The Edge Investment Forum on Real Estate 2009 Speakers Profiles

Date: 4 April 2009
Location: Sime Darby Convention Centre, Bukit Kiara KL
Topic: ‘Residential Property Values: How low can we go?’

Programme

Speakers’ Profiles

Previndran Singhe

Chief Executive Officer
Zerin Properties Sdn Bhd

Previndran Singhe founded Zerin Properties in 2002, a registered and licensed real estate agency with the Board of Valuers, Appraisers and Estate Agents, Malaysia. The company has since opened offices in Singapore, Sydney, New Delhi and Dubai.

Zerin Properties recently won the Real Estate Transaction Asia Pacific Award 2009 for the sale of Intercontinental Hanoi. It also won a special mention at the Real Estate Strategy Asia Pacific Awards 2009 for the sale or 3 landmark office buildings in Cyberjaya. Zerin Properties was also a winner at the Real Estate Investment Asia Pacific Awards 2008. The company is the only Malaysian company to have won these awards to date.

Prior to Zerin Properties, Previndran was chief marketing officer at Signforce, a hospitality management company which manages several premier finest hotels and resorts in the region.

Previndran graduated from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and has been a registered estate agent since 1995. He has a strong passion for excellence in corporate real estate, focusing on mergers & acquisitions and the hospitality sector.

Ho Chin Soon

Director
Ho Chin Soon Research Sdn Bhd

Ho Chin Soon started Ho Chin Soon Research in 1989 to provide real estate information and has provided consultancy services to property development companies in Malaysia, Singapore and Papua New Guinea for the past 12 years.

The consultancy specializes in feasibility studies and marketing design for property developers and also provides database, population and income mapping work for developers, including editable digital land use maps.

Ho has Professional Diploma from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (UK) and is a fellow of the Institution of Surveyors, Malaysia. He is also a registered valuer with the Board of Valuers, Appraisers and Estate Agents, Malaysia.

Chris Tan

Managing Partner
Chur Associates

Chris Tan is dynamically involved in the real estate industry as part of the FIABCI Presidential Task Force in relation to constitutional and policy matters. He is also part of the Technical Committee under the National Economic Action Council of the Prime Minister’s Department to devise strategies to stimulate the property sector in Malaysia. Tan is also part of the team that formulated the blueprint of Malaysia Property Inc (MPI) to position Malaysia as an international property investment destination.

In addition, Tan has also been giving in-house advice to Malaysia’s only integrated Industrial Waste Management Centre for many years. He is actively involved in their business expansion plans into waste recovery and recycling and other services throughout the value chain and is experienced in negotiations with MNCs on pertinent issues in the handling of hazardous and toxic wastes.

Kam Wei Tsung

Director & Founder
Platinum Property Ventures Sdn Bhd

Kam obtained a graduate diploma in information technology from the University of Humberside (UK) in 1992 and pursued a career in IT for 4 years.

Like most people, Kam aspired to retire rich and wealthy with high net worth and a handsome passive income. With that aspiration, he quit his secure job to pursue a sales career in the financial industry for 8 years before becoming a full time investor in 2004.

Kam believes in creating massive wealth in property investment but the lack of capital and knowledge held him back. However, this hunger for a way out made him search the answer through books and seminars. His turning point came in 2001 when he attended a talk by someone who actually took up property investment as a business and not just an investment portfolio. Kam has so far acquired 24 residential properties and RM8.3 million worth of commercial properties within a short period of just 3 years.

Kam founded Platinum Property Ventures in 2004 with the vision of creating a community of property entrepreneurs with the ultimate aim of establishing a portfolio of income generating assets.

Eric Ooi

Managing Director
Knight Frank Malaysia

Ooi has 27 years of working experience in real estate professional services and consulting. In 2002, he founded property consultancy firm, Knight Frank Malaysia (Ooi & Zaharin Sdn Bhd). Ooi’s expertise includes the valuation and management of a wide spectrum of properties and the marketing of high-end residential projects. In recent years led in the marketing and sales of more than RM 1 billion worth of condominiums and serviced apartments in Kuala Lumpur such as Kiaraville, Hampshire Resisidences, Zehn Bukit Pantai and Twins at Damansara Heights. Over his 27-year career, Ooi has provided advisory services to local public listed companies and multinationals on matters pertaining to mega commercial and township projects, plantations, hotels, retail and office complexes, industrial premises and resort properties, as well as advisory work in major corporate exercises. Ooi is a member of The Board of Valuers, Appraisers & Estate Agents, Malaysia. He has made significant contributions to many real estate seminars and conferences through his roles as chairman, speaker and panelist.

Stephen Tew

Managing Partner
Hectares & Stratas

Tew has been practicing real estate for more than 24 years with special focus on the industrial and commercial market, during which he transacted deals worth more than RM1billion. Tew is also one of the founding shareholders of Axis Reit – Malaysia’s first real estate investment trust, of which he is also a board exco member. Since 2008, Tew has also moved into the retail segment of the property market via the purchase of Plaza Masalam (next to Concord Hotel, Shah Alam) as well as the launching of STA – DEC – Malaysia’s first one-stop title & home decoration centre in Segambut, Kuala Lumpur. Twe was president of The Malaysia Institute of Estate Agents (MIEA) for 2001 – 2003. He has recently commenced his own series of monthly public talks on the subject of ‘How To Invest in Commercial Real Estate Successfully” and “How To Become A Top Real Estate Negotiator”, with all profits generated being donated towards the repair of the homes of the needy via STADEC.

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