Atchison Consultants was established in 2001 to provide advice regarding financial and investment assets to major funds, focusing on property investment portfolios including appraised based and listed Australian and global property.

Previously, he was with the global firm Towers Perrin as a consultant, advising funds on improving investment performance by ensuring effective investment policies and management structures.

Before joining Towers Perrin, Ken had been an investment consultant for four years for another firm as the manager of the business. Previously, he had been General Manager and Chief Investment Officer for Wardley Investment Management.

His consulting clients have included major Australian financial institutions and funds.

Peter has a long established career in the hotels business, which included four years of lecturing on hotel management. In 1979, he co-founded Transact Hotel and Tourism Property in Australia, where through mergers, the firm expanded throughout Asia Pacific, North America and Europe, and ultimately merged and became JLW TransAct, part of Jones Lang Wootton (JLW). In 1999, with the merger of JLW and LaSalle Partners, the firm was rebranded as Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels and Mr Barge oversaw the expansion of this highly successful business, of which he is still Global Chairman today.

In 2001, he relocated to Chicago to run Jones Lang LaSalle’s corporate real estate business in the Americas. Peter had lived with his family in New York on two previous occasions. He returned to Asia Pacific in 2003 as the region’s Chief Executive Officer, where he oversaw a team of over 16,000 staff across 13 countries and 70 offices. Peter who has announced his retirement effective June 2010 is leading a number of strategic reviews for the Firm.

Peter is the author of “The Art of” series (now in their 10th re-print), covering hotel services and operations; and co-author of “International Hospitality Industry: Organisational and Operational Issues”. He also authored “The Little Book of Big Decisions”, published by Wiley and Sons in May 2005 and was the editor of another Wiley publication, “The Little Book of Real Estate Definitions Asia Pacific”, a tool widely used by real estate professionals across the region.

Peter is a sought-after presenter at high-level Asian business conferences. He is regularly quoted in Tier I media across Asia, and can be seen on television commenting on emerging Asian real estate trends, tourism, global outsourcing, and offshoring.

Michael Barnes is the Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of property solutions company ISIS and brings 25 years of experience in the property sector. Michael has lead the organisation for the last 12 years and in this time has taken ISIS from $50M - $400M per annum and employing over 400 people nationally.

As CEO, Michael leads corporate development and strategy, evolving the business and broadening the companies’ service offerings to meet market demands in the property sector.

ISIS is a Founding Member of the Green Building Council of Australia, where Michael has been a director for the past 5 years. Sustainable building practices and the future of sustainability in the property sector are foremost in Michael and ISIS' thinking. Michael is also currently Chair of the GBCA Audit Committee.

Michael holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) degree.

Andrew Borger’s career has traced the rise of public awareness of climate change, global warming, and green building practices over the last decade. His active involvement in development incorporates his current role as Executive Director and State Manager Queensland of Leighton Properties, Australia’s largest development and construction public company and a Board Member of the Green Building Council of Australia.

Andrew has over 20 years experience in property development and has delivered in excess of $5 billion of developments primarily in Queensland in the resort, residential, mixed-use and commercial sectors.

Widely regarded as an expert in sustainable commercial building practices, Andrew is currently leading the development of 400,000sqm of commercial and mixed use projects.

Paul has over 28 years of extensive experience in the management of accommodation businesses, including 18 years experience in the serviced apartment industry.

As Chairman of Directors, Paul has had control over the development and operation of the Quest Serviced Apartment concept and franchising operations. During this time, Paul has overseen the development of a successful Serviced Apartment operations system, and has had significant experience in the operation and management of serviced apartment businesses.

In addition to his involvement in the franchise aspects of the industry, Paul through related entities, has established (by way of development) and grown many serviced apartment businesses which have been operated under the Quest banner. These businesses vary from new businesses which have been established by Paul, to previously unsuccessful businesses which Paul has turned around using the Quest system.

In his leadership role at Quest, Paul has focused on developing and implementing strategies which ensure the continued growth of Quest. His key objectives include the creation and maintenance of a profitable and sustainable competitive advantage for Quest franchises. Paul recognises that Quest franchises are a long-term business, and as such must provide benefits to and meet the needs of customers, landlords, franchisees, financiers, employees, suppliers, franchisors and sub franchisors.

From 1992 until 2000, Michael was the Senior Asset Manager at Bankers Trust Australia, where he was responsible for the development and asset management of hotels, shopping centres, industrial buildings and office buildings. He was involved in the initial hostile takeover of the Grosvenor Trust in 1994 (BT Office Trust/Principal Office Trust) and the subsequent takeover of the Principal Office Trust upon joining Investa in 2003. His development projects include: 400 George Street and the PCA Award winning Deutsche Bank Place at 126 Phillip Street, Sydney.

In between the roles at BT and Investa, Michael worked at AMP as the Head of Co-Owned Commercial Asset Management before relocating to Hong Kong to work on the $5 Billion International Finance Centre project.

Michael has been with Investa for more than 6 years and as the Group Executive - Special Projects, has been responsible for major development projects, such as 126 Phillip Street and is also responsible for Investa’s capital transaction group. Earlier this year, he was a member of the Investa team which delivered Australia’s largest leasing transaction with Telstra, which comprised 125,000 m2 over 5 buildings.

Michael has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political science, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Economics and a Graduate Diploma in Urban Estate Management. He is a member of the Property Council’s Commercial Office Committee.

Peter joined Westpac Investment management in 1994, which later became a part of BT Financial Group. During his time with the group, Peter held senior analytical responsibility for the property, retail, insurance and infrastructure sectors. Peter is currently responsible for the portfolio management of BTIM’s range of listed property securities portfolios.

