Robin Kwok is the Country Manager for Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan markets at Airbnb. She is also responsible for driving business operations and strategic initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region, which is a fast-growing market and plays a strategic role for the company.

Robin joined Airbnb from Intuit, a financial-tech company, where she led sales operations and strategy initiatives for the company’s core business groups. During her time there, a major focus of her work was on Intuit’s international expansion to the Asia-Pacific & Europe markets, where she conducted research on strategic partnerships, competitors, and user growth solutions. Prior to Intuit, Robin worked at a management consulting firm (The Alexander Group) in San Francisco where she helped technology & media companies find ways to grow and scale. Early in her career, she spent much of her time managing key customer accounts in Taiwan, China, and Singapore for Applied Materials (semiconductor & solar technology), and lived in China for one year to help with the company’s expansion in 2008. Outside of Airbnb, she mentors entrepreneurs of early-to-mid stage start-ups in the areas of product development, go-to-market strategies, and organization design. She loves helping SMBs and start-ups grow.

Robin studied Electrical Engineering at Purdue University and International Business at Columbia University & UC Berkeley (MBA). Her passion for building high-performing teams and helping companies grow is what excites her about working at Airbnb and in the Asia-Pacific region. Robin is from the U.S., with a family background from Taiwan & Hong Kong, and currently lives in Singapore.

Speaker:

Robin Kwok

Country Manager, SEA, HK & TW, Airbnb, Singapore

Moderator:

Guy Parsonage

Partner, PwC Experience Centre, HK