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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.

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Nithin Kamath Is Turning Zerodha’s Profits Into Patient Capital. Rainmatter Needs Portfolio Accountability

Rainmatter has expanded from fintech partnerships into a broad portfolio and a foundation supporting climate and livelihoods. Nithin Kamath must show how patient capital learns, recycles returns and remains accountable when it avoids board seats and fixed exits.

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Fei-Fei Li Opened World Labs Through an API. Developer Demand Must Validate Spatial Intelligence

Fei-Fei Li has placed usage-based API access, creative tools, developer integration and world models that may eventually support simulation and embodied intelligence at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.

Asia Leaders

Huda Kattan Bought Back Huda Beauty. Founder Control Must Now Fund Its Own Growth

Huda Kattan has placed social-led product discovery, colour cosmetics, direct consumer relationships and selective distribution through retailers such as Sephora at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.

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Choi Soo-yeon Made AI Pay Across Naver's Core. Global C2C Must Justify the Expansion

Choi Soo-yeon has placed search and display advertising, commerce, payments, cloud, web content and consumer-to-consumer marketplaces at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.

Asia Leaders

Lisa Su Pushed AMD's Server Ambition Beyond GPUs. Memory Costs Could Split the Portfolio

Lisa Su has placed EPYC server CPUs, Instinct accelerators, adaptive computing, semi-custom chips and a common software and customer ecosystem at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.

Asia Leaders

Jenny Lee Turned Granite Asia Into a Multi-Asset Platform. Penang Will Test Its Industrial Thesis

Jenny Lee has placed cross-border sourcing, operational networks, flexible capital and long relationships with Asian technology founders at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.

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Rosé Carried Solo Demand Back Into BLACKPINK's Group Cycle. Ownership Will Define the Next Release

Rosé has placed recording royalties, publishing, touring, brand partnerships and the audience transfer between solo work and BLACKPINK at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.

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Helen Wong Handed OCBC to a New CEO With a Wealth-Led Franchise. The Strategy Must Survive Its Architect

Helen Wong has placed banking, Bank of Singapore, Great Eastern insurance, asset management and a regional franchise spanning Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Greater China at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.

Asia Leaders

Melanie Perkins Put AI Inside Canva's Full Work Suite. Product Breadth Must Convert Into Enterprise Depth

Melanie Perkins has placed freemium distribution, collaborative design, subscriptions, brand-management tools and AI features embedded across documents, presentations, video and marketing workflows at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.

Asia Leaders

Josephine Teo Built Singapore's Agentic-AI Rulebook. Adoption Must Reach Smaller Firms

Josephine Teo has placed digital public infrastructure, model governance, skills programmes, cloud capacity and a policy regime designed to attract international technology investment at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.

Asia Leaders

Jisoo Expanded BLISSOO Across Music, Screen and Luxury. Coordination Is the Hidden Cost

Jisoo has placed artist management, music rights, screen compensation, membership relationships and brand-ambassador contracts at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.

Asia Leaders

Mitsuko Tottori Delivered Record Profit at JAL. Vision 2035 Raises the Capital-Allocation Stakes

Mitsuko Tottori has placed full-service aviation, cargo, low-cost carriers, mileage and finance, commerce and airport-related services at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.

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Jyoti Bansal Is Putting Autonomous Agents Into Software Delivery. Harness Must Make Every Change Governable

AI can generate code faster than enterprises can validate and ship it. Jyoti Bansal is positioning Harness as the control layer around that bottleneck, where permissions, evidence, cost and rollback matter more than another coding assistant.

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Sanae Takaichi Turned Fiscal Activism Into a Governing Mandate. Bond Markets Will Price the Next Move

Sanae Takaichi has placed public-private investment in semiconductors, data infrastructure, energy security and defence-linked manufacturing at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.

Asia Leaders

Jennie Kim Made Ruby an Independent-Label Asset. ODD ATELIER Must Build Beyond a Release Cycle

Jennie Kim has placed recorded-music rights, distribution partnerships, performance, merchandise, pop-up retail and luxury sponsorships at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.

Asia Leaders

Lisa Manobal Turned LLOUD Into a Multi-Platform Enterprise. A Second Album Must Prove the Model Scales

Lisa Manobal has placed music ownership, artist management, recording partnerships, live performance, screen roles and luxury-brand relationships at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.

Asia Leaders

Min-Liang Tan Is Spending More Than $600 Million on AI for Gaming. Developers Must Become Razer Customers

Razer’s distribution comes from gamers, not enterprise software buyers. Min-Liang Tan’s AI strategy will work if studios adopt its tools because they improve quality and testing, rather than because generative features add another slogan to devices.

Asia Leaders

Anousheh Ansari Proved Prizes Can Mobilise Research. XPRIZE Winners Still Need Customers

XPRIZE can define ambitious goals and attract innovators that conventional programmes miss. Anousheh Ansari must now measure how many winning technologies become deployed systems rather than ending at a compelling final demonstration.

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Shiori Ito Took Black Box Diaries Home to Japan. Distribution Rights Now Shape Its Public Reach

Shiori Ito has placed independent documentary production, international rights sales, festival visibility, book publishing and public-interest journalism at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.

Asia Leaders

Hamdi Ulukaya Made Chobani an American Brand Without Erasing Its Origins

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Hamdi Ulukaya’s next chapter at Chobani.

Asia Leaders

Tan Su Shan Inherited DBS at Its Peak. Now She Has to Prove the Franchise Is Bigger Than the Rate Cycle

Tan Su Shan did not inherit a bank in need of rescue. She inherited one at its peak—and must now show that deposits, wealth, technology and regional connectivity can outlast the rate windfall.

