Bill Barnett
Managing Director
C9 Hotelworks

Bill Barnett is the Founder and Managing Director of C9 Hotelworks. C9 is a leading hospitality, tourism and property advisory firm in Asia Pacific who work directly with developers, investors, financial institutions and hotel operators. Their core business focus includes feasibility studies, asset management, operator selection and transactional due diligence. They are considered to be experts in hotel branded residences, blending experience from both a hospitality and real estate perspective. Bill has over 28 years of Asian experience across all of the regions markets and is well known as a columnist, industry speaker and for insightful market intelligence reports.

Destry Damayanti
Chief Economist
PT Bank Mandiri Tbk

Born in 1963. Graduated From University of Indonesia in Depok, with a Bachelor Degree,Economics and Received an Master of Science from Field of Regional Science Cornell University, New York, U.S.A

Destry Damayanti is the Chief Economist at Bank Mandiri since May 2011. Prior join with Bank Mandiri, she spent around 5 years (2006 - 2011) as a Chief Economist in Mandiri Sekuritas, the subsidiary of Bank Mandiri which focuses on the capital market transaction. She started her carrier working as a lecturer and researcher in the Faculty Economic of University of Indonesia (FEUI) right after she was graduated her Bachelor degree in FEUI. After pursuing her master degree at Cornell University (1991-1992) she joint the Ministry of Finance and in charge for the Fiscal and Monetary Analysis (1992 - 1997). Her carrier in the financial sector was started in City Bank as an Economist (1997 - 2000), followed by a Senior Economist for the British Embassy in Indonesia (2000 - 2003). As a Chief Economist in Bank Mandiri she covered 4 areas i.e. Macro Economic, Financial Market, Industry analysis and Regional analysis.

In 1992 - 1997, she assumed responsibility in Agency for Financial and Monetary Analysis (BAKM), Ministry of Finance, before worked in Banking She joint the Researcher at Inter University Center for Economics, Faculty Economic, Researcher at The Institute for Management Universitas of Indonesia (FEUI), and Assistant Research at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) in January - August 1989.

Thong Mun Wai
Head - Real Estate & Construction Ratings
RAM Rating Services Berhad

Mun Wai has been the Head of RAM Ratings' Real Estate and Construction Ratings Department since May 2012. Prior to this appointment, he had been a senior manager in the Consumer & Industrial Ratings Department, covering the oil & gas, shipping, gaming, manufacturing and consumer-product sectors. Apart from Malaysian corporates, he had been involved in the credit ratings of companies domiciled in South Korea, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka. Mun Wai had also been actively involved in RAM Ratings' Technical Committee and annual default studies. From October 2010 to December 2011, Mun Wai served as the chief rating officer of RAM Ratings (Lanka) Limited. He has been a member of its rating committee since March 2011. Mun Wai joined RAM Ratings in 2004, starting out as a research associate with the Infrastructure and Utilities Ratings Department. Before that, he had worked as an auditor with a big-four accounting firm. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Accounting and Finance, from the University of Western Australia.

Patrick Liau
Director
BlackRock

Based in BlackRock's Kuala Lumpur office, Patrick Liau is responsible for the management of BlackRock's Malaysian real estate operations as well as oversees the real estate asset and real estate investment management activities in Malaysia. As part of his role, Patrick manages The Intermark, a mixed used development with 2 office towers, a retail podium and a hotel on behalf of BlackRock Asia Property Fund II. Patrick has over a decade's experience in finance and investment in the property and construction sector. Prior to joining BlackRock, Patrick was part of the senior management team of an offshore oil and gas construction company and before that, the Group Financial Controller of a Malaysian public listed company involved in development of townships and mixed-use development projects in Malaysia. He has a BA in Accounting and Finance, is a Fellow member of the Association of Certified Chartered Accounts, a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and a Chartered Financial Analyst.

David Ee
Managing Director - Asia CRE Investments, Manulife Real Estate
Manulife Financial

David is Managing Director, Asia Corporate Real Estate Investments, with Manulife Financial Real Estate Division and is currently located in Hong Kong. David is a real estate professional with extensive experience in real estate investment analysis, acquisitions, dispositions, property and asset management. As Managing Director, David works with the investment team in Toronto, but relocated to Hong Kong to concentrate on corporate real estate investment activities in Asia. Prior to joining Manulife in Canada, David also worked with The Urban Redevelopment Authority (Singapore) and with Colliers International Property Management (Singapore). He holds a Masters of Urban Planning degree from (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) and a Land Administration degree from University of East London, United Kingdom.

Sigrid Zialcita
Managing Director - Research, Asia Pacific
Cushman & Wakefield

Sigrid is responsible for establishing and leading a regional research group that tracks, reports and provides thought leadership across 15 countries in Asia Pacific. Based in Singapore, she is a frequent speaker at industry events, and her commentary on commercial and residential real estate markets has been featured in a wide array of global publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, New York Times and Reuters.

