RateGain scales APAC and MEA commercial team fivefold to tackle hotels’ AI growth challenge | News

RateGain Travel Technologies Limited, a global leader in AI-powered SaaS solutions for travel and hospitality, today announced the consolidation of its commercial organization in Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa (APAC & MEA), where it has expanded its local teams five times in the past year and reached more than 100 professionals in the region.
This exponential growth, driven by the acquisition of Sojern, reflects the company’s strategic focus on accelerating the adoption of end-to-end AI-powered solutions among hoteliers across the market and further strengthens the APAC and MEA markets as strategic growth markets within RateGain’s global operations.
The expansion is led by Anurag Jain, Executive Vice President, APAC & MEA, who has spent the past year building what is now one of the most comprehensive commercial hospitality organizations in the region. Under his leadership, AI-powered distribution, pricing intelligence, demand generation, digital marketing, guest engagement and travel intent data have been brought together under a single connected platform and in the hands of a single regional partner for hotels.
The hotel reality this was built to solve
In APAC and MEA, hoteliers are navigating a paradox. Demand is digitizing faster than ever. Travelers search, compare and book through more channels than ever before. AI tools are everywhere. Yet commercial hotel leaders report the same frustrations: too many suppliers, too little attribution, AI adding noise instead of results, and increasing pressure to meet immediate demand without the internal resources to do so.
The company’s focus in the region is to help hotels leave the era of fragmented commercial stacks, where every problem involves a new supplier, new dashboard and new integration, and move them to one unified, AI-first growth model.
“Hotels don’t need more dashboards, more suppliers or more complexity. They need results. Our job is to make every hotel discoverable at the moment demand is created, convert that demand more effectively and grow guest value – through one connected, AI-powered ecosystem. AI shouldn’t create more noise. It should make growth easier, faster and more measurable.” said Anurag Jain, Executive Vice President, APAC & MEA, RateGain

Strong regional execution with strategic leadership appointments
Over the past twelve months, Jain has led the integration and expansion of the combined RateGain-Sojern commercial organization in the region’s highest momentum markets, including the Indian Subcontinent, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, Singapore, Japan, China, Dubai and Africa.
“Hospitality leaders in Asia, the Middle East and Africa are fundamentally rethinking the way they acquire guests, price inventory, drive direct bookings and engage travelers. Our goal is to make that transformation practical, scalable and commercially meaningful. The markets we operate in don’t reward complexity. They reward speed and results.” said Anurag Jain.
To realize this regional ambition, Jain has built a senior leadership structure with appointments in sales, entrepreneurship, account management, partnerships and marketing in APAC and MEA. Some of the recent notable appointments include:
• Camille Venturina, leading commercial expansion in Singapore and Oceania, based in Singapore
• Abhay Khanna, driving new business growth in Asia, based in India
• Ram Mohan Dubey, scaling regional sales execution and go-to-market performance in the Middle East and Africa, based in Dubai
• Sverre Christiansen, driving force behind business transformation and strategic expansion in the Middle East and Africa, based in Dubai
• Shukun Ma, driving growth and strategic partnerships in one of Asia’s most important travel markets – China, based in Beijing
• Ruka Nagai, expanding RateGain’s presence across Japan, based in Tokyo
• Erhan Bayraktar and Monis Rizwan, who are expanding RateGain’s presence across Turkey
• Sudhir Ghildiyal, leader in business growth and strategic hotel partnerships in Southeast Asia, based in India
• Anubhav Agrawal, responsible for account management for SME accounts in APAC and MEA, based in India
• Sneha Mishra, lead account management for Travel Partners accounts in APAC and MEA, based in India
• Javier Martinez, driving customer expansion, adoption and commercial results in APAC, based in Thailand
• Rakesh Joshi, customer growth and strategic account development leader in MEA, based in Dubai
• Wafei Safwat Mekhail, leading the growth of account management in Saudi Arabia
• Alfred Tadrous, leading account management growth in Egypt, based in Cairo
• Shareshtha Sachdeva, expanding ecosystem partnerships and strategic channel alliances across the region, based in India
• Garima Dubey, building regional brand leadership and demand generation in APAC and MEA, based in India
This regional leadership model enables RateGain Travel Technologies to perform with local market intimacy while scaling with global consistency, bringing together AI, data, demand, distribution and guest engagement into one connected commercial engine for the region’s hoteliers.
The momentum continues, with rapid expansion in high-growth markets in Turkey, Vietnam and Australia, while additional strategic market launches are planned in APAC and MEA.