Business awards and editorial
The Cover Story World honours the brands and leaders shaping business across Asia and beyond, then tells their stories. One winner in every edition becomes the cover.
From technology and global business to real estate and venture investing, Navneet Mandhani has built his career around one recurring idea: spotting opportunity early and scaling it across markets.
Navneet Mandhani · Karma Developers · United Arab Emirates
Manisha Raisinghani · SiftHub From co-founding LogiNext to launching SiftHub, Manisha Raisinghani is using AI to solve one of enterprise sales’ oldest problems: too much information, too little usable context.
Maggie Ng · HSBC Five years after joining the bank, Maggie Ng took charge of HSBC in Hong Kong — the market that matters most to the group, at the moment the group is being taken apart and put back together.
Margaret Kao · Marketech International Founded in 1988 and still standing after every downturn since, Marketech International occupies the part of the semiconductor supply chain almost nobody outside it can name — and Margaret Kao has run it from the start.
Priya Nair · Hindustan Unilever Three decades inside one company, and a career built in the categories that reach almost every Indian household. Priya Nair now runs the business she joined as a management trainee.
Kuok Hui Kwong · Shangri-La Asia Eight years as chairman before taking the chief executive’s office, Kuok Hui Kwong now leads one of Asia’s most recognisable hospitality groups through a period of deliberate renewal.
Akbar Moideen Thumbay · Thumbay Healthcare At the intersection of hospitals, medical education, research and patient experience, Akbar Moideen Thumbay is helping shape the next chapter of one of the UAE’s most distinctive healthcare ecosystems.
For every honoree, a named jury decides against published criteria. Then the magazine does what it exists to do: tell the story.
When Kuok Hui Kwong stepped into the CEO office in August 2025, she inherited the spiritual legacy of her father, Robert Kuok, and a…
Priya Nair leads Hindustan Unilever’s consumer goods division, driving product innovation across home and personal care categories for…
Margaret Kao built Marketech into a $2-billion-revenue behemoth that literally builds the factories where advanced chips are born. She…
Maggie Ng joined HSBC in 2020 as head of wealth and personal banking, Hong Kong, later being named head of retail banking and wealth. In…
Affordable test-prep juggernaut that democratized quality engineering and medical coaching via offline…
10-minute grocery delivery pioneer using a decentralized network of dark stores and proprietary AI for…
Social commerce powerhouse empowering small resellers to start online businesses with zero inventory via a…
Instant GraphQL and REST API provider connecting to databases and microservices, eliminating the need for…
Issue 75
Broadcaster and journalist. Every edition of the awards produces one cover, and the leader on it is chosen by the editor from the winners.