Peter has direct property experience; he represented BT Financial Group for five years as a non-executive director of a large direct property fund, the Industry Superannuation Property Trust.

Prior to BT, Peter had 10 years experience in financial markets, starting his career as a fixed income securities and foreign exchange dealer with Midland Montagu Australia and then moving to Daiwa Securities where he worked as an executive in the advisory area. Prior to this, Peter was an industrials analyst at BT Securities.

Peter holds a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Law from The University of Sydney.

Scott is Managing Director of Bennelong Property Funds Management, a boutique retail unlisted funds manager headquartered in Melbourne. Prior to that, Scott established and managed the Victorian office for listed funds manager, Valad Property Group.

From 2002 to 2006, Scott held the position as General Manager Property, Coles Myer, where he was nationally responsible for Leasehold and Freehold transactions across the 13 retail businesses, and from 1999 to 2002 Scott was State Director, Property Development at Multiplex Victoria. Previously, he held roles as State Managing Director for Knight Frank and Hooker Corporate, during which time he transacted a large number of institutional grade CBD and suburban commercial, retail and industrial properties.

Scott is a past State President and National Board Member of the Property Council of Australia, and is currently a Board Member of Yachting Victoria. Scott holds a Masters Degree (University of Melbourne), an Associate Diploma in property valuation, and a Certificate of Business Studies (Real Estate).

Mr Angelo Del Borrello is Founding Director and currently Managing Director of Aspen Group with responsibility for the acquisition, development and funding of commercial properties and overseeing the business operations in general. He has over 20 years experience in the financial services and investment industry and prior to establishing Aspen Group, Mr Del Borrello was actively involved in various facets of property syndication and property development including land subdivisions, luxury apartment development and refurbishment.

Mr Del Borrello holds a Diploma of Financial Advising with the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.

Dean Dransfield is the founder of Dransfield Hotels & Resorts, established in 1993.

Dransfield Hotels & Resorts are a specialist professional services organisation advising tourism and hospitality enterprises. Specific services include:

• Transaction Management including sales and due diligence;

• Independent Expert’s Reports for public offerings, courts and investors;

• Operational reviews;

• Development planning including feasibility and design planning;

• Dispute resolution, formal and informal.

Dransfield Hotels & Resorts has been involved in the full range of tourism projects involving over 30,000 rooms in more than 300 enterprises. Projects include backpack to five star deluxe, CBD and Resorts, single and multi site, throughout Australia and parts of South East Asia. Clients include owners, operators, banks and developers.

Dean is also the principal author of Hotel Futures, a historically accurate long term forecast of Hotel revenues for the ten major cities around Australia published since 1997.

Michael Drapac has a vision for Melbourne. If he has his way, it will become a comprehensively sustainable city – one which is rich in spirit. It will be a place people will want to gravitate to. It will honour its great architectural traditions, promote the wellbeing of its occupants, sustain its cultural landscape, integrate residential development and champion environmental sustainability.

Michael Drapac is founding shareholder and managing director of the Melbourne-based Drapac Group, formed in 1987.

The Drapac Group is one of the largest private owners of commercial property in and around Melbourne. It owns approximately $200-300 million of Melbourne CBD and CBD-fringe property across approximately 9 acres (3.64 hectares) of prime land. Development of the properties – they are currently at various stages – is expected to increase their combined value to more than $1 billion.

Drapac is also a funds manager specialising in unlisted direct property investments with an asset base of $250 million across various funds.

As well as being a property developer for more than 20 years, Michael Drapac has a background in health sciences with degrees in Biochemistry and Pathology, and Nutrition and Food Chemistry. This has shaped his commitment to producing buildings which not only meet Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) standards, but also consider the wellbeing of occupants and respect and sustain the social, cultural and architectural landscapes.

“We must identify the generators that sustain great cities such as Paris and New York. Their buildings are designed with heart and soul. They promote human interaction and wellbeing with well-designed plazas and public spaces. Their buildings are designed according to the laws of nature – no two are the same. The best buildings invite people in. They contribute to the landscape and respect the streetscape.”

Peter joined Peet Limited in 2008 as Head of Funds Management and is responsible for the management of the 27 retail syndicates that Peet currently has under management, as well as the creation of new syndicates, including the $22 million Peet Point Cook Kingsford Syndicate which was launched in August 2009. These syndicates have a gross development value of $3 billion and make Peet Australia’s largest listed residential land syndicate. Peet also manages a wholesale syndicate which purchased 242 hectares in Alkimos, Western Australia for $300 million and is creating a new residential estate of over 3,300 dwellings.

Peter has held senior positions within the property funds management industry since 1995 for some of Australia’s leading property companies including AMP Capital and Multiplex. He also has significant international experience having completed transactions in the United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East and New Zealand over the last five years.

Approximately 10 years as a construction economist, specialising in construction economics value management, development feasibility studies and tax depreciation. During this period working experience was gained in the UK, Australia and the pacific region.

Approximately 10 years as a Property development manager and economist developing project and asset managing commercial office developments, retail centres, tourist resorts and medium to high-density housing. During this period projects developed and managed exceeded $A4 billion in value.

Fourteen years as a full time university academic During this time lecturing and course leadership commitments have predominately been at postgraduate level in the area of project management and property economics with a strong emphasis on project management, strategic asset management and the development processes and investment. Research (including my PhD) and research degree supervision has been in the area of strategic asset management, housing and finance.

Subjects taught include property and portfolio investment analysis, risk management and analysis, strategic asset management and project management.

