Investment Forum
Tue 30 May
12:45 PM — 2:15 PM (GMT+08:00) Kuala Lumpur, Singapore
The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia, Junior Ballroom, level 3
Opportunities in Emerging Markets in Southeast Asia
The Investment Forum will examine topical issues in Southeast Asian emerging markets. One panel will look at how evolving economic or political forces are driving the regeneration of inner city parts of Jakarta, Manila, and Ho Chi Minh City. Another will explore how the migration of China-based manufacturing capacity into regional emerging markets is creating investment opportunities, particularly in the development of new industrial and logistics facilities.
Programme
12:45pm Welcome remarks
Tan Yi-xun, Vice President, Asset Management, CapitaLand Investment
12:50pm Panel Discussion: Urban Regeneration
Moderator: Frederico Ramos, Principal, Aedas
Panelists:
Dzung Do Nguyen, Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, enCity
Tiyok Prasetyoadi, Founding Partner and Managing Director, PDW Architects
Sylvester Wong, Asia Head of ESG Services and Philippines Country Executive, AECOM
1:25pm Panel Discussion: Inbound Foreign Investment
Moderator: Adam Fowler, Expert Advisor, Boston Consulting Group
Panelists:
Brian Chinappi, Partner, Head of Real Estate, Actis
Patricia Goh, Managing Director - Southeast Asia, CapitaLand Investment
Eric Manuel, Director, ARCH Capital Management Co Ltd
Vo Sy Nhan, Co-founder & Principal Partner, Gaw NP Capital & Chief Executive Officer, Empire City
2:10pm Wrap up and closing remarks
Tan Yi-xun, Assistant Vice President, Investment & Portfolio Management, CapitaLand
2:15pm Forum concludes
Speakers
Moderator
Moderator
Chairman Boston Consulting Group
Adam Fowler has more than a decade of experience developing real estate in Vietnam, having joined Ecopark Corporation in 2011 to contribute to the growth of the Ecopark Hung Yen project from a 500-hectare green-field site to a vibrant and internationally acclaimed master-planned community of more than 25,000 homes and growing. He fulfilled a variety of roles for Ecopark Corporation, including: overseeing the company’s commercial…
Moderator
Moderator
Principal Aedas
Frederico has over 25 years of industry experience, a degree in architecture, a degree in environmental and territorial planning, and has completed projects across 5 continents. Passionate about architecture and experienced in all project stages of infrastructure, healthcare, hospitality, commercial, institutional, educational, and residential works, his diverse experience enables him to engage in a wide range of project scopes. Frederico is particularly experienced in large-scale,…
Panelist
Panelist
Partner, Head of Real Estate Actis
With over two decades of experience working in the Asian Real Estate market, Brian joined Actis in 2018 through the sale of Standard Chartered Bank’s Principal Finance Real Estate group, a business he founded in 2010. Based in Hong Kong, Brian heads up Actis’ Real Estate business, leading a team of investment professionals focused on delivering returns through understanding micro market dynamics and emphasising strategic,…
Panelist
Panelist
CEO, Southeast Asia, CapitaLand Investment CapitaLand Investment
Patricia Goh is responsible for CLI investments opportunities as well as build up new business/products in Southeast Asia which includes the self storage mandate with APG and formation of Capitaland SEA Logistics Fund. Prior to this role, she was the Head, Group Investment at Frasers Property Limited, where she helped formulate corporate and investment strategies including for e.g., the formation and scaling up of the…
Panelist
Panelist
Director ARCH Capital Management Co Ltd
With over 15 years of experience in real estate advisory, development, investment, and asset management, spanning both commercial and residential sectors, Eric Manuel joined ARCH Capital in 2018. He leads investment and asset management activities in the Philippines. Previously, Eric was Vice President and Head of Real Estate for Primeiro Partners, an investment bank providing strategic and capital advisory services to several real estate developers…
Panelist
Panelist
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer enCity
Dzung Do Nguyen is an expert in city planning and design with 15 years of experience in plan-making and implementation in fast-growing regions and emerging cities in Asia. He has explored new frontiers in urban innovations with the aim of providing market-responsive, context-sensitive and implementation-ready urban solutions. His works focuses on comprehensive city development strategies, economic zone developments, water-sensitive urban designs, transit-oriented developments and new…
Panelist
Panelist
Founding Partner and Managing Director PDW Architects
Prasetyoadi, IAI, IAP, GP (Tiyok) is a professional architect and urban designer. He is the founding partner and managing director of PDW (www.pdw.co.id) id), an award winning design firm in Jakarta. Tiyok is Core Founder of Green Building Council Indonesia. He gets his bachelor degree from Institute of Technology Bandung ( ITB), Architecture School, 1995 and Master of Urban Development and Design from The University…
Panelist
Panelist
Co-founder & Principal Partner Gaw NP Capital
Chief Executive Officer Empire City
Mr. VO Sy Nhan is taking leader roles as a local professional developer as well as real estate fund manager. Prior to joining the private sector, Nhan had worked for the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City as a public servant. After 8 long years of contributing to the city, Nhan returned to Private sector. Throughout the years, he successfully structured…
Panelist
Panelist
Vice President, Asia, ESG Services AECOM
Sylvester Wong is a 25 year veteran of designing cities and infrastructure around the world, and is Asia head of ESG Services, and Philippines Country Executive for AECOM. After San Francisco and Hong Kong, he went to where infrastructure could empower opportunity for over a hundred million. Now in Manila, he bridges physical and digital infrastructure with financial, as a fintech neobank founder, and a…

