Business awards and editorial
We honour the brands and leaders shaping business across Asia and beyond, then tell their stories in the magazine. One winner in every edition becomes the cover.
At Al Barari and through his own venture, Elemental Developments, Hazza Zaal is advancing a different vision of Dubai real estate — one where luxury is measured not only by architecture and address, but by how a place makes people feel.
Hazza Zaal · Al Barari Real Estate Group · United Arab Emirates
Adwaita Nayar · Nykaa From taking Nykaa offline to building its fashion business and now scaling House of Nykaa, Adwaita Nayar is helping transform one of India’s most recognised digital-first companies into a portfolio of enduring consumer brands.
Amira Sajwani · PRYPCO With one foot inside one of the Middle East’s best-known property groups and another building an independent PropTech platform, Amira Sajwani is challenging the traditional rules of how real estate is bought, financed and owned.
Alisha Moopen · Aster DM Healthcare GCC 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.
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.
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.
