Valley" backed by its political leaders. BPO investors are attracted to Iloilo due to stable energy source, availability of building spaces, high number of graduates and English Proficiency. Megaworld's Iloilo Business Park – One Global Center, Two Global Center, and Three Techno Place are Iloilo operation sites of Transcom Asia, StarTek, WNS Global and Convergent powered by Nearsol, respectively. While Richmonde Tower is where Reed Elsevier is operates. Other IT-BPO and KPO locators are Callbox (the largest homegrown IT-BPO company in Iloilo), (a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. based IT & BPM/BPO company), Telus International, Legato Health Technologies (now Carelon Global Solutions), Asurion, Conectys, TeleTech Holdings, Inc., Crawford & Company, Savant Technologies (A non-voice KPO and BPO company), Eversun Philippines (a non voice KPO and BPO), Reed Elsevier, SPI-Global (Now Inspiro), Sagility, WorldSource Inc., Vista Health Solutions, Xilium Professional Services, WNS, Hinduja Global Solutions, iXL Solution, RS2, Prosync (Process Synergy), Trusttel Customer Care, OneVirtual Global Business Solutions, Medrisk, Bluu Qatar Philippines, POWRD Solutions, iQor Iloilo, Accentline, Voiceless Technologies (Now Leadgen), Atento, HealthyBOS, XtendOps (Extend BPO), and Yazaki-Philippine EDS Techno Service. Inspiro (formerly SPI Global and PLDT E-Ventus) and Callbox are the two pioneering IT-BPO companies that first set their foot in Iloilo City. (FTO), a United States based IT-BPO company headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania opened its first global site in Iloilo (now its Philippine operations headquarters) in October 2015 as MODph. It was renamed Rethink Staffing in August 2016 and eventually to its present name in February 2018, Fair Trade Outsourcing. From a 300-600 employee size company it continued to grow and has now a workforce of 1000+ staff. It opened two more sites in the metro to buffer up its global expansion, the Iloilo – Molo, and Iloilo – Guanco sites. Other than Iloilo it has sites in Bacolod (Doña Juliana Avenue) and in Davao (MetroLifestyle Complex across the Department of Education Regional Office XI). Outside the Philippines, it operates in Accra in Ghana; and Guadalajara and Chihuahua in Mexico. (FTO) plans to open new sites in Colombia (Medellin) and Kenya, and another one in Ghana. In November 2022, company opened its 2nd site in the United States in McAllen, Texas. The Department of Science and Technology-Information and Communications Technology Office (DOST-ICTO) and Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPAP) has named Iloilo City one of the next wave cities. Iloilo City is a "City of Excellence" as it rivals the