Asia Pacific

Kevin Brogan FRICS

Chair

Kevin Brogan leads the Group Risk and Compliance function of Herron Todd White Australia (HTW) and is a well-respected market commentator within the Australian property industry. He has provided commentary for print, radio and television media. With over 30 years of property experience, Kevin brings a rich history and unmatched depth of knowledge to HTW. Kevin has served as the Residential Strategy Seat on the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Governing Council for four years and is currently a member of the RICS Asia Pacific World Regional Board, Chair of the RICS Australasian Advisory Board and a member of the RICS Australian Valuation Advisory Forum. He is also a Global Ambassador for LionHeart. Kevin has also served as Chair of the Australian Property Institute (API) South Australian Committee and is a current member of various API committees and working groups that have reviewed International Valuation Standards, the API Code of Ethics and Rules of Professional Conduct. He is a former City Valuer for Adelaide City Council, Commercial Property Valuer with Colliers International and Principal, Valuation Policy and Compliance / Residential Property Market Commentator for CoreLogic.

Brigitte Meszaros MRICS

Brigitte Meszaros has held several senior leadership positions in the AECOM Australian business; a Fortune 500 global infrastructure consulting company. She is a recognised leader who inspires and empowers teams to achieve new heights. With over 30 years’ experience in strategic planning, project management, contract management, construction management, design, technical reporting, and facilities management working both client side and consulting. A problem solver and strategic thinker with a strong focus on creating an environment for success. Brigitte is the Director - Civil and Major Projects Practice Lead for Civil Infrastructure in AECOM Victoria working on Australia’s largest civil Infrastructure projects including Transport, Defence, Aviation and Energy. She is also the Major Projects Practice Lead creating a collegiate environment focussed on continuous improvement in Major Projects Delivery. Previously, Brigitte was the Group Director leading the Project and Program Management team for Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania.

Damian Kelliher FRICS

An accomplished executive leader with experience in operations, finance, strategic marketing, work winning, private and public contracting, human resources, industrial relations, HSEQ, IS&T and vendor / client relationships. Results oriented and decisive leader with proven success in the ability to quickly distil issues and devise strategies for resolution, a team player with an emphasis on collaborative approaches to problem solving, a strong value of loyalty and diligence in relation to working towards “best for project” outcomes rather than individual goals and agendas and ability to lead teams in an efficient and effective manner. Damian has been involved in two RICS accrediation development programs being implemented across orgnisations and has recently achieved “Fellowship” status with the RICS.

John Goddard FRICS

John Goddard FRICS - independent building consultant, project manager and sustainability advisor in commercial property. Sole trader since 2007, before which he established and ran Building Consultancy Australia developing technical due diligence in Australia and project managing commercial building refurbishment. John is a strong advocate for high standards of sustainability in existing commercial property - the other 98%. He worked closely with the GBCA on their Green Star Performance tool. John was chair of the RICS Sustainability Group Oceania (2005 - 2018) promoting sustainability and producing guides to sustainable performance in commercial property. John is chair of the RICS NSW Member Engagement Group and a member of the RICS Australasia Advisory Board. Other interests include cycling, water sports, birds and photography.

Lewis Skittrall FRICS

A specialist professional in commercial management, Lewis leverages his extensive industry experience in both Australian and Overseas markets to implement a strategic approach to enhance commercial and operational delivery. Integrating a robust operational background with comprehensive commercial knowledge, Lewis systematically evaluates opportunities for process improvement, aiming to optimize the efficiency of project teams. His contributions span from macro-level time management considerations to intricate individual personnel management, thereby advancing business process management practices within the industry. Lewis is the chair of the RICS South Australia Member Engagement Group.

Tracy Morrah MRICS

In her role as National Leasing Manager for Stockland, Tracy is currently leading Stockland’s flagship workplace development leasing strategy at MPark. Through her international experience, Tracy has developed a broad range of property skills over her 25 years in the industry. From mixed-use development valuation in the Middle East and Africa, to Investment Management in the United Kingdom, to delivering commercial outcomes on behalf of owners and occupiers across New Zealand and, more recently, formulating and executing occupier office leasing strategy throughout Australia. Tracy is also supporting the next generation of RICS professionals via her role chairing assessment panels.

