Our Executive Team

Lee Chee Koon
Group Chief Executive Officer 
CapitaLand Investment

Chee Koon is the Group CEO of CapitaLand Investment (CLI), a global real asset manager with S$117 billion in funds under management across 45 countries. He has held this position since CLI’s listing in 2021, after leading the restructuring of CapitaLand Group (CapitaLand), one of the largest diversified real estate companies in Asia.

Prior to CLI, Chee Koon was the President and Group CEO of CapitaLand from 2018. During his tenure as Group CEO of CapitaLand, Chee Koon led the strategic merger between the company and Ascendas-Singbridge in 2019. This merger bolstered CapitaLand's presence in the business parks, industrial and logistics sectors, as well as its fund management and lodging management platforms.

Chee Koon joined CapitaLand in 2007 and held several appointments within the Group, including CEO of The Ascott Limited (Ascott) and Group Chief Investment Officer of CapitaLand, before becoming CapitaLand's President and Group CEO.

Chee Koon was honoured as ‘Industry Figure of the Year – Asia Pacific’ at the PERE Global Awards 2024. He was also named ‘Outstanding Chief Executive of the Year’ at the Singapore Business Awards 2022.

Chee Koon holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from the National University of Singapore. He also holds a Master of Science degree in Advanced Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London, United Kingdom.

Andrew Lim
Group Chief Operating Officer 
CapitaLand Investment

Andrew is Group COO at CapitaLand Investment (CLI), responsible for management oversight of country operations. He also oversees CLI's private capital markets which is responsible for capital raising and product development.

Prior to this appointment, Andrew was Group CFO of CLI from September 2021 to December 2022.  Before that, he was Group CFO of the CapitaLand Group from 2017 to 2021, where he oversaw the Group’s finance functions and corporate-level mergers and acquisitions, including the landmark S$11 billion merger with Ascendas-Singbridge in 2019. He was a key architect in the successful restructuring of the CapitaLand Group in 2021.

Before joining CapitaLand, Andrew was an Investment Banker at HSBC Bank for 12 years, rising to the position of Managing Director and Head of Southeast Asia Advisory Coverage, Real Estate and Hospitality.

Andrew holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Master of Business Administration from the Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder.

Kevin Chee
Managing Director, Private Funds 
CapitaLand Investment 

Kevin Chee has over 24 years of experience in private equity real estate, public REITs and investment banking. He is currently the Fund Manager of CapitaLand’s flagship open-end core plus fund, CapitaLand Open-End Real Estate Fund (“COREF”). Leveraging on his experience in managing real estate vehicles across the Asia Pacific region, and in support of CapitaLand’s strategic direction to grow its investment management business, Kevin has been responsible for the inception, establishment, and ongoing fund raising and buildout of COREF. Within a short span of two years, COREF has secured commitments of close to US$600 million and achieved a fund gross asset value of nearly US$1 billion. 

Kevin has extensive public and private capital markets and fund management experience. He has been instrumental in raising over US$1.4 billion of equity and tapping debt capital market for over US$1.5 billion over the last 7 years. During this time, he has been involved in acquisitions across different real estate sectors valued at over US$3 billion.

Prior to taking on the role as Fund Manager of COREF, he was the CEO of CapitaLand Commercial Trust Management Limited, the Manager of CapitaLand Commercial Trust (CCT), Singapore’s largest commercial office REIT with an AUM of US$8.5 billion. His stewardship of CCT culminated in the REIT’s US$8.3 billion merger with CapitaLand Mall Trust to create Singapore’s largest REIT and the second largest REIT in Asia Pacific in October 2020.  

Kevin has a Bachelor of Business (Honours) degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Gabriel Fong
Managing Director and Head, Special Opportunities Group
CapitaLand Investment

Gabriel Fong is Managing Director and Head, Special Opportunities Group at CapitaLand Investment (CLI). He oversees the development and execution of CLI’s global strategy in building special situations funds.

Gabriel has over 30 years of experience in special situations and real estate private equity investment and fund management. Prior to CLI, he was the Founder of and Chief Executive Officer for Vaw Eurasian Capital Investment Management, where he started a private equity fund targeting new economy real estate sectors.

Gabriel holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Economics from Cambridge University.

Harry Yan
Managing Director, Funds Management
CapitaLand Investment

Harry Yan serves as the Head of Southeast Asia (SEA) Logistics at CapitaLand Investment. He is responsible for the growth of the SEA logistics business and oversees the operation of CapitaLand SEA Logistics Fund and related company investments to build logistics capabilities in SEA.

