Top 10 Asian American Pacific Islander B2B Tech Influencers To Follow in 2025

The tech industry is evolving at a breakneck speed, particularly in areas like artificial intelligence (AI), enterprise software, and cybersecurity.

As such, staying ahead can be difficult for startup founders, product leaders, and others working in business-to-business (B2B) technology. With so many videos, blogs, and other sources of information online, knowing where to start can be time-consuming and daunting.

One of the smartest ways to stay ahead of competitors is by following the voices shaping B2B innovation.

This Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, we’re highlighting the following 10 influencers, who were chosen because of their active social media presence and their large social media followings. 

How This Influencer List Was Populated 

To create this list, we analyzed over 50 AAPI professionals across the web and social platforms, narrowing down the list to people who posted at least once or twice a week. The influencers listed below are ranked alphabetically by first name.
 

1. Aishwarya Srinivasan, Head of AI Developer Relations - Growth at Fireworks AI and Founder of Illuminate AI

LinkedIn Followers: 500k

Aishwarya Srinivasan is the head of AI developer relations and growth at Fireworks AI, where she builds AI production workloads.

She’s also the founder of Illuminate AI, a volunteer mentorship platform that connects people from the AI community. The mentorship program doesn’t just match senior individuals mentoring novices, but also peer-to-peer mentorship.

Previously, Aishwarya worked at Microsoft for Startups as a senior AI advisor, where she helped Y Combinator startups use core Microsoft/OpenAI products and build machine learning (ML) solutions.

Aishwarya is a global speaker, a LinkedIn Top Voice, and an EB1-A recipient. On LinkedIn, she writes about AI engineering, applied machine learning, fundamentals of data science, large language models (LLMs), learning roadmaps, career growth, and more. 

2. Bo Ren, Managing Director of Early Stage Startups/AI GTM, Silicon Valley Bank

LinkedIn Followers: 74k

As Managing Director of Early Stage Startups/AI GTM at Silicon Valley Bank, Bo Ren leads the bank’s AI initiatives, matching AI founders with Fortune 500 buyers, chief experience officers (CXOs), and investors.

She’s also an investor at TripleBlind, Ever, and Lounge HQ, and an Angel Network member and Gold Rush mentor. She loves championing product-driven founders building unique tools.

Bo is an experienced public speaker who wants to inspire people with her unconventional career path. She’s spoken at Canvas (Birmingham), TEDx University of Rochester, Design for Action (Chicago), and Lead the Product (Melbourne) conferences about designing products for behavioral change, interdisciplinary thinking, career paths, and more.

On social media, Bo writes about private and public markets, product management, career pathing, behavioral science, and responsible AI. Her writing has been featured in the New York Times, the Atlantic, Women 2.0, and Fast Company.

3. Darsh Thakkar, Product Manager, AI & Monetization at Microsoft

LinkedIn Followers: 6k

Darsh Thakkar is a product manager at Microsoft Teams for the AI and Monetization division. He leads AI-powered monetization user flows and experiences for Teams users to boost their productivity and increase subscription rates.

Previously, he was the co-founder of Product Buds, a community for helping budding product managers grow. Product Buds runs ongoing events and initiatives for promoting product-related opportunities, including case studies, a book club about project management, design thinking and prototyping events, and 1:1 mock interviews.

His other previous roles include being an associate product manager and technical fellow at UPS, a UX researcher and designer (HCI Thesis) at Georgia Institute of Technology, and a user experience engineer, also at UPS.

On LinkedIn, Darsh writes about his work as a product manager. He also reposts job posts from others in his industry.

4. Helen Yu, CEO of Tigon Advisory Corp.

LinkedIn Followers: 75.5k

As the founder and CEO of Tigon Advisory Corp, Helen Yu helps tech companies of all sizes increase their growth opportunities through AI, Internet of Things (IoT), cybersecurity, and customer experience. She’s worked with a wide range of enterprise clients, including IBM, AT&T, Dell Technologies, and Microsoft, as well as fintech, B2B SaaS, and martech startups. 

Building on over two decades of technology industry experience, she provides CXO-as-a-service and guidance to companies through strategic planning, digital transformation, go-to-market optimization, enterprise risk management, and influencer marketing.

Helen also works part-time as a director for Communications Engineering Company (CEC). CEC is a security service integrator with a focus on markets in healthcare, manufacturing, corporate campuses, and SLED. Additionally, she’s the co-founder of a cybersecurity startup, a closed-loop network that provides for secure and anonymized communications.

5. Ramli John, Founder of Delight Path
 

LinkedIn Followers: 21.6k

Ramli “RJ” John is the founder of Delight Path. He helps boost companies’ income by giving companies actionable roadmaps to improve their onboarding, reduce the number of steps in their welcome flow, and significantly boost their growth opportunities. 

He’s trusted by many fast-growing B2B companies, including Twilio, Zapier, Appcues, and Bynder. As such, he’s been a keynote speaker at many big-name conferences, including Hotjar’s HOTSAUCE Conference, SaaStock, SaaSiest, Traction Conference, and PLGTM Conference.

