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From expanding hospital networks to digital health, AI-enabled care and a growing Saudi footprint, Alisha Moopen is helping transform Aster DM Healthcare from a traditional provider into a connected healthcare ecosystem for the GCC.
Alisha Moopen · Aster DM Healthcare GCC · United Arab Emirates
Navneet Mandhani · Karma Developers 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.
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.
Alakh Pandey · Physics Wallah From a YouTube classroom in Prayagraj to building one of India’s most visible education platforms, Alakh Pandey has created a business around a simple idea: quality learning should not be limited by geography or affordability.
Jeet Adani · Adani Group With airports, artificial intelligence, data centres and advanced industries increasingly defining his mandate, Jeet Adani is emerging as one of the most closely watched young leaders in Indian business.
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