Harry has over 20 years of experience in the real estate industry with deep knowledge and extensive network in the logistics sector in Singapore, Australia, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaysia. He was previously Executive Vice President of Frasers Property Industrial where he supported the Industrial Group in business development and investments in SEA. He also oversaw the management of the industrial portfolio in Thailand totalling more than S$3.4 billion and 35 million sq ft, from asset and development management, construction management, customer solutions & leasing, customer experience, property management to operation services.

Prior to joining Frasers Property, Harry was with the Fund Manager of CapitaLand Ascendas REIT for 10 years. He last held the position of Head of Singapore Revenue Management, and was responsible for setting up the leasing strategy, asset rejuvenation and revenue targets across the listed portfolio, including the REIT’s maiden logistics platform acquisition in Australia.

Harry holds a Bachelor of Science in Estate Management from the University of Reading and a Master of Science from the University of Singapore.

Michelle Lee
Managing Director, Private Funds (Data Centre)
CapitaLand Investment 

Michelle Lee leads the data centre private fund strategy for CapitaLand Investment (CLI), bringing over 25 years of international real estate experience across multiple asset classes. During her 18-year tenure at CapitaLand, Michelle spent a decade contributing to CapitaLand’s rapid growth in China. She has also held leadership roles in expanding the group’s presence in Europe and other Asian markets. Michelle’s expertise spans across investment, asset and portfolio management, fund management, strategic partnerships, development, operations, and exits.

In recent years, Michelle has been playing an integral role in formulating and executing CLI’s investment strategy in data centres. Working closely with CLI’s global team, she has led the group’s strategic entry into various data centre markets.

Michelle spearheaded CapitaLand's successful foray into the European data centre market with the acquisition of a portfolio valued at nearly EUR 600 million (S$905 million). She was also instrumental in establishing CapitaLand’s first China data centre fund – CapitaLand China Data Centre Partners, with a total investment of S$1 billion. Overall, Michelle has led investments in 16 data centre projects across Asia and Europe, valued at close to S$3.5 billion (on completed basis).
 
Michelle holds a Master of Science in Real Estate from the National University of Singapore.

Mak Hoe Kit
Managing Director, Lodging Private Equity Funds
CapitaLand Investment

Mak Hoe Kit has over 24 years of investment experience in investments and asset management, particularly in real estate and private equity. He joined CapitaLand in January 2019 as the Managing Director of Ascott Global Serviced Residence Fund, a US$600 million serviced residence joint-venture fund with the Qatar Investment Authority to invest in serviced residences globally.

Prior to Ascott, he was with Frasers Hospitality as the Chief Investment Officer, responsible for the growth of hospitality investments and management contracts globally. Before that, he was Executive Director – Real Estate at Northstar Group; and Executive Director and Co-Leader - Real Estate at Ernst & Young. He spent five years with Pacific Star Group as the Senior Vice President responsible for the Asia Real Estate Income Fund, a EUR500 million value-add fund. During this period, he was instrumental in various real estate investments in Asia and successfully divested them. Hoe Kit started his career in NatSteel Group, a diversified conglomerate where he grew in the job for seven years and was involved in various investments, strategic planning, M&A, restructuring as well as bringing private subsidiary companies to IPO.

Hoe Kit is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He holds a Master of Science in Real Estate and Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) from the National University of Singapore. He is an active volunteer with the CFA Institute.

Arjun Pandit
Managing Director, Private Funds (Credit)
CapitaLand Investment

Arjun Pandit is responsible for managing all aspects of the real estate private debt funds business at CapitaLand Investment .

Arjun is one of the most experienced commercial real estate professional in Asia Pacific with a consistent track record over 20 years in establishing, running and managing businesses related to commercial mortgage and asset backed lending, hard assets investing, real estate operating platforms and distressed debt investment platforms across the breadth of asset classes over business cycles. Over this period, Arjun has participated in over US$20 billion of real estate related transactions, including some of the largest commercial real estate financings in the region.

Prior to CapitaLand, Arjun was the head of the Asia Pacific asset finance group at Credit Suisse, where he was responsible for managing the lending platform across the region with a primary focus on Australia, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Japan, Korea, Thailand and India. Under his leadership, the bank commenced, for the first time post global financial crises, non-recourse real estate lending activities in Asia Pacific. Arjun was also a member of the bank’s Asia Pacific asset finance capital commitments committee.

