Asia Leaders
Asia Leaders
Reporting on the Asian leaders shaping business, technology, health, culture and science.
Asia Leaders
Nikhil Kamath Turned Market Access Into a Media Platform. Influence Now Needs Clearer Boundaries
By FigureAsia Editorial Desk
Lucy Guo Built Passes Around Creator Ownership. Trust Must Become the Subscription Advantage
By FigureAsia Editorial Desk
Shashank Kumar Is Rewiring Razorpay Around Payment Success. Reliability Has to Pay
By FigureAsia Editorial Desk
Ritesh Agarwal Has Taken PRISM Back to the IPO Gate. Investors Will Price the Quality of OYO's Profit
By FigureAsia Editorial Desk
Nikesh Arora Made Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity’s Consolidator. Now He Has to Make the Stack Work as One
Gukesh Dommaraju Became Chess's Youngest World Champion. Defending the Crown Is a Different Business
Scott Wu Joined Devin With Windsurf. The Combined Product Must Earn a US$26 Billion Valuation
Reshma Kewalramani Broadened Vertex Beyond Cystic Fibrosis. Launch Economics Are the Next Clinical Test
Reshma Kewalramani has placed high-value rare-disease medicines, internally discovered small molecules, gene editing and disciplined reinvestment of cystic-fibrosis cash flow at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.
Ugur Sahin Has Given BioNTech a EUR16.8 Billion Runway. Six Cancer Readouts Must Now Set Its Direction
BioNTech retains EUR16.8 billion in cash and securities as it approaches six late-stage readouts. Ugur Sahin must convert scientific breadth into a focused cancer business.
Divya Deshmukh Won the Women's World Cup. Indian Chess Must Turn Her Result Into a Market
A FigureAsia examination of how Divya Deshmukh is turning the commercial and institutional opportunity created by Deshmukh's 2025 Women's World Cup victory, her grandmaster title and her return to the women's top ten in 2026 into a test of economics, execution and durable leadership.
Aravind Srinivas Turned Search Into a Computer. Perplexity Must Now Make the Economics Legible
A FigureAsia examination of how Aravind Srinivas is turning Perplexity's 2026 shift from an answer engine towards Perplexity Computer, an agentic system that executes research and work rather than merely returning links into a test of economics, execution and durable leadership.
Tengku Muhammad Taufik Has Extended PETRONAS's LNG Commitments into the 2040s. Lower Profit Makes the Capital Choice Harder
PETRONAS is locking in LNG supply and customers well into the 2040s while earnings are under pressure. Tengku Muhammad Taufik must keep the capital programme selective.
Alexandr Wang Put Evaluation at the Centre of Meta's AI Reset. Governance Must Keep Pace
A FigureAsia examination of how Alexandr Wang is turning Meta's effort to turn the data, evaluation and operational disciplines associated with Scale AI into a repeatable development system for its new generation of models into a test of economics, execution and durable leadership.
Surya Midha Moved From Mercor's Operations Desk to Its Chair. Governance Must Catch Up With Growth
A FigureAsia examination of how Surya Midha is turning Midha's transition from operating leadership to chairman as Mercor scales a global marketplace for experts who train and evaluate AI systems into a test of economics, execution and durable leadership.
Adarsh Hiremath Built Mercor's Human-Data Engine. Security and Worker Quality Are Now the Product
A FigureAsia examination of how Adarsh Hiremath is turning Mercor's move from automated recruiting into high-skill human-data infrastructure for frontier AI laboratories into a test of economics, execution and durable leadership.