Funded Research

Research grants received total over $A 3,600,000

1. Property Development Management Simulation, Computer Aid Learning Software Packages

2. Private (Institutional) Investment in Low Income Rental Housing (Queensland Housing)

3. Benchmarking Rental Housing Property Management (Queensland Housing)

4. Benchmarking Housing Development Costs Phases 1, 2 & 3 (Queensland Housing)

5. Benchmarking Housing and Urban Development Infrastructure Costs and Benefits (Queensland Housing)

6. Asset Management of the Public Housing Sector (Queensland Housing)

7. Housing Indicator Indices (Queensland Housing)

8. Benchmarking Indigenous Housing (costs and Life Long Learning Benefits) (Queensland Housing)

9. National (Australian) Housing Indicators (Federal Government)

10. Functional Change in the Strategic Asset management of CBD Properties

11. Young people in Major Retail Centres and the impact on planning and Investment (Brisbane City Council)

12. Future housing demand for the aged in Australia and investment strategies

13. Integrated Housing Indices using GIS as a Management Tool

14. Low Income housing for the Aged

15. Project Management Culture

16. Development of a location index for housing of the aged projects

17. Applied PPP applications for local government

18. Economic spillover impacts of housing the aged

19. Rental aspirations of the aged

20. Consumer satisfaction of retirement village residents

Papers

During the past eleven years over 80 academic papers produced of which approximately 1/3 are refereed, 15 major strategy/policy reports on the strategic asset management of public housing (Australian Government), two books and four commercial computer software packages have been produced.

Member of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants (CA, NZ)

Fellow of the Hong Kong Society of Accountants (FHKSA)

Fellow of Institute of Director and Certified Director of Institute of Directors

New Zealand Justice of the Peace (J.P.)

Business graduate from Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand (B.C.A.)

Chartered Accountant having worked in New Zealand and Hong Kong with international chartered accounting firms.

30 years experience in hotel management and operations, corporate development and administration; with The Peninsula Group, Hong Kong; Kingsgate International and with Swiss-Belhotel International.

Former Chief Executive of Kingsgate International Corporation Limited, a publicly listed hotel owning and management company in Australia and New Zealand including hotels operated by Hyatt International.

Director of the Mawland Management Group – Australia,

Director and investor in a number of private agricultural, property, management and consulting companies in Australia and New Zealand.

Major shareholder and Managing Director of 300 hectare, 700 cow dairy unit in North Taranaki, New Zealand.

Board Member of Venture Taranaki, New Zealand

Awarded in 2009 National Tourism Legends Award by Tourism Training Australia

Chairman, President and Shareholder of Swiss-Belhotel International

Paul began his career in 1995 age 20. Assisting a dynamic and young property developer and hotelier, Paul was exposed to real-estate development and the hotel business. This experience led to Paul's first hotel acquisition in 1996. The leasehold 16 room city centre boarding house was the beginning of a budget hotel business that by 1998 included backpacker hostels and boarding houses in five locations and over 500 beds throughout Sydney. In 2001 Paul sold the budget hotel business and acquired the development rights to a 70 room boutique hotel in the Sydney CBD. This hotel led to the establishment of Eight Hotels Australia in 2002, a boutique hotel company that as of 2009 includes 7 hotels in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.

Frank Gelber is the Chief Economist at BIS Shrapnel & director of the Economics, Infrastructure and Property research and forecasting units.

Frank is a forecaster. He frequently speaks on prospects for the economy and property markets. His objective is to understand whether activity or growth is sustainable. In a cyclical environment, the task is to predict turning points & risk, to understand how markets will develop on the logic of the players, and how market logic will change as circumstances and perceptions evolve.

The aim is to know how markets will change in plenty of time to prepare, to avoid mistakes and to position into opportunities.

BACKGROUND

Antony joined Macquarie in 2004. Antony's corporate advisory experience spans over 14 years, specialising in advising clients on real estate related transactions covering M&A, equity and debt capital markets and structured finance. Antony led the global expansion of Macquarie Capital Advisers’ real estate advisory and capital raising business growing to a team of real estate specialists located in Australasia, UK/Europe, North America (USA and Canada), Asia (HK/China, Japan, Singapore, India, Korea) and the Middle East.

Prior to joining Macquarie, Antony was with JPMorgan for more than nine years and oversaw the establishment and led its specialist real estate investment banking capability across the entire Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan).

EXPERIENCE

Antony has been involved in numerous real estate industry transforming transactions in both the Australasian and the Asian regions.

In Australasia, experience includes participation in many real estate REIT and developer IPOs and follow-on capital raisings, being highly active in REIT consolidation transactions including the mergers and takeovers of REITs, trade sales and transactions involving change of control of REIT managers.

In Asia, Antony has been highly active in the development of the Asian REIT markets having had significant involvement in numerous M&A and capital raising deals. Antony was involved in many of Asia's first REIT IPOs and CMBS issues including Link REIT, Ascendas REIT, CapitaCommercial REIT and Macquarie MEAG Prime REIT.

Peter Gribble is the founder of daVinci Australia and was responsible for the direction and development of many of its property products. Mr. Gribble is a qualified accountant and has over 20 years experience in tax, the investment markets and property. Mr. Gribble has been involved in approximately AUD$840 million of property transactions over that period, including direct involvement in most aspects of property acquisitions, management and development. Mr. Gribble sold a majority stake in daVinci Australia to daVinci Japan in July 2007 and will retain the CEO role to drive the strategic direction of the company in Australia.

David Gribble is Head of the Real Estate Principal Investment Area within Goldman Sachs JBWere's Merchant Banking division and is an Executive Director of the Firm. He has also been a senior member of the restructuring team within the Investment Banking Division.