Prior to Credit Suisse, Arjun was the Asia Pacific head of global mortgages and securitized products at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he was in-charge of managing commercial and residential mortgage platforms in Japan, Korea and Australia, and led some of the largest buyout related financing transactions in the region.

Prior to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Arjun was a key member of Morgan Stanley’s Asia Pacific commercial real estate mezzanine lending team, where he was involved in some of the largest financing transactions in Japan and Australia. Arjun started his real estate career in Asia Pacific, post Asian financial crisis, at Lehman Brother’s principal transaction team based in Japan. He was one of the early members of a business platform that went on to establish itself as one of the leading distressed debt and real estate investment platforms in the region.

Arjun received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from University of Delhi in India and a Masters of Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales in Australia.

Cherry Wang
Managing Director & Head of Portfolio & Fund Management, China
CapitaLand Investment 

Cherry Wang is the Managing Director & Head of Portfolio & Fund Management at CapitaLand Investment (CLI) China, overseeing CLI’s China portfolio and fund management of RMB private equity and offshore private funds.

With 30 years of working experience, including 15 years at CapitaLand, Cherry has held senior roles across investment, asset, and fund management. Her past positions include Managing Director of Commercial Management for East China, Managing Director of Portfolio Management & Head of Logistics Business, China, and General Manager of Investment & Asset Management, CapitaMalls Asia (China). Cherry has been instrumental in driving strategic transactions to optimise CLI’s China portfolio, leveraging her deep expertise in investment and asset management.

A Shanghai University graduate, Cherry has extensive experience in business operations and previously worked in government organizations and as a core management member of foreign startups.

Hardik Gesota
Managing Director & Head, India Private Funds
CapitaLand Investment

Hardik Gesota currently serves as the fund manager for CapitaLand Investment (CLI)’s business park development funds in India - the CapitaLand India Growth Programme and CapitaLand India Growth Fund II. In addition, he is the member of the investment committee for CLI’s two India logistics development programmes. He has over 17 years of experience in private equity real estate investments, asset management and divestments, across diverse asset classes including office, logistics, residential and retail.

Prior to his current role, Hardik was with HDFC Property Fund where he participated in investments with third party developers on deals involving debt, mezzanine and equity. Before his tenure at HDFC, Hardik worked at JP Morgan’s real estate asset management team.

Hardik holds a Masters in Management from K J Somaiya Institute of Management.

Kang Leng Hui
Chief Financial Officer, Private Funds
CapitaLand Investment

Kang Leng Hui is responsible for all aspects of financial reporting to investors and corporate as well as effective capital and treasury management for CapitaLand Investment (CLI)’s private equity fund business.

She has over 20 years of experience in financial and corporate reporting, taxation, capital management and audit. Prior to joining CLI, Leng Hui was the Chief Financial Officer of Keppel REIT since 2018. During her tenure in Keppel, she held various senior positions including Financial Controller of Keppel Capital and Chief Financial Officer of Keppel Infrastructure Trust. She started her career as an auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Leng Hui holds a Bachelor of Accountancy (Honours) from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. She is a Chartered Accountant (Singapore) and a member of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants.

Yvonne Siew                                                                 
Managing Director & Head, Product Development & Wealth Markets, Private Capital Markets                                 
CapitaLand Investment

Yvonne leads product development, client services, and marketing communications for CLI’s private funds, while also spearheading the growth of its private wealth business.

Yvonne has more than 20 years of experience across the real estate spectrum, focusing on origination, underwriting investors' returns, due diligence and structuring real estate investment opportunities for clients globally.  Prior to joining CLI, Yvonne was the Head of Real Estate Advisory and Investments at the Bank of Singapore.  Before joining the bank in 2019, she was the Executive Director, Global Capital Markets at CBRE.  Before that, she was the Head of Asia Real Estate at Citi Private Bank.

Yvonne holds a Bachelor of Science from the National University of Singapore.

Alan Tan                                                                                 
Managing Director & Head of Capital Raising, Private Capital Markets, and Managing Director, Special Projects, Private Equity Real Assets
CapitaLand Investment

Alan is responsible for leading CapitaLand Investment (CLI)'s global capital raising team and driving new initiatives across the private equity business.  Prior to this, he served as Head of Strategic Partnerships at CapitaLand Development, where he was responsible for capital raising and leading new business initiatives.  Before that, Alan was Vice President for Special Projects supporting the Group CEO of CLI, and worked at Morgan Stanley, CreditEase and Temasek Holdings in a variety of real estate fund management, investments, and capital raising roles.

Alan holds a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD Business School and a Bachelor of Accountancy (Double major in Banking & Finance) from Nanyang Technological University.

