JLL Names Eddie Ng Head of Shanghai and East China

JLL has announced that Eddie Ng, currently Managing Director of Chengdu and West China for the property consultancy, has been named its new Managing Director of Shanghai and East China.

Ng’s transfer to eastern China follows the promotion of JLL’s long-time Shanghai head to the company’s top leadership role in the region as Anthony Couse was named the Chief Executive Officer of JLL Asia Pacific last month.

“Eddie is one of the core members of JLL’s Greater China Executive Committee and a veteran who has established our leading position in West China,” KK Fung, Managing Director of JLL Greater China said in a statement.

As Ng moves to Shanghai, JLL’s Xi’an head, Chiao Sheng will take over Ng’s place in Chengdu to become the company’s new Managing Director of West China, while retaining responsibility for the Xi’an office. Shelly Xie, the current head of JLL’s retail division in Chengdu, has also been promoted, and will become the new Managing Director of Chengdu. According to a statement from JLL, all three role changes will have effect from June 1^st , the same day that Couse takes on his new responsibilities as head of the Asia Pacific region.

“I’ve known Eddie for over 20 years now,” said Couse, “and we have worked very closely in the past ten years for the firm’s strategic growth in China. Ng joined JLL in Hong Kong in 1996, where he previously worked in the same office with Couse, who also was stationed in Hong Kong during the period.

Ng moved to Chengdu in 2005 to set up the firm’s operations in western China, establishing the first JLL China office outside of the first tier cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Since that time the company’s western China operation has opened operations in Chonqqing and Xi’an and now employs 1,200 people in the region.

The company’s new western China head, Chiao Sheng, joined JLL in 2009 and was responsible for JLL’s retail business in western China before being appointed Managing Director for Xi’an in 2013.

Shelly Xie has been with JLL in Chengdu since 2006.