Asia Leaders

Shou Zi Chew Opened TikTok Shop to Four More European Markets. Cross-Border Returns Will Decide the Payoff

Shou Zi Chew is extending TikTok's commerce model across Europe with a single-registration selling system. Merchant retention will depend on whether reach can outweigh the costs of localisation, fulfilment and consumer protection.

Asia Leaders

Jayshree Ullal Made Ethernet the AI Network. Two Customers Still Hold 42% of Arista's Revenue

Jayshree Ullal has positioned Arista at the centre of the AI data-centre build-out and preserved exceptional profitability. Customer concentration, proprietary interconnects and a fast-changing optics stack are the pressure points behind the numbers.

Asia Leaders

For Demis Hassabis, Gemini’s Leap Into Action Makes Scientific Proof the Hard Part

Demis Hassabis has turned Google DeepMind into the research engine behind products used at vast scale. Its next challenge is to preserve scientific credibility while delivering on Alphabet’s historic AI investment.

Asia Leaders

Wang Weixiu Caught the Optical Wave Behind AI’s Data Centers

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Wang Weixiu’s next chapter at Zhongji Innolight.

Asia Leaders

Ferry Unardi Is Taking Traveloka Beyond Southeast Asia. Local Intelligence Must Still Travel

Traveloka is widening its Asia-Pacific reach under Ferry Unardi. The strategic test is exporting its operating system without diluting local relevance.

Asia Leaders

Wang Xin Brought Factory Discipline to the Tools That Make Circuit Boards

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Wang Xin’s next chapter at Guangdong Dtech Technology.

Asia Leaders

What Comes After Binance for Changpeng Zhao

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Changpeng Zhao’s next chapter at Binance.

Asia Leaders

Tadashi Yanai Built Uniqlo for the World. Now He Has to Build It Beyond Himself

Tadashi Yanai has made Uniqlo one of Asia’s defining global brands. Record growth now makes succession, local autonomy and institutional durability impossible to postpone.

Asia Leaders

Jason Chang Sits at the Bottleneck of the Global Chip Industry

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Jason Chang’s next chapter at ASE Technology.

Asia Leaders

Barry Lam Turned Contract Manufacturing Into an AI Server Strategy

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Barry Lam’s next chapter at Quanta Computer.

Asia Leaders

Savitri Jindal Presides Over a Family Empire That Refuses to Stand Still

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Savitri Jindal’s next chapter at O.P. Jindal Group.

Asia Leaders

Dhanin Chearavanont’s Century-Old Group Keeps Finding New Consumers

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Dhanin Chearavanont’s next chapter at Charoen Pokphand Group.

Asia Leaders

Vagit Alekperov Built Lukoil From the Machinery of a Vanished State

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Vagit Alekperov’s next chapter at Lukoil.

Asia Leaders

Bom Kim Built Coupang Around Reliability. A Data Breach Has Made Trust the Hardest Delivery

Coupang transformed Korean shopping through speed and dependable logistics. Bom Kim must now rebuild confidence after a breach exposed the limits of operational excellence without digital trust.

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Amnon Shashua Is Recasting Mobileye for Physical AI. He Must Protect the Core While Funding the Leap

Mobileye’s automotive business is regaining momentum, but Amnon Shashua is extending its technology into physical AI. The strategic leap needs firmer financial proof.

Asia Leaders

Uniqlo’s Tadashi Yanai Is Still Chasing a Truly Global Wardrobe

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Tadashi Yanai’s next chapter at Fast Retailing and Uniqlo.

Asia Leaders

Prajogo Pangestu Keeps Reinventing the Industrial Core of Barito Pacific

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Prajogo Pangestu’s next chapter at Barito Pacific.

Asia Leaders

Peter Woo’s Succession Plan Is Reshaping One of Hong Kong’s Great Estates

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Peter Woo’s next chapter at Wheelock and Wharf.

Asia Leaders

Uday Kotak Created a Bank and Then Chose to Step Back

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Uday Kotak’s next chapter at Kotak Mahindra Bank.

Asia Leaders

Lee Boo-jin Is Turning Hotel Shilla Into More Than a Family Trophy

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Lee Boo-jin’s next chapter at Hotel Shilla.

Asia Leaders

Shiv Nadar Built an Institution That Can Outlast Its Founder

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Shiv Nadar’s next chapter at HCL Technologies.

Asia Leaders

Uğur Şahin Is Preparing to Leave BioNTech. The Oncology Pipeline Must Outlast Its Founder

BioNTech’s Covid success funded an ambitious oncology pipeline. With Uğur Şahin preparing to leave, clinical execution and succession have become inseparable.

Asia Leaders

Chen Jianhua Took Hengli From Textiles to the Deep End of Industry

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Chen Jianhua’s next chapter at Hengli Group.

Asia Leaders

Ali Ghodsi Has the Capital to Rebuild the Data Stack. Now Databricks Must Compound

Ali Ghodsi has built Databricks into a $5.4 billion revenue run-rate company. Its next phase depends on turning a widening product estate into one compounding platform.

Asia Leaders

Wang Laichun Learned the Foxconn System and Built Her Own

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Wang Laichun’s next chapter at Luxshare Precision.

Asia Leaders

Pony Ma Made WeChat Invisible Infrastructure

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Ma Huateng’s next chapter at Tencent.

Asia Leaders

Aravind Srinivas Is Turning Perplexity Into a Product Portfolio. Focus Is the Next Breakthrough

Aravind Srinivas has expanded Perplexity far beyond search. The next leadership test is turning product velocity into a focused, repeatable business system.

