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This photo is from September 10, 2024 - months into building RXS Meta Group, attending The AI Conference in San Francisco. Honored to be there, side by side with AI experts and leaders from OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA, and the US Department of Defense - a room where the AI conversation was already moving past "which model" to "which governance." The path there wasn't linear. After 29 years with Chevron across Asia Pacific, I took three years (2021–2023) away from

Circle K now runs 6,000 EV charging points across two continents. Their VP of Global eMobility, Håkon Stiksrud, said something on World EV Day that stuck with me: "The EV transition will not be won by just building chargers." As RXS Meta looks at the charging infrastructure space, three things from his interview matter more than the hardware: Uptime is trust, not IT. Customers return to a location out of habit — one dead charger, and that habit breaks for good. The bottleneck

WE ARE MAKING HISTORY. RXS Meta is honored to be part of AGENTSCONF DEEP TECH - the world’s first AI Agents conference. This is more than another technology event. It represents a glimpse into a new way of doing business. At AGENTSCONF, corporates and startups are represented by their own AI agents. Instead of humans spending hours moving from booth to booth, exchanging business cards and trying to determine who might be relevant, the agents do the first layer of discovery an

I recently came across Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust by Ken Blanchard and Randy Conley. The book reinforces something I have learned through different chapters of my own leadership journey: leadership is not about being served because of your position; it is about serving people because of the responsibility entrusted to you. Looking back, I have experienced servant leadership in very different environments. At Chevron, I learned

After 29 years leading enterprise strategy and cross-border innovation across Asia Pacific, I founded RXS Meta to innovate with purpose, AI-Driven and ESG focused. The Macro Picture: The 41% vs. 18% Disconnect According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS), as of July 2026, 22% of all businesses report using AI applications in business functions, led by Information (42%), Professional & Technical Services (40%), and Finance & Insurance (36%).

At Roxas SaaS Corporation, the technology company of RXS Meta Group, we believe the right technology conversation starts with one question: What business problem are we trying to solve? We don’t sell technology first. We solve the business problem first. Our approach brings together AI-native enterprise technology expertise, strategic thinking, and operational experience -from diagnosis and business-case development to deployment, adoption, and measurable impact. With eight g

Your sales team says you made ₱52 million this quarter. Your finance team says ₱46 million. Both reports are sitting on the CEO's desk right now. Which one is true? In my experience, watching this exact problem play out in boardrooms across Asia Pacific. It's almost never a tech problem. It's a "nobody agreed on the rules" problem. Most companies don't actually have a data problem. They have three different systems - sales, finance, operations - each keeping their own version

Here's a question every Philippine business owner should be asking: is AI actually making your company smarter or did you just buy a faster tool? There's a difference, and it matters for your bottom line. In my experience, companies in the Philippines start with AI the same way: automate one repetitive task - data entry, customer replies, report generation, scheduling. Good first step. It saves hours. It cuts cost. It's the easiest business case to defend. But here's what the

Most firms selling "AI transformation" are selling tooling. Dashboards, models, automation layers bolted onto an organization whose judgment layer never changed. That's not transformation. That's decoration. AI-Powered Leadership by Dave Silberman, Rich Maltzman, Loredana Abramo, and Vijay Kanabar names the discipline most consultancies skip: AI maturity isn't won by deploying the most capable model. It's won by building the human capability layer that determines whether the

The most expensive sentence in Philippine boardrooms this year will be: "We'll deal with sustainability reporting next year. "With Memorandum Circular No. 16, the SEC has made PFRS S1 and S2, Tier 1 companies are already inside their first reporting period. And two years after each tier's adoption, independent limited assurance over Scope 1 and 2 emissions becomes compulsory. Here is what I keep seeing in my conversations with boards: the challenge is rarely willingness. It i

