Wesley Chan is a trainer, speaker, and coach who formerly competed as a national Taekwondo athlete. Despite his Chemical Engineering background, he transitioned into sales and discovered his calling in training and coaching others, engaging over 150,000 people across Asia through his programmes.

His coaching methodology centres on four pillars: building trust through positive relationships, establishing credibility, delivering compelling presentations, and achieving win-win negotiations. He emphasises helping professionals sell their ideas better without being rigid, focusing on application-driven outcomes.

His client portfolio spans luxury hospitality (St. Regis Langkawi, Westin, Banyan Tree, Pavilion Hotel), telecommunications, automotive, financial services, and technology, and he appears regularly as a guest speaker on Malaysian radio and television.

Azvil Aziz is a hospitality marketing professional with over two decades of combined experience in hospitality leadership. He currently directs hospitality management and development initiatives for a Malaysian-based brand.

His career encompasses diverse roles including General Manager at a Bangkok property, Vice President of Marketing and E-Commerce overseeing a portfolio of seven Malaysian hotels, and various positions in sales, marketing, and revenue management across both urban and resort properties.

Kingston Khoo brings over two decades of hospitality expertise to his current role at Mutiara Taman Negara, an ecotourism resort situated within Asia’s largest national park. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Technology Management from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and maintains a licence as a tourist guide in Malaysia.

Prior to his current position, Khoo spent more than a decade as a product manager with a leading Malaysian destination management company, where he developed deep knowledge of experiential traveller preferences. His professional focus centres on knowing and understanding the needs and wants of the discerning experiential traveller.

A dedicated advocate for ecotourism’s role in conservation, Khoo demonstrates a commitment to Malaysia’s natural heritage preservation. His expertise extends to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals framework and its application to tourism, positioning him to advance responsible and sustainable tourism practices throughout the region.

Maanoj Nair is a Sales and Marketing leader with over a decade of progressive experience in hotel commercial strategy, revenue management, and destination marketing across Malaysia’s most prominent internationally branded properties.

His career spans a strong mix of city hotel and resort environments  from Sunway Hotel and Convention Centre and Hotel Istana Kuala Lumpur through to Berjaya Hotels & Resorts, Renaissance Kuala Lumpur, and senior cluster roles across St Regis Langkawi, The Westin Langkawi, and Langkawi International Convention Centre. Most recently, he served as Multi-Property Director of Sales and Marketing for Perhentian Marriott Resort & Spa and Fairfield by Marriott Kuala Besut, where he successfully led the pre-opening of two properties totalling 315 keys. He is currently part of the commercial leadership team at Hilton Burau Bay Resort.

Maanoj is particularly recognised for his ability to build commercial teams from scratch, position resort destinations in competitive markets, and develop innovative marketing strategies that drive both brand awareness and revenue performance across domestic and international markets.

As an Industry Advisor with Asianhotelier.Org, he brings a commercially sharp, regionally informed perspective on hotel sales, marketing, and destination strategy — practical insights that are directly relevant to hospitality professionals looking to build careers in commercial and revenue-driving roles across Asia.

David Arul Pragasam is a seasoned sales and marketing leader with over two decades of progressive commercial leadership across luxury and upscale resorts and hotels in Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei, Indonesia, and the Maldives. His career reflects deep expertise in driving revenue performance, with a consistent record of strong RGI results, market share gains against competitive sets, and budgeted revenue achievement across multi-property portfolios.

David’s experience spans both established resort operations and high-stakes pre-opening assignments, having played key leadership roles in launching and re-launching several properties across the region.

His career also reflects a strong mentoring orientation, having developed members of his own teams into director-level roles within their organisations. David’s breadth of commercial leadership, from city hotels to luxury island resorts, and his sustained focus on coaching and capability building, reflect the kind of industry-grown expertise that strengthens commercial standards across the region.

His insights support Asianhotelier.Org’s mission of developing the next generation of hospitality professionals across Asia.