David joined Goldman Sachs JBWere in 2008 from Morgan Stanley Real Estate to take executive responsibility for the real estate principal investing business. He has 16 years of real estate experience including over 8 years of real estate principal investing and real estate investment banking experience with Morgan Stanley Real Estate, where he executed a range of real estate investment transactions in private and public markets in both Europe and Australia.

Prior to Morgan Stanley, David spent 6 years with Lend Lease Corporation in Australia and New Zealand where he was responsible for the project management and delivery of a range of real estate projects. He has served on the boards of various investment companies over the past 5 years. David holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Auckland and a Master of Business Administration from the London Business School.

David jointly runs the Charter Hall Group, with specific responsibility for Funds Management and Property Management divisions, and has more than 22 years experience in the Australian commercial property market. His role entails responsibility for the strategic growth of the funds management business, with particular focus on investment sourcing, asset management, capital raisings and structuring of transactions.

Prior to joining Charter Hall in 2004, David was Managing Director of Savills in Australia where he transacted approximately $6 billion of commercial, retail and industrial property assets across all capital cities of Australia. David holds a Land Economics degree from the University of Western Sydney, a graduate Diploma in Applied Finance from the Securities Institute of Australia, and is a Fellow of the Australian Property Institute.

RiskMetrics’ Head of ESG Asia Pacific, Mr Bill Hartnett, joined the company in 2009 after its acquisition of Innovest whom Bill joined in 2005 after having gained extensive experience in sustainable investment related research and product development as part of a 15 year career in the finance and investment industry.

From 1994 to 2000 Bill worked at Westpac Banking Corporation in corporate banking, strategy and funds management roles before specialising in the sustainable investment field. In 1999-2000 Bill worked on the product management and communication for the Westpac (now BT) Australian Eco Share Fund – the first ‘best of sector’ SRI fund offered to Australian superannuation funds.

From 2000 to 2003 Bill developed and was the Manager of the Challenger Socially Responsive Investment Fund (SRI Fund). The fund won the inaugural “Ethical Fund of the Year 2001” from Ethical Investor Magazine.

Bill’s qualifications include a Masters of Environmental Management from University of NSW (2004 for which he was awarded the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand Prize) and a Bachelor of Economic Degree (with double major in economics and sociology) from Macquarie University (1992).

Bill has gained a high profile in the sustainable investment industry in Australia and Asia and has been invited to present at several conferences and seminars including:

• Triple Bottom Line Investing Asia Conference, Yokohama May 2007

• UNEPFI Global Conference - Seoul Korea June 2008

• United Nations Environmental Program - Global Roundtable Melbourne October 2007

• SRI Korea International Conference, Seoul, June 2007

• Triple Bottom Line Investing Asia Conference, Bangkok May 2007

• CPA WA 2007 Conference, Perth May 2007

• 10th Annual Victorian Power Conference, Melbourne May 2007

• ACTU Trustees Seminar, Melbourne May 2007

• UN Global Business for the Environment Conference, Singapore April 2007

• Melbourne Financial Services Symposium, Melbourne March 2007

• 9th Annual New Zealand National Power Conference, Auckland February 2007

• ACCSR Turning Point Conference, Sydney February 2007

• CPA NSW 2006 Conference, Sydney October 2006

• New Zealand Council for SRI Conference, Auckland October 2006

• EBA Business and Climate Change Summit, October 2006

• Cleantech Australasia 2006 Conference, Melbourne August 2006

• ACCA Sustainability Reporting Awards, May 2006

• Climate Change and Business Conference, Adelaide February 2006

• Cleantech Australasia 2005 Conference, Melbourne November 2005

Rob joined Lend Lease in 2000 and was appointed to his current role as Global CIO, LLIM in June 2005. Rob is responsible for managing capital relationships, equity raising and reducing product/Investor risk to Lend Lease Corporation and its JV partners. This includes working closely with regional heads on delivery of business plans.

Rob has been involved in the real estate and funds management industry for over 20 years, including 12 years with the Mirvac Group where he was Director of Investments.

Rob holds a Bachelor of Business (Land Economy) from the University of Western Sydney and has Real Estate and Valuation Licence qualifications.

Stephen Hiscock is the Chief Investment Officer and Joint Portfolio Manager for REITs at SG Hiscock & Company, a boutique fund manager specialising in Australian Equities and REITs with Funds Under Management of $1.6 billion across 9 funds.

He has 22 years experience in investment markets, including Chief Investment Officer of National Asset Management (NAM), he was Head of NAM’s Australian Equities team (for 5 years) and Head of NAM’s Property Team.

Before that he was at HSBC Asset Management where he was an Asset Allocation Committee member, and spent 8 years in their Australian Equities Team and was involved with their Direct Property portfolios.

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce, has a Master of Applied Finance, is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and is on the Victorian Leadership Group of the International and Capital Markets Division of the Property Council of Australia.

Besides being CIO of the Catholic Superannuation Fund, Tim also advises the Non Government Schools Superannuation Fund on investment strategy and portfolio structuring and is an economics and finance columnist for the Brisbane Courier-Mail.

Tim was previously Chief Investment Officer at Rothschild Australia before running his own fixed income and asset allocation boutique for eight years.

David Hutton was appointed Chief Operating Officer Asia Pacific for Lend Lease in Jun 2009.

David started his career in retail management before joining Lend Lease in 1988. He has worked in Australia and London (1994 – 2004) and during that time has held numerous senior positions including CEO of Lend Lease Europe, COO of Lend Lease Development, and CEO of Lend Lease Retail Asia Pacific.

David has significant experience in retail development; fund, asset and property management; and urban residential and mixed use projects. He has also negotiated and managed numerous joint venture structures with both government and private sector partners.