Asia Leaders

Rumman Chowdhury Is Commercialising Independent AI Evaluation. The Business Must Protect Its Right to Say No

Rumman Chowdhury helped make public red teaming a core AI-governance practice. Her new challenge is to build a scalable evaluation business whose findings remain credible when commercial relationships and launch schedules create pressure.

Asia Leaders

Hiroki Totoki Has to Make Sony’s Entertainment Empire Work as One

Hiroki Totoki is imposing sharper capital discipline on Sony while trying to turn PlayStation, music, pictures, anime and image sensors into one coherent global growth system.

Asia Leaders

Andrew Ng Is Building AI Companies Faster Than Frontier Models. The Returns Must Catch Up

Andrew Ng has assembled an ecosystem that teaches AI, tests applications and co-founds companies in months. Its advantage is speed and distribution; its next test is producing businesses with defensible margins after models become cheaper and easier to use.

Asia Leaders

He Xiangjian Turned a Village Workshop Into a Robotics Powerhouse

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining He Xiangjian’s next chapter at Midea Group.

Asia Leaders

Alisher Usmanov’s Holdings Trace the Fault Lines of Eurasian Capital

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Alisher Usmanov’s next chapter at Metalloinvest and diversified holdings.

Asia Leaders

Tan Teck Long Inherited a Record OCBC Franchise. His Next Frontier Must Outrun Falling Rates

Tan Teck Long took charge of OCBC in January 2026 with record income, strong capital and a diversified franchise. His first strategic test is to replace rate-driven earnings with fee growth and deeper regional customer relationships.

Asia Leaders

Inside John Tu’s Unflashy Partnership Behind Kingston Technology

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining John Tu’s next chapter at Kingston Technology.

Asia Leaders

Kumar Birla Is Pushing a Century-Old Group Into Unfamiliar Markets

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Kumar Birla’s next chapter at Aditya Birla Group.

Asia Leaders

Terry Gou Built Foxconn on Scale and Now Has to Live Beyond It

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Terry Gou’s next chapter at Hon Hai Precision Industry and Foxconn.

Asia Leaders

Sandeep Bakhshi Made ICICI Bank a Model of Restraint. The Next Cycle Will Test That Discipline

ICICI Bank’s turnaround has become sustained compounding. Sandeep Bakhshi now faces the harder task of maintaining restraint during a period that rewards faster growth.

Asia Leaders

R. Budi Hartono Bought a Bank in a Crisis and Built an Indonesian Fortress

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining R. Budi Hartono’s next chapter at Bank Central Asia and Djarum.

Asia Leaders

Sarath Ratanavadi Is Merging Power Telecom and Digital Infrastructure

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Sarath Ratanavadi’s next chapter at Gulf Development.

Asia Leaders

Hana Al Rostamani Has Given FAB Global Ambition. Execution Must Now Match the UAE’s Financial Reach

FAB is becoming a more international bank as Abu Dhabi’s capital travels further. Hana Al Rostamani’s challenge is to convert reach into repeatable, well-governed returns.

Asia Leaders

Eric Li Is Assembling a Global Carmaker Brand by Brand

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Eric Li’s next chapter at Geely.

Asia Leaders

Sridhar Ramaswamy Committed $6 Billion to AWS. Snowflake’s Multi-Cloud Promise Must Still Hold

Snowflake is growing quickly under Sridhar Ramaswamy and has made a six-year, $6 billion commitment to AWS. The economics may be compelling, but customers will judge the company by its freedom across clouds.

Asia Leaders

Li Shuirong Followed Polyester Into the Petrochemical Big League

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Li Shuirong’s next chapter at Rongsheng Holding.

Asia Leaders

Sridhar Ramaswamy Is Building Snowflake’s Agentic Control Plane. Consumption Must Follow

Sridhar Ramaswamy has recast Snowflake around enterprise AI, open data and agentic work. The strategy now has to produce lasting usage, margins and trust.

Asia Leaders

Joseph Tsai Is Recasting Alibaba’s Deal Maker as Its Chairman

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Joseph Tsai’s next chapter at Alibaba and BSE Global.

Asia Leaders

Tan Su Shan Has Replaced Rate Income With Wealth Fees at DBS. The Mix Must Survive a Risk Shock

Tan Su Shan has placed record wealth-management performance, transaction-service fees, treasury customer sales and deposit growth at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.

Asia Leaders

The Quiet Sensor Fortune of Keyence Founder Takemitsu Takizaki

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Takemitsu Takizaki’s next chapter at Keyence.

Asia Leaders

Nikesh Arora Is Automating the Internet's Certificate Reset. Forty-Seven Days Will Expose the Gaps

Nikesh Arora is pushing Palo Alto Networks into cryptographic operations as certificate renewals accelerate and governments prepare for quantum-resistant standards. The opportunity sits inside every digital service; the risk is that failed automation can stop those services at the same scale.

Asia Leaders

Qin Yinglin Industrialized the Most Ordinary Meal in China

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Qin Yinglin’s next chapter at Muyuan Foods.

Asia Leaders

Arvind Krishna Is Turning Open-Source Patching Into a Subscription. A $5 Billion Bet Must Earn Trust

Arvind Krishna is extending Red Hat's commercial open-source model beyond IBM's own products. Lightwell sells validated fixes for the software versions companies already run, creating a potentially large security business and a difficult test of neutrality, liability and subscription economics.

Asia Leaders

Wang Ning Turned the Blind Box Into a Global Character Business

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Wang Ning’s next chapter at Pop Mart.

Asia Leaders

Jay Chaudhry Is Extending Zero Trust to AI Agents. Zscaler Must Keep It Coherent

Jay Chaudhry is adapting Zscaler’s zero-trust architecture to AI agents and data. The company must now turn rapid expansion into a coherent, profitable platform.

