Genie Yuan

Genie the Vice President and General Manager for APAC, leading WSO2's business across South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia and New Zealand. His focus is helping enterprises put AI agents into production on WSO2's integration, identity, and API management platform. He is based in Singapore.

Prior joining WSO2, Genie was Vice President and Head of APAC at Couchbase, where he was responsible for the region's revenue and go-to-market, led the sales, field engineering, and customer success teams, and grew enterprise accounts in financial services and telecommunications across the region. Earlier in his career he held leadership roles at Kinetica, Deloitte Consulting, and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Genie holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business (Information Systems) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

He serves as an adjunct professor at the Lingnan MBA Center, where he teaches project-based management consulting, and writes regularly on enterprise context and agent governance.

Genie enjoys playing soccer, building his own AI infrastructure at home, where a small fleet of agents runs on a Mac Mini, and long road trips with his family, most recently two months in a campervan around New Zealand. He speaks English, Mandarin, and Cantonese.