Team Retail’s core founding members comprise of senior management from major international real estate developers such as Cheung Kong Holdings, Hang Lung Properties, New World Development. Our founders also include the founding members of Taubman TCBL who helped the transformation of Shanghai’s Huai Hai Road Central into a world class shopping street arcade filled with top tier international brands.We differentiate ourselves from the existing big 5 agencies as we have the “INNOVATIVE” edge! We help our clients to identify their projects’ most viable “DNA” and make good use of it!

After 12 years of being on the landlord side working hard on leasing and management, really needed to take a real break to go out to learn about what is going on in the rest of the world. Had been travelling extensively in this 12-months period in China as well as N.E. Asia and have seen a lot of what's new in Taipei, Seoul, Osaka.Some of the new concepts definitely are applicable in the China market, but some are definitely not because of cultural difference.At the same time I have been attending professional courses in the finance field to enhance my professional knowledge. This shall be my newest step in my continuous life long education.

Reporting directly to the company’s COO, I am responsible for:• Setting up a new ERP Central Leasing Admin. and Management System;• Managing the company’s leasing team covering 42 department stores in 22 cities nationwide;• Managing a shopping mall portfolio with an asset net worth of RMB 3 Billion;• Securing strategic tenants for both the department store & shopping mall business units;• Leading the leasing and marketing team to formulate annual marketing strategy.Successfully established a strategic partnership with the following retailers for NWDS:* Retailing brands: (i) Uniqlo, (ii) Watson’s;* Education / Cultural brands: Parsons Music (柏斯琴行, the largest musical instrument and music education chain in China with more than 100 shops nationwide) ;* F&B brands: (i) Starbucks, (ii) Costa Coffee, (iii) Haagen Daz.Successfully pushing up the occupancy rate of NWDS shopping mall portfolio from 70% to 90% within a 9-month period when the portfolio is under revamp works.

- Assist the "Group V.P. - Leasing" in marketing the group’s 1st comprehensive development project (500,000 sqm) in XiAn,China. Within the project, the shopping mall have a GFA of 140,000 sqm and is positioned at the highest level with international 1st line luxury brands as target tenants.- Monitoring project design specification is up to standard and tenants’ demand;- Coordinating with all departments to get the mall up and running in 3 years!

Successfully opened the group's 1st "Harmony Plaza" in Jinan (140,000 sqm) and setting new record for the company: (1) 97% Opening Rate; (2) highest daily traffic 150,000 people; (3) Highest daily sales volume of RMB 7.5 million (approx. US$1.25 million, Sep, 2011 rate);(4) the first E-Day Town in Jinan (children life-education center);(5) the first mall to accommodate H&M, C&A, Uniqlo, Mango, Sephora, Starbucks, e.t.c. in Jinan, with H&M, C&A, and Mango to have their first shops in the city.

Recruited the following brands and office tenants for City Mall, Beijing (North-East 3rd Ring Road): Major Retail Tenants: (a) Burberry; (b) Swatch Group (Swatch / Omega); (c) ImagineX Group (Bally / Paul & Shark / DKNY / BCBG);(d) Li & Fung Group (Cerruti 1881); (e) Sinequanone;(f) Adidas; (g) Starbucks; (h) Best Glasses; (i) Lens Crafters;(j) Artini Group (Artini / Q’ggle); (k) Bauhaus; (l) Descente Group (Le Coq Sportif / Munsingwear);(m) Mannings Pharmacy; (n) Wacoal; (o) Element Fresh;(p) China Resources Group (Ole Supermarket), e.t.c.During the economic down turn in 2008/2009, successfully increased the office occupancy rate from 19% to 60% by recruiting the following major Office Tenants:(a) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations (the private charity fund of Microsoft);(b) Olympus; (c) Nippon Telephone & Telecommunication (NTT); (d) DSM; (e) Sandvik; (f) Vestas Wind Technology, e.t.c.

Upgraded Hang Lung Properties’ retail flagship “Fashion Walk” in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong by: (i) recruiting international fashion brands such as “See by Chloe”, “Vivienne Westwood”, “GAS”, “Braccialini”, and some fine dining operators such as “Sen-ryo”, “Habitu Ristorante”, e.t.c; and (ii) successfully recommending the “Duplex flagship” store concept to become a major feature of “Fashion Walk”. During the process, had been involved heavily with different brands’ architects.

(i) Re-channelling of “Hallmark” bodycare products in Shanghai;(ii) Tenancy negotiation and lease management;(iii) General chain operation: - sales & marketing, inventory & logistics control.

Appointed by Hongkong-listed developer Pacific Concord as the retail consultant of Concord World Phase II, the group’s 150,000-sq.m. (1.6 million sq.ft.) flagship comprehensive development project in Nanjing Road West, Shanghai, China.The architectural and consumers oriented consultancy study led to the company in successfully securing Merrill Lynch as a joint venture partner for the project, which was later to be injected into a newly listed company in Hong Kong, China Properties (#1838), in February 2007.

(2001) Appointed by ING-Barings to conduct a property market survey in Beijing and Shanghai, and to investigate the effect of China joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Bejing and Shanghai’s real estate markets. After the study, the investment bank has successfully formed a China real estate funds of US$100 million.(2000) Appointed by Hongkong-listed blue-chip property developer Henderson Land Development to conduct a retail prospect study for a residential/commercial project in Tai Kok Tsui, Kowloon. The study successfully led to Henderson Land in awarding a joint sole retail agency appointment to Vigers Hong Kong and Savills (formerly known as “FPD Savills”).(2000) Completed a Hong Kong commercial property market study that was used as a supporting document for the IPO of Paliburg Holdings’ bonds, which were backed by rental incomes generated from the public listed developer’s commercial property portfolio. Based on the study and a valuation reports, the bonds were awarded ratings from “Aa3” to “Aaa” by Moody’s Investors Service in September 2000.(1999) Successfully constructed the “Vigers Hong Kong Residential Affordability Index (RAI)”, one of the first residential property affordability indices compiled by a top-5 international property consultant in Hong Kong.