Asia Leaders

Rafaela Aponte-Diamant Quietly Helped Build the World’s Largest Shipping Line

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Rafaela Aponte-Diamant’s next chapter at MSC.

Asia Leaders

Zhong Huijuan Built a Drugmaker Beyond the Shadow of a Famous Family

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Zhong Huijuan’s next chapter at Hansoh Pharmaceutical.

Asia Leaders

Liang Rubo Put AI at ByteDance’s Centre. Seedance Has Made Governance the Harder Problem

Liang Rubo has made artificial intelligence ByteDance’s central priority. Seedance’s rapid progress now tests whether the company can govern copyright, safety and global trust at equal speed.

Asia Leaders

Mukesh Ambani Wants Reliance in Every Indian Wallet

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Mukesh Ambani’s next chapter at Reliance Industries.

Asia Leaders

Thomas Kurian Closed Google’s $32 Billion Wiz Deal. Now He Must Preserve the Multi-Cloud Trust Google Bought

Google Cloud has completed its acquisition of Wiz, giving Thomas Kurian a rare chance to make security the connective tissue of a fast-growing cloud business. The return will depend on keeping customers’ rival-cloud estates visible and trusted.

Asia Leaders

Idan Ofer Is Rewriting a Shipping Inheritance for the Energy Transition

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Idan Ofer’s next chapter at Quantum Pacific and Israel Corp..

Asia Leaders

Haluk Bayraktar Is Moving KIZILELMA Into Production. A Combat-Ready Fleet Is the Test

Baykar’s KIZILELMA has progressed from rapid prototyping to a production model with an expanding weapons portfolio. Haluk Bayraktar must now build the airworthiness, maintenance and manufacturing system behind an operational fleet.

Asia Leaders

Safra Catz Has Become Oracle’s AI Balance-Sheet Steward. A $638 Billion Backlog Must Fund the Build

Oracle’s cloud infrastructure revenue is rising sharply, but free cash flow turned deeply negative under heavy investment. Safra Catz’s next leadership role is to impose financing discipline on growth that arrives before the cash.

Asia Leaders

Anthony Tan Put Autonomous Rides on Grab’s Network. Commercial Service Must Strengthen the Driver Economy

Grab enters autonomous mobility with regulatory relationships, demand data and a vast driver network. Anthony Tan’s advantage will disappear if the company treats those drivers as a transitional cost instead of part of the operating system.

Asia Leaders

Dara Khosrowshahi Made Uber Profitable. Now He Has to Own the Driverless Transition

Dara Khosrowshahi has repaired Uber’s economics and legitimacy. The autonomous era will determine whether its marketplace remains at the centre of global mobility.

Asia Leaders

Vinod Khosla Backed a Record-Hot Geothermal System. The 2026 Wells Must Turn Heat Into Bankable Power

AI data centres need clean power around the clock. Vinod Khosla’s backing of Mazama Energy could open a major geothermal resource, but a temperature record is not a power plant and the 2026 field campaign must prove repeatable economics.

Asia Leaders

Loh Boon Chye Made SGX a Multi-Asset Exchange. Singapore’s Equity Market Still Needs More Depth

Loh Boon Chye’s multi-asset strategy has made SGX more resilient and profitable. The unresolved test is whether Singapore can attract more listings, improve liquidity and broaden participation in its own equity market.

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Tengku Muhammad Taufik Is Rebuilding PETRONAS for Energy Volatility. Malaysia Still Needs the Cash

PETRONAS faces lower profit, volatile supply routes and a costly transition portfolio. Tengku Muhammad Taufik must keep Malaysia’s national energy company investable and dependable.

Asia Leaders

Zhu Yi Turned a Chinese Drug Pipeline Into a Global Licensing Story

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Zhu Yi’s next chapter at Biokin Pharmaceutical.

Asia Leaders

Dang Yanbao Is Trying to Make Coal Capital Pay for a Cleaner Future

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Dang Yanbao’s next chapter at Ningxia Baofeng Energy.

Asia Leaders

Liang Wenfeng Made Efficiency the Most Disruptive Idea in AI

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Liang Wenfeng’s next chapter at DeepSeek and High-Flyer.

Asia Leaders

Vinod Khosla Is Still Investing as if Consensus Is a Warning

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Vinod Khosla’s next chapter at Khosla Ventures.

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Mustafa Suleyman Is Giving Microsoft Its Own AI Model Stack. The Bill Demands More Than Strategic Independence

Mustafa Suleyman has moved Microsoft from relying primarily on a partner’s frontier models towards a broader in-house portfolio. Strategic control matters, but customers and shareholders need evidence that another model stack earns its substantial cost.

Asia Leaders

Cyrus Poonawalla Made Scale the Most Important Ingredient in Vaccines

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Cyrus Poonawalla’s next chapter at Serum Institute of India.

Asia Leaders

Zhang Yiming Left the Corner Office but Not the Algorithmic Age

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Zhang Yiming’s next chapter at ByteDance.

Asia Leaders

Forrest Li Rebuilt Sea’s Growth Machine. Now He Must Keep Its Three Engines in Balance

Sea’s sharp return to growth has restored strategic confidence. Forrest Li now has to keep Shopee, Monee and Garena compounding without sacrificing resilience.

Asia Leaders

Tony Xu Has Made DoorDash Global. Integration Is Now the Product

DoorDash has become a global local-commerce group. Tony Xu’s next challenge is to integrate DoorDash, Wolt and Deliveroo while preserving service quality and capital discipline.

