Singapore Membership and Events Committee

Martin Siah is managing director, head of Asia Pacific Real Estate, Gaming and Leisure, head of South East Asia Global Corporate and Investment Banking, as well as the Singapore Country Head at Bank of America. He has more than 20 years of leadership experience in investment and commercial banking in Asia Pacific with a focus on real estate, business trusts, transport and logistics, stock exchanges and capital markets. He has structured and lead-executed numerous first in kind S-REITS including cross border REITS and business trusts.

Prior to joining the firm, Martin was head of Greater China and South East Asia Commercial Real Estate and led the Commercial Real Estate Equity and Advisory franchise at Standard Chartered Bank. Previously, he spent 10 years at UBS Investment Bank where he was head of South East Asia Real Estate Investment Banking and Corporate Finance. He has served as key liaison with regulatory authorities in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines, especially with regard to real estate investment trusts code and business trusts.

Martin is a board member of the Capital Markets and Financial Advisory Services (CMFAS) Examinations Board in Singapore and the Asia Pacific Real Estate Association Singapore Chapter. He holds a Master of Philosophy in Finance from Cambridge University. He is a fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust and a Malaysian Commonwealth Scholar. 

Greg Hyland is the Head of Capital Markets, Asia Pacific for CBRE. Based in Singapore, he is responsible for all of CBRE’s Capital Markets teams across the region.

He is accountable for the day-to-day management of all Capital Markets businesses and operations including real estate investment sales and debt and structured finance, across North Asia, South East Asia and India, and Pacific. Throughout his career, Greg has positioned himself as one Asia Pacific’s leading Capital Markets professionals and established deep relationships with some of the world’s leading real estate investors. In the past five years, he has advised on more than $10 billion of real estate transactions.

Experience

He has over 18 years of Capital Markets experience specializing in China, Singapore and Australia. Prior to joining CBRE, Greg served as Head of Capital Markets, Singapore for JLL. He also held a variety of executive roles at this firm, including Regional Director of Asia Capital Markets in Singapore and Head of Investment in Shanghai.

Credentials & Education

Greg holds a Bachelor of Applied Sciences (Property Economics) from Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

A veteran in the real estate industry, Terence has more than 31 years of experience in advisory services and principal real estate investment management.

Over the years, he has been involved in more than 150 real estate transactions worth a total of USD10 billion – spanning different real estate sectors across most Asian markets. 

At Colliers International, Terence helms Asia Capital Markets and Investment Services, which is made up of a team of more than 120 senior Investment Services executives across the region.

Prior to joining Colliers, Terence was with Invesco Real Estate Group, where he had held two different roles – he was the Head of China before relocating back to Singapore to be the Head of South East Asia.

Before Invesco acquired the Asia Pacific real estate fund management platform of AIG in January 2011, Terence was the managing director
of AIG Global Real Estate Group, overseeing the real estate businesses in Greater China.

Prior to AIG, he was the head of China Investments with Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), where he was instrumental in setting up and heading the business unit. Earlier in his career, Terence was also the managing director of JLL Singapore before he left to join GIC Real Estate.

Terence is a frequent speaker at several real estate conferences, some of which include ANREV, Private Equity Real Estate (PERE) Asia Summit, China Global Real Estate Institute, Deutsche Bank Access China, Real Estate Investment World, and Vision Insights and Perspectives, among others.

Joachim Kehr is a Partner and Portfolio & Regional Head Asia-Pacific at CenterSquare Investment Management. Joachim joined CenterSquare in 2011 and is based in Singapore. He is Regional Portfolio Manager for CenterSquare’s listed real estate securities funds, having previously held primary coverage of real estate equities in China, Japan and Australia. Joachim brings close to two decades of investment management experience to his role. He holds a master’s degree in Economics from Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Prior to joining the firm, Joachim was a member of BNP Paribas Asset Management’s listed real estate team, based in Amsterdam and Singapore.