David’s achievements with Lend Lease include:

• Development of multiple new regional shopping centres in Australia and Europe - the largest being Bluewater in Kent, England

• Launch of Lend Lease’s first UK investment fund

• Conversion of Greenwich Peninsular (the UK’s largest regeneration project)

David holds a Bachelor of Business (with Distinction) from Charles Sturt University. He also has formal qualifications in retail management and is a licensed real estate agent. He has held Board positions on the British Property Federation, the Investment Property Forum (IPF) and is currently on the board of the Property Council of Australia.

Christopher is the Founder & Managing Director of the award-winning research and investment group, Rismark International, having established the business in 2003 on the basis of a landmark report he produced on affordable housing for the Australian Prime Minister's Home Ownership Task Force. Rismark has pioneered the development of the world’s first mass market, private sector shared equity finance program in which the lender participates in both the capital gains and wears the losses associated with home ownership without charging any interest. Since that time, the initiative has won numerous industry awards and served as the basis for government-sponsored programs in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

In February 2009, Christopher was invited by the Rockefeller and MacArthur Foundations to present innovative policy solutions to America’s housing market woes based on Rismark’s experience at the private Transforming America’s Housing Policy summit for Obama Administration officials in New York. In 2009, The Australian newspaper selected Christopher as one of Australia’s top 10 “Emerging Leaders” in its economic/wealth category. In 2007 Christopher was selected by The Bulletin magazine as one of Australia's "10 Smartest CEOs" and by BRW Magazine as one of "Australia's Top 10 Innovators".

He previously worked with Goldman Sachs' Investment Banking Division in Europe and Australasia. Christopher was formerly a member of the Special Projects team within the Reserve Bank of Australia's Domestic Markets Division. In 2008, the Australian Government embraced a radical policy proposal developed by Christopher and Professor Joshua Gans of Melbourne University to provide liquidity to the Australian securitisation market to mitigate the adverse effects of the 2007 - 2008 credit crisis. This idea was also endorsed by the Government’s 2020 Summit.

Christopher served as a Director of The Menzies Research Centre, which is a leading Australian think-tank, from 2003 to 2007. He is an experienced financial economist with expertise in investments and the dynamics of the residential real estate market. He has published widely on policy matters relating to housing and financial economics. Christopher received Joint 1st Class Honours (Economics & Finance) and the University Medal in Economics & Finance from the University of Sydney, where he was a Credit Suisse First Boston Scholar, SIRCA and University Honours Scholar. He studied for a PhD at Cambridge University in 2002 and 2003, where he was a Commonwealth Trust scholarship recipient. Christopher is also a Research Affiliate with the Centre for Ideas and The Economy (CITE) at Melbourne University.

David is the Chief Executive Officer of Fortress Investment Group Australia, based in Sydney.

David joined Fortress in early 2005 and has responsibility for all of Fortress’s activities in the Australasia Region. His primary role includes sourcing, originating and managing transactions for the various hybrid credit funds.

Prior to Fortress, David spent 5 years (the last 2 years as Managing Director) of GE Real Estate (Australia and New Zealand), the property arm of the General Electric Co. His investment experience at GE comprised acquisitions of real estate as a direct owner and in joint venture structures, and as a lender via structured finance products for real estate investors and developers. Previously David was employed at Bank of Scotland for 5 years as an originator of real estate project finance loans.

David has over 15 years of real estate investment experience as a principal investor and lender across all major markets in Australasia. He has been responsible for investing and managing over $5 billion in transactions. David has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Martin Lamb is head of property, Asia Pacific, for Russell Investments. Based in Singapore, Martin is responsible for private fund research in the Asia Pacific region, and has portfolio management responsibilities regarding certain Russell funds domiciled in the region. Martin joined Russell in 2008.

Martin began his career as a site location specialist in retail real estate in California in 1983. After receiving his M.B.A. in 1990, he joined The O’Connor Group in Los Angeles and later in New York. He was involved in the launch of the Argo Funds, a joint venture with JP Morgan, which constituted one of the first U.S. real estate opportunity funds. In 1995, Martin joined the Morgan Stanley real estate funds as an acquisitions vice president, working in New York, Los Angeles, and London. In 2000, Martin joined the AIG Global Real Estate Group in New York as managing director and portfolio manager of the firm’s new Brownfields Investment Fund, targeting redevelopment opportunities in environmentally contaminated properties.

In 2006, Martin moved to Shanghai and joined a joint venture between Morgan Stanley, Gerrity International and the Shenzhen International Trust and Investment Co., Ltd. to manage the design, development and management of hypermarket-anchored shopping centers in second- and third-tier cities in China. As senior vice president, Martin founded the Shanghai office for this venture and recruited more than 80 professionals focused on marketing, leasing and operations.

Martin is a member of the Urban Land Institute, and International Council of Shopping Centers. He has a basic verbal facility in Mandarin Chinese.

- Bachelor of Architecture, University of New South Wales 1979. - Registered Architect in NSW, ACT, WA, QLD, VIC - Associate, Royal Australian Institute of Architects. Geoffrey Lee, Managing Principal of Woodhead, is recognised as one of Asia-Pacific’s leading professionals and has been instrumental in shaping Woodhead into one of the largest design practices throughout Asia Pacific. Within Australia, Woodhead has been integral in the design and development of several leading sustainable projects. Durack 2, Perth, is Western Australia’s first 6 Star Green Star Office Design rated building; Jacana House, Darwin, is registered for 5 Star Green Star - leading the direction in tropical northern Australian sustainable design; and several other Woodhead projects have tested Green Star pilot tools and applied defence green building requirements.

