E-commerce in Asia has grown rapidly recently. Behind the industry's outstanding businesses are Asia's e-commerce masters.
Jack Ma
Jack Ma (Ma Yun) is the executive chairman of Alibaba Group, China's largest e-commerce corporation. He is often called China's Bill Gates or China's king of e-commerce. He was also the first Chinese entrepreneur to appear on the cover of Forbes magazine.
In 1998–1999, he founded Alibaba, China’s largest B2B marketplace, which now has more than 79 million members from 240 countries. Alibaba currently comprises nine subsidiaries: Alibaba.com, Taobao Marketplace, Tmall, eTao, Alibaba Cloud Computing, Juhuasuan, 1688.com, AliExpress.com, and Alipay. In 9/2014, Alibaba Group also announced a USD 20 billion increase following its IPO.
Hiroshi Mikitani
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Rakuten, Japan’s largest e-commerce group. In 2010, Rakuten acquired the US shopping portal Buy.com for 250 million USD, along with other online retailers in Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia.
He is an executive director of Kobo (a Canadian online e-book reading community acquired by Rakuten in 2011), Rakuten Card and Rakuten Travel. He led the USD 100 million investment in Pinterest. He currently also heads development of Japan's e-commerce and banking divisions.
Đinh Anh Huân
A highly influential figure in today's mobile phone and consumer electronics retail industry, Đinh Anh Huân co-founded Thegioididong.com in 2004 and served as its sales director before moving to become CEO of Dienmay.com in 2010.
After 10 years in mobile phone retail and later electrical appliances, he continued to mentor and develop the Concung.com chain and, most recently, the startup Giaohangnhanh.vn. Although it had operated for less than 2 years, Giaohangnhanh.vn already had more than 300 employees, delivered around 4000 orders daily, and had more than 6000 customer partners.
Pawoot (Pom) Pongvitayapanu
An indispensable figure in Thailand's e-commerce sector, Pawoot founded Tarad.com, a leading Thai B2C e-commerce site. In 2009, leading Japanese group Rakuten invested 300 million yen (approximately USD 3.35 million) for a 67% stake in Tarad. He later developed Thai2hand.com (a C2C model), an e-commerce site allowing users to run online businesses at low cost.
Pawoot currently supports and provides solutions to e-commerce businesses and serves as president of Thailand’s e-commerce association.
CK Wong
An e-commerce expert from Malaysia, experienced in developing e-commerce systems for AEON (a Japanese retail group) and Rakuten Malaysia (Japan's largest e-commerce system investing in Malaysia).
CK Wong is co-founder of Ecommercemilo.com, a site providing e-commerce news and analysis for Malaysia and Southeast Asia. He also runs Silvermouseasia.com, which offers e-commerce businesses services ranging from consulting to setup, optimization, and communications.
Minh Nguyên
