This week a Singapore-listed developer names a new CFO just a few months after its chairman decides that staying home from work to help the PSB with an investigation is suddenly his top priority. Also, a boutique asset management shop brings over a new team member experienced in cross-border deals, and a California design firm names a new Shanghai GM. Read on for all these bits and more.
Henry Tse Kwok Hing has been appointed as chief financial officer and company secretary for Singapore-listed developer China Yuanbang Property Holdings, according to a statement by the company to the Singapore stock exchange. Tse, age 32, was appointed to the top level finance role by non-executive chairman Lin Yeju less than four months after China Yuanbang revealed that its executive chairman Chen Jianfeng had been put under home confinement in Shenzhen “to assist authorities in an investigation.” Chong Ching Hoi, age 34, resigned as the company’s CFO on March 1st of this year, to pursue new career opportunities, according to a statement from China Yuanbang.
Allen (Nanlin) Li has joined the real estate investment team at CDH Investments in Beijing. Li comes to the China-based asset management firm from Grand China Overseas Investment Management, where he had spent nearly two and a half years managing cross-border transactions between mainland China and the US. Li, who holds a master’s degree in real estate from Columbia University, also has previous experience at Massey Knakal and Arcturus in New York.
Andrew Lin has been promoted to Senior Director as he continues his role as head of Capital Markets at CBRE Taiwan. Lin takes on his new title just one year after being promoted to Director with the real estate consultancy, and will continue to lead the company’s efforts at assisting clients in the Taiwan market with investment advisory, asset allocation, and transaction management. Before joining CBRE, the 15-year real estate investment industry veteran had served with CBRE Global Investors, Lone Star, and JP Morgan.
Todd Pilgreen has joined P+R Architects in Shanghai as general manager. Pilgreen signed up with the California-based design firm after previously serving as president of tpod Studio in Shanghai, an international affiliate of mainland engineering and design firm CCI Architecture Design & Consulting for more than three years. The UCLA graduate, who also previously worked with Jerde in China, will now be responsible for leading P+R’s Shanghai office, and for building the company’s business in Asia.
Edith Ho has joined Henderson Land in Hong Kong as an Assistant Property Development Manager with the listed developer. Ho takes on her new role with Henderson after spending just over two years with family run developer Hip Shing Hong Holdings as a property surveyor. A graduate of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Ho also has previous experience with the Urban Renewal Authority in Hong Kong, as well as having spent more than three year’s with the SAR’s Lands Department as an Estate Assistant.
Clinton Tong has been promoted to Assistant Manager with the Institutional Investment Properties team at CBRE in Hong Kong. Tong’s latest step up at the property consultancy comes just four months after being appointed to the position of Negotiator with the same team. The University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne educated real estate advisor previously spent nearly three years with CBRE’s office services team in the city as an analyst, before joining the Institutional Investment Properties division.
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