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Born in Yangon, Serge Pun\u00a0spent his formative years in China during the Cultural Revolution and arrived in Hong Kong at the age of 21.<\/p>\n
He started his career as a salesman at a Hong Kong\u2010based real estate firm where he worked for 10 years. In 1983, he went on to establish his business conglomerate in Hong Kong, and in 1991 he returned to his birth country, Myanmar, to establish one of the country\u2019s largest and leading corporations.<\/p>\n
Today Pun is the executive chairman of the SPA Group of Companies, which currently operates 40 companies that are active in eight business sectors, including banking and financial services, automotive, agriculture and logistics, luxury travel and tourism, consumer services, aviation, healthcare, and real estate development.<\/p>\n
SPA\u2019s flagship First Myanmar Investment Co Ltd one of the first public companies in Myanmar, was established in 1992. In 2006, Pun led the company\u2019s real estate arm Yoma Strategic Holdings to a successful listing on the mainboard of the Singapore Stock Exchange.<\/p>\n
As a real estate entrepreneur, one of Pun\u2019s biggest and most significant projects in Myanmar is the acclaimed Star City, which won the Best Landscape Architectural Design award plus two other Highly Commended honours at the inaugural\u00a0Myanmar Property Awards 2015.<\/p>\n
Yoma is once again nominated for the\u00a0Myanmar Property Awards 2016, this time in the Best Condo Development and Best Housing Development categories.<\/p>\n
On top of the nominations for Yoma, Pun has been chosen by the editors of\u00a0Property Report<\/em>, Asia\u2019s leading luxury real estate, architecture and design magazine, to become the recipient of the prestigious Real Estate Personality of the Year award for his exemplary leadership and contributions to the domestic real estate sector.<\/p>\n