Kevin Hoong

Kevin Hoong

Kevin Hoong
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Part of the pioneer batch at Airbnb in Asia and held several roles over 4.5 years in a fast-growing startup environment. My work included Business Development, Marketing and most recently grew Airbnb's B2B sales and marketing operations for our key Asian markets (Japan, South Korea, India, and Singapore) from the ground-up. Experienced venture builder partnering with seed to series B start ups expand into new markets in Asia. Focus areas include go-to-market strategy planning as well as market launching operations. Former GM for Homage Malaysia, an on-demand health-tech platform for nursing and elderly care. Co-Founder of SEA's leading pet insurance business. Building amazing products and services in the insurance and reinsurance industry.

EPISODES

Cover for E1: Director of Anthola Kevin Hoong shares lessons from scaling Airbnb Asia, the "soul" of startups, venture builder model viability in Asia and more...
E1: Director of Anthola Kevin Hoong shares lessons from scaling Airbnb Asia, the "soul" of startups, venture builder model viability in Asia and more...

by  The EOA Pod

In our first episode of Entrepreneurs of Asia, Kevin Hoong, Director of Anthola talks about his experience in how he was able to get into Airbnb and eventually help scale Airbnb across Asia. He also shares his experiences and discusses his views as a Venture Partner for the venture builder Hype and his mentorship experiences with 500 startups and the Singapore Tourism Accelerators. Lastly he discusses his decision to leave the tech world and move back to traditional businesses to help drive innovation in the insurance industry.

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