A graduate of New South Wales University in 1979 and a Registered Architect in 1981, Geoffrey has played a significant role in many major developments in Australia and Asia. Geoffrey’s project experience includes;

- Sydney International Airport Redevelopment (2000), Mascot NSW

- The Four Seasons Hotel redevelopments for the Sydney 2000 Olympics, NSW

- Changi Airport Terminal 3, Singapore

Interior architecture for new terminal 3, including departures, arrivals, concourses, retail, lounges, and gatehold lounges for Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore. $100m

- Woolworths Support Office, Norwest Business Park, NSW

New 90,000m2 corporate support centre for the Woolworths group planned around a communal, dynamic work culture. Features a naturally ventilated central marketplace managed by a hybrid HVAC system, solar building orientation, and stormwater harvest from rooftops.

- 2 Lyon Park Rd., North Ryde, NSW. Deutsche Bank

New 10,000m2 office building designed to cater for IT/Telco users includes passive solar design and leisure principles set in a lush landscape setting adjacent a creek.

- Eco_Scape, Haizhou Plaza, Guangzhu,China

Design for environmentally friendly super tall buildings in Chinese cities. The Eco_Scape design produced a dynamically responsive tower that is able to interact with its environment, taking advantage of free energy to provide comfortable living and working spaces via digital based modelling systems.

Geoffrey has recently spent several years developing Woodhead’s international practice in China and South East Asia. Working in Asia, Geoffrey has been involved in several in many major projects from new towns, airports, commercial buildings, hotels, residential and retail in the world's fastest growing economy.

Mr. Mackie joined the Jones Lang LaSalle group in 1978, and is currently the Chief Investment Officer and Fund President for LaSalle Investment Management in Asia. Based in Singapore, Mr. Mackie oversees the acquisitions function across the region and is responsible for US$10.5 billion of assets under management.

Mr. Mackie has worked throughout the Asia Pacific region since 1988, and has lived in Singapore since 1994. During this time, he has been responsible for investing either directly or in joint ventures in office, retail, industrial, hotel, serviced apartment and residential standing investments and developments in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Korea and Japan.

Mr. Mackie is an Associate of the Australian Property Institute, and earned his bachelor’s degree in arts (economics and law) from the University of Canberra in 1978, and associate diploma in valuation form Sydney University of Technology in 1982. He also earned his Authorized Dealers Representative designation from the Australian Securities Commission

Steve Mann is the Managing Director of Aevum Limited.

Aevum is the largest owner and operator of for-profit retirement accommodation in New South Wales. We are an ASX top 300 listed company with gross assets of $830m and a 130 year history originally as the Hibernian Friendly Society.

We own and manage 2200 retirement units and 202 aged care beds across 21 villages nationally, 17 in New South Wales and 4 in Western Australia. The business has a development pipeline of 600 units spread across 12 projects with an end value in the order of $400m.

Previously Steve worked for Stockland as their Chief Executive Officer – Commercial and Industrial.

He has 19 years of experience in the Property Industry, also working for Westpac and Schroders.

Bryce is responsible for the overall management and development of Orchard’s property funds management team to ensure the respective fund strategies are in the best interest of investors. Bryce has more than 20 years experience in listed and unlisted property funds management as well as property investment, development and valuation.

Prior to joining Orchard, Bryce worked at Centro Property Group in various roles including Senior Funds Manager and at Heine Management Limited managing their listed and unlisted property funds. Bryce holds a Bachelor of Economics, Bachelor of Business (Property) and Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment. He currently sits on the Board of the Victorian Professional Board of the Australian Property Institute.

Richard Morris is Investment Manager at Constellation Capital Management, a boutique fund manager specialising in Australian equities management (including REITs). Richard is a member of Constellation’s Investment Selection Committee and responsible for all portfolio management tasks, plus fundamental research of the real estate and building products sectors. Richard joined Constellation in 2000 and has been involved in the superannuation and managed funds industry for 18 years, including roles in fund manager research, asset consulting and superannuation.

Adam has been employed by Drapac for 8 years and was responsible for the development of the Drapac funds management business.

In his role, Adam oversees capital sourcing, investment structuring, investment management and client liaison for the Drapac group. Adam holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Deakin University, is PS 146 accredited and also acts as Compliance Responsible Manager under Drapac's AFS licences.

Outside of his core job role, Adam sits on the Executive Committee and Sustainability Committee of the Australian Direct Property Investment Association (ADPIA) and acts as a director of Drapac Porsche Cycling.

Dinesh has over 20 years experience in a range of roles across the property and technology sectors. Early in his career, Dinesh focused on the technology sector in consulting and specialist marketing roles such as developing distribution platforms across multiple regions.

Over the last ten years, Dinesh has built up a solid track record in the listed and unlisted property sectors in a number of roles at AMP Capital, Aegis Equities and Southern Cross Equities. Dinesh is currently the Head of Property at PIR, a leading and independent property research group in Australia. PIR specialises in the analysis of industry trends, evaluation of unlisted managed schemes and comprehensive coverage of A-REITs.

Brad has over 30 years experience in the financial and property markets. Brad is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of LandMark White Ltd (LMW Group).

Brad instigated the growth of LMW Invest and will provide advice and guidance where needed to the management of LMW Invest. LandMark White Ltd was established in 1988 and today, is one of the largest and most highly skilled independent valuation and property consultancy organisations in Australia.

LandMark White Limited, a publically listed company, operates in 4 states, with 17 business units in 13 offices and 200 staff, valuing in the order of $50 billion of commercial property and $15 billion of residential property annually.

