Chiang Ling Ng serves as Chief Investment Officer, Asia, and is responsible for investment and fund strategies for Hines in the Asia region. She provides additional coverage for Asian investors to access global opportunities and plays a key role in steering Hines’ global investment strategy as a member of the firm’s Executive and Investment Committees.

Based in Singapore, Chiang Ling brings more than 25 years of investment management experience in the Asian real estate private equity industry, having previously held leadership roles at M&G Real Estate Asia and the real estate private equity division of Goldman Sachs.

Chiang Ling is the current chairperson for the Asian Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles (ANREV) and served as the association’s deputy chairperson from 2022-2023.

Chiang Ling is a graduate of Princeton University and holds a BSE in Electrical Engineering. She is fluent in English, Mandarin and Japanese.

Charles Haase is Chief Executive of ANREV, the Asian Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles. ANREV is a member driven non-profit organisation producing research and indices relevant to the private real estate industry in Asia Pacific, and promoting improved transparency and best practices across the region.

Prior to joining ANREV, Charlie had experience on both sides of the investment table, working for Aetos Japan and Tokyu Fudosan Holdings Corporation in Tokyo, and for the California State Teachers’ Retirement System in the United States. Prior to joining CalSTRS, Charlie was on the Economics faculty of San Francisco State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Davis.

Wako Toyama serves as the Senior Manager at GLP Capital Partners Japan, where she is accountable for managing fund, including overseeing performance and underwriting acquisition projects for the Japan Income Fund, an open end fund managed by GLP.

Since joining GLP in 2019, she has been in charge of Japan Development Venture I and was responsible for restructuring the fund.  Before joining GLP, she worked for the Real Estate Development division at Mitsui & Co, in charge of logistics facility development in South East Asia based in Singapore.

Wako holds a Bachelor's degree in Law from Tohoku University and is a certified public accountant registered with the Guam Board of Accountancy.

Born in Japan and fluent in Japanese, Joe Kraft graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986. He started his career in finance at Morgan Stanley New York and transferred to the Tokyo office in 1987. He became Managing Director in 1997 and co-head of Asia FX Trading & Sales. In 2003, he also oversaw the Fixed Income Trading Division. Retired from Morgan Stanley after 21 years, he took on the position of Head of FX Trading & Sales as well as Deputy Branch Manager at Bank of America Japan. In 2015, he founded Rorschach Advisory which specializes in macro-economic and financial research as well as geo-politics. In this role, he engages with Japan and US government as well as industry specialists. In 2020, he became an outside Board Member of the Sony Group and in 2024 an outside Board Member of Tokyo Electron Ltd.

Mari joined the firm as Head of Research & Consulting for Japan in October 2021. Previously, she was Vice President, Global Research & Strategy at LaSalle Investment Management. In this role she was responsible for formulating investment strategy and updating local market views through internal research reports and investor presentations customized to an investment mandate, for institutional funds. Mari has over 25 years’ experience in servicing global institutional investors as an equity, credit, and institutional property investment research analyst at leading financial institutions, including PIMCO, Citigroup and UBS. She has been acknowledged for the accuracy of her equity research, covering both the Japanese financial services and real estate sectors. As a credit analyst at Moody’s, she led the credit rating processes for sub-sovereign entities and government related entities in Japan.

Mari received a Master of Business Administration in Finance from UCLA Anderson School of Business and holds a Bachelor of Laws from Keio University. She started her career as a Certified Public Accountant covering U.S. tax schemes for Japanese investors in the late 1990s.

After graduating from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, Mr. Tsuji joined Mitsubishi Corporation in 1991. After a posting in the Logistics Business Division, he was seconded to Mitsubishi Corporation‘s (Americas) New York headquarters in 1997 and worked in the venture investment business.
After returning to Japan in 2002, he worked in the real estate securitization business mainly through the development of and investment in logistics facilities. He was transferred to Diamond Realty Management Inc. (DREAM), the private equity real estate platform established by Mitsubishi Corporation in April 2012 and became President and CEO of DREAM in November of the same year.
Mr. Tsuji joined CBRE in April of 2019 as Head of Capital Markets Japan, overseeing the real estate investment business. He was promoted to President & COO of CBRE K.K. in October of 2023, and leads approximately 1,400 real estate professionals all across Japan.

