iPeople, inc.(the Company), formerly known as Petrofields Exploration and Development Co., Inc. (Petrofields), was organized and incorporated on July 27, 1989 by Benguet Corporation to engage in petroleum and mineral exploration, development, and production. Petrofields operated as such until 1997 when the shareholders changed its name and primary purpose to that of a development and investment management company while retaining oil exploration as one of its secondary purposes.

With the change of its primary purpose, iPeople’s main interests are centered on education and information technology led by Malayan Colleges, Inc. - Operating under the name Mapua Institute of Technology (MCI), Pan Pacific Computer Center, Inc. (PPCCI), and People eServe Corporation. The operations of Mapua are divided among the following companies: Malayan Colleges, Inc. (MCI) with campuses in Intramuros and Makati; Mapua Information Technology Center (MITc); Mapua Techserv, Inc. (Mapua Techserv); San Lorenzo Ruiz Institute of Health Sciences, Inc.; Malayan High School of Sciences (formerly Pandacan Properties, Inc.); and Malayan College Laguna, Inc (MCLI) led by a Mapua School of Engineering in Laguna.

iPeople is a member of the Yuchengco Group of Companies ("YGC"). It is a subsidiary of House of Investments, one of the flagship companies of the YGC, with interests in construction, memorial parks, agriculture, among others. The YGC has strong presence in several industries, including but not limited to Banking (RCBC), Insurance (Grepalife, Malayan Insurance), and Manufacturing and Dealership of Motor Vehicles (Honda and Isuzu).

Infinite Intelligence, a division of Pan Pacific Computer Center, Inc. (PPCC) was formed in 2005 to address the growing demand for Customer and Data Analytics services. It initially started to service the needs of the Yuchengco Group of Companies (YGC) and later on expanded to serve the local and international market.

Services offered by Infinite Intelligence are Customer Analytics services focusing on Customer Segmentation, Product Association, and Cross Sell / Up Sell and Data Quality services focusing on Data Cleansing, Data Profiling, Data Standardization and Data Integration.

 

The Mapúa Institute of Technology, more widely known as Mapua, is an 80-year old technology-centered institution of higher education located in the heart of Manila. With approximately 15,000 students enrolled under its different programs, it is by far the biggest engineering school in the Philippines accounting for about 8% of the field’s graduates in the country every year. The Institute also runs a pre-engineering high school with roughly 1,800 students in the neighboring area of Pandacan. The name of the academe takes its origin from its founder, Don Tomas Mapúa, a graduate of Cornell University and indisputably one of the pillars of Philippine architecture. The Institute was fully owned by the Mapúa family from its conception until 1999 when it was acquired 100% by the Yuchengco Group of Companies (YGC) through a company now known as iPeople, Inc. At present, Ambassador Alfonso T. Yuchengco chairs the Mapúa Board of Trustees while Alfonso S. Yuchengco, III sits as Vice-Chairman.

The Institute prides itself with the notable quality of its architecture and engineering programs, which has been demonstrated time and again in the long history of topnotch performance by its graduates in the government-administered professional licensure examinations. Under the new YGC management, the quality of instruction is being enhanced even as new dimensions are being added to the Institute's mission. Aside from excellence in teaching, the Institute now aims to develop its research, as well as consultancy and community extension capabilities. To this end, it considers as its mission not only to transmit but also to generate and apply knowledge. The Institute thus commits itself to be at the frontlines of problem solving for the benefit of the Filipinos and humankind without forgetting that the core of its strength lies and shall continue to lie in its engineering and architecture educational programs that are well-balanced by the two-year general education curriculum in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

In recognition of the growing needs for IT professionals locally and worldwide, the Institute is establishing more programs in IT through regular degree and two-year associate degree programs, as well as short-term programs for specific and special competencies. The School of IT and the Center for Continuing Education and Special Competencies handle the latter curriculum.

To put its consultancy services on solid organizational footing, the Institute likewise very recently established a wholly-owned subsidiary, the Mapúa TechServ, Inc.