Meet Our Leaders

Butch E. Valenzuela

President and CEO

Mr. Valenzuela is a graduate of the University of the Philippines with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science. He is a graduate of the University of California-Los Angeles with an Award of General Business with concentration in Management Information Systems. Mr. Valenzuela has a Master’s in Business Administration from The Grazadio School of Business and Management, Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. He has held positions with Fortune 200 companies as Director of Management Information Systems for FMC Corporation’s Agricultural Chemicals Group Asian Regional Office in Manila, Director of Information Systems and Financial Controller for Flojet Corporation in Irvine, California, and as Director of Strategic Planning and eBusiness for ITT Industries in Foothill Ranch, California. He was also a Management Consultant for Providence Enterprises, Ltd., a contract manufacturer in Shenzhen, China. Today, Mr. Valenzuela is also the President and CEO of Visaya Knowledge Process Outsourcing Corporation and is one of the Board of Directors of the Contact Center Association of the Philippines (CCAP). CCAP is the official organization of contact centers in the Philippines with more than 125 member companies bringing in about US $15 Billion into the Philippine economy employing about 900 thousand people.

Julian Valenzuela

Vice President and Treasurer

Mr. Valenzuela is a founding partner of Exceture Inc and Board Member. Mr. Valenzuela has over 15 years of executive experience fostering profitable growth in multiple lines of businesses. In 2006, he co-founded a KPO with the aim of delivering cost-effective and quality-centric solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises. Current client portfolio includes specialties in education, logistics, finance, and telecommunication verticals.

Mr. Valenzuela is a graduate of the Hilton C. Conrad School of Business Administration at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California with a Bachelor of Business Administration in International Business and Management

Charles Lizares

Vice President of Alliances

Mr. Lizares is a founding partner of Exceture Inc and Board Member. He has more than 20 years’ experience in various sales and marketing roles within the information technology industry. Prior to Exceture Inc, he was the Country Category Manager for Hewlett Packard Philippines Print Business. He spent 10 years at HP having earned extensive experience in channel management across retail, commercial, enterprise IT and vendor direct businesses, along with category management that includes PC and supplies business units.

He also sits on the Board of a local Resort Hotel and two nonprofit organizations.

Mr. Lizares graduated from the Ateneo De Manila University with a Degree in Political Science.

Mario Demarillas

Chief Information Security Officer

Head of IT Consulting and Software Engineering

Mr. Demarillas has more than 20 years of extensive experience in providing I.T. Consulting Services. He is a former IT Advisory Partner and Cyber Risk Practice Leader of top audit and consulting firms.

He is a Certified Public Accountant and has several professional certifications, namely ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management Systems Lead Implementer, ISO 27001 Information Security Management Systems Lead Implementer, ISO 31000 Senior Lead Risk Manager, Certified Payment Card Industry Security Implementer (CPISI), Agile PM Foundation Certified, COBIT Foundation Certified, Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (Top 3), Certified Information Security Manager (Top 1), Certified Information Systems Auditor, Certified Internal Auditor, and Certified Fraud Examiner.

He is a Technology Governance Committee Member of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) and Advisory Board Member of Asia Pacific College’s School of Computing and Information Technology (SoCIT). He is also a facilitator and lecturer for ISACA Manila Chapter, ACFE Philippines Chapter, Excelcia Knowledge Institute, GlobalKnowledge PH, Inc., GK College of Business, Arts, and Technology, Inc., Bankers Institute of the Philippines Inc. (BAIPHIL) and APEX Global Learning, Inc.

Mr. Demarillas obtained his Bachelor of Science in Accountancy from Adamson University and Information Management degree from Asia Pacific College.