Our Board of Advisors

At KodeGo, we constantly push for excellence in everything that we do and strive to maintain stability in our organization.

To help steer us in the right direction and inspire us to keep working toward our goals, we sought the guidance and support of these five outstanding individuals.

Meet the leaders and experts who are helping us accomplish our mission of improving the lives of Filipinos and shaping the future of the edtech industry.

Board of Advisors

 

 

Jerry Bongco

AWS Country Manager

A seasoned IT business leader, Jerry is the Country Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He spent most of his career – a sum of 11 years – at Microsoft Corporation where he started as a distributor account manager and became a country director for the Consumer & Devices Business Division. He has also taken management roles for various tech companies like Crayon, Lucent Technologies, and Sun Microsystems which says a lot about his capacity for leading technology-driven organizations.
 

Monchito Ibrahim

Vice President of AAP, former DICT Usec

With over 45 years of leadership experience in the field of technology and development in both the private and public sectors, there is no other choice more fitting for the role of KodeGo Advisor than Mon. He is the current vice president and a member of the board of trustees at the Analytics Association of the Philippines as well as the lead convenor at the Alliance of Tech Innovators for the Nation (ATIN). He was also a former DICT undersecretary and commissioner at the Commission on Information and Communications Technology.
 

Jonathan de Luzuriaga

President of PSIA

Jonathan is the current president of the Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA). He has a long history of leading organizations and companies in the ICT industry, including being the former president of the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines, the former CEO of Compos Mentis Inc., and the head of software development at ADEC Innovations. With a proven track record in leadership, management, management consulting, and business development, no one is more qualified to take Jonathan’s place on KodeGo’s Board of Advisors.
 

Jack Madrid

President & CEO of IBPAP

Jack is the president and CEO of the IT and Business Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP). As a tech veteran with more than 25 years of experience in leading strategy, digital innovation, and business transformation initiatives in various industries and organizations, he actualizes and embodies the customer-centric principles that KodeGo stands for. A few of his notable senior leadership roles include co-founder and president of the Digital Commerce Association of the Philippines (DCOM), country manager of Yahoo! Philippines, and director of Dell Technologies.
 

Joan Penaflorida

President of Yondu Inc.

A business leader for more than a decade, Joan is the current president of Yondu Inc., a premier IT solutions company providing cloud services, software development, and other innovative technology solutions to Philippine businesses. Her expertise lies in scaling early-stage startups, strategic partnerships, business development, management, and organizational leadership, which is why it is no doubt that she can accomplish great things as a KodeGo Advisor.