Mingtiandi will be the new head of real estate at Canada’s largest pension fund management company this week as part of a restructuring of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, bringing together industry players from across the region. Also on the list are Jeffrey Perlman, president of Warburg Pincus, and Jeffrey Perlman, now regional chief investment officer at DWS.
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Last week, it was announced that the appointment Pierre Cherki Appointed Managing Director in charge of real estate on January 22nd. Mr. Cherki previously worked for Deutsche Bank’s DWS Asset Management division for more than 22 years and has been a director of Cadillac Fairview since June 2022. The Kellogg School of Management graduate will be appointed to the newly created role overseeing C$250 billion. The ($184 billion) fund’s real estate asset group was also strengthened as the Ontario Teachers’ Association moves its team in-house from Cadillac to Fairview starting January 1.
Warburg Pincus president Jeffrey Perlman According to an announcement on December 8, he has been appointed chairman of the US-ASEAN Business Council. Prior to his promotion to president earlier this year, Mr. Perlman served as head of fund managers for Southeast Asia and head of Asian real estate, where he was responsible for board oversight of the nonprofit’s efforts to create trade and investment opportunities in Southeast Asia. will lead the. Countries that make up ASEAN.
DWS It was announced on December 4th that he had been appointed. Ivy Ng The firm is appointing the chief investment officer for Asia Pacific, giving him more control over the regional office. Mr. Ng, who joined DWS in 2013, is currently a senior portfolio manager at Deutsche Bank’s asset management affiliate and immediately took up his new role. As part of the same initiative, DW has appointed Vera Ferling as her CIO for Western Europe.
we work It was announced on December 5th that it had been named. Claudio Hidalgo He was appointed chief operating officer with immediate effect after the shared office provider filed for bankruptcy in the United States last month. Hidalgo has been WeWork’s chief operating officer for the Americas since June of this year, and served as COO of WeWork Latin America from April 2020 to August 2022. Before joining WeWork, he worked for the telecommunications company Sprint for four years.
GDS The appointment was announced on December 7th. Liu QimingHe is an independent director of Singapore’s telecommunications technology company ST Telemedia and became a member of the board of directors from December 4. As part of this move, Liu was also appointed to the board of directors by STT GDC, the data center division of ST Telemedia, GDS’s largest shareholder. Mr. Liu will succeed Mr. Lee Chun Kwon, who is resigning as director for what is said to be personal reasons.
Shimao service The announcement was made to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on December 8th. Kai Wenwei has resigned from his position as Group Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer with effect from 10 December. Ms Tsai, who has been on the board since 2020, will take on more responsibility as Simao Group, the Shanghai-based parent company of Simao Services, struggles to reach debt restructuring agreements with lenders following defaults on offshore bonds. He is said to be resigning to spend time on his personal commitments.
Chris WuGroup Chief Financial Officer based in Shanghai Cheonban Group Last week, he announced that he would be leaving the development company he worked for for over 10 years. Mr. Wu was previously promoted to the role of Group CFO in 2020 after serving as Managing Director of Investments and Development. Chongbang was one of Shanghai’s most successful commercial development companies before the Chinese market slowed down, and is known for his portfolio of retail-led Lifehub projects.
ESR notified the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on December 7th as follows: Joanne McNamara, Executive Vice President and Head of Europe at Oxford Properties, Canada, where he serves as a non-executive director on the Board of Directors. Mr. McNamara will assume his new role on January 1st. Oxford He Properties, the real estate investment arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees’ Retirement System (OMERS), is one of the largest investors in ESR.
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