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Three streams. Latest Insights: editorial on business, brands, markets and the leaders we feature. Profiles: the people and brands themselves. Wires: headlines from the world’s business newsrooms.

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Leader Stories

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Featured Leader

Imran Farooq: Scaling a Dubai Real Estate Brand Beyond Borders

From resort-style apartments and private pools to international expansion, branded residences and vertical integration, Imran Farooq has turned SAMANA Developers into one of Dubai’s fastest-rising property businesses — and is now building for a much larger stage.

Featured Leader

Aman Mehta: Taking Torrent Pharma Into Its Next Era

From strengthening India’s chronic-therapy leadership to integrating major acquisitions and shaping a broader growth agenda, Aman Mehta is emerging as one of the key next-generation leaders in Indian pharmaceuticals.

Featured Leader

Dr. (CA) Ankur Aggarwal: Building a New UAE Real Estate Powerhouse

From chartered accountancy to creating one of the UAE’s fastest-scaling luxury development platforms, Dr. (CA) Ankur Aggarwal is combining financial discipline, branded residences and ambitious expansion to build BNW Developments for the next phase of Gulf real estate.

Brand Stories

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Featured Brand

Ultrahuman: Building a Global Health-Tech Brand From India

From continuous glucose monitoring and smart rings to blood biomarkers, women’s health and real-time biointelligence, Bengaluru-based Ultrahuman is attempting something far more ambitious than building another wearable. It wants to create a computing platform that understands the human body continuously.

Featured Brand

Yalla Group: Building a Digital Social World Around MENA Culture

From voice-led social networking and culturally resonant gaming to a growing ecosystem of digital entertainment, Yalla Group has built one of the Middle East’s most distinctive technology brands by proving that global-scale digital products can succeed when they begin with local behaviour, language and identity.

Featured Brand

Enerwhere: Reinventing Off-Grid Power for a Lower-Carbon Middle East

From desert construction sites and quarries to islands, industrial facilities and oilfield operations, Enerwhere has built its reputation by taking renewable energy where conventional grids often cannot go — combining solar, storage, intelligent controls and flexible power systems to reduce diesel dependence without sacrificing reliability.

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Profiles

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Kuok Hui Kwong

Shangri-La Asia · Singapore

When Kuok Hui Kwong stepped into the CEO office in August 2025, she inherited the spiritual legacy of her…

Priya Nair

Hindustan Unilever · India

Priya Nair leads Hindustan Unilever’s consumer goods division, driving product innovation across home and…

Margaret Kao

Marketech International · Taiwan

Margaret Kao built Marketech into a $2-billion-revenue behemoth that literally builds the factories where…

Maggie Ng

HSBC Holdings · Hong Kong

Maggie Ng joined HSBC in 2020 as head of wealth and personal banking, Hong Kong, later being named head of…

Cred

Fintech · India

Gamified credit card management platform that rewards timely payments with exclusive luxury lifestyle…

Akulaku

Fintech · Indonesia

Digital lending and buy-now-pay-later platform bridging unbanked Southeast Asian consumers with e-commerce…

Meesho

E-commerce · India

Social commerce powerhouse empowering small resellers to start online businesses with zero inventory via a…

ShopBack

E-commerce · Singapore

Asia-Pacific's leading cashback and discovery platform, driving over $4 billion in annual sales for retail…

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