GRI APAC Committee Light Industrial & Logistics (September Edition)

Alan is the Fund Manager for Prologis China Fund and Venture. He has over 20 years of fund management, investment and corporate finance experience with a real estate focus and is extensively involved in private fund and listed REIT operations across Asia-Pacific. Prior, he was with Ascendas-Singbridge, as head and vice president for China Funds and Investments, based in Shanghai and Hong Kong, before relocated back to Singapore in 2016 with Prologis. He has previously worked for Mapletree Logistics Trust (REIT), Alliance Investment Bank and PricewaterhouseCoopers

Mr Aloke Bhuniya is the Chief Executive Officer of the Ascendas-Firstspace platform. Aloke brings with him 17 years of experience across Real Estate Investment & Development, Private Equity and M&A Transactions across industries in India. Previously, Aloke has spent over 9 years in Everstone group, managing the various initiatives of the group in real estate, which included IndoSpace and Everstone Capital. As Managing Director of IndoSpace Capital Advisors, Aloke was responsible for investment to develop Industrial Real Estate in India. His responsibilities included identifying investment opportunities, monitoring developments, achieving financial closure and exiting projects after development and leasing.

Anshul has over 15 years of leadership experience in the infrastructure and real estate sector with a track record of establishing 5 new businesses from the ground up. He has held the CEO and Director positions for Blackstone, Warburg Pincus, and Brookfield investee companies. In 2019, Anshul founded One Industrial Spaces - an integrated fund, development, and asset management organization. His entrepreneurial venture was soon provided backing by the USD 2.7 billion Welspun Group; and post acquiring a majority stake in this business, it went on to be rebranded as Welspun One Logistics Parks.

Brian has been working in the growth markets of Asia for over two decades. He joined Actis in 2018 through the sale of Standard Chartered Bank’s Principal Finance Real Estate group, a business he founded in 2010. Under his leadership, this business invested over USD 1 billion in opportunistic real estate throughout China, Korea, India and Southeast Asia. The business was successful in forming over 20 joint venture partnerships with high quality partners throughout its markets. Before joining Standard Chartered Bank, Brian spent sixteen years at RREEF, the real estate investment management arm of Deutsche Bank, almost all of the time based in Asia. Brian started his career with Bankers Trust’s real estate banking group based in New York.

Back In the 2010s, Charlie frequently visited local and international experts of construction, real estate, finance, trade, and logistics before he decided on activating and revamping the property in Ruifang by building Taiwan's largest modern logistics park. Co-founded ALP in 2014, he's the CEO and led ALP to team up with Cathay Financial Holdings, targeting to invest USD$ 1 billion for 1 million sqm of sustainable warehouses in 10 years. Under its Logistics Republic brand, ALP has successfully demonstrated our business thesis of industry clustering and resource integration.

Danny joined Allianz Real Estate in 2019 and heads up the acquisitions team for the Asia-Pacific region and is concurrently the Head of China. Danny brings with him more than 25 years of diverse regional investment experience. Prior to joining the company, he was the CIO for North Asia at Keppel Capital / Alpha Investment Partners. During his 15 years with the company, Danny has participated and led real estate transactions across the region including Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong and China. In Allianz Real Estate, Danny has led the acquisitions team to invest more than USD 2.5 billion in real estate transactions in Japan, Australia, China, Singapore and other parts of Asia Pacific.

George is responsible for the investment and asset-management strategies outlined in the Ivanhoé Cambridge’s business and strategic plans for the APAC region.

Hamish MacDonald, Managing Director, is Head of Investments for BlackRock APAC Real Estate and oversees the real estate investment teams across the region. He is responsible for leading the origination, evaluation and execution of investments, managing business plan, advising on hold/sell and ultimate disposition. His service with the firm dates back to 2007, including his years with MGPA, which was acquired by BlackRock in 2013. He joined MGPA's London office as Head of Acquisitions - UK and in 2012, he established MGPA's Sydney office. He has over 20 years of experience in real estate, with over 10 years specialising in the sourcing of investment opportunities. He began his career in Sydney at the Mirvac Group and Colliers International.

Hank Hsu is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Forest Logistics Properties. Formerly the Head of China Investments at Ascendas-Singbridge, an industrial and logistics real estate investment platform under Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, Temasek Holdings, Hank has close to 20 years of experience in real estate investment and fund management. Prior to Ascendas-Singbridge, he served as Investment Director at China Orient Summit Capital (China) and Portman Group (US). He has completed and managed investment transactions totaling nearly USD 6.5 billion in logistics, industrial and mixed-use properties in China and the US. He holds an MBA degree from University of California, Berkeley, and a MDes (Real Estate) from Harvard University.

Jai Mirpuri has over 17 years of real estate investing and funds management experience across various geographies and asset types. He has spent the last 13 years in Asia with ESR across Japan, China and India. Since 2017 he has co-headed the India platform at ESR building a full stack team of over 70 professionals and a portfolio of close to 20 million sq. ft. Prior to ESR, he was part of the IBD at Deutsche Bank (Singapore) & Capital One Bank (USA). He has an MBA from INSEAD, a B.Tech & M.Tech from IIT Bombay and speaks Japanese (fluent) & Mandarin (basic).

James Kemp serves as the Head of Real Estate for Australia and New Zealand at Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA), a division of Macquarie Asset Management. He also holds the position of Head of Real Estate for Asia-Pacific. James leads strategic real estate investments, with a focus on sectors like industrial and the living sector, including a notable A$2.85 billion commitment to Australia's land lease sector. He is recognized for his approach of partnering with specialist operating platforms and has been instrumental in Macquarie's real estate strategy, investing in both operating companies and direct real estate for nearly two decades. His expertise drives value in dynamic real estate markets across the region.

