APREA Philippines Conference
Accelerate and Elevate

Prior to APREA, Selina worked at the Singapore Business Federation to develop high-level strategies on market engagement for key markets in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and Mongolia. She is experienced in member and stakeholder engagement through national-level exhibitions, conferences, seminars, overseas mission trips and digital platform creation.

Selina has also worked with both Ascendas Funds Management and City Development Limited (CDL). In Ascendas, she supported the portfolio management of industrial space in the UK and Australia. In CDL, she rotated in various roles, from commercial leasing in Singapore to project and operations management of various projects in China.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Real Estate from National University of Singapore with a Dean’s List award.

Sigrid is the Chief Executive Officer of Asia Pacific Real Assets Association (APREA). Based in Singapore, she is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction, initiatives and operations of the association across Asia Pacific. Under her leadership, APREA repositioned to an industry trade group focusing on real estate and infrastructure.

Sigrid joined APREA’s executive team in January 2019.

Prior to APREA, she served as Managing Director of Asia Pacific Research and Advisory Services of Cushman & Wakefield (C&W) from 2010 through 2018, where she was responsible for research, thought leadership, strategy formulation and client management.  Before relocating to Singapore, she was based in Washington, D.C. and led C&W’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. Prior to joining C&W, 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.

A recognized expert in global economic, public policy and real estate issues, Sigrid is a frequent speaker at industry events.  Her commentary on commercial and residential real estate markets is also regularly featured in a wide array of global publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, New York Times and Reuters. Additionally, she has made several television appearances on financial networks and radio such as CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, National Public Radio and Channel News Asia.

Sigrid holds a Master of Business Administration from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management and a Master’s degree in Economics from Pennsylvania State University. She is a member of several civic groups including the Rotary Club of Raffles City in Singapore, where she has served in various leadership positions, and serves in the Executive Committee of the Crohn’s & Colitis Society of Singapore.

Dr. Joselito R. Basilio is the Principal Economist of the Department of Budget and Management, serving the Department in its work on budget policy, strategy, research and economic analysis. Prior to his assignment at the DBM, he served at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas as a Principal Researcher.

Tetet is responsible for developing and overseeing all commercial, industrial and retail appointments in the Philippines focusing on Tenant Strategy and Solution Services. She makes sure that the team provides high quality tenant representation services, from developing relationships to handling transactions for companies with occupational requirements locally.

Tetet has over 28 years of experience in real estate. In 2004, she joined Cuervo Far East, Cushman & Wakefield’s former associate partner in the Philippines, to head the Client Solutions team. In 2012, she joined the pioneer team that established the wholly owned office of Cushman & Wakefield in the Philippines. She is the country champion and single point of contact for all Cushman and Wakefield accounts locally. To date, she has transacted over 10,000,000 sf of office space.

Florent Humeau, the Chief Executive Officer of Red Planet, boasts an illustrious career spanning over 15 years in the dynamic realm of hospitality. With a diverse background in senior operational management, Florent has garnered extensive expertise in steering hospitality operations across various international landscapes, including France, the UK, China, Seychelles, Thailand, and the Philippines.

Florent embarked on his journey with Red Planet Hotel contributing his wealth of knowledge and skills as the Director of Operations for the company's Indonesian operations. Recognizing his exceptional leadership and operational acumen, he swiftly ascended the corporate ladder, earning a promotion to the role of Vice President of Operations for both Indonesia and the Philippines in July 2019.

Demonstrating his commitment to excellence and a remarkable ability to navigate the complexities of the hospitality industry, Florent transitioned to Red Planet's Head Office in Bangkok in 2021. Here, he assumed the pivotal position of Senior Vice President of Operations, where he oversaw the company's strategic initiatives and ensured overall operational efficiency.

In June 2022, Florent's journey with Red Planet reached its zenith as he ascended to the coveted role of Chief Executive Officer. His promotion recognizes not only his loyalty to the brand, but also his pivotal part in Red Planet's success. Florent Humeau, Red Planet's CEO, continues to bring his array of international expertise and strategic vision to the forefront, pushing the company to new heights of innovation and success in the competitive hospitality market.

Jericho P. Go is the president and Chief Executive Officer of RCR. He also serves as the Senior Vice President and Business Unit General Manager of Robinsons Offices in Robinsons Land Corporation. He is concurrently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Robinsons DoubleDragon Corp. and member of the Board of Directors of Robinsons Equitable Tower Condominium Corporation, Robinsons Summit Center Condominium Corporation and Galleria Corporate Center Condominium Corporation. He has over 30 years of experience in the field of real estate and was responsible for filing and registering the Philippines' very first IT park with the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) in 1997. Prior to joining RLC in 2019, he was Senior Vice President of Megaworld Corporation. He also held various positions in Greenfield Development Corporation and Ayala Land, Inc. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Development Studies from the University of the Philippines and graduated Magna Cum Laude and Class Salutatorian in 1993.

