Mr. David Chen is the China Chairman of APREA (headquartered in Singapore), BOMA Fellow (BOMA, the international building owners and managers association, headquartered in Washington, USA) and BOMA commercial real estate expert, and a Harvard University alumnus. Mr. Chen has lived and worked in China, the United States, Hong Kong, Singapore and other places for a long time, and has profound professional experience in real estate investment and financing, REITs/Pre-REITs, real estate private equity funds, large-scale real estate development and asset management, planning and design, and international corporate operations.
Mr. Chen is the Chairman of Fields of Gold Capital & Asset Management, a designated partner of the Harvard China Fund, and an independent director of Yuexiu REITs (the world's first public REIT that invested in mainland properties and was listed in 2005). He has a rich background in commercial real estate asset management and asset securitization. He has served as the China Development President of a large real estate investment fund ranked in the top ten in the world, a senior executive of a large listed blue-chip real estate development group in Hong Kong, and a senior planning architect in an international architectural firm.
Mr. Chen is a visiting professor at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. He was an MBA tutor at Renmin University. He also taught real estate finance and management training courses at many well-known universities such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and Tongji University. While in the United States, Mr. Chen was a part-time professor at Boston Architectural College (founded in 1880), teaching design topics for large design studios and comprehensive projects.
David Chen
- F.O.G Capital and Asset Management, Chairman
- Yuexiu REITs (Hong Kong Stock Code: 00405), Independent Director
- APREA (Asia Pacific Real Estate Association), China Chairman
- BOMA Fellow
- Shanghai Tower, Senior Asset Operation Advisor
- Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Visiting Professor
