Hospitality and Leisure

Govinda, a member of RICS and registered valuer, is a chartered certified accountant with a postgraduate diploma in economics and a certificate in business valuations, who began his career at Pricewaterhouse in audit and tax advisory.

Having worked as an Operations Manager for Hilton, he was the Financial Controller at the luxury Lanesborough Hotel, at which time he worked closely with the Rosewood and Starwood hotel groups at both the local and corporate level.

Govinda joined PKF in London in 2005 where he was a Managing Consultant within the Hotels and Leisure Valuation and Consulting  practice. He subsequently joined BDO’s Real Estate Valuation and Consulting  team in 2012, where he was a Director responsible for the EMEA, Caribbean and Asia-Pac regions.

Govinda joined Cushman & Wakefield Singapore in 2015 where he was a Director within the Asia-Pac Valuation and Advisory team.

He is now an Executive Director at Colliers International advising on, and valuing investments involving mixed-use, specialist and alternative asset classes across Asia and further afield.

He is also one of Colliers’ dedicated specialist portfolio advisors and valuers in the region, and globally.

Lingwei has over thirteen years’ experience in the real estate sector and vast market knowledge of both APAC and EMEA markets (Capital & Leasing Markets). LingWei worked in Paris, London and currently in Singapore. 

LingWei  provides strategic investment advisory and brokerage services to clients, focusing on investment-grade properties. She  provides the best  strategic solutions and advice to clients so that they can maximise all real estate investment opportunities in Singapore.

Prior to joining Colliers Singapore, LingWei worked in the JLL  Asia Capital Markets team (based in Singapore) and led the Capital Markets Core Client Program.Through this program, Lingwei worked with wider team to create and share client insights and developed effective account plans.The program covered 35 top regional clients with combined AUM over USD217 billion, clients including Allianz, ARA, Blackstone, Brookfield, Nuveen, PGIM and others. Lingwei facilitated personalised and intelligent client conversations, and ultimately won more business and growing share of wallet with these core clients. Lingwei also looked after the Singapore capital who is actively looking for investment opportunities outside the AP region.

Greg has over 15 years in providing hospitality, commercial and residential property valuation and advisory services across three international regions, and is a member of RICS and Associate of the Australian Property Institute. 

After completing his Bachelor of Business (Property) studies and initial professional valuation training in Melbourne, Greg moved to London in 2004.

After eight years of reporting valuations and assisting with asset management initiatives across the entire UK market to a  range of instritutional-grade clients, he sought to continue his career development in South East Asia by moving to Bangkok in 2012. 

During his time with Knight Frank Thailand, Greg became a senior member of the largest internationally-branded valuation firm in the country, and intrinsically involved in client relationship reporting and management to a variety of clients from the hospitality, banking, corporate and private sectors. 

With his extensive involvement in the valuation and advisory of regional hospitality-led assets, Greg joined Savills in 2018 to focus his advisory and business development skills on the entire South East Asia hospitality market. As the Head of Hotel Valuations for the region, Greg continued to complete assignments in Thailand and Vietnam, together with wider market-leading destinations such as the South Pacific and the Marianas Islands.

Despite an unprecedented change in the global marketplace as a result of the pandemic, Greg relocated to Singapore in late-2020 and through his appointment at Colliers will strive to continue to  provide his extensive expertise for the benefit of a broad and prudent client base.