Mr Mulingbayan is the chief sustainability officer and head of enterprise risk management of Filinvest Development Corporation, with oversight on the ESG and ERM practices of the Filinvest Group. As the lead of the sustainability and risk councils in the conglomerate, he ensures that policies and processes are standardized across the business units, while encouraging the cross-fertilization of ideas for best practices.

He was a former chief sustainability officer and ERM head of a listed water utility company where he was instrumental in the launch of the first ASEAN Sustainability Bond by a corporate issuer from the Philippines, which was also the largest sustainability bond issuance for a listed private water utility in Asia at the time. Among his other accomplishments was the establishment of a robust environmental compliance management system and a 500-hectare tree nurturing project in the Upper Marikina Watershed in response to Typhoon Ondoy.

Mr Mulingbayan also was the municipal environmental and natural resources officer of a local government in Batangas and a member of the faculty of the College of Engineering in UP Diliman. As an environmental engineer, he was involved in promoting constructed wetlands for water quality improvement, design and construction of sanitary landfills and lagoons, and the optimization of sewage treatment plant operations. He is a mountaineer, biker, wild bird photographer and maintains an interest in pre-1900 Philippine cartography.

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. 

Rick Santos is the Chairman, CEO and Founder of Santos Knight Frank (an affiliate of Knight Frank, the largest privately owned global real estate consultancy, with more than 500 offices in 60 countries across the globe including a strategically important partnership with Cresa in the United States). Santos Knight Frank was the country’s first fully integrated real estate service provider.

Rick was born in the Philippines (his father is from Zamboanga) and raised in San Marino, California, USA. His education covered UC Berkeley, the London School of Economics and Oxford University. A post graduate thesis on the “Spatial Implications of Information Technology on Office Location Theory” gave him his passion for the real estate sector and, in particular, the global impact of the outsourcing revolution.

Rick established the CBRE business in Manila in 1994 as the country’s first fully integrated real estate service provider. He served as Managing Director of CBRE Hong Kong, was a member of the CBRE Asia & Asia Pacific Board and the Head of Institutional Investment Properties for Asia. He was the link partner to the emerging market countries of India, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam.

In 2017, he established a long-term partnership with Knight Frank and rebranded his 1,400- strong organization as “Santos Knight Frank”. The business today consists of 11 specialist teams focusing on: Occupier Services & Commercial Agency; Facilities Management; Property Management; Asset Management; Project Management; Technical Services and Engineering; Residential Sales & Leasing; Investment & Capital Markets; Research & Consultancy; Valuation Services and Group Business Services.

Rick and his team were instrumental in the growth of the Business Processing Outsourcing sector and were pioneers in bringing many of the multinational BPO and offshoring companies to the country.

Santos Knight Frank is responsible for more than 4 million sqm of office space transactions, including the largest office leasing deal in Philippine real estate history (70,000 sqm), and over 20 million sqm of assets under its property and facilities management teams.

Santos Knight Frank has represented Fortune 500 companies and major occupiers including P&G, Accenture, Chevron, American Express, AIG, Citi, Unilever, IBM, Emerson, Standard Chartered, Siemens, Oracle, AT&T, Google, Bank of America, ING, Nokia, and Sony, among others.

He is an advocate of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) as a way of democratizing real estate, having supported the passing of the REIT law in the Philippines.

He serves and has held roles on numerous corporate and non-profit boards including YPO Philippines (former chapter chair), Philippine Rugby Football Union (past-president), the American Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines (board member and 3-term former president), International School Manila, CoreNet Philippines, and the Asia Pacific Real Estate Association, among others.

With 30+ years’ experience dedicated to real estate and technology, Bernie is a leader in digital transformation in real estate and using data to create a more competitive and collaborative environment. Currently responsible for the growth of Yardi Systems in Asia Pacific, Bernie lives in Hong Kong and is a qualified accountant and economist.

He supports real estate clients with Retail, Commercial, Industrial, Residential and Mixed-Use assets, helping them to grow their operations, create efficiencies, and gain better insight into their business. His expertise includes asset and investment management, private equity, operations improvement, program and project management, finance, technology implementation and compliance.

Bernie has led large-scale technology projects, as well as led and supported Proptech start-ups, across Australia, the USA, Middle East, Asia and Europe. He has over 60 publications to his name, and extensive public speaking experience. He is actively working with several charities focused on the marine environment and child education in Hong Kong and China.

TJ Mendoza serves as the General Counsel of Prime Asset Ventures, Inc. (PAVI) and Corporate Secretary of all PAVI group companies and concurrently, as President and CEO of Premiere Island Power Reit Corporation (PREIT). As PAVI General Counsel, TJ leads a legal team composed of 12 diverse and seasoned corporate finance and infrastructure law practitioners who provide expert legal services for strategic initiatives of PAVI and its operating subsidiaries.

Prior to joining PAVI in 2020, TJ Mendoza was a corporate banking and finance partner in Picazo Buyco Tan Fider & Santos (2014 to 2017) and Quisumbing Torres (a member firm of Baker McKenzie International). At Quisumbing Torres, TJ likewise served as the head of the firm’s Banking and Finance Practice Group.