Asia Leaders

Radhakishan Damani Made Restraint a Competitive Advantage in Indian Retail

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Radhakishan Damani’s next chapter at Avenue Supermarts and DMart.

Asia Leaders

Jay Y. Lee Must Make Samsung Feel Hungry Again

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Jay Y. Lee’s next chapter at Samsung Electronics.

Asia Leaders

Vijay Shekhar Sharma Has Restored Paytm's Profit. Trust Is Still the Scarcer Asset

Paytm's financial recovery gives Vijay Shekhar Sharma a new starting point. Sustainable leadership now depends on institutional trust as much as growth.

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Mahrang Baloch Built a Civic Network Around Resource-Rich Balochistan. Imprisonment Tests Its Durability

Mahrang Baloch has placed a decentralised network of families, volunteers, local organisers and diaspora attention rather than a conventional funded institution at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.

Asia Leaders

Noubar Afeyan Oversaw Moderna’s $2.2 Billion Cost Reset. The Cash Runway Is the Board’s Next Test

Noubar Afeyan’s most consequential job in 2026 is chairing Moderna through a costly transition. The board has backed deep savings and a tighter pipeline; its next obligation is to show that lower spending can produce durable medicines before cash declines too far.

Asia Leaders

Melanie Perkins Is Taking Canva Upmarket. Enterprise Distribution Must Catch Up With Product-Led Scale

Canva grew through individual users and teams. Melanie Perkins now has to turn that bottom-up reach into governed, company-wide deployments without sacrificing the accessibility that created the platform’s advantage.

Asia Leaders

Pierre Omidyar Is Spending an Internet Fortune on Public Institutions

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Pierre Omidyar’s next chapter at eBay and Omidyar Network.

Asia Leaders

Hussain Sajwani Read Dubai’s Property Rulebook Before Everyone Else

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Hussain Sajwani’s next chapter at Damac Properties.

Asia Leaders

Shantanu Narayen Started Adobe’s CEO Search. The Handover Must Preserve an AI Transition He Will Not Finish

Shantanu Narayen will remain Adobe’s chair after a new chief executive is appointed. His final operating duty is to make the succession clear enough that the next leader can reshape the company without inheriting a shadow CEO.

Asia Leaders

Tencent’s Other Founder Still Shapes the Company From the Edges

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Zhang Zhidong’s next chapter at Tencent.

Asia Leaders

Colin Huang’s Temu Gamble Is Testing the Limits of Bargain Commerce

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Colin Huang’s next chapter at PDD Holdings and Temu.

Asia Leaders

Pham Nhat Vuong Is Wagering Vietnam’s Industrial Ambition on VinFast

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Pham Nhat Vuong’s next chapter at Vingroup and VinFast.

Asia Leaders

Peyush Bansal Has Taken Lenskart Public. The Harder Test Is Making Scale Sharper

Lenskart's public-market debut has been followed by strong growth. Peyush Bansal's next task is to make a larger system more precise and capital-efficient.

Asia Leaders

Thomas Kurian Made Google Cloud an AI Growth Engine. Now He Has to Turn Scale Into Trust

Thomas Kurian has turned Google Cloud into a fast-growing AI and data business. The next test is whether infrastructure scale, security and enterprise trust can advance together.

Asia Leaders

Pei Zhenhua Built a Cleanroom Business Into a Battery Windfall

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Pei Zhenhua’s next chapter at Suzhou TA&A and CATL holdings.

Asia Leaders

Sandy Xu Has Made JD Retail More Profitable. Food Delivery and Europe Will Test Her Discipline

Sandy Xu has improved JD Retail’s economics, but lower group profit exposes the cost of expansion. Food delivery and Joybuy Europe now have to earn strategic relevance.

Asia Leaders

Lisa Su’s Multi-Gigawatt Breakthrough Leaves AMD With a Taiwan-Sized Delivery Challenge

Lisa Su has secured multi-generation AI infrastructure commitments that could change AMD’s position. Its MI450 and Helios ramp will determine whether those contracts become a durable second platform.

Asia Leaders

Wang Laisheng Helped Luxshare Move From Connectors to Apple’s Inner Circle

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Wang Laisheng’s next chapter at Luxshare Precision.

Asia Leaders

George Kurian Has Made NetApp Relevant to AI. Now Data Readiness Must Pay

George Kurian has moved NetApp from a storage incumbent to an intelligent data infrastructure contender. Fiscal 2027 will show whether AI demand can widen that opportunity.

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Yuen Kuan Moon Has Repriced Singtel Around Digital Infrastructure. Now the Capital Must Work Harder

Yuen Kuan Moon has moved Singtel beyond a conventional telecoms model by recycling mature assets and scaling digital infrastructure. His next challenge is to turn greater strategic exposure into durable returns without weakening the core networks.

Asia Leaders

Zou Zhinong Found a Fortune in the Connectors Behind the Cloud

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Zou Zhinong’s next chapter at TFC Optical Communication.

Asia Leaders

Divya Deshmukh Won the World Cup and a Grandmaster Title. Chess Must Convert Visibility Into Durable Income

Divya Deshmukh has placed prize money, federation support, private sponsorship, league contracts, streaming and the educational value of a large Indian chess audience at the centre of the strategy. The next phase will test capital discipline, execution and durability across Asia.

Asia Leaders

Huang Shilin Left CATL’s Board but Not Its Battery Boom

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Huang Shilin’s next chapter at CATL.

Asia Leaders

Liu Yongxing Chose Heavy Industry After the Family Business Split

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Liu Yongxing’s next chapter at East Hope Group.

Asia Leaders

Robert Kuok Built a Quiet Empire Out of Commodities and Hospitality

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Robert Kuok’s next chapter at Kuok Group and Shangri-La.