Cheryl Seet
Head of Wealth Markets
CapitaLand Investment

Cheryl Seet is responsible for building CapitaLand Investment’s private wealth business, a key component in the organization’s long-term growth. Prior to this appointment, she led the Group Strategy team which develops the long-term strategy for the Group. Her role included identifying strategic business focus areas and worked with business units to formulate corporate strategies; as well as emerging business trends to establish new platforms for the firm.

With her professional experience spanning 20 years in real estate, investments and investment banking, Cheryl was the Director of Investments and Capital Partners at Ascendas-Singbridge where she supported the firm’s expansion in Australia and its entry into the United States through the acquisition of office properties.

Prior to her role at Ascendas-Singbridge, Cheryl held various positions across multiple groups in Temasek International, including investments, portfolio management and enterprise development. She started her career at Lehman Brothers in London, the United Kingdom and Menlo Park, United States where she advised technology companies and investors on mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, leveraged buyouts and various forms of financing.

Currently serving as a NEXT Committee member of the Urban Land Institute Singapore, Cheryl actively supports the ULI mission and its commitments to convene, inspire and lead.

Cheryl holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Bernhard Karas
Managing Director, Private Capital Markets
CapitaLand Investment

Bernhard Karas joined CapitaLand Group in 2020 as Head of Private Capital Markets with responsibility for leading the firm’s private funds product development and global capital raising efforts. He currently focuses on developing CapitaLand Investment’s client base and capital raising for the firm’s private equity real assets platform across Europe and the Middle East.

Bernhard has 24 years of financial services industry experience and has dedicated a substantial part of his career to advising leading real estate companies and fund managers on the formation of private equity vehicles and raising capital from global institutional investors. Bernhard has been actively involved in the origination and execution of real estate private equity advisory transactions and capital raising mandates of more than US$10 billion.

Prior to joining CapitaLand, Bernhard spent five years with DWS Group based in Hong Kong leading the alternatives coverage specialists function in Asia ex-Japan. Prior to that, Bernhard was a director in the capital markets group of Cushman & Wakefield in Hong Kong where he was responsible for building and leading the indirect investment and private equity advisory function in the Asia Pacific Region. Before that, Bernhard spent nine years with M3 Capital Partners where he was instrumental in developing the firm’s institutional investor relationships initially in Europe and subsequently in Asia after relocating from London to Hong Kong in April 2009. Bernhard started his career in investment banking in the late 1990s with Lehman Brothers in London.

Bernhard holds a Masters Degree in Social and Economic Sciences from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. 

Ted Koros
Managing Director, US Capital Fund Raising & Business Development 
CapitaLand Investment 

Ted Koros has over 30 years of experience in real assets investments with expertise in all elements of capital raising, product development, and marketing for both domestic and global strategies. He has extensive experience creating funds and successfully bringing them to market by partnering with portfolio, research and strategy, and product development teams.

Prior to his current role, Ted served as Managing Director for BlackRock Real Estate where he led capital raising in the Western US for both domestic and international products. Member of the BlackRock Alternatives Specialists Group – Real Assets, where he was instrumental in capital raising for infrastructure products which included both debt and equity. During his 26-year tenure at BlackRock, Ted had several other roles including portfolio management overseeing several multifamily fund strategies, acquisitions with a specialty in multifamily assets and Chief Operating Officer of Metric Property Management.

Ted holds a Master of Science from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the University of California, Davis. He is a CFA® charter holder. 

John Zheng
Managing Director & Head of Private Capital Markets
CapitaLand Investment China

John Zheng is the Head of Private Capital Markets for CapitaLand Investment (CLI) China. He is responsible for raising Chinese capital to support CLI’s business initiatives in China and in other parts of Asia.

John has over 16 years of experience in real estate acquisition, debt financing and equity capital raising in Asia and Europe. Prior to joining CLI, John Zheng worked at Tishman Speyer since 2010 and was responsible for sourcing equity capital for Tishman Speyer’s projects in China as well as the US and Europe. He was closely involved in the launch of the Tishman Speyer’s RMB Fund platform and its subsequent growth.

Before his tenure at Tishman Speyer, John was part of the real estate finance team at Merrill Lynch (now part of Bank of America) in London, where he was responsible for originating commercial mortgage loans across Europe.

John holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the London School of Economics and Politics Sciences (LSE) and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Kotaro Honda
Head of Capital Markets & Business Development
CapitaLand Investment

With over 20 years of experience in alternative fund management, Kotaro leads Capital Markets & Business Development at CapitaLand Japan, driving strategic partnerships and initiatives, institutional investor engagement, and fund management initiatives.

