Allan Phang

Head of Esports

AirAsia

Allan is in his sixth year with The World’s Best Low-Cost Airline, voted 11 years in a row by Skytrax. He loves engaging with people and is currently on his seventh portfolio with AirAsia – AirAsia Esports.

He was part of the working commitee that organised AirAsia’s first ever regional hackathon – AirAsia AIRVOLUTION 2017 – which was hosted in AirAsia’s global headquarters, RedQ, and saw 100 participants from across 9 countries.

Before taking a leap of faith into the world of aviation, he was a college dropout turned accidental entrepreneur in the paintball industry.

Allan has been known amongst his AirAsia peers as an “intrapreneur”; an entrepreneur within a large firm who uses entrepreneurial skills without incurring the risks associated with those activities. Intrapreneurs are employees within a company who are assigned to work on a special idea or project and are instructed to develop the project like an entrepreneur would.

He won the ‘Take Ownership Award’ by AirAsia Group People and Culture for driving esports awareness amongst fellow colleagues with the assistance from Allstars (AirAsia employees) and won Tune Group’s Best Marketing Partnership Award.

AirAsia sponsored the Mineski Dota 2 Pro Team, one of the best teams in Southeast Asia and Top 10 globally, who recently won champions in a major – the Dota 2 Asia Championships 2018 – and one of the teams that competed in the International 8 Dota 2.

AirAsia acquired a majority share in AirAsia Saiyan, a mobile esports team. AirAsia is the official airline and sponsor for Alibaba’s/Alisports WESG SEA (World Electronic Sports Games) esports tournament in Southeast Asia with a prize pool of US$5.5 Million for WESG World Finals in China. AirAsia will be supporting the AirAsia Esports Center – the first esports hub in Southeast Asia.