Asia Leaders

Jensen Huang’s Real Advantage Is Not the Chip

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Jensen Huang’s next chapter at Nvidia.

Asia Leaders

Jensen Huang Turned Nvidia’s Chip Lead Into National Infrastructure. Japan Will Test the Economics

Nvidia’s record growth has given Jensen Huang the power to define whole AI systems. Japan’s new national physical-AI infrastructure will show whether that platform can create industrial value beyond the data centre.

Asia Leaders

Lakshmi Mittal’s Steel Empire Faces Its Most Expensive Reinvention

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Lakshmi Mittal’s next chapter at ArcelorMittal.

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Vinod Adani’s Power Has Always Operated Away From the Spotlight

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Vinod Adani’s next chapter at Adani Group holdings.

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Cai Huabo Wants Longsys to Own More of the Memory Stack

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Cai Huabo’s next chapter at Longsys Electronics.

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Anthony Tan Has Taken Grab Beyond Survival. The Next Contest Is for Financial Discipline

Grab’s first full-year profit changed the conversation around Southeast Asia’s leading platform. Anthony Tan’s next task is to make growth, credit and consolidation reinforce one another.

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Eyal Ofer’s Fleet Shows Why Old Economy Assets Still Matter

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Eyal Ofer’s next chapter at Ofer Global.

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Neal Mohan Turned Video Podcasts Into a Premium Habit. YouTube Must Prove the Subscription Lift

Neal Mohan is using video podcasts to deepen YouTube's subscription proposition while preserving free discovery and creator payouts. The next proof is whether heavy listening produces durable, profitable members.

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Miriam Adelson’s Influence Now Travels Far Beyond the Casino Floor

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Miriam Adelson’s next chapter at Las Vegas Sands.

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Forrest Li Is Taking Monee Beyond Shopee. The Credit Engine Must Work Without Marketplace Signals

Monee is becoming a larger source of growth for Sea. Forrest Li must prove that its underwriting can travel beyond the group’s commerce ecosystem without weakening asset quality or encouraging borrowers to take unsuitable debt.

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Dilip Shanghvi Turned a $200 Loan Into India’s Global Drugmaker

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Dilip Shanghvi’s next chapter at Sun Pharmaceutical Industries.

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Feng Zhang Found Smaller Gene-Editing Machinery. Delivery Will Decide Whether It Becomes a Therapeutic Platform

Feng Zhang’s laboratory continues to mine natural biology for programmable systems. Compact editors can fit into delivery vehicles that larger tools cannot, but therapeutic value will require precision, manufacturing and evidence beyond the discovery paper.

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Eric Yuan Is Turning Zoom Into an AI Revenue Platform. Common Room Must Make the Expansion Credible

Zoom’s enterprise revenue is growing modestly while margins remain strong. Eric Yuan is using AI and an acquisition to pursue a larger share of sales work, but customers will demand measurable pipeline results and disciplined data use.

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Prabhakar Raghavan Is Guiding Google’s Technology After Running Search. AI Is Rewriting the Business He Helped Scale

Prabhakar Raghavan moved from leading Google’s Knowledge and Information organisation to advising the company as Chief Technologist. His technical judgement now matters as AI turns search from a list of links into an answer and action layer.

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Bruce Cheng Saw the Power-Electronics Economy Before It Had a Name

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Bruce Cheng’s next chapter at Delta Electronics.

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Harry Triguboff Changed the Shape of Sydney One Tower at a Time

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Harry Triguboff’s next chapter at Meriton.

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Yejin Choi Is Challenging AI’s Scale-at-All-Costs Economics. Smaller Models Must Win Beyond the Lab

Yejin Choi’s work questions the assumption that the largest model should perform every task. Her alternative—smarter algorithms, specialised systems and pluralistic design—could lower AI costs if it proves robust in real organisations and languages.

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Jay Chaudhry Bought Red Canary to Move Zscaler Into Security Operations. Integration Must Justify the Margin Cost

Zscaler’s annual recurring revenue is growing 25 per cent with help from Red Canary. Jay Chaudhry now has to prove that acquiring a people-intensive security service strengthens the platform rather than complicating its economics.

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John Fredriksen Still Finds Opportunity Where Shipping Gets Uncomfortable

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining John Fredriksen’s next chapter at Frontline and shipping holdings.

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Enrique Razon Jr. Turned a Manila Port Legacy Into a Global Network

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Enrique Razon Jr.’s next chapter at ICTSI and Bloomberry Resorts.

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Reshma Kewalramani Is Taking Vertex Beyond Cystic Fibrosis. The Diversification Must Now Become Durable

Vertex is moving from one dominant franchise towards pain, blood disorders and kidney disease. Reshma Kewalramani’s challenge is to preserve focus while building new commercial systems.

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Lim Chow Kiat Is Building GIC for a World That Cannot Be Forecast. The Price Is More Selectivity

Lim Chow Kiat is adapting GIC to geopolitical fragmentation, AI disruption and climate risk through granular investing and stronger cross-asset leadership. The strategy depends on liquidity, selectivity and institutional patience.

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Jack Ma’s Most Important Role May Be the One He No Longer Holds

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Jack Ma’s next chapter at Alibaba Group.

Asia Leaders

Kushal Pal Singh Did Not Just Build Gurgaon He Changed India’s Corporate Geography

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Kushal Pal Singh’s next chapter at DLF.

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Goh Choon Phong Has Restored Singapore Airlines’ Earnings. Air India Will Test His Reach

Singapore Airlines has regained operating strength. Goh Choon Phong must now manage Air India exposure, premium investment and network risk without diluting the carrier’s standards.