Yuli Xu MRICS

As a seasoned investment analyst at Dexus, specializing in retail investment analytics, property finance, and valuation, I am excited to bring my expertise to the RICS Australasia Advisory Board. My commitment to RICS is evident through active involvement in the Victorian Member Engagement Group since 2017, where I have played a pivotal role as Co-chair since late 2022. I am dedicated to contributing valuable insights that enhance the board's initiatives but also specifically address the evolving needs and perspectives of the younger professionals in the real estate profession. Eager to collaborate with fellow industry leaders, I look forward to advancing RICS' mission in Australasia.

David Jones MRICS

David Jones is a Chartered Planning and Development Surveyor, who qualified over 18 years ago in Manchester, England. He has spent half of his career based in England and the rest in New Zealand where he has worked in the public sector and the private consulting market. David is passionate about and focussed on regenerating cities and shaping places, most significantly in the city-regions around Auckland, Wellington and Manchester. As well as being a Chartered Surveyor, he is a Better Business Case practitioner and Chartered Practising Project Manager. He has three university degrees including an MBA. In November 2022 he was nominated as the Property Council of New Zealand Wellington Property Professional of the year.

Mark Wist FRICS

Mark is a corporate property investment strategist and advisor with 35 years of experience in property funds and investment management, research, asset allocation advisory, investment performance analytics and benchmarking, property acquisitions and divestments, development and investment advisory, treasury management and has been a registered valuer. He has been the fund manager for many managed investment schemes. Mark has written post-graduate modules in property markets and property development, has lectured at Universities and conferences in Australasia and Europe. He is engaged as an independent expert witness for Federal Court, Supreme Courts of NSW and QLD and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. Mark has operated his own investment advisory practice consulting to fund managers, institutional investors, family offices, high net worth investors, developers and corporates and acts as an independent Responsible Manager on Australian Financial Service Licences and sits on a number of Investment Committees and Compliance Committees. Mark has worked professionally for between four and ten years in each of Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland and London.

Matt Wheeler FRICS

Matt Wheeler, FRICS, is a property professional with global experience in large-scale urban development, with a particular focus on shaping communities. As a senior leader in professional services advisory firm Beca, he works with stakeholders to create, facilitate, and execute strategies for large-scale programmes, with an emphasis on spatial planning and infrastructure. Matt excels in formulating comprehensive strategies and managing their implementation through to a masterplan with accompanying delivery focus. He leads Beca’s Asset Advisory business. Matt is an active and dedicated volunteer for RICS, with a long history of providing impactful support to the organisation. He possesses a strong global awareness and understanding of RICS as a professional body, having lived and worked in the UK, Malaysia, Singapore, India, and Aotearoa New Zealand where he currently resides. Matt chairs the NZ MEG group and has been part of establishing nationwide matRICS and policy advocacy groups.

Stephen Ballesty FRICS

Stephen Ballesty is an RICS Chartered Surveyor in both quantity surveying and facilities management, and holds AIQS and IFMA certified designations. He has over 40-years of local, national and international experience leading consulting, research and not-for-profit organisations and complex projects for sustainable outcomes. Stephen is credited with numerous publications, including the RICS’ guides on Strategic FM, Technical Due Diligence and Cost Prediction. In-Touch Advisory connects stakeholders with life cycle solutions for the Built Environment. In addition to the RICS, Stephen has served industry working with the Property Council, AIQS, FMA Australia, IFMA Foundation, IFMA and the Australian Government’s FM Action Agenda. Currently, he is serving as the Regional Director – Australasia & Southeast Asia for IFMA's FM Consultant Council. Since 2012, as a Standards Australia’s MB-022 committee member, and a delegate to ISO/TC 267, he has contributed to the development of the ISO 41000 series of FM standards.

