The country’s finest developers will be honoured at the exclusive gala dinner of the PropertyGuru Vietnam Property Awards to celebrate the best projects, design and innovation within the industry in the past year. Presented by global brand Kohler, the 5th Annual PropertyGuru Vietnam Property Awards are the most respected and most sought-after real estate industry honours. The event is part of the regional PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards programme established in 2005. With a professionally run judging system supervised by BDO, one of the world’s largest auditing and accountancy firms, the Asia Property Awards is the gold standard in real estate.
Thien Duong is a Canadian Vietnamese architect who carries the distinction of being a Chartered Architect with the Royal Institute of British Architects as well as Masterplanner. With an extensive background of over 25 years, he has contributed to significant architectural projects across various continents including Europe, North America, Africa, and Oceania. As a committed member of the Vietnam Green Building Council’s board of directors since its establishment, Thien has played a key role in shaping sustainable architecture practices. He is the Studio Leader of the award-winning Australian firm, GroupGSA in Vietnam, leveraging his local insight and international experience in sustainability to set new benchmarks in design and technology.
Presently, as a Managing Director for CBRE Vietnam with total staff of over 562 professionals, Hang oversees all CBRE Vietnam business activities as strategic advisors to
investors, occupiers and developers across the residential, commercial and the industrial and logistics markets. Hang will service the real estate property requirements of the many multi-national corporations with a presence in Vietnam. In the last 23 years Hang has been in various leadership positions in real estate firms. Hang spent the last two years in Vin group, one of Vietnam’s leading real estate developers where she was Chairwoman of Vincom Office and Deputy Managing Director of Vincom Retails directly responsible for driving the sales revenue of the companies. Hang began her real estate career in Richard Ellis, handling research, consultancy and brokerage and later took on the Managing
Directorship at Cushman & Wakefield’s Vietnam operations. As a member of management team Hang had joined C&W from day one and built the company to become one of the leading real estate services provider in Vietnam.
Born in England, John Reeves is an internationally recognised and award-winning designer. At an early age he found success in the Louis collection bought by Heal’s of London. This became a defining range for John, the Louis console winning numerous awards and becoming part of the Victoria & Albert museum’s permanent collection. John’s designs are
at once organic and influenced by human culture. He has a strong understanding of technical design, materials and processes but also has a unique sensitivity to line and form
making his pieces both compulsively charming and highly desirable. He strives to create products that touch the soul of the user, creating timeless, honest and useful pieces that will be around for a long time to come.
Ed Haysom LFRAIA, AIA, HonFNZIA has had an international architectural career winning numerous awards for his work. He is now Design Director of Transform Architecture, a multi-award winning international architectural practice headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City with a studio in Brisbane.He was formally the National President of the Australian Institute of ArchitectsEd has advised the Vietnam Government on various urban renewal projects. In 2017 he was the subject of a Vietnamese television documentary. In 2019 he lead the team designing a new technology university for the city bridging the gap between Australia and Vietnam.
David commenced his career with WT Partnership’s Sydney office in 2004 whilst completing his Bachelor of Construction at the University of Technology. He commenced a full-time employment with WT Partnership after he was graduated. David moved to Vietnam in April 2011 where he was predominantly involved in producing masterplan cost management services for major residential and commercial projects. He was then seconded to the Hong Kong office in October 2011 for a major role in the integrated casino and resort mega-project ‘Studio City’ in Macau. On August 2012, he returned to Vietnam and took up the position of General Director and controls operations throughout the country. His experience is spread across different types of projects and his local knowledge has helped successful procurement of major projects such as the 11th tallest building in the world (Landmark 81). David is now continuing the progress of WTP as the forefront of cost management.
Mauro Gasparotti
Director, Savills Hotels and Director & Founder, WeHub
Mauro directs all Savills Hotels SE Asian operations. Alongside business development, his extensive industry expertise guides hotel investment and consultancy, feasibility studies, cash flow alongside market analyses, project consultancy and operator selection. Mauro is also highly competent with asset and development site valuation modelling.
Besides managing the development of Savills Hotels team, Mauro is an active member of the industry and founded WeHub. The community platform hosts signature hospitality events like Meet The Experts, HoSkar Night and See It First Masterclass. Mauro uses these platforms to share his expertise and support other industry professionals. Mauro is also known as a judge for the PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards, the region’s most respected real estate award that celebrates the achievers in the world’s most dynamic markets.
Before revitalizing Savills APAC Hotels, Mauro was co-founder and Executive Director of Alternaty Real Estate which, within 5-years became Indochina’s leading hospitality consultancy. He has also headed up CBRE Vietnam Hotel Services after being their Senior Valuation and Advisory Manager. Prior to joining CBRE, Mauro worked with Ernst & Young.
Duc Truong is the CEO of OJS Investment & Consulting Ltd., and chairman of Edison Academy Vietnam Ltd. He worked in Canada, Hong Kong and Vietnam with multinational and fortune 500 companies. In Vietnam, he always been working and involving in the property development and consulting industry. His most recent post was COO of Jen Capital Advisors and prior to that I was the Assistant Director with Prudential Investment Vietnam.
Co-founder, associate partner and former General Director of Archetype Group until 2005, François now serves as Archetype Group’s Chairman. In 1992, he travelled to Vietnam to supervise the construction of the French Embassy in Hanoi. After this introduction, he served in a series of senior executive roles in both design and construction companies, acquiring extensive experience in the design and construction industry in South-East Asia. François’ areas of expertise also cover property development and investment business consulting services and today he focuses on developing new markets in Central Asia and Middle East, as well as airport and hospitals worldwide.
The 5th PropertyGuru Vietnam Property Awards gala dinner and awards presentation ceremony will be held at the InterContinental Saigon Hotel on Friday, 23 August 2019.
Tickets are made available on a first come, first served basis. Exclusive for finalists and event partners only.
More than 500 guests and VIPs attend the gala event, which is exclusive for shortlisted developers, sponsors and partners, comprising C-level and senior industry figures in real estate development, property consultancy, construction, marketing, property technology, legal, finance, and architecture and design. Select members of the media cover the event.