Darcy Lalonde, managing director of Shore Solutions, one of the country’s fastest growing contact centers in the Philippines. PHOTO BY RUY MARTINEZ
He is Canadian and has worked in several countries through the years, but Darcy Lalonde minces no words as he explained why he loves doing business in the Philippines—“it has a very accepting culture for foreigners, and I felt most at home here. Living in other Asian countries you feel like an expat, but living in the Philippines, you could really become part of the country as opposed to an expat living in it.”