Fuminori Asaki has been the Head of Data Center Advisory Services at Capital Markets Japan since joining Jones Lang LaSalle K.K. in 2024. He has been providing advisory and consulting services for data center real estate since 2016, when the Japanese data center market began to expand. Prior to that, he had more than 10 years of experience in the financial industry at various firms such as AllianceBernstein and BNY Mellon. Additionally, he has 9 years of experience as a systems engineer at firms including Goldman Sachs. Drawing on his experience as an equity analyst and programmer, he provides comprehensive advice from various perspectives in technology, finance, and real estate.

Master of Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University

Bachelor of Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University

Dr.Sabine Schaffer is Managing Partner at Pro-invest Group, focusing on structure and asset management of the Group’s funds. Pro-invest Group is an asset manager and investment firm which was established in 2010 from industry veterans who have been active in the Private Equity Real Estate space for more than two decades. With close to AUD 2 billion assets under management, Pro-invest Group specialises in Private Equity Real Estate and Real Estate Asset Management and have become one of the largest hotel investment platforms in Australasia. With more than 30 sector-specific specialists in the Sydney office, the Group operates as a locally established, integrated private equity real estate business combining active asset management, development and operational capabilities, providing our investors with above industry risk-adjusted returns in the hospitality, commercial and retail space.

Sabine has an extensive track record in private equity real estate, having over 20 years experience in setting up and managing Private Equity Funds, sourcing co-investment opportunities as well as capital markets. Sabine has focused on the Real Estate side, where she worked on the set up of a Real Estate Development Fund in the Gulf Cooperation Council region for newly built office buildings. At Pro-invest Group, Sabine oversees the asset management side of the business. The primary responsibilities of her team are the structuring of Real Estate investment vehicles, the fund management of the various hotel portfolios, procuring equity as well as bank financing as well as looking after reporting to all stakeholders. Sabine holds a Master’s degree from Harvard University as well as PhD in Economics from Leopold Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria.

Mr. Chiaranussati has successfully led SC Capital Partners in its investments and provided key leadership and direction since its inception.

Prior to founding SC Capital Partners at the end of 2004, Mr. Chiaranussati spent approximately six years with Westbrook Partners, where he opened its Asia office in Singapore in early 1999 and served as Principal and Managing Director responsible for Asian investment activities. Prior to joining Westbrook, Mr. Chiaranussati spent seven years at JPMorgan, based in Singapore and covering Southeast Asia, serving as a Vice President in the Proprietary Investment and Investment Banking groups, focusing on real estate and financial institutions. Prior to JPMorgan, Mr. Chiaranussati worked at Temasek Holdings, an investment holding company for the Government of Singapore, and the Central Bank of Thailand. In 1998, Mr. Chiaranussati was appointed as an advisor by the Central Bank of Thailand and other bodies to assist in the restructuring of the public and private sectors of Thailand.

Mr. Chiaranussati received an Honors Degree in Economics from the London School of Economics in 1986 and a Master of Science in Management Science at the Imperial College in London in 1987.

Peter Kim joined QuadReal as Managing Director, Asia in November 2017.  His focus is on building QuadReal’s international portfolio, with an emphasis on its investments in the Asia-Pacific region.  In addition to his Asia-Pacific responsibilities, Peter also heads up QuadReal’s Strategic Partners group, responsible for originating, structuring, and managing the firm’s strategic relationships with institutional partners across the globe.

Peter was formerly a Senior Portfolio Manager in the Real Estate and Infrastructure Department at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), based in Abu Dhabi and specifically focused on direct investments. Prior to ADIA, Peter was a Managing Director at CBRE Investment Management (formerly ING Real Estate) in Hong Kong where he had a dual role as Head of Acquisitions for Asia Pacific and Fund Manager of the CBRE Phoenix Real Estate Fund, a pan-Asian opportunistic strategy. He also spent 11 years in the New York, London, Tokyo, and Hong Kong offices of Lehman Brothers where he last held the position of Head of Real Estate Investment Banking for Asia.

Peter graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.