A Danish wind power solutions provider will build its second largest IT hub in the country and hire up to 200 local employees by 2011, an official said Thursday.

The local IT hub, to be inaugurated Thursday night, will house 100 employees by yearend and up to 200 by 2011, from the existing 25. This will make the Philippine IT hub the second largest next to its headquarters in Denmark, said Sean Sutton, president for Vestas Wind Systems Asia-Pacific.

The Vestas Services Philippines Inc. will be the fourth Vestas main IT center in the world, next to Denmark, Singapore, and USA. It will support Vestas' global team with IT operations and back-end support including surveillance, service desk and programming competencies for the operation of 11,500 turbines worldwide in real-time, said Torben Bonde, chief information officer and senior vice president for Vestas Wind Systems.

The Manila hub is part of our value chain and will be groomed to enable us to grow up to 8.5 billion euros in revenues, Bonde said.

Juergen Wirth, managing director of Vestas Services Philippines, said the company was hiring extensively for its Manila hub.

“From seven other countries, we chose Manila, Philippines because of the skilled talent poll here plus the abundant wind energy sources in the country,” said the official. Read more...

By Anna Valmero (newsinfo.inquirer.net)