CEO - Logistics & Armaguard Property. Responsible for all property transactions globally. Currently operating in Australia, NZ, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, India, China, Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong. Report to the Boards of Fox Group Holdings, Linfox Pty Ltd and Armaguard. Have been in the major design, construction and development industry for 45 years, specialising in Logistics for the past 38 years.

Justin Richmond is responsible for the overall management and operating performance of Ashe Morgan Winthrop and the strategy and business planning across each of its business units. Ashe Morgan Winthrop’s Property Finance, Senior Debt and Investment business units report to him, and he manages specialised investments in accommodation and pub hotels. The following key internal functions also report to him: Strategy, Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, Information Technology, Risk and Compliance, and Support Services.

Justin joined Ashe Morgan Winthrop in 2007 and has more than 14 years experience in mergers and acquisitions, equity raising, debt finance – Senior, junior debt and financial engineering, including national and cross border transactions. Career highlights include IPOs, jumbo equity raisings, junior and public debt issuance and listed entity M&A.

He was previously Director of ANZ's institutional property group where he was responsible for advising on some of Australia's largest and most complex investment banking transactions. Justin also brings extensive international experience to the company, having worked in various positions for both Citigroup and BT Wolfensohn in New York. Previously, he was a Senior Lawyer at Blake Dawson Waldron.

Justin received his Masters in Business Administration (Dean's Honour List) from JL Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Chicago and also holds a Bachelor of Law and Bachelor of Commerce (Merit) degrees from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Justin is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nomads World Hotels Pty Ltd, the second largest manager and owner of backpacker businesses in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji.

Sonya Sawtell-Rickson is the Head of Portfolio Management, Strategy at QIC.

Sonya oversees the beta portfolio management activities within the Strategy division, which has in excess of $50 billion of funds under advice and management. Sonya also has specific responsibilities in the management of the private equity, infrastructure and real estate asset classes.

Prior to joining QIC, Sonya was previously the General Manager, Investment Services for QSuper, one of Australia’s largest superannuation funds. Her responsibilities included assisting superannuation fund trustees to set investment objectives, investment policies and evaluate investment performance.

Sonya holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland, majoring in Economics, and a Masters of Applied Finance from Macquarie University. She is a Senior Associate of FinSIA, and a member of the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA).

Paul is the Head of Corporate Development at Dexus Property Group. Dexus is Australia's 4th largest REIT and Australia's leading office owner and developer. As a member of the Executive team and Chair of the Investment Committee, Paul is responsible for group strategy and major transactions both in Australia and overseas.

Valuation qualified, Paul has had a long and distinguished career in the property industry. Prior to joining Dexus in March 2007, he spent ten years with Lend Lease Corporation culminating as Group Head of Corporate Finance. Paul's career also included eleven years with multi-national group Jones Lang Lasalle, including three years as CEO of the New Zealand Office.

Dr. Jerry Schwartz graduated from University of Sydney in Medicine, and has since specialised into Cosmetic Surgery. He also has his own multi-faceted general practice in Matraville. His family was always in hotels and shopping centres, and Jerry himself first invested in pubs.

He is now CEO for the family business that is the largest private company owner of hotel rooms in Australia, having about 1500 rooms in Sydney, Newcastle, Canberra and Melbourne, which are managed by four different management companies.

He is actively involved in a continual upgrade of these nine hotels. The family company also has two shopping centres.

Andrew Smith is CIO and head of Fund Management for API, and a member of the Executive Board. He is responsible for Aberdeen’s property investment process, the management of the Research and Strategy team, and the company’s range of property investment products.

Educated at the University of Birmingham, his property career began in 1986 at Pearl Assurance plc in the UK, where he established one of the industry’s first institutional property research teams. The business subsequently became part of Henderson Global Investors, where Andrew was Director of European Property Research. He joined Aberdeen in 2002.

He is a member of the Bank of England Property Forum, Chair of the INREV Benchmarking Committee, a Committee member of the Society of Property Researchers and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Property Investment and Finance. A regular contributor to conferences and seminars internationally, he has served on steering groups for the Investment Property Forum, the RICS and the UK’s National Retail Planning Forum.

Ray is an experienced figure in the Australian property funds management industry. Responsible for establishing one of Australia’s earliest professionally managed property trusts, the HSBC Australia Private Property Trust in 1984. He established Fortius in 1991.

With 40-plus years of professional property investment experience, he understands property markets. He oversees the broad range of Fortius activities, including fund strategy and execution, corporate finance, asset management and property development.

Craig was recently appointed Chief Investment Officer of the Local Government Super. Previously with property group Macarthur Cook, where he was responsible for real estate securities, his professional experience in the funds management industry stretches back to 1982, and includes stints as CIO at Tower Asset Management and as a portfolio manager at BT. Local Government Super manages AU$6 billion in assets.

Paul Weightman is Cromwell Group’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and until recently was also Board Chairman prior to the appointment of an Independent Chairman. Paul practised as a solicitor for more than 20 years, and holds degrees in commerce and law. He has extensive experience in property development and investment, financial structuring, public listings, mergers and acquisitions, revenue matters and joint ventures. Paul’s responsibilities include driving the strategic direction of Cromwell, heading-up of the major transactions division, dealing with key stakeholders and providing leadership and advice to executive management of the Group.

Peter Welch has over 20 years experience in Asia Pacific real estate covering a broad range of asset categories and markets, including Australia, China, Hong Kong, South Korea and SE Asia. Peter has controlled investments with a face value of over A$8 billion across the Asian region, including corporate restructurings, distressed loan portfolios / special situations and opportunistic real estate throughout a variety of market conditions including the Asian Financial Crisis, SARS and the Japanese bank restructure phase.

