Speaker Bio: Collin Lau of BEI Group MTD TV Productions

Collin Lau is the founder and CEO of BEI Group, which is an Asian-based global real estate and alternative investment and operating company. BEI has set up two operating platforms, in creative stay-work-play, and healthcare. BEI has created beicommunity, a revolutionary concept of real-estate-as-a-service in Beijing and San Francisco. BEI is a founding shareholder and investor of Virtus Medical Group and is an active investor in healthcare business and healthcare related properties.

Collin was previously a managing director, head of global real estate and head of European private equity at China Investment Corporation. Collin had over 35 years of corporate, financial and investment management experience. Before CIC, he had been a managing director at Starr International, where he was responsible for its private equity and real estate investments in Asia Pacific. Before Starr, Collin was a managing director at Baring Private Equity Asia. Prior to that, he held a number of managing positions in several leading conglomerates in Hong Kong.

Collin holds a Master of Laws degree with distinction in Corporate and Financial Law from the University of Hong Kong. He was voted as the Asia Industry Figure of the Year 2010 by PERE, one of the top 50 industry figures by Estate Gazette UK in 2010 and ranked 25th of the top 100 most influential global industry figures by PERE for the last decade (2005-2015) in 2015.

BEI is an Asian-based global real estate and alternative investment and operating company. Backed by major institutional investors, our focus is to create and implement investment strategies for the leading global institutions, property corporations, and UHNWs.

Backed by major institutional investors, our focus is to create and implement investment strategies, business management, and operations consultancy for the leading global sovereign wealth funds, pensions, insurance companies, and reputable family offices.

BEI believes that our investment approach excels by:

1. implementing a visionary and well-articulated counter-cyclical strategy
2. constructing a balanced portfolio that provides a combination of recurring income, capital growth and options of exit
3. striving to build and grow the best-in-class platforms that add tremendous values

BEI team has a global reach, yet local touch with five nationalities in four offices. Our team is dedicated to sourcing off-market opportunities that seek to manufacture core quality and create differentiation by our unique value-oriented strategies.

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