shared resources to tailor the association’s programs and services to regional needs while also ensuring that IAOP is truly global in its thinking, leadership, decision making and operations.

“These new regional advisory boards will accelerate IAOP’s global presence, enhance our impact as an international association, deliver more tailored services to our members, and promote outsourcing in regional markets, ” said IAOP Chairman Michael Corbett. 

Said Javier Chamorro Rubiales, executive director of PRONicaragua: “These advisory boards will bring the value of a worldwide association to a regional level that is more accessible, agile and productive, thus positively impacting the local industries, especially those in emerging markets such as Central America, and more so in Nicaragua.”
 
Santiago Pinzón Galán, executive director of the Chamber of BPO & IT at ANDI (National Business Association of Colombia), who is chairing the Latin America regional advisory board, said the board will provide an ideal match between “IAOP’s global access to best practices, tactics, strategies and networking, and Latin America’s talent, creativity, innovation, commitment, value and the next decade of fast-growing social and economic development.”

Ken Schulz, vice president, VanceInfo Technologies Inc., who is serving on the China board, said: “This is an opportune time for the IAOP China regional advisory board to help facilitate the rapid pace of outsourcing growth in the region as buyers and sellers of outsourcing services look to step up and compete on the world stage.”

Ron Broeren, director global sourcing advisory of Quint Wellington Redwood and chairman of the Northern Europe board, said the board will expand IAOP’s presence in the region and “build a bridge with the global IAOP organization.”

IAOP continues to grow globally. The association has membership in 44 countries and has established chapters in 15 countries. At its annual Outsourcing World Summit®, delegates from 34 countries attended.

For more information, see Regional Advisory Boards.