How technology and automation are transforming real estate investments

14 Sep 2021 @ Web Access

This webinar session is successfully held on 14 September 2021.

To any observer of the Real Estate investment landscape, it is clear that the Real Estate investment management industry is on the cusp of a dramatic cultural shift. Real estate managers are now being propelled into a new technological era, where there will be no turning back, and they are already starting to see some of the benefits to their portfolios from centralising portfolio data and obtaining real-time insights. In an uncertain world, this will become all the more important as RE managers seek to identify potential risks and opportunities and to harness the power of data to reveal new components of value.

However, Real Estate managers are seeing a number of challenges in tech adoption. In this webinar Ms Su Lin Wee of PGIM, Mr Collin Lau of BEI Group joined Mr Hugh Stacey and Mr Neil Synnott of IQ-EQ explored the key implications of technology for Real Estate fund managers and the challenges that they are facing along this transformational journey. 

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Date

14 September 2021

Time

16:00 -17:00 (HK time, UTC +8)

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Speakers

Su Lin Wee
Executive Director, Head of Asset Management (SEA)
PGIM Real Estate

Su Lin Wee is an Executive Director and Head of Asset Management for Southeast Asia at PGIM Real Estate, overseeing assets across Singapore, Malaysia and China.

Su Lin has almost 20 years of real estate experience, focusing primarily on the asset management and development of retail assets and mixed-use projects. She started her career in Singapore’s Urban Redevelopment Authority where she was responsible for planning the award-winning Bras Basah District in central Singapore and the national Sports Hub project.

This was followed by development and asset management experience with real estate developers Lend Lease and CapitaLand, where she was responsible for large scale retail and mixed-use portfolios.

She was the project director responsible for CapitaLand’s S$1.6 billion Westgate Mall and office integrated development. Su Lin was also the head of CapitaLand’s Corporate Development and Group Planning Division, which drove innovation culture across the group, with the objective of evolving the business model and adopting new technologies disrupting real estate.

Su Lin was most recently in global consultancy firm Surbana Jurong, where she led the joint opportunities team to secure key master planning and infrastructure projects in Southeast Asia, India and Australia.

Su Lin holds a master’s degree in architecture from the National University of Singapore.

Collin Lau
Founder
BEI Group

Collin Lau is the founder of BEI Group, which is an Asian-based global real estate and alternative investment and operating company. BEI has set up two operating platforms, in creative stay-work-play, and healthcare. BEI has created BEI Community, a revolutionary concept of urban mixed use in both Beijing and San Francisco. BEI is a founding shareholder and investor of Virtus Medical Group (www.virtusmedical.com).

Collin was previously a managing director, head of global real estate and head of European private equity at China Investment Corporation. Collin had over 32 years of corporate, financial and investment management experience. Before CIC, he had been a managing director at Starr International, where he was responsible for its private equity and real estate investments in Asia Pacific. Before Starr, Collin was a managing director at Baring Private Equity Asia. Prior to that, he held a number of managing positions in several leading conglomerates in Hong Kong.

Collin holds a Master of Laws degree with distinction in Corporate and Financial Law from the University of Hong Kong. He was voted as the Asia Industry Figure of the Year 2010 by PERE, one of the top 50 industry figures by Estate Gazette UK in 2010 and ranked 25th of the top 100 most influential global industry figures by PERE for the last decade (2005-2015) in 2015.

Hugh Stacey
Executive Director - Investor Solutions
IQ-EQ

Hugh Stacey joined IQ-EQ as the Executive Director of IQ-EQ Investor Solutions, which is a division dedicated to servicing institutional and private investors providing back office services coupled with an end to end portfolio monitoring solution powered by IQ-EQ Cosmos, our cutting edge technology platform. IQ-EQ Investor Solutions aims to meet the needs of investment managers and their investors, delivering real time data reporting and data analysis on their investment portfolio. 

Having served five years in the British Army leaving as Captain in 2007, Hugh spent seven years at IQ-EQ initially based in the London offices. Here he assisted in building the Sales team for EMEA. Hugh then moved to Singapore as Managing Director of Asia where he built the firm’s operations in the region.

Back in 2013, Hugh joined an alternative investment manager based in Singapore, Vulpes Investment Management, as Managing Director. During his time, he was responsible for all commercial activities as well as product development and corporate strategy. He graduated from the University of Leeds.

Neil Synnott
Client Director
IQ-EQ Luxembourg

Neil acts as the global relationship manager to a dedicated portfolio of Private Equity and Real Estate clients. 

Neil has over 19 years of international experience working in financial services, spanning Ireland, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, and Asia.  During this period Neil gained a wealth of experience dealing with a wide variety of Fund clients and asset classes including Private Equity, Real Estate, Venture Capital, and Infrastructure. He brings invaluable experience dealing with start-ups under EUR 5 million as well as large Funds with over billions in commitment across multiple jurisdictions. He has experience partnering with numerous Fund Managers to provide seamless and effective backend solutions from a Fund Administration perspective. 

Neil is a Chartered Accountant and a native English speaker. He is also an active member of various INREV committees.