Before joining CapitaLand Japan, he built a distinguished career at Mitsui & Co., Ltd., where he specialised in real asset alternative investments across real estate and infrastructure. His expertise spans product development, fundraising, direct investments, and M&A, with leadership roles as a director in securities and investment management subsidiaries and overseas fund management affiliates. He also served on the investment committee for a private investment fund.

He graduated from Doshisha University with a degree in economics and holds an MBA from IE Business School.

IIsung Min
Head of Korea Capital Markets
CapitaLand Investment

Ilsung Min has over 25 years of experience in the real estate investment and fund management industry. He has been involved in over 20 real estate investment, development and financing transactions across various sectors such as office, hyper-scale data centres, logistics centres, serviced residences and hotels in South Korea.

Since joining CapitaLand in 2008 as senior business development manager, he has been actively engaged in strategy, deal sourcing and structuring, capital raising (equity and loan), as well as core, value-add and development projects in Korea with a cumulative value exceeding US$2 billion. He has been a member of the investment committee and asset revaluation committee for all the funds managed by CapitaLand South Korea.

Prior to CapitaLand, Ilsung has been a seasoned real estate professional with experience working in Samsung Life, the largest life insurance company in Korea and a boutique firm as one of the founders.

Ilsung graduated with a Bachelor of Economics from Sogang University and holds a MBA from Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.

John Woo
Executive Director, Middle East, Private Capital Markets
CapitaLand Investment

John is Executive Director, Private Capital Markets, based in United Arab Emirates and represents CapitaLand Investment in the Middle East, focusing on developing and maintaining client relationships with Institutional Investors, Private Banks and Family Offices.

John has been with CapitaLand Investment for over 9 years and previously oversaw the funds management business for the Raffles City China Funds and the Ascendas China Commercial Fund with a total combined equity fund size of about US$4 billion, focusing on investment into mixed-use properties in China.

In 2016, he successfully raised a new US$1.5 billion Raffles City China Fund and deployed this capital into two assets valued at approximately RMB25 billion. In 2021, he led the successful full exit for investors of two Raffles City China Funds (combined fund size of approximately US$2 billion). The exit involved six assets, valued at approximately RMB46.7 billion.

John has over 21 years of experience in commercial real estate and previously worked for Morgan Stanley, Lend Lease and KPMG. John is a qualified Chartered Accountant with a double degree in Commerce and Information Systems from the University of Melbourne and has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Wilson Hah
Executive Director, Private Capital Markets
CapitaLand Investment

Wilson Hah focuses on raising capital from institutional investors for CapitaLand Investment’s private equity funds business and collaborates with various internal stakeholders to originate new private equity funds that meet the needs of global institutional investors.

Wilson has over 20 years of extensive experience in the real estate sector spanning investments, corporate lending and research. He has been with CapitaLand for more than 13 years in roles encompassing alternative investments, credit as well as fund product development and structuring. Prior to CapitaLand, he worked in the Asia investment teams of General Electric Real Estate and AIG Real Estate; and the corporate lending department of United Overseas Bank, focusing on lending to real estate funds and developers. He started his career in real estate research for the Urban Redevelopment Authority, a government agency responsible for Singapore’s long-term land usage needs.

Wilson has a Bachelor in Social Sciences with a second Upper Class Honours in Economics from the National University of Singapore. He has also been awarded the charter for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). 

Kevin Law
Executive Director, Private Capital Markets
CapitaLand Investment

Kevin Law is Executive Director of Private Capital Markets, responsible for raising capital from Asia Pacific-based investors, for CapitaLand Investment’s private equity real assets platform.

Kevin has more than 20 years’ experience in real asset sectors including infrastructure, real estate and private equity, from capital raising and investment management, to valuation and corporate finance. 

Kevin had previously co-founded and most recently led, the Asia Pacific capital raising team within Vantage Infrastructure/Hastings Funds Management, in addition to working in both unlisted and listed infrastructure funds and asset management roles across multiple infrastructure sectors including airports, toll roads, ports, electricity generation, distribution and transmission, and gas transmission, over a 13-year period. Prior to that, he was involved in the valuation of unlisted and listed businesses at KPMG Corporate Finance and started his career in the corporate banking division of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ Bank). 

Having worked in both Singapore and Australia, Kevin has a Bachelor of Commerce from The University of Melbourne and is a CPA of CPA Australia.