ORIX METRO
“ The biggest challenge is adoption because everyone is afraid of change. Change is scary for everyone, especially when we have different age demographics at ORIX METRO. So the rate of adoption is our biggest challenge, not really technology or budget or anything like that.
“ When I joined ORIX METRO, there was a lot of fragmentation across the different solutions, the different infrastructures that we have. We have transformed the way our people work across the nation.”
As ORIX METRO’ s first Chief Information Security Officer, Mathieu leads the organization’ s cybersecurity strategy, governance and digital security transformation. His career has evolved from networking and telecommunications into enterprise cybersecurity, combining hands-on technical expertise with governance, risk management and executive leadership. He joined ORIX METRO in July 2025 after building experience across technology, outsourcing and financial services. ORIX METRO Corporation is a joint venture between ORIX Corporation in Japan and Metrobank in the Philippines. The company mainly offers financial leasing, leasing products, fleet services, warehouse and insurance services.
“ My main job is to oversee and, of course, develop the information strategy and the overall security roadmap of the company and its subsidiaries.
“ I also lend a hand in digital transformation since transformation without security is like a very fast car with no brakes.”
“ It has to be easy to understand and it doesn’ t have to impede on all of your employees’ day-to-day tasks”
Mathieu Manalo CISO ORIX METRO
Transformers assemble To help with digital integration across the business’ s 1,200 employees, Mathieu is part of the“ ORIX Transformers,” a group that encourages and supports colleagues in using new digital platforms.
“ The ORIX Transformers is a select team of the champions of digital transformation in the organisation. The journey is estimated to last three years, and we are chosen based on our strengths and how we spread the message of enterprise-wide adoption,” Mathieu says.
“ The challenge for us as the Transformers is that you have a different spread of employees because you have people from Gen X, from the boomer generation, from millennials to Gen Zs. And the rate of adoption varies greatly per generation. You can have one subset of a group that’ s adopting faster than the other subset.
“ And that’ s the reality: how people adopt these solutions and the changes we’ re bringing to the company.”
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