RJ is also the author of "Product-Led Onboarding," a best-selling book with reviews from Hiten Shah, Nir Eyal, Sean Ellis, and other design, growth, and marketing experts.

On LinkedIn, he posts free previews of his books and educational materials about product onboarding.

6. Rahul Pandey, Co-Founder of Taro

LinkedIn Followers: 121.5k

Rahul Pandey is the founder and CEO of Taro, a platform that provides on-demand courses for engineering leaders from the world’s leading organizations. His company focuses on skills beyond coding that are must-haves for effective engineers.

Previously, he was the co-founder of Tech Career Growth Community, where he and Alex Chiou, another Silicon Valley tech lead, provided free, end-to-end support to help people succeed in their tech careers.

Rahul was a tech lead and manager at Meta from 2017 to 2022. He helped build Meta Portal, a video calling device embedded with Amazon Alexa.

Rahul also built the first shopping experience on the Pinterest app's Android version. 

7. Shyvee Shi, Product & Community Lead, Microsoft

LinkedIn Followers: 120k

Shyvee Shi is a product and community lead at Microsoft. She builds high-leverage growth engines that encourage adoption and change perception. This includes the Microsoft AI Community Learning Program, which attracted over 10,000 interested leads and over 1,500 members through play, storytelling, and co-creation in under four months.

Shyvee is also a LinkedIn learning instructor, creating content to help members and learners boost their skills in product management. 

Additionally, she’s a leadership coach, workshop facilitator, public speaker, and live show host at PeakPioneer LLC. Over the years, she’s influenced digital strategies at organizations like Toyota, Disney, VMware, and other Fortune 1000 companies.

Throughout her career, Shyvee has engaged over 100,000 followers and accrued 40 million views. Her PM Learning Series has featured industry thought leaders, including Silicon Valley startup cofounders and CPOs. 

8. Theodora Lau, Founder of Unconventional Ventures
 

LinkedIn Followers: 26.8k

Theodora Lau is the founder of Unconventional Ventures, which provides boutique consulting services to boost systemic financial wellness. The company connects funders to founders, provides mentorship to entrepreneurs, advisory services to corporates, and increases opportunities for diversity in the ecosystem.

Theodora is also a podcaster at One Vision Podcast, which highlights fintech innovation by speaking to startup founders, industry players, investors, thought leaders, and policymakers. The latest season, FinTech Fuse, is brought to you by Theodora Lau, Stephanie Foster, and Barb MacLean.

Like many other influencers on this list, Theodora is an author. Her eBook, "Banking on (Artificial) Intelligence: Navigating the Realities of AI in Financial Services," was published in February 2025. She’s also written over 90 publications, including “AI: Proceed with Caution” for The Banker and “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” for Fintech Power 50.

9. Varun Mohan, Co-Founder & CEO of Windsurf
 

LinkedIn Followers: 7.8k

Varun Mohan is the co-founder and CEO of Windsurf, a software development company that created the first agentic integrated development environment (IDE). 

This IDE is powered by AI that tackles complex tasks independently like an agent and collaborates with human coders like a copilot. It’s completely in sync with the coding team every step of the way.

Previously, he was the tech lead manager at Nuro's Autonomy Infrastructure division. Nuro seeks to improve everyday life through robotics, and it has fully autonomous vehicles on the road today in Texas and California.

On LinkedIn, Varun posts about his software engineering process and Windsurf’s products and services.

10. Wes Kao, Executive Coach, Advisor, and Instructor at weskao.com
 

LinkedIn followers: 112k

Wes Kao is an executive coach, advisor, and instructor at weskao.com. She works with tech leaders on various tasks, including strengthening their executive presence and communication and delegating effectively.

Additionally, Wes writes to an audience of over 300,000 tech operators across LinkedIn, Substack, and Twitter. She also leads a two-day intensive course called “Executive Communication and Influence for Senior Individual Contributors and Managers.” Students have included operators from Amazon, Workday, Uber, Grammarly, Pinterest, Expedia, Spotify, Atlassian, PayPal, Stripe, and more.

Previously, Wes co-founded Maven, a platform for live, cohort-based courses. She built, launched, taught, and marketed courses that over 300,000 students enrolled in. Clients have included Build a Second Brain, Outlier, Section (Professor Scott Galloway), Morning Brew, and more.

The Top 10 AAPI B2B Tech Influencers 

Staying competitive in the B2B tech space means learning from thought leaders and others driving innovation. These AAPI influencers provide practical insights for founders, tech leaders, product teams, and other team members. They discuss various topics in the B2B tech industry, including cybersecurity, product onboarding, and enterprise growth strategies.

However, watching these influencers’ content is only the first step. To turn inspiration into execution quickly and effectively, consider using Clutch’s development directory to hire a reliable software development company. Our top-rated software developers are skilled in a wide range of technologies and ready to bring your ideas to life.

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