Growth in Asia no longer belongs to one function.
It sits at the intersection of marketing, product, data, trust, customer experience, and go-to-market execution. Across the region, businesses are not only trying to reach more customers. They are also trying to acquire the right customers, retain them longer, build stronger demand, and scale with sharper systems.
That shift has created a new kind of growth voice.
Some come from SaaS and fintech. Others come from product marketing, B2B demand generation, LinkedIn-led acquisition, AI-powered search, or enterprise go-to-market. What connects them is not a title. It is their ability to turn marketing into measurable business momentum.
This NewInAsia feature spotlights ten voices across Asia who are helping founders, operators, marketers, and business leaders think more clearly about growth in 2026.
Highlights
Praval Singh
VP of Marketing & Customer Experience, Zoho
Praval is the VP of Marketing & Customer Experience at Zoho. Over the last 18-odd years, he has worked at the intersection of technology and marketing; learning how people and products behave with each other has fascinated him, and the curiosity to make them work better together continues to drive him forward. His areas of expertise and interest include brand marketing, product positioning & messaging, go-to-market strategy, demand generation, channel marketing, and media & analyst relations.
In his previous role, Praval co-founded Media Redefined, a digital-media agency in India, where he led consulting, sales, customer relations, and client workshops for brands including Samsung, Micromax, Aircel, Maruti Suzuki, and NIIT, among others.
Between his time running an agency and his tenure at Zoho, he has built and led teams that have helped brands launch new products, managed digital properties, created engagement programs, initiated 360-degree campaigns, and crafted customer advocacy initiatives. He is grateful to have worked with great mentors and an outstanding set of colleagues throughout these years. He lives in New Delhi, India, and is active on X as @Praval.
Agung Setiyo Wibowo
Founder, LinkedIn Hacks Academy
Agung Setiyo Wibowo represents a powerful form of modern growth: visibility that builds trust and turns into opportunity. As Founder of LinkedIn Hacks Academy, he helps professionals, creators, and job seekers build a stronger, more marketable personal brand.
Agung is the author of 100+ best-selling books spanning self-help, business, and management. His work sits at the intersection of positioning, content strategy, authority building, and LinkedIn-led growth. Moreover, his profile shows deep experience across marketing communications, management consulting, and people development. He has supported more than 100,000 professionals through coaching, leadership programs, culture transformation, and personal branding strategy.
Agung was recognized as one of Indonesia’s Top 20 LinkedIn Influencers in 2026 by Favikon. His insights have also appeared in more than 70 national and international media outlets. For business leaders, his value is clear: growth starts when expertise becomes visible, trusted, and easy to understand.
Hưng Lưu
Country Head of Growth & Marketing
Hưng Lưu brings one of the clearest growth-marketing profiles in this list. His work spans user acquisition, monetization, product marketing, retention, and growth strategy, especially in fintech and digital products.
At MoMo, he worked across business and growth strategy, managing areas such as P&L, product strategy, and growth marketing. His profile also highlights senior growth work focused on user acquisition, monetization growth, revenue model innovation, product-led initiatives, and marketing-led expansion.
Before that, he worked in performance marketing at PMAX, covering sectors such as e-commerce, finance, fintech, healthcare, beauty, and education. For marketers and operators, Hưng’s work shows what growth looks like when data, product, and customer behaviour come together.
Ravi (Mallavarapu) Shankar
CMO, AirAsia MOVE
Ravi Shankar stands out for operating at the intersection of marketing, business, technology, data, and AI. His experience spans branding, customer experience, data science, growth, martech, performance marketing, and commercial strategy.
He is currently CMO at AirAsia MOVE. Previously, he served as CMO at CARSOME and held growth and digital marketing leadership roles at AirAsia. Notably, his profile highlights his role in transforming AirAsia’s traditional marketing team into a growth marketing team during the company’s pivot from aviation to a super app.
His background also includes Google, where he helped clients scale media buying and improve digital marketing performance using DoubleClick platforms. For readers, Ravi’s career offers a practical lesson: growth today requires marketing leaders who can connect brand, product, data, and commercial outcomes.
Deeksha Anand
Senior PMM, Google Play
Deeksha Anand brings a sharp product marketing and go-to-market lens to business growth. At Google Play, she leads loyalty marketing for Google Play Points in the US. Previously, she built the program from scratch in India and supported expansion in Indonesia.
Her work focuses on adoption, loyalty, retention, and emerging-market GTM. Moreover, she has driven cross-regional GTM strategy across India, the US, and EMEA, while aligning loyalty mechanics with developer monetization goals.
Beyond Google, Deeksha writes The GTM Files, a weekly Substack that breaks down real go-to-market strategies from Indian companies such as Zerodha, Meesho, Razorpay, and Cosmix. For founders, her voice is especially useful because she focuses on why good products fail to find their market, and what teams can do about it.