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Li Ka-shing’s Hardest Deal Is the Handing Over of Power

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Li Ka-shing’s next chapter at CK Hutchison and CK Asset.

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Pierre Chen Collects Art but Built His Fortune on Tiny Components

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Pierre Chen’s next chapter at Yageo.

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Lin Tsung-Chi Found a Data Center Fortune Inside a Furniture-Rail Factory

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Lin Tsung-Chi’s next chapter at King Slide Works.

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Zhong Shanshan Built a Fortune on Two Things China Cannot Do Without

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Zhong Shanshan’s next chapter at Nongfu Spring and Wantai Biological.

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Wael Sawan Put Returns Back at the Centre of Shell. Now He Has to Prove the Transition Still Fits

Wael Sawan has restored strategic clarity at Shell through cost discipline, shareholder returns and a sharper LNG focus. The harder task is building a transition business large enough to alter the group’s direction.

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Wang Liping Put Chinese Hydraulics Into the World’s Heavy Machinery

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Wang Liping’s next chapter at Jiangsu Hengli Hydraulic.

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Nadav Zafrir Bought Four Pieces of an AI Security Stack. Check Point Must Turn Them Into Growth

Check Point has accelerated acquisitions under Nadav Zafrir to close gaps around AI and cloud security. The test is whether one operating platform emerges quickly enough to improve product growth without sacrificing margins or repurchase discipline.

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David Sun Proved a Garage Can Become a Global Memory Business

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining David Sun’s next chapter at Kingston Technology.

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Robin Zeng’s Battery Empire Is Becoming Industrial Diplomacy

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Robin Zeng’s next chapter at CATL.

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Zheng Shuliang Kept China Hongqiao Moving After the Founder Was Gone

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Zheng Shuliang’s next chapter at China Hongqiao Group.

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Masayoshi Son Has Found Another Reason to Bet the Company

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Masayoshi Son’s next chapter at SoftBank Group.

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Sanjiv Puri Has Made ITC More Focused. The Consumer Business Must Now Prove It Can Carry More Weight

Sanjiv Puri has sharpened ITC through the hotels demerger and a broader consumer portfolio. The next phase depends on turning double-digit FMCG growth into returns strong enough to reduce reliance on cigarettes.

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Eric Yuan Has Restored Zoom’s Growth. AI Must Become More Than a Meeting Feature

Eric Yuan has repositioned Zoom as an AI-first system of action. The next test is converting product adoption into sustained enterprise expansion without losing simplicity.

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Ynon Kreiz Has Turned Mattel Into an IP Company. Tariffs and Margin Pressure Will Test the Sequel

Ynon Kreiz has taken Mattel beyond its turnaround and into a broader entertainment strategy. The next test is whether intellectual property can deliver durable growth without weakening the margins rebuilt under his leadership.

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Sanjay Mehrotra Is Rebuilding Micron's Geography. A $250 Billion US Pledge Still Depends on Asia

Sanjay Mehrotra has expanded Micron's US investment plan beyond $250 billion while accelerating construction across Asia. The leadership challenge is no longer announcing factories; it is transferring processes, people and yields across a manufacturing network whose sites must come online in the right sequence.

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Zhou Qunfei’s Glass Screens Became the Face of the Smartphone Era

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Zhou Qunfei’s next chapter at Lens Technology.

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Sundar Pichai’s $185 Billion Gemini Push Depends on Reinventing Search Without Weakening It

Sundar Pichai has distributed Gemini across Google’s largest products at extraordinary speed. He must now convert conversational search and cloud demand into returns that justify Alphabet’s capital bill.

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Hock Tan’s $35 Billion AI Platform Moves Broadcom Closer to Its Biggest Customers—and Their Risks

Hock Tan has expanded Broadcom’s custom-chip model into gigawatt-scale infrastructure financed by Apollo and Blackstone. Its power comes with customer, supply and deployment concentration.

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Shahid Khan’s Sports Empire Still Runs on an Engineer’s Bumper

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Shahid Khan’s next chapter at Flex-N-Gate and the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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Anima Anandkumar Joined the UN’s Science Board. AI for Science Needs Standards the World Can Afford

Anima Anandkumar’s 2026 appointment to the UN Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board puts a technical researcher inside a global governance debate. The commercial and policy test is whether AI-assisted science can be verified, reproduced and made accessible across unequal computing markets.

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Wang Wei Refused to Franchise Away Control of the Last Mile

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Wang Wei’s next chapter at SF Holding and SF Express.

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Amnon Shashua Took Mobileye Into Humanoid Robots. A $3.8 Billion Write-Down Raises the Standard

Amnon Shashua is using Mobileye's automotive cash flow and artificial-intelligence stack to enter humanoid robotics. The strategic overlap is plausible; the acquisition's governance and commercial hurdles make proof unusually urgent.

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Sunil Mittal Is Fighting India’s Telecom War With a Wider Map

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Sunil Mittal’s next chapter at Bharti Airtel.

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Sun Piaoyang Took a State Drugmaker Into the Global Innovation Race

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Sun Piaoyang’s next chapter at Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals.

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William Ding Is Teaching an Old Games Company New AI Tricks

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining William Ding’s next chapter at NetEase.

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Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi Built Thailand’s Consumer Empire by Never Staying in One Lane

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi’s next chapter at Thai Beverage and Frasers Property.

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Gautam Adani Is Building at the Scale of a State

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Gautam Adani’s next chapter at Adani Group.

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Satya Nadella Is Building a $190 Billion AI Utility, With Scarcity as Both Proof and Warning

Satya Nadella is committing utility-scale capital to Microsoft’s agentic AI platform while reducing headcount. The return will depend on capacity allocation, product usage and disciplined pricing.