Most technology failures aren't technology failures. They're change management failures wearing a technical excuse. At Chevron, I was tasked with leading Management of Change for the Philippines - awareness, training, and assurance to meet Chevron's global MOC standards. That mandate taught me something most technology rollouts today ignore: change isn't a phase you run after deployment. It's a discipline you build before it, with its own standards, its own owners, and its ow

Philippines just crossed into upper-middle-income status. Ask the middle class how that feels, and 68% will tell you: anxious. FWD Philippines’ Financial Confidence Report 2026 surveyed 1,050 middle-class households earning ₱25,000–₱149,999 a month. The findings should sit uncomfortably with every business leader in this country. 74% say rising costs are straining their budgets. 91% of millennials are supporting aging parents while raising their own children. 40% of Gen X dou

The most expensive mistake in enterprise AI right now isn't buying the wrong technology. It's assuming the technology is the problem at all. PYMNTS Intelligence just surveyed senior technology executives at US enterprises with $1 billion+ in annual revenue. When asked what limits AI performance - organisational readiness or the technology itself - 71% pointed at their own organisations. Only 11% blamed the technology. A 7-to-1 verdict. And here's the detail most coverage mis

Most executive profiles start in the boardroom. This one starts on two wheels. Our Founder & CEO, Yen Roxas, was recently featured on Manibela of UNTV for an owner's review of his Harley-Davidson Heritage Classic but the conversation went well beyond the machine. He spoke about what the ride really represents: 🏍️ Brotherhood and leadership. As Regional Director of Harley Owners Group (H.O.G.) Philippines, Yen led 32 riders on a 17-day, 4,400+ km, 6 Roll-On Roll-Off ferries,

Only 2 of 17 Sustainable Development Goals. That's the number the Philippine Statistics Authority put on the table this week - and it should stop every boardroom conversation about "doing our part" on sustainability. Ten goals show progress since 2015. But progress isn't the target - pace is. Of 99 measurable indicators, only 23 are moving fast enough to land by 2030. Fifty-one need to accelerate. Twenty-five are moving backward, including health outcomes and urban resilienc

Two data points from this year should sit uncomfortably next to each other. AvePoint's 2026 State of AI report found that 88.4% of organisations suffered at least one AI agent-related security incident in the past year - data leakage and manipulation by untrusted inputs the leading culprits. Around the same time, Uber reportedly burned through its entire 2026 AI budget by April - four months in, after rolling out AI coding tools to roughly 5,000 engineers and gamifying usage

The Philippines just crossed a threshold three decades in the making. GNI per capita: $4,850. The World Bank's upper-middle-income line: $4,636. After 39 years as a lower-middle-income economy, we're officially in a new category. The numbers behind it are real. GDP growth averaging 5.8% a year since 2021. Broad-based - not one sector carrying the rest, but gains across industries. That's the kind of growth that's harder to engineer and more durable when you get it. But I've s

Most boards still file AI and ESG under two different reports, reviewed by two different committees, owned by two different teams. That split is starting to cost them. The friction is real. AI is a heavy industry, AI the energy and water behind every model run sit uneasily next to a net-zero commitment. Black-box decisioning collides with governance's demand for explainability. And productivity gains that displace people don't sit comfortably next to a social license to opera

This afternoon at the Philippine Chamber of Commerce Inc HQ, economist Calixto Chikiamco, Jr. of the Foundation for Economic Freedom walked a room of business leaders through 80 years of Philippine path dependence. From the Bell Trade Act of 1946 to the de-industrialization charts of 2024. From Manila as the Pearl of the Orient to the most concentrated economy in Asia. Slide by slide. Decade by decade. Crisis by crisis. One image stopped the room: Manila in the 1950s next to

The timing couldn’t be more deliberate. The Philippines is accelerating its digital infrastructure buildout. Smart cities, AI industrial hubs, emergency response networks - all of them run on resilient connectivity. Israel has built some of the world’s most battle-tested network technology. This forum was a serious conversation about closing that gap. The afternoon included a roundtable with industry leaders - a candid, high-caliber exchange on where Philippine digital infra