Sigrid has been with Cushman & Wakefield since May 2003 and prior to her move to Singapore, she was based in Washington, D.C. and led Cushman & Wakefield's U.S. research group in the Mid-Atlantic region, overseeing all aspects of market research activities in the Washington, DC; Virginia; Suburban Maryland, Baltimore; and Philadelphia areas. In addition, she oversaw the forecast of over 90 CBD and suburban markets that Cushman & Wakefield tracks in the U.S. Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Sigrid served as a Senior Economist for the National Association of Realtors (NAR). In that position, she developed NAR's office, warehouse, retail, multi-family housing, and international research programs. Preceding NAR, she was a Research Associate for PricewaterhouseCoopers' Financial Advisory Services Group in New York City.

Dr Daniele Gambero
CEO
REI Group of Companies

Dr. Daniele Gambero, an expatriate to Malaysia from Italy since 2000, is the CEO and co-founder of strategic marketing consultancy firm REI Group of Companies.

Dr. Daniel Gambero has provided strategic marketing consultancies, investment studies, researches, property market reports and business valuation all around the world. Since 2007, through REI Group of Companies he has made his skills available for Malaysian developers consulting several of them on design, concept, strategic marketing and pricing, advertising and marketing and sale procedures for their residential, commercial and industrial project in Malaysia.

Since 2011 Daniel has started giving public talks on Convergences and Differences of Global and Malaysian Economies, The Malaysian and Over-sea Property Markets and their Current Trends and Outlook.

Through his ability in structuring local and global macro / micro economic indicators to look into the Malaysian Property Market, he centres his speeches on rightness of property investment based on current and future market values, location, upcoming infrastructures and their impact on the market trend. Lately he has also presented the 'New areas for smart investors' and 'Affordable homes, the future challenge'.
His seminars are always crowded by an interested public and driven by his ability to keep the attendees attention and focus to the highest level.

His academic background includes: MBA from L. Bocconi University in Milan-Italy (Marketing) ; a Masters in Communication from University of Michigan Ann Arbour MI - USA as well as a Phd in Marketing Strategies and Communication from L. Bocconi University and University of Michigan.

Steve Atherton
Director - Investment and Development Services
Colliers Indonesia

Originally from Los Angeles, but now living and working in Asia for nearly 20 years, Steve's background includes Office Landlord Representation & Tenant Representation, Office & Residential Development, Management over Asia Pacific region for a major global real estate company where he also served as functional head over Investment Services & Capital Markets for the last 10 years.

Steve assists landowners, developers and investors with financial, development and executions strategies related to acquisitions, dispositions, joint venture and BOT of commercial, residential and mixed-use properties.

Major professional accomplishments include successful brokerage career in his 20s, successful transition from brokerage to real estate development in his 30s, responsibility over entire Asia region for major global brand in his 40s and new position in Indonesia focusing on investment services & capital markets in his 50s.

Michael D. Broomell
Managing Director
Colliers International Indonesia

Michael Broomell is the Managing Director of Colliers International Indonesia, the largest international property consultancy in Indonesia. Mike relocated to Jakarta in 1992 to found and manage a new Indonesian property consultancy. The employees and business of that firm were combined with those of Colliers in 2004 when Mike assumed the management of Colliers' Indonesian operations.

Mike obtained his BBA from Southern Methodist University in 1977. In 1979, he earned an MBA from the University of Texas in Austin and joined Republic Bank Dallas where he was promoted to the position of Vice President in the Real Estate Banking Group. From 1984 through 1992, Mike worked in various capacities for Trammell Crow Interests.

Rick Santos
Chairman, Founder, and Managing Partner
CB Richard Ellis Philippines

Rick Santos is the Chairman, Founder, and Managing Partner of CB Richard Ellis Philippines. Mr. Santos set up the CB Richard Ellis operation in the Philippines-playing a major role in establishing the company as the leading real estate advisory firm in the country. (The CB Richard Ellis Group is the largest US listed Global Real Estate Services Corporation and a member of the Fortune 500.)

In addition to driving the company-s business lines forward, Rick also takes charge of the cross-border investment team focusing on the in-bound and out-bound movement of Institutional and Private Investment Capital. Mr. Santos and his team were the pioneers in the real estate/BPO industry and were also responsible for bringing many of the largest institutional and private real estate investors into the Philippines.

Previously, Mr. Santos served as the Managing Director of CB Richard Ellis Hong Kong and as the Head of Institutional Investment Properties for Asia. He has been involved with the Hong Kong, China and Pan Asia business as a former Asian and Asia Pacific Board Member and has served as the link partner to the emerging market countries of India, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam. Mr. Santos joined CB Richard Ellis in 1994 and is a graduate of UC Berkeley, the London School of Economics and Oxford University.