Jasmin Hu serves as Director, Investments – Asia Pacific at Oxford Properties Group, based in Singapore. In this role, she is responsible for the company's real estate investment activities across the Asia Pacific region.

John Pattar is a Partner and Head of Real Estate Asia at KKR, based in Hong Kong. Since joining KKR in 2018, he has been pivotal in expanding the firm's real estate business across Asia Pacific, notably leading the successful fundraise of KKR Asia Real Estate Partners (AREP), securing $1.7 billion in commitments. He oversees KKR's Asia Real Estate business, managing investment strategy, asset management, and fundraising. With over 27 years of expertise in Asian real estate, John's experience encompasses property investment, development, capital transactions, and asset management across key markets, including China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and Australia. Prior to KKR, he was CEO of CLSA Real Estate from 2004, establishing a Pan-Asian platform and completing around $5 billion in property deals. John holds an LLB from King's College London and is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (F.R.I.C.S.).

Ms Karen Lee was appointed as the CEO of the Manager of ARA LOGOS Logistics Trust on 15 August 2020. Prior to her current appointment, Ms Lee was the Head of Asset and Investment Management for LOGOS SE Asia Pte Ltd where she was instrumental in the asset management strategic planning for LOGOS’ South East Asia business and growing the Singapore portfolio. Ms Lee has more than 20 years of experience in the real estate industry covering industrial real estate development, asset and investment management, business development, leasing, marketing and property management. Prior to joining LOGOS, Ms Lee was Head of Singapore Portfolio and Asset Management of Ascendas Funds Management (S) Pte Ltd, the manager of Ascendas REIT (A-REIT).

With more than 17 years of real estate leadership experience, Rajesh Jaggi is responsible for all real estate investments and operations of IndoSpace Development Management. He also manages Everstone Capital Advisors’ real estate business which includes strategic planning, acquisitions, finance, sales and marketing, legal, and project and facility management services. Before Everstone, he was the Managing Director of Peninsula Land Limited–a leading listed real estate company in India with a market cap of US$ 400 million. There, he led the successful commissioning of projects totalling 28 million square feet of real estate (completed development of more than six million square feet) across residential, commercial and retail space.

Mr. Roberto Versace is the Head of Listed Real Estate Asia Pacific at APG Asset Management in Asia. Prior to joining APG in 2017, Roberto was Managing Director, Lead Portfolio Manager at EII Capital Management in London. From 2010 to 2015 Roberto was the Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager for Asia at BNY Mellon Investment Management in Singapore. Prior to BNY Mellon Roberto was the Portfolio Manager for the NYSE Listed RMR Asia Pacific Real Estate fund on behalf of RMR Advisors in Boston. Roberto is a member of the APG Asset Management Asia Executive Management Committee and Global Real Estate Investment Committee.

As the CEO - Hiranandani Group Real Estate & Infrastructure Business, he drives the Business Strategy & Re-engineering, Operations,Investments/Divestments & M & A. across business verticals of Real estate, Infrastructure/Utilities, Industrial & Logistics parks. He is also associated with Pegasus Fininvest Advisory Pvt. Ltd. Prior to Hiranandani Group, He was the Group director & CEO of a large entity operating in the Hospitality and Real estate sector. He was also the Group CFO of “Future Capital Holdings Ltd.” He was the CFO for “Britannia Industries Ltd.”. He has had a long stint of 7 years with “Coca-Cola India” as Vice-President Finance and as a board member at the bottling company “Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Ltd.

Steve joined EG as Head of Capital in February 2023. EG is a disciplined, data-driven investment manager and developer with over AU$5.1 billion in assets under management and a $3.9 billion development pipeline. Prior to that Steve worked with Aliro, advising & capitalising the $700M Australian MultiFamily operator, Novus. From 2016 - 20, Steve was a Managing Director with M3 Capital Partners in Hong Kong with dual responsibilities for both Capital Advisory (working closely with GLP) and Principal Investment activity (for Evergreen in Australia). Prior to that, strong fundamentals and leadership skills were honed over 10+ years with highly rated teams at bulge bracket IB's (CS, UBS & DB). Steve holds a B.Com (Hons) from Sydney University.

SunHo Song is responsible for logistics development fund & portfolio management at IGIS. Over the past years, he’s focused primarily on logistics investing in global markets, leading the development and acquisition teams to invest & manage over $2 billion in AUM and have launched a brand, “ARENAS” to represent the highest quality logistics properties that the team builds. SunHo has 18 years of real estate development experience through Space Group, ADF AMC, Koramco, and Woori Investment & Securities. He is a graduate of Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Univ. Michigan Ann Arbor with Master’s degree in Architecture, and Harvard University with Master’s degree in Real Estate Development & Finance.

Taketoshi Kawakami is the Head of Logistics - Japan at CBRE Global Investors-US. He began his career in the real estate industry in 2006, joining CBRE (then ING Real Estate Investment Management) in 2007. His professional background includes experience at LaSalle Investment Management K.K., where he was responsible for asset management and disposition, handling transactions totaling over JPY200 billion across more than 80 residential assets. Mr. Kawakami holds a Bachelor of Civil and Environmental Engineering from Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, and a Master in Urban Planning, along with a certificate in Real Estate Finance and Investment from the University of Washington. He is fluent in both English and Japanese.

Vineet joined Morgan Stanley in Aug’2007. Vineet relocated to India in June 2011 after spending a no. of years with MSRE in New York. - Vineet has experience underwriting transactions in opportunistic and core real estate and restructuring legacy deals. - Prior to joining MSRE, Vineet worked at Deloitte Consulting in the Strategy and Operations Practice helping Fortune 500 companies restructure and grow. - Vineet has an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a Bachelors degree in Economics from Miami University.