Collin Lau is the founder of BEI Capital, which is an Asian-based global real estate and

alternative investment company. Collin was previously a managing director, head of global

real estate and head of European private equity at China Investment Corporation. Collin had

29 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.

Mike is UK editor of Bisnow. Before this, alongside three friends he bought pan-European property mag EuroProperty out of non-existence and re established it before selling the business to PropertyEU. Prior to that he was editor of Property Week, and has also worked for Estates Gazette.