Mainland China’s finest developers will be honoured, together with the best in Asia, at the exclusive gala dinner of the PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards Grand Final to celebrate the best of the best in the Asian real estate sector in the past year. Presented by global brand Kohler, the 2019 PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards are the most respected and most sought-after real estate industry honours. The culminating event is part of the regional PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards programme established in 2005. With a professionally run judging system supervised by BDO, one of the world’s largest auditing and accountancy firms, the Asia Property Awards is the gold standard in real estate.
Paul Tse has been active in property development and hotel investment in Asia and North America, sitting on the board of Keck Seng Investments (HK) Ltd, Sheraton Saigon Hotel, Caravelle Hotel in HoChiMinh City, Holiday Inn Wuhan Riverside, W Hotel San Francisco, Sofitel New York, and Golden Crown Development Ltd in Macau, where he was appointed by the SAR Government to serve as member on the Economic Council, Town Planning Council, Urban Renewal Council, as well as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Macau Electric Company. A member of the Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Committee of Yunnan Province, Mr. Tse is the current Chairman of The American Chamber of Commerce in Macau, and President of the Macau Association of Building Contractors and Developers.
Yu Kam Hung
Past President, The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors
A Chartered General Practice Surveyor, Kam-hung has more than 30 years of experience in Asian real estate and capital markets, particularly in Hong Kong and the People’s Republic of China. He leads different services teams of professionals engaged in a variety of real estate activities including, but not limited to, serving clients’ acquisition and disposition needs to meet their investment target, development planning and public financing. Kam-Hung's also provides professional advice for high-level rent review cases, independent and litigation valuations, non-performing loan portfolio consultancy and securitisation consultancy for international financial institutions, and, in HK and the PRC, financing services for large-scaled investment/development properties, and land advisory and negotiation for developers.
Vincent Cheung
Founder/Managing Director of Vincorn Consulting and Appraisal Limited
Vincent Cheung was appointed as an independent non-executive Director in 2018 and is the chairman of the Nomination Committee as well as a member of the Remuneration Committee and Audit Committee of the company. Mr. Cheung has over 24 years of experience in the real estate industry and assets valuation and advisory sector. Mr. Cheung is currently the managing director of Vincorn Consulting and Appraisal Limited, where he is responsible for the corporate valuation and advisory services across Asia. Prior to this, Vincent was part of Colliers International (Hong Kong) Limited, a global real estate firm, and last served as the deputy managing director of valuation and advisory services division in Asia where he was responsible for providing valuation and corporate advisory services across Asia.
Gregory Ku
Head of Logistics and Industrial
Jones Lang LaSalle Limited Hong Kong
Gregory joined Jones Lang LaSalle's Industrial department in 1996 and assumed the Department Head post in 2002. Over the years, he has been involved in a wide range of transaction and consultancy projects for major developers as well as established industrial space investors and occupants. In 2005, Gregory relocated to Macau to lead JLL new office in the city. During his tenure as Managing Director JLL Macau, the company has grown rapidly from a small team of 3 people to currently having over 200 employees in Macau and Zhuhai, delivering a full range of real estate services to major corporate and investor clients. In his new role as Executive Consultant from Mar 2022, Gregory will continue driving business and relationships with major client accounts and will provide oversight to the Macau business. In 2022, Gregory has decided to relocate back to Hong Kong to take up this new exciting role.
Bernie Devine
Senior Regional Director Asia Pacific, Yardi Systems, Inc.
A team player with extensive track record in real estate and technology. Bernie Devine’s international experience covers asset and investment management, private equity, operations improvement, program and project management, finance, technology implementation and compliance. Devine is currently responsible for the growth of Yardi Systems business in Asia. A qualified accountant and economist, with more then 60 publications and extensive public speaking experience under his name, Australian-born Devine lives in Hong Kong and travels extensively around Asia Pacific. He is also involved in a number of charities and regular volunteer work
Jimmy Wardhana
Co-Founder and Principal of JWCC Architecture Limited.
Jimmy Wardhana is a Registered Architect with prior experience in Sydney, Australia. As a young and driven architect, Jimmy has architectural and interior design experience in a variety of building typologies, including hospitality, residence, laboratory, educational institution and commercial design. His broad experience has given him the skill set to approach any type and size of project with confidence and instigate new creative possibilities. Before co-founding JWCC Architecture, Jimmy joined the Australian, award-winning practice – BVN Architecture. He was involved in key projects including the Kinghorn Cancer Centre in Sydney and Ravenswood School in Gordon, which both have received the prestigious awards of architecture in Australia. Jimmy has won numerous awards for his design works and most notably been awarded The Chinese Design Outstanding Youth 40 under 40 for his achievement in 2018.
Sr Edmond Yew
MSc, MSGF(Stern), LLM, FHKIS, MRICS, RPS(PD), MCIArb, FHKIOD
Vice President of China Real Estate Chamber of Commerce (HK and International Chapter)
Sr Yew is a registered professional Surveyor. He is the Board Member of Surveyors Registration Board in HK. He is also a Vice Chairman of China Committee of HKGCC and was the former Chairman of Planning and Development Division of HKIS. Sr Yew is the Senior Vice President of Lai Fung Holdings Ltd. and has more than 30 years’ professional real estate investment and development practise in Greater China Region.
The 2019 PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards Grand Final gala dinner and awards presentation ceremony will be held at The Athenee Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Bangkok on Friday, 28 November 2019.
Tickets are made available on a first come, first served basis. Exclusive for finalists and event partners only.
More than 500 guests and VIPs from 15 dynamic markets around Asia-Pacific attend the Grand Final ceremony, which is a collocated event of the two-day PropertyGuru Asia Real Estate Summit, both hosted in Bangkok, Thailand.
