Hari V. Krishnan

Hari V. Krishnan is a technologist and entrepreneur. Over twenty-five years, he has built and scaled businesses across Asia’s most dynamic industries. Today, he is co-founder and CEO of Genie Health — an AI-powered healthtech startup personalising health journeys through generative AI. It is his latest bet on technology that turns complexity into simplicity.

Krishnan is perhaps best known, though, for PropertyGuru. Over a decade as CEO,  he took the company from startup to Southeast Asia’s leading property technology platform. Along the way, he led a successful NYSE IPO and a subsequent acquisition by private equity major EQT. The result was a 9x growth in scale, a peak valuation of over $1.5 billion, and returns delivered to every shareholder.

Before that, his tech story started with a single hire. Krishnan was LinkedIn‘s first employee in Asia, eventually rising to Vice President and Managing Director across APAC and Japan. He has since held senior roles at Yahoo!, Fox Interactive Media and Cisco. Together, these experiences gave him an unusually wide lens on Asia’s digital evolution.

That breadth is reflected in his credentials too. Krishnan’s expertise spans venture, private equity and public markets — and crosses industries from real estate and recruitment to travel and health. In 2023, he was named SE Asia Entrepreneur of the Year by KPMG and TIE Singapore. He also serves on the global board of INSEAD, the engineering advisory council at the University of Colorado, and has advised the Singapore Government’s Future Economy Council.

A TEDx speaker and vocal advocate for responsible technology, Hari V. Krishnan shares what it takes to build category-defining companies in Asia and where the next wave of opportunity lies.