Adrian Baker is Chief Investment Officer for CBRE Global Investors’ Asia Pacific Direct Real Estate Strategies and the President of the Asia Pacific Real Estate Division. He has responsibility for all direct real estate investment strategies and activities across the Asia Pacific region within CBRE Global Investors. In addition, he is Fund Manager of the value-add fund series within the region, Asia Value Partners. Mr. Baker is also a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and Global Investment Committee.

Mr. Baker began his career in the real estate sector in 1997 investing globally but with a focus on the Asia Pacific region. He has been based in Singapore since 2006. Mr. Baker has an extensive direct real estate background beginning in building engineering and property management, prior to transitioning to becoming an asset and fund manager executing strategies across direct, indirect and listed portfolios for institutional clients. His skills and expertise cover a wide range of real estate sectors including office, retail, industrial as well as more niche property types.

Prior to joining CBRE Global Investors in 2007, Mr. Baker was at AMP Capital Investors, first in Sydney and then in Singapore, where he was Fund Manager for over $3.0 billion in global assets and led a team of asset managers.

Mr. Baker earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree from University of Technology, Sydney.

Shane Taylor is Director and Regional Head of Research. Based in Hong Kong, he is responsible for the Firm’s research function in Asia Pacific. He is also a member of the Regional Investment Committee and regional management team.

Mr. Taylor joined ING Real Estate Investment Management, which is now CBRE Global Investors, in 2006. He was based in New York City and relocated to Hong Kong in 2008 for his current role. Before joining CBRE Global Investors he spent three years as a Researcher with the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute in Brisbane, before joining RP Data-Marketshare – a real estate consultancy in Sydney. Upon relocating to New York to pursue higher studies he undertook consultancies for the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the Earth Institute. Mr. Taylor has been involved in various capacities in real estate research since 1995.

In 2013, Mr. Taylor won an ICSC award for outstanding service to the research community.

Mr. Taylor holds a B.A. (Hons) from Queensland University, an M.App.Sc in Economic Geography from the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane and a PhD in Urban Planning from Columbia University in New York City.

Desmond Tan is the Chief Operating Officer for CBRE Global Investors' Asia Pacific region. Based in Singapore, he has overall responsibility for management of the operations and administration in the region, including investment structuring, capital markets, finance and tax structuring activities for the Firm’s business across the region. He is also a member of the Regional Executive Committee and Regional Investment Committee.

Desmond joined the Firm (then ING Real Estate Investment Management) in 2007. He has many years of experience in the industry across different real estate classes.

Desmond has been doing finance-related work since 1993, holding various portfolios in companies listed on the Singapore Exchange and multinational corporations in various sectors, namely audit, consumer products, manufacturing and petroleum. Prior to joining the Firm, Desmond was with one of Asia’s largest real estate company, where he was involved in the establishment and origination of real estate property funds and was responsible for financial operations of few of the funds, as well as overseeing the group consolidation and reporting, performance analysis and coordination of budget and strategic financial planning.

Desmond holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accountancy) degree from Murdoch University in Western Australia. He is also a member of the Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants and the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants.