RE Seminar: David Schaefer
Date: Thursday, September 17th
When: 4:30-6:30 with reception to follow in the Regents Lounge
Where: Beck 198
Attire: Business
David Schaefer
David Schaefer has almost 20 years of experience in the asia-pacific real estate markets. The past 10 years he has led the expansion of two major global banks-macquarie and citi-in their real estate private equity businesses in asia. David was the Chairman of Macquarie Asia Properties, the Senior Advisor to Schroder Asian Properties L.P., one of the early asian real estate private equity funds. After leaving macquarie, david founded citi property investors asia pacific in 2005. David was most recently chairman of the investment committee of CPI Capital Partners Asia Pacific L.P., a $1.3billion real estate opportunity fund he raised in 2006.
David has also been active for many years in the hospitality industry. In the early 90’s, he and his partners acquired Quality Hotels New Zealand.
More recently, David has been a director of privately held Silverlink Holdings (parent company of the exclusive Aman Resorts), of the Ascott Group, and the Ascott Residence Trust, a pan-Asia serviced apartment REIT.