In the right direction | Industrial Q1 2022

Catherine started her career as an Investment Analyst at IFC, the investment arm of the World Bank group, where she participated in the screening, due diligence, financial modelling, and execution of debt and equity investments. She also managed a portfolio of investments through financial analysis and the preparation of quarterly and annual reports. After completing her MBA at INSEAD, she joined Standard Chartered Bank as a Management Associate before starting her own company in Real Estate valuation and forecasting using Machine Learning. Catherine then joined Colliers from CBRE Research. 

Catherine brings to Colliers more than 15 years of experience, primarily in real estate and investments. She has worked with market data and brokers to develop consolidated views of the real estate markets in Asia Pacific, with a focus on Singapore. She was responsible for producing key market and economic updates, forecasts, and thought-leadership papers,  contributing to business development initiatives, investment advisory proposals and client presentations.

In addition, she has drafted feasibility studies and investment recommendations for top clients which include major developers, REITs, financial institutions, family offices, and funds, as well as presented research findings in client meetings and events. As a real estate research specialist with extensive experience, she looks forward to maximising the potential of property through data driven insights. 

Dickson is responsible for various aspects of research within the Singapore property market. He interprets and synthesises a variety of data and information to stay ahead of market trends that help our clients make more informed decisions and maximises the potential of property.

At the same time, he is an advocate for the Colliers brand  via providing data-driven research reports, insightful posts, and thought leadership. Adept with a granular understanding of the different real estate asset classes throughout Singapore, he provides clients with tailored data and analysis to guide decision making process on investment and occupier strategies.

Based in Singapore, Lynus is tasked with identifying new business opportunities and developing relationships with data centre and industrial owners, occupiers, developers and investors as part of the regional industrial advisory strategy.

Lynus joins Colliers from Cushman & Wakefield, where he was Director of Data Centre & Real Estate Brokerage and spearheaded the company’s data centre operations in Singapore. With more than 12 years of real estate experience, he is a Certified Data Centre Specialist and has also managed transactions in the Technology & Telecommunication and Aviation sectors. Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, he also held roles at Credit Suisse Beijing and Savills Singapore.

Having joined the fastest growing real estate services company in the world, Lynus is incredibly excited to continue to build on the existing platforms of collaboration and strategy that have already been established and will look to further develop and provide market-leading solutions to accelerate the success of our clients in this dynamic sector.

Keng Chiam has been in the valuation and advisory practice that span over 30 years. He has vast experience providing quality advice to clients of important real estate activities ranging from acquisition and disposal, merger and acquisitions, feasibility studies, etc. He had acted as an expert for clients in contentious, high-profile dispute resolution cases.

He is currently leading the valuation and advisory services, hotel and leisure and the consultancy divisions within Colliers. In addition, he will be setting up the business valuation within the firm to provide clients with a comprehensive suite of advisory services.