TJ has been widely cited as leading corporate and finance practitioner by various international publications, including Chambers & Partners, the Legal 500 and Asia law, and has a distinguished record of handling various corporate transactions and projects, including those in the energy and infrastructure space and other highly regulated sectors. For the years 2018, 2019 and 2020, TJ was ranked as a Leading Lawyer for Banking and Finance by the Chambers and Partners Asia-Pacific. In 2020, he was also ranked as a leading lawyer for Corporate and Finance by the Chambers and partners Global and a Rising Star for Banking and Financial Services by the AsiaLaw Leading lawyers I the A-list Top 100 Lawyers in the Philippines by the Asian Business Law Journal.

TJ is a Professional Lecturer at the De La Salle University Tañada-Diokno College of Law and a member of the advisory committee at the manila Central University.

CAROL TORRES - MILLS is Vice President of Ayala Land Inc. and President & CEO of AREIT Inc., the first Real Estate Investment Trust in the Philippines.

AREIT was listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange last August 2020 and has since grown its assets under management from 30 to 87 billion pesos to-date. AREIT has been the fastest growing REIT in the Philippines with a gross building leasable area of 860 thousand square meters across 25 properties nationwide. It is a constituent of the FTSE Micro-cap Index, the FTSE EPRA NAREIT ex-Japan Index, the MSCI Philippine Small Cap Index and the PSE Index.  Since its IPO, the company received eight international accolades, including the Most Outstanding IPO in the Philippines by Asiamoney, The Best IPO in the Philippines by The Asset, Southeast Asia deal of the Year by FinanceAsia, Best Premiere Real Estate Investment Trust, Most Innovative REIT Offering Strategies by International Finance, Best Office REIT and Best Diversified REIT by Asia Pacific Best of Breeds REIT Awards in Singapore.

Concurrent to AREIT, Carol heads Ayala Land Offices, the office leasing and development arm of Ayala Land since 2013. Ayala Land Offices owns and manages 1.4 million square meters of leasable space across 63 office properties in the Philippines. Prior to this role, she headed the Business and Project Development for Ayala Malls from 2008 to 2013. She has been with Ayala Land for 25 years holding various board positions in several Ayala Land property and subsidiary companies.

Carol holds a Masters in Business Administration from The Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of the Philippines Diliman with a degree in Business Administration.

Mr. Christian Bernasconi is a Founding Partner of B&I Capital AG and is based in Singapore where he acts a group co-CIO and head of the research office. Christian has over 27 years of experience as an Asian and Japanese equities specialist and has been based in Switzerland and Singapore over his career. Prior to co-founding B&I Capital in 2007, Christian was an Executive Director at UBS and established the Japan and Asian Equity Sales platform and was part of the Global Real Estate (RE) Team in Zurich. Before joining UBS in 2000, Christian was with W.I. Carr Far East Limited, Paribas Asia Equity and Yamaichi Securities. He received a Bachelors degree in Political Economy of Industrial Societies at the University of California at Berkeley.

Headquartered in Zurich with a research office in Singapore, B&I Capital AG was founded in 2007 by Christian Bernasconi and Charles Isaac to give qualified investors a means to invest in Asian listed Real Estate, predominantly the nascent Asian REIT market. At that time REITs were an emerging asset class in developed equity markets such as Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong, and a more mature REIT market in Australia. B&I Capital is well regarded as an active investor that engages with the managements of the companies it invests in to encourage best practice and is also an active member of APREA which promotes the development of the listed Asian Real Estate sector. Currently B&I Capital employs 15 people and manages USD >1bn worth of assets and is licensed both in Switzerland by FINMA and in Singapore as a CMS License holder by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

Angelo Tan serves as the Country Lead for the Philippines, Malaysia, and the Pacific for Climate Business at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank, and the largest global development finance institution focused on the private sector.

Based in Manila, Angelo’s mission is to inspire and empower property developers, financial institutions, and the public sector in the region to raise their climate ambitions and embrace a sustainable vision for the built environment—one that is resilient, low carbon, and committed to achieving net zero.

By mainstreaming Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies (EDGE) and Building Resilience Index (BRI), programs that promote climate change mitigation and adaptation in buildings, Angelo supports mobilization of private capital for climate-smart property investments, toward creating impact for countries most vulnerable to climate change.

Angelo has over 10 years of real estate experience in mixed-use development management, commercial real estate advisory, and architecture business development. He is an industrial engineer and holds a Master of Sustainable Built Environment from UNSW Sydney.

Jesper Palmqvist is based in Singapore and as Senior Director he leads STR in Asia Pacific since 2013. His career spans across hospitality, online travel, IT and music. Originally from Sweden, he frequently presents the latest trends and updates at industry events and media outlets.

STR, a CoStar Group company [NASDAQ: CSGP], tracks daily historic and future supply and demand data as well as monthly financial data for the hospitality industry and provide valuable market share analysis for global hotel and investment companies and agencies across the globe.