Vishant Narayan FRICS

Vishant has extensive experience in international real estate investment and asset management, having actively participated in transactions exceeding $2 billion across various sectors, including office, retail, industrial, data centres, and renewable energy assets. In 2017, he established Ashbridge Capital, an investment and corporate advisory firm focused on deploying European capital into strategic Australasian opportunities. Beyond his affiliation with RICS, Vishant serves as the Chair at ASER Corporation, a government-mandated entity overseeing $1.3 billion in insured South Australian assets. His academic background includes post-graduate degrees in Public Policy, Economics, and Finance, complemented by undergraduate studies in Law. Vishant’s particular passion lies in leveraging technology to propel the built environment towards net zero carbon emissions, and sees this as the imperative undertaking for the global real estate industry.

Dr Eugene Seah FRICS

Chair, Managing Director, Surbana Technologies

Dr Eugene Seah joined the construction industry in 1999. He graduated with a BSc in Quantity Surveying (1st Class Hons) from the University of Reading and started work at Davis Langdon & Seah as a Quantity Surveyor. He subsequently broadens his knowledge by reading a BSc in Technology and Computing (1st Class Hons), a MSc in Construction Law and Arbitration and a MSc in Sustainable Building Design (Merit). He also attended the Senior Management Development Program from Harvard and has a Diploma and a Certificate in Advance Learning and Performance for Adults from the Institute of Adult Learning at Singapore University of Social Science. He has completed his Professional Doctorate in Construction Management at the European International University in 2023 and is currently studying a PhD by Portfolio from the Swiss Business School In 2023, Dr. Seah joined the Meinhardt Group, a multidisciplinary and international design and engineering company that is head quartered in Singapore. He undertook the role of Global Director of the Group and the Chief Operating Officer of the Singapore office with a strategic focus to improve the company’s performance through the adoption of digital and technology, sustainable and resilient practices and increasing their competitive edge all round. He reports directly to the Group CEO and to the Board.

Chris Marriott FRICS

Chief Executive Officer, Savills, Southeast Asia

Having arrived in Asia in 1990, Chris has lived in both Hong Kong and Singapore and covered most markets and disciplines in the Asia Pacific Region. Presently as CEO for South East Asia, Chris oversees the firm's activity and expansion plans in the region, in addition to managing the Singapore operations. Alongside his operational responsibilities he sits on the Asia Pacific Executive Committee which determines strategic direction for the business in the region. During his time he has played a pivotal role in the establishment of the Singapore operations in 1995, and subsequently restructured the business in 2004, in addition he has been involved in, or led numerous corporate acquisitions and strategic relationships for the group. More recently Chris has taken an active role in how technology can be leveraged within Savills and the broader real estate industry. He was actively involved in the restructuring an industry-wide PropTech data company SoReal and agreeing the sale and JV of this company to Real Estate Analytics. In a professional capacity Chris has acted for many investors, developers, occupiers and end-users in many aspects of their real estate needs.

Cheng Su Chen FRICS

Group Managing Director, Facilities Management, C&W Services, Singapore

Su Chen is the Group Managing Director, Facilities Management in C&W Services. She has over 40 years of industry experience in property and facilities management (FM), including marketing and leasing of real estate assets. She oversaw FM operation in Thailand from 2004 to 2015 and was responsible for the FM business in China from 2006 to 2012. Prior to joining C&W Services, she held numerous senior positions in the Singapore government agencies, namely the Public Utilities Board, Singapore Power, Land Office (Ministry of Law) and Singapore Land Authority. She actively contributed the review, planning and implementation of national policies and work plans. She received a Commendation Medal (Pingat Kepujian) on the National Day in 2000 in recognition of her outstanding service in public real estate management. She holds a Master of Science in Real Estate and a Bachelor of Science in Estate Management from the National University of Singapore. She is a licensed appraiser and a salesperson, accredited Certified Facilities Management Expertise Tier 1 with Singapore International Facilities Management Association and a Member of the Industry Advisory Committee for Singapore Institute of Technology's Bachelor degree program in Sustainable Built Environment. She is also appointed as a member of the non-executive RICS Southeast Asia Regional Advisory Board for the past 4 years.

