Bruce Berkman, Managing Director, previously started four successful companies in Asia. He founded and serves as the CEO and Managing Director of Pacific GeoPRO, a company with unique expertise identifying and valuing retail sites across Asian markets. Clients include the largest global specialty retailers, retail banks, and large-format retail brands operating in Asia. Pacific GeoPRO is the only regional provider of such services in Asia, and has unrivaled data and modeling competencies, respected as a global best practice provider by McKinsey. Mr. Berkman’s reputation and deep relationship pool was built during a distinguished career of over 20 years in the region.

Corbett Wall, Director, most recently was a Principal at Home Abroad, a residential investment fund, with responsibility for overall corporate strategy. As a result of the initiatives under Mr. Wall’s leadership, Home Abroad grew into the largest expatriate housing provider in Beijing. Prior to Home Abroad, Mr. Wall has a distinguished reputation in both media and telecom industries founding several successful companies and marking many “firsts” over his 20-years as an executive in the region. He has extensive experience in real estate, marketing, branding, operations, and finance.

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The key strengths of the management team include:

Track Record In The Target Sector And Region – The Directors have spent their entire careers specializing in management, retail, real estate, and marketing industries. This experience provides unique knowledge, skill set, and perspective to take advantage of significant attractive investment opportunities through the Fund vehicle that become available. The Directors have key insights in retail development best practices, by working with the leading retailers in the industry.

Local Network – Over the last two decades, the Directors developed strong relationships with executives of many financial investors and investment funds operating in China. These longstanding relationships will be fully leveraged to source off-market investment opportunities and utilized throughout the entire investment period of each transaction. The Directors also have a broad range of retailer executive relationships to utilize when building models and seeking tenants for developed sites/facilities.

Operator’s Mindset And Experience – The Directors’ experience and lessons learned while holding senior management positions will be instrumental to provide guidance for Fund investments through periods of robust growth, turn-around, and/or restructuring situations. The Directors’ collective industry experience, network of relationships, execution, and operational expertise provides the Fund vehicle with in-house capabilities to excel across all stages of investing including sourcing, due diligence, negotiating, financing, closing, adding value, and exiting.

Quantitative Market Knowledge – The Director relationships with Pacific GeoPRO provide unique data and modeling skills to quietly and efficiently assess cities for sites of interest to sophisticated large format retailers such as Walmart, Costco, Bestbuy, Home Depot, and their local competitors.