Veena Loh
General Manager
Malaysia Property Incorporated (MPI)

Veena Loh is currently the General Manager of Malaysia Property Incorporated. She has both public and private sector experience, working as a Senior Analyst in stockbroking firms, an economics consultant to the National Economic Action Council, now merged with the Economic Planning Unit and as a Senior Fellow at Institute of Strategic and International Studies. MPI is a public-private initiative set up by the EPU to promote and facilitate foreign investment in Malaysian real estate. MPI raises Malaysia's profile internationally by constantly updating foreign investors on Malaysian real estate information and organising events overseas to brand Malaysian real estate.
She has presented in many international forums at Network of East Asian Think-Tanks, ASEAN+China forums, MPIM (HK), 2nd Annual Hospital Revenue Management in Bangkok and locally at Wealth Mastery and at the recent Shopping Malls & Retail Destination event with Marcus Evans.
Veena has a B Sc (Hons) Economics & Business Economics from the University of Southampton and an MBA from Charles Stuart University.

Raj Kannan
Founder & Managing Director
TUSK Advisory

Raj Kannan is the founder and managing director of Tusk Advisory, a leading strategic and corporate advisory firm focused on infrastructure with a significant presence in Indonesia. He has over 20 years hands-on experience in developing and managing over USD 13 billion worth of transactions in economic, social and environmental infrastructure projects, including PPP projects. Prior to establishing Tusk, Raj was a principal of an Australian infrastructure transactions management firm and previous to that he was the executive director of a Malaysian infrastructure and property development conglomerate listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange. Raj is currently the lead adviser to the Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs in Indonesia for the rollout of the 15-Year economic master plan called MP3EI. This USD 400 billion program includes USD 180 billion of infrastructure projects. Raj is a chartered engineer and an alumnus of the Australian Graduate School of Management in Sydney and has also completed the infrastructure executive program at Harvard University.

Eddy Leks
Managing Partner
Leks & Co

Mr. Eddy Leks is the founder and managing partner of Leks & Co, a multi-services Indonesian law firm, full of young, dynamic, creative and intelligent lawyers, operating at a definite quality management system, rendering preeminent and world-class legal services under a specified quality code and core values.
With a legal career in mind, he started his experience in the practice areas of general corporate-commercial and general litigation. Afterwards, he joined Hadiputranto, Hadinoto & Partners (HHP), an affiliated law office of Baker & McKenzie. Consequently, he joined PT Lippo Karawaci Tbk, one of the largest real estate development and investment companies in Indonesia, as its youngest legal manager.
Mr. Leks specializes in real estate law. He has authored several articles concerning law in Indonesia. His stature in the real estate has been recognized repeatedly in many prominent publications locally and internationally, such as Forbes Indonesia, Property&Bank, Kontan, LAWASIA Journal, the International Bar Association Real Estate Newsletter, and Jurnal Hukum Bisnis. Further, he is also an author of international reviews such as Indonesian chapter in Real Estate Law Review and Getting the Deal Through, published by Law Business Research, and Advertising Law in Indonesia, published by World Trade Press in the AtoZ World Business. He is a keen speaker, trainer and has been invited to many law seminars and workshops.
Mr. Leks and his firm Leks & Co are recommended by the Legal 500, Asialaw Profiles, and Chambers and Partners in the field of real estate in Indonesia. Further, he and his firm are also recommended by IFLR1000 on the mergers and acquisition.
Eddy Leks graduated from Universitas Atmajaya, Indonesia (Cum-laude predicate). He earned his Master of Law degree from Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia, majoring in Business Law. Currently, he is Master of Law (Lex Legibus Master) candidate from University of London, United Kingdom, majoring in International Dispute Resolution.

Virginia B Viray
Partner
PJS Law

Virginia Viray heads PJS Law's Tax group and its Real Estate practice. She is a member of the Philippine Bar, and is also a Certified Public Accountant and a licensed Real Estate Broker. She began her career as a Revenue Officer of the Philippine Bureau of Internal Revenue, and served as Legislative Assistant to the Secretary of Finance, and as professor of Taxation Law at the Far Eastern University Institute of Law.
She is experienced in tax structuring for local and foreign investments, including advising on incentives under special laws. She serves as tax counsel of companies across various industries. She has likewise acted as lead counsel in significant local and cross-border real estate deals and M&A transactions, and has advised several investment banks and hedge funds in their acquisition of distressed assets from Philippine financial institutions. She was listed in Asialaw Leading Lawyer 2013 as among the leading lawyers in the Philippines in Taxation and General Corporate Practice.
In the years 2012 and 2013 she has, among others, acted as lead legal counsel to one of Philippines' largest real estate companies in the negotiation with an international company for the development and operation of mixed use residential, commercial and hotel and casino complex valued at US$2B; served as counsel to an international REIT in the structuring of investment involving the acquisition of land for the purpose of establishing and operating serviced apartments; and acts as counsel in the development of new urban centers by a leading Philippines real estate company.