Seth Leong FRICS

Managing Director, Mentabuild

Seth is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and has previously served as Chairman for the RICS ASEAN QS & Construction Professional Group Board and as a board member of the RICS Asia QS & Construction Professional Group Board and RICS Thailand Board. Seth is the Managing Director of Mentabuild (formerly Arcadis Thailand) - a market leading construction consultancy firm providing Construction Cost & Commercial Management (Quantity Surveying), Project & Construction Management and Environmental Advisory Services with 130+ staff and a portfolio of over 1,000+ projects. He has an accomplished international track record of projects across Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Middle East and the United Kingdom and has attended and presented multiple construction cost management topics at local and regional levels for various events and associations.

David Fogarty FRICS

Head of ESG Consulting & Sustainability Services, CBRE, Singapore & Asia

David is the Senior Executive Director, Head of ESG Consulting & Sustainability Services. Prior to taking on this important assignment, David held the roles of Senior Executive Managing Director for Property Management in the United Kingdom, Managing Director, Asset Services, Singapore and Southeast Asia, and Regional Director, Asset Services, Pacific (Australia and New Zealand). In each role over his career, David led the Sustainability business within the Asset Services / Property Management business line. Prior to joining CBRE, David led the Investment Property Management business for Knight Frank in Australia. His strengths are driving excellent client outcomes through strong leadership, strategy development and execution, galvanizing teams through implementing positive change management and continuous improvement initiatives. He is a passionate advocate for creating an environment where people thrive, building communities and connections, integrating technology, sustainability, and people to help shape the future of the workplace and real estate.

Dainna Baharuddin FRICS

Director, Basar & Harun Sdn. Chartered Quantity Surveyors

Sr Dainna graduated with a BSc Quantity Surveying from Newcastle Upon Tyne Polythechnic, UK in 1989. She did her practical training in Yeoman & Edwards, Tunbridge Wells, UK and started her career with Gardiner & Theobald, London, UK. She returned to Malaysia in 1991 to work with Basar & Harun Sdn as a quantity surveyor. She qualified as a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in 1992. She was accepted as a member of the Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia (RISM) and as a Registered Quantity Surveyor with the Lembaga Juruukur Bahan Malaysia (LJBM) in 1994 She left Basar & Harun Sdn in 2000 to pursue her career locally and in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. She also has project experience in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She has handled over 30 projects as a quantity surveyor specialising in high and low rise residential, commercial, high rise office, hotel, education, hospitals and infrastructure. Sr Dainna returned to Basar & Harun Sdn as Director in 2010. Sr Dainna had been actively involved in various committees in RICS, RISM and BQSM since 1995. She had held posts of Divisional Treasurer, Secretary, Chairman of the RISM Vice President (QS) Session 2013/2014 and 2014/2015, RISM Honorary Treasurer General and RISM Honorary Secretary General. Currently she is a RISM Councillor heading the Constitution Committee. She had served as Board Member of BQSM for 3 sessions and also as Lembaga Akitek Malaysia Board Member.

Dr Sopon Pornchokchai FRICS

President, Agency for Real Estate Affairs, Director, Thai Real Estate Business School

A valuer/appraiser in Thailand who is the president of Agency for Real Estate Affairs, Thai Appraisal Foundation & director of Thai Real Estate Business School. Former consultant to World Bank, FAO, ILO, UNCHS, UNESCAP and the like and presently the director of the largest real estate information and valuation centre of some 150 staff members in Thailand which has been in operation since 1994 throughout Thailand, HCMC, Jakarta, Manila and Phnom Penh. Specialties: Appraisal, Valuation, Research and Survey on Properties as well as Soft Laws and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

René Hillig, MRICS

Managing Director Singapore and Head of Project & Programme Management, Southeast Asia, Asia Infrastructure Solutions Pte Ltd

René is the Managing Director and Head of Project Management Southeast Asia at Asia Infrastructure Solutions. Prior to this, René was the Managing Director of Arcadis Singapore, leading a multidisciplinary consultancy business comprising around 280 project managers, cost managers, construction managers and sustainability & business advisory staff. Over the last two decades, René has held various senior and director-level positions with multidisciplinary consultancies in Asia, the Middle East, and the UK and has delivered or led the delivery of a wide variety of programs and projects across all sectors of the built environment. With a BEng(Hons) in civil engineering and an MSc in Construction Economics & Management from UCL, René is also a chartered member of the RICS (MRICS) and is PMP and CDCP certified.