Manny Tabunda is the Director for Technology Applications. He is the visionary leader behind Amellar Inc, the leading provider of integrated ICT solutions for local governments in the country. He is also a sought-after consultant on fiscal management, e-governance and campaign and elections management.
Manny Tabunda is the Director for Technology Applications. He is the visionary leader behind Amellar Inc, the leading provider of integrated ICT solutions for local governments in the country. He is also a sought-after consultant on fiscal management, e-governance and campaign and elections management.
A strong proponent of reinvention and the entrepreneurial approach to governance, Manny is an internationally recognized expert in LGUs. He is the author of three major published works on the Local Government Code of 1991. He headed both the technical working group that drafted the House of Representatives committee bill on the proposed LGC and the technical working group of the Bicameral Conference Committee on the same.
Manny has provided extensive consulting services to two Philippine Presidents: Cory Aquino and Fidel Ramos, and to international agencies like the USAID and JICA, and several NGOS and LGUS. During the Ramos Administration he headed the Technical Committee of the Oversight Committee on the Local Government Code of 1991, which is credited for the release of the Presidential issuances that accelerated the implementation of the Code. As a USAID consultant, Manny developed the guidelines and helped implement the devolution to LGUS of more than 70,000 personnel and billions in assets of the Department of Health. He was a major contributor to the institutionalized private sector participation in local governance. And he is the principal author of the Master Plan to sustain the implementation of the LGC which was later adopted by the government and issued as a presidential proclamation in 1993 by President Ramos.
Manny has been a process and design engineer since 1978. He made FILA a household name when he pioneered major innovations as FILA plant manager in 1978-1982. He also provided expert consulting services to private companies like JAG jeans, Coca-Cola Bottlers Phils., Norkis Group of Companies and Calypso Garments.