Vanhishikha Bhargava
Founder, Contensify
Vanhishikha Bhargava focuses on one of the biggest shifts in B2B growth: search is no longer only about Google rankings. It now includes AI results, LLM visibility, LinkedIn, communities, and the full discovery journey.
As Founder of Contensify, she builds search visibility systems for B2B SaaS companies. Her work combines SEO, GEO, LLM visibility, positioning, content, authority, and distribution. More importantly, she is clear that traffic alone is not the goal. Pipeline is.
Her profile notes 13+ years of experience, work with 100+ SaaS brands, and influence on more than $70 million in pipeline or revenue. She has also been featured on Semrush, Forbes, and CoSchedule. For SaaS teams, Vanhishikha offers a timely lesson: content must move beyond output and become a growth system.
Trang (Celine) Phan
Founder, Syntellix Marketing
Trang Phan represents the rise of LinkedIn as a serious B2B growth channel in Asia. As Founder of Syntellix Marketing, she helps B2B founders, consultants, and business owners build LinkedIn into a long-term growth system.
Her work focuses on positioning, LinkedIn content strategy, profile optimization, B2B social selling, and lead generation. Notably, she describes LinkedIn as the channel that helped her build trust from zero and open international opportunities with clients and partners.
Through Syntellix Marketing, she helps B2B founders build professional visibility and credibility before sales conversations begin. With a 98% client satisfaction rate, she has worked with founders across more than 10 industries, including Tech, E-commerce, Corporate Travel, Furniture Manufacturing, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), Corporate Education, and other specialized B2B sectors. Her work demonstrates how trust-based LinkedIn content can create long-term business opportunities across global markets.
Devika S
Personal Brand Strategist and Founder, Public Post
Devika helps founders, consultants, and professionals turn LinkedIn into a client acquisition channel. As Founder of Public Post in Bangkok, she works on content strategy, profile optimization, positioning, and thought leadership.
Her earlier work at lead generation agencies in Bangkok gave her hands-on experience in B2B outbound marketing through LinkedIn and email. In addition, her role as Head of Customer Success exposed her to client retention and business outcomes in a lead generation context.
Devika’s perspective is useful because she connects personal branding with commercial results. She does not frame visibility as noise. Instead, she focuses on clarity, consistency, and credibility as drivers of opportunity. For founders and consultants, that makes her a relevant voice in LinkedIn-led growth.
Jack Wang
Marketing Director, F5 North Asia
Jack Wang brings deep B2B marketing experience from China and North Asia. With 34 years in B2B marketing management in the IT sector, his work focuses on go-to-market execution, digital marketing, AI, channel marketing, integrated communications, and sales-linked marketing programs.
At F5 North Asia, he leads marketing across Greater China and Korea. His previous roles include senior marketing positions at F5 China, NDS Technologies, Microsoft China, and Shenzhen KSTAR Science & Technology.
His profile lists several recognitions, including the 2025 APCJ Marketing Oscars LeadF5 Champion of the Year, the 2024 Power List of 50 influential marketers in Asia Pacific by Campaign Asia, and Marketing Excellence Person of the Year by Business Partner in 2021. Notably, his earlier work includes marketing programs connected to measurable revenue outcomes, including helping China teams achieve sales revenue targets and generating qualified leads. For B2B marketers, Jack’s profile shows how disciplined GTM can connect marketing activity to commercial impact.
Nicholas Braman
Marketing Director APJ, Kyriba
Nicholas Braman leads B2B marketing across Asia Pacific and Japan at Kyriba, the treasury and finance technology company, where he runs regional marketing to drive demand and growth. His results there include more than doubling marketing-sourced bookings and pipeline over his first two years.
His work sits at the intersection of B2B marketing and applied AI. He builds agentic AI into marketing operations, including an ABM agent that reads intent signals across the stack to surface the accounts worth pursuing. His view is that AI does not replace the marketer; it sharpens the signal they work from.
He also hosts Before We Get There, a long-form interview podcast with founders, creatives, and performers building things across Asia, and speaks at industry events on how AI is reshaping marketing and go-to-market work.
The Minds Behind Asia’s Next Wave of Business Growth
Asia’s growth story is becoming more sophisticated.
The next wave will not be driven by louder campaigns alone. It will be shaped by people who understand acquisition, retention, customer behaviour, product adoption, trusted content, AI visibility, and go-to-market execution.
That is what makes these ten voices worth watching.
They show that business growth is no longer a linear funnel. It is a system. It requires marketers who can work with product teams, founders who can build trust before selling, SaaS leaders who can turn content into pipeline, and operators who can connect data to customer outcomes.
For founders, these voices offer sharper ways to reach markets. For marketers, they offer practical models to improve impact. For business leaders, they show how growth becomes stronger when marketing is treated as a strategic function, not a support role.
As Asia’s innovation economy keeps expanding, the most valuable voices will not simply explain what is changing. They will help others build smarter, more sustainable ways to grow.
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