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Wang Chuanfu Made BYD the Carmaker Everyone Has to Watch

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Wang Chuanfu’s next chapter at BYD.

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Masayoshi Son Is Steering $64.6 Billion Towards OpenAI. SoftBank’s Balance Sheet Is the Constraint

Masayoshi Son’s latest OpenAI tranche makes SoftBank a more concentrated AI holding company, with its financial policy and Japan execution under scrutiny.

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Jitendra Malik Is Putting Sensorimotor Learning Before Language. Robotics Must Build Its Own Data Economy

Jitendra Malik helped shape modern computer vision and now presses AI toward embodied learning. The next advance will depend on shared benchmarks, useful simulation and fleets that turn physical experience into reliable generalisation.

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Gong Hongjia Keeps Finding Value Where Hardware Meets Data

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Gong Hongjia’s next chapter at Hikvision and Vcanbio.

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Lei Jun Wants Xiaomi to Be Taken Seriously as a Carmaker

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Lei Jun’s next chapter at Xiaomi.

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Joseph Lau’s Fortune Is Part Property Portfolio and Part Private Museum

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Joseph Lau’s next chapter at Chinese Estates.

Asia Leaders

Yuan Fugen Built a Family Succession Around Precision Manufacturing

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Yuan Fugen’s next chapter at Suzhou Dongshan Precision Manufacturing.

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Lu Xiangyang Made One Early Bet on BYD and Kept Building Around It

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Lu Xiangyang’s next chapter at BYD and Youngy Investment.

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Georges Elhedery Has Simplified HSBC. He Must Prove the Bank Can Grow Without Rebuilding Complexity

HSBC’s restructuring has sharpened returns and accountability. Georges Elhedery’s next task is to grow wealth and transaction banking without recreating the layers he removed.

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Assaf Rappaport Is Turning Wiz’s Security Graph Into an Agent Control Layer. Automation Must Remain Reversible

Wiz can give AI assistants live context from its cloud-security graph. Assaf Rappaport’s opportunity is to make security teams faster; his risk is allowing an agent to convert a mistaken finding into a damaging production change.

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Can Chen Tianshi Build China’s Answer to Nvidia

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Chen Tianshi’s next chapter at Cambricon Technologies.

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Vasant Narasimhan Narrowed Novartis to Innovative Medicines. The Portfolio Must Now Outrun Its Patent Losses

Novartis is strategically cleaner but its leading medicines face inevitable erosion. Vasant Narasimhan’s next task is converting a promising pipeline into dependable growth.

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Ravi Jaipuria Built a Beverage Empire One Territory at a Time

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Ravi Jaipuria’s next chapter at RJ Corp and Varun Beverages.

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Natarajan Chandrasekaran Is Wiring Tata From Chips to AI Agents. Capital Discipline Must Hold the Stack Together

Natarajan Chandrasekaran is positioning Tata across the physical and software layers of artificial intelligence. The strategy could deepen India’s technology capacity, but only if demand, energy and execution keep pace with investment.

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Yu Yong’s Portfolio Links Copper Cobalt Lithium and Electric Cars

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Yu Yong’s next chapter at CMOC Group and Cathay Fortune.

Asia Leaders

Kwong Siu-hing Became the Steady Center of a Hong Kong Property Dynasty

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Kwong Siu-hing’s next chapter at Sun Hung Kai Properties.

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Daphne Koller Is Turning Insitro’s AI Platform Into Drug Candidates. Biology Still Sets the Clock

Daphne Koller has spent years building a machine-learning company around human biology. In 2026, insitro’s partnerships and preclinical programmes are beginning to test whether its data advantage can produce medicines rather than promising hypotheses.

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Rajesh Magow Is Turning MakeMyTrip From a Booking Site Into India's Travel Operating Layer

Rajesh Magow is using AI and selective acquisitions to widen MakeMyTrip's role. The test is whether one platform can improve every stage of Indian travel.

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Low Tuck Kwong’s Coal Fortune Is Financing a Different Kind of Network

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Low Tuck Kwong’s next chapter at Bayan Resources.

Asia Leaders

Qi Shi Built a Brokerage for China’s Screen-First Investors

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Qi Shi’s next chapter at East Money Information.

Asia Leaders

Ken Xie Has Been Preparing Fortinet for the Borderless Security Era

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Ken Xie’s next chapter at Fortinet.

Asia Leaders

Liu Debing Took China’s Zhipu AI to Market Before the Dust Settled

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Liu Debing’s next chapter at Zhipu AI.

Asia Leaders

Prince Alwaleed Is Reassembling a Global Portfolio for a New Saudi Era

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud’s next chapter at Kingdom Holding.

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T.V. Narendran Has Improved Tata Steel's Numbers. Now the Green Transition Must Carry Its Own Weight

T.V. Narendran has restored operating momentum across Tata Steel. His next test is making a multi-country green transition produce acceptable returns.

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Gennady Timchenko’s Portfolio Is a Map of Russian Power

FigureAsia examines the strategic choices, governance pressures and market consequences defining Gennady Timchenko’s next chapter at Novatek and Sibur.

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C.S. Venkatakrishnan Has Rebalanced Barclays. The Investment Bank Must Now Earn Its Weight

Barclays’ strategic reset is improving returns and shareholder distributions. C.S. Venkatakrishnan now has to prove the investment bank and domestic franchise reinforce each other.

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Asia's Top CEOs 2016

The chief executives who set the pace of Asian business in 2016 through capital allocation, operating discipline and industry-shaping decisions.