Peter is a co-founder of Shearwater Special Opportunity Fund and is a member of the Management and Investment Committees. Prior to establishing Shearwater, Peter was a Managing Director and Partner in Goldman Sachs JBWere’s Principal Investment Area where he was responsible for establishing the real estate investment group that focused primarily upon opportunistic and special situation investments. Before joining Goldman Sachs JBWere, Peter was a Managing Director and Co-Founder of the Global Principal Investment Group for Merrill Lynch & Co in Asia Pacific. Peter previously held various senior executive roles at Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels (previously Jones Lang Wootton), more recently serving as a Regional Director in the Hotel and Healthcare Advisory Group based in Singapore. Peter holds a Bachelor of Business in Real Property and Administration from the University of Queensland (QAC).”

Simon leads Cundall’s team in Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Originally hailing from the United Kingdom, he established Cundall’s Sydney office in 2003 with Tim Elgood, carrying on the legacy of a thirty year history of engineering expertise founded by Cundall in the UK.

Described by others as visionary, Simon is recognised as one of Australia’s leading ESD engineers. His skills in ESD strategy analysis, implementation of energy efficiency solutions and the strategic application of ESD principles in masterplanning have seen him invited to present at both local and international conferences and forums.

Simon excels in communicating complex ideas and engineering solutions in easy to understand ways. He is inspired by engineering because, “it’s a combination of design and maths – solving a complex jigsaw puzzle while remembering the big picture.”

Educated at the University of Coventry with a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Building Services Engineering, Simon has worked on ESD projects in numerous countries. His ESD project direction has recently included the new ground-breaking Rouse Hill Town Centre in Sydney.

Darren is a qualified Financial Planner has been in the Financial Service Industry for over 17 years. He has held senior positions that have involved the advice and analysis of financial products to both the wholesale and retail client investment markets.

Darren spent 10 years in retail client Financial Planning in practice in Queensland. Darren then in June 2001 launched and developed as the Managing Director and a major shareholder, Financial Planning Services Australia (FPSA).

FPSA went on to grow to be in the top 50 largest Financial Planning Networks in Australia, managing over $1.5 billion dollars of clients investments with over 30 offices nationally. Darren managed FPSA during this growth period and was instrumental in the development and implementation of financial structures and investment products.

Darren developed a significant understanding of investment products including property based investment. He was the key person in analysing property based products and offering for the inclusion on the national approved product list (APL) for FPSA.

Darren brings to the Investment Committee extensive experience and knowledge in investment markets and financial products. He also brings a deep understanding of the macro economic fundamentals that affect investment markets.

Dr Frank Wolf co-founded the Abacus Property Group in 1996 and since that time has been the architect for the group, driving its strategic direction and leading its property transaction team. Frank has served as Executive Deputy Chairman since Abacus' ASX listing in November 2002, and from October 2006 assumed the role of Managing Director. Frank has over 25 years experience in property and financial services and has been instrumental in over $3 billion worth of property related transactions, corporate acquisitions and investments. He has been involved in retail, commercial and industrial property sectors in Australia, New Zealand and the United States and has financed specialized property-based assets in the retirement and hospitality sectors. Frank is the Chairman of the FSP Group which was founded in 1999 and is a Director of Kingston Capital Limited and HGL Limited.

Tony is Managing Director and Founding Principal of Blaxland Group. He was previously a Director with Jones Lang LaSalle and progressed through senior fiduciary roles with BZW-Mirvac, BT Funds Management and Record Investments.

Tony’s experience encompasses traditional real estate investment with management of listed and unlisted funds, mergers and acquisitions as well as debt and equity finance. He is active across an international platform including the Australian, Asian and European markets.

Tony holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Estate Management from Heriot-Watt University in the UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Fellow of the Australian Property Institute.

Michael Wood is Executive Vice President and Partner of Quadrant Real Estate Advisors a relative value real estate fund manager with assets under management exceeding USD4.4bn. Quadrant invests client capital in real estate backed credit products including Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS), privately placed mortgages and REIT Bonds as well as traditional publicly traded REIT securities.

Prior to forming Quadrant Michael established Wood Capital Advisors Pty. Ltd, advising Australian Investors on offshore real estate investment opportunities and prior to that had various roles at Lend Lease Corporation, including Executive Vice President of Lend Lease Capital & Real Estate Services, LLC.

Michael resides in Sydney Australia and has over the past twenty years worked and/or lived in numerous other geographies including North and South America and South East Asia.

Prior to joining Oaktree in 2007, Mr. Zulkoski was Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pangaea Capital Management, an investment management firm targeting a broad range of special opportunity investments in the Asia Pacific Region including, but not limited to, debt, debt-related securities, equity securities, real estate and real estate-related assets of distressed companies, and non-performing loans from financial institutions and various third parties. Under Mr. Zulkoski’s leadership, Pangaea executed US$1.95 billion of investments and investment commitments.

Prior to establishing Pangaea, Mr. Zulkoski was founder and Chief Executive Officer at Colony Capital Asia Pacific (CCAP), where he oversaw the expansion of CCAP from a one person, one office start-up to a 150-person, six office business with US$2 billion of assets under management in five years. Prior to Colony, Mr. Zulkoski was employed by GE Capital, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the General Electric Company, where he served most recently as Managing Director of Asian operations within the Commercial Real Estate Finance and Services group. Prior to that, Mr. Zulkoski held several positions at Kidder, Peabody & Co., most recently as a Vice President in the Real Estate Capital Markets group. He has transacted business in the Asia Pacific region since 1985 and has resided in the region since 1994.