MANAGING DIRECTOR
BEng (Hons), MAICD
Peter founded Aspire Strategy in 2011, prior to which for fourteen years Peter was Managing Director and Owner of Valad Property Group, an ASX listed real estate investment group whose core business is value-adding real estate.
Peter joined Valad as co-owner in 1997, and grew the business from AUM of approx AUD$5 million to approximately AUD$20 billion with offices in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Canada and 14 European countries (+30 offices). He was Founder and Chairman of Valad’s European operations.
Before joining Valad, Peter held senior positions at Lend Lease in a 10 year career that included establishing their funds management operations in Paris, London and Singapore. Peter has an honours degree in engineering from the University of New South Wales.
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Brett has over 30 years’ experience in real estate, covering all aspects from development, repositioning, asset management, financing, structuring, and funds management.
Brett is a key leader in the Aspire Strategy business, drawing on his experience of having lived and worked in Brisbane, Sydney, Singapore, and Hong Kong, covering most markets and sectors in Asia, Australia, and Europe.
Brett was a founding shareholder of MGPA for 10 years until it was sold to Blackrock, prior to which he held senior positions at Lend Lease for 17 years.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Soh Eng Lam is a successful entrepreneur with more than three decades of experience in travel and property. Drawing upon his network developed in these industries, he provides Aspire Strategy with business development knowhow and passion. He is skilled at creating prosperous collaborative relationships.
Eng Lam has been a long term owner of a travel agency, a fleet of tour coaches and a large chain of travel-related retail businesses. He has held the distributorships and agencies of several high-end international fashion goods including LongChamp, Karl Lagerfeld, Swarovski, L’Occitane and Pollini.
Eng Lam hails from a prominent construction family that produced many iconic buildings in Singapore including the Tanglin Club, McDonald House, the Orchid Hotel, the Indian Bank Building and the Olivetti Building. They hold a significant interest in a global real estate development company and hotel property development & management group.
In Australia Eng Lam has been a long term financier of joint venture real estate developments creating residential lifespaces, the largest of which was valued at AUD$1.2 billion.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Chris has worked in the finance industry for over 25 years including senior roles in one of Australia’s leading banks, which included senior management positions in portfolio management, global credit, national project teams, business development, sales and leadership roles.
Chris’ profound knowledge of the finance industry and markets is significant in Aspire Strategy’s access to and execution of opportunities.
Chris was the director and co-founder of a successful debt advisory firm and has held a principal lending & finance role in a publicly listed accounting & financial services firm.
Chris’s experience in the industry covers all aspects of finance including development, construction and corporate Finance.
SENIOR PROJECT EXECUTIVE
BSc(Hons), FRICS, FSISV, MSPM
Ong Fook Sin is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and Professional Project Consultant with over 30 year experience in many types of development projects. FookSin provides Aspire Strategy with leadership in the fields of project, planning, management and delivery.
FookSin has worked with many country systems and cultures in the Australasia Region. His main focus is in investment project studies and drawing up development project execution plans, and managing projects implementation through the whole life cycle of a project.
FookSin has held top management positions in MNC multi-disciplinary consultancies. His latest position was with Surbana International, a Singapore based multi-disciplinary consultancy, in the capacity of Managing Director of Group Project Management Business Unit with over 700 people and managing development projects of over SGD$1 billion in value, annually.
FookSin has built his career through the Franklin + Andrews Group before merging with the Mott MacDonald Group, an International multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy to head the Group’s China Project Management Business Unit, working mainly on FDI and major Chinese companies’ investment projects in the real estate development, hospitality, manufacturing, infrastructure and energy sectors.
ANALYST
Through his Finance major at the University of Sydney, Alex brings thorough numerical analysis and understanding. His other majors in International Business and in English Literature reflect his wide ranging interests and pursuits.
Alex has financial experience as a risk paraplanner at Curo Financial Services, and legal exposure through his role as a Junior Clerk at Nigel Bowen Chambers.
Alex has a developing interest in entrepreneurship, with a focus on sustainable investment and recently won the People’s Choice Award in the Sydney Genesis start-up accelerator.
Alex has been keenly involved in a number of social enterprises and volunteer organisations and is currently a Student Mentor for the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience, a start-up success story that supports Indigenous high-school students to transition to University or to the workforce. Previously, he has been a Student Leader with the LINK Widening Participation Program, and volunteered with Human Rights Watch and Matthew Talbot Hostel.
