This week Asia’s community of real estate professionals includes an executive director a listed developer leaving the company board after just 10 days on the job, plus the RICS finding new leadership for the region. Also we find project managers putting up a theme park in the Big Smoke, and many more familiar faces in new places. If you just keep reading.
Yanlord Land has replaced executive director Hong Zhi Hua with Zhong Ming, son of the Singapore-listed developer’s chairman and founder, according to a statement by the company this month. Hong, had been appointed to the board on September 20th of this year, only to resign on the 30th of the same month. In its statement, the Yanlord board said that it was satisfied that the 29-year-old Zhong “possesses the requisite competencies to assume the responsibilities as an Executive Director of the Company.”
Edith Chan has taken over as East Asia Managing Director with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, based in Hong Kong. Chan takes on the executive leadership role with the industry organisation after previously serving as the chief executive of the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute. The new RICS regional head also previously served as Executive Director at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center, and has held senior management roles at ABN AMRO and Invesco.
Qiao Yu has signed on with Pamfleet in Shanghai, becoming the Hong Kong-based real estate investment specialist’s first full-time team member on the mainland. Pamfleet, which announced its first investment north of Hong Kong earlier this month, hired Yu away from US developer Tishman Speyer, where the Chengdu native had been working as an investment analyst. The graduate of Aston University and the University of Reading in the UK also has experience working for JLL and UBS.
William Yip is now General Manager for Property Development with Zung Fu Company, Ltd, based in Hong Kong. Yip takes on his new role with the auto distribution subsidiary of Jardine Matheson after previously serving as General Manager for Contracts and Quantity Surveying with Zung Fu for more than three years. Prior to joining the distributor of Mercedes Benz and Smart cars, Yip had spent more than four years with Treasury China Trust (now Forterra Trust).
Xiaonan Wang has joined Universal Orlando Resort as a project manager, based in Beijing. Universal signed an agreement last year to bring a Hollywood-themed entertainment destination to smoggy, chilly Beijing by 2019, and Wang will be part of the team charged with making that happen. The twenty-year industry veteran comes to Universal Orlando Resort after spending more than two years with Shanghai Disney.
Jennie Cho has been promoted to Investment and Product Specialist with M&G Real Estate in Singapore. The graduate of Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Arts and Planning takes her step up at the real estate investment manager after serving with M&G as an Asset Management Analyst for just one year. Cho started with M&G as an intern before joining the team permanently in April of 2015.
As usual, if you know of other China real estate professionals changing their jobs, getting promoted or just doing something exciting, please feel free to share with the rest of the community here at Mingtiandi.
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