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12 ANNUAL REPORT 2012
TRUSTEE-MANAGER’S
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
in 1989. He specialised in corporate and commercial
law while in practice and became a partner in the
firm in 1998. Mr. Williams left Arthur Cox in early
2001 having been offered the position of General
Counsel in Treasury Holdings. He joined the board of
directors of Treasury Holdings in 2002.
As General Counsel of Treasury Holdings, Mr.
Williams sat on the main board of Treasury Holdings,
counselling the group on all legal matters. He
was also involved in every aspect of the Treasury
Holdings Group’s growth in Ireland and in its
expansion into the UK, China, Russia, Germany,
Sweden and Spain, in each case overseeing the legal
implications for the group of its presence in these
territories and ensuring compliance with applicable
laws and regulations. Mr. Williams supervised all
legal matters affecting the group’s interests in land
or completed developments in Ireland, the UK,
Russia, China, Sweden, Spain as well as its interests
in a waste-to-energy group in Germany. Treasury
Holdings was placed in liquidation in October 2012.
Mr. Williams was heavily involved in the
establishment of China Real Estate Opportunities
Ltd’s operations in China. He was based in Shanghai
from April 2006 to July 2007, during which time
he worked extensively on the acquisition of the
Company’s assets in Shanghai and Beijing.
Mr. Williams graduated from University College
Dublin in 1985 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Law
and in 1990 he received a Diploma in European Law
from the same university.
MR. RICHARD DAVID
Executive Director and
Chief Executive Officer
Re-Appointed 25 July 2012
Mr. David is an Executive Director of the Board as
well as the Chief Executive Officer of the Trustee-
Manager. Mr. David was formerly a non-executive
director of China Real Estate Opportunities Ltd
(“CREO”). Mr. David is the Legal Representative of all
the PRC operating companies within the Trust and is
also a director of the Property Manager.
Mr. David has enjoyed a 30-year career in real estate,
and in that time he has held various positions in
funds management, direct real estate management
as owner and manager, development management
and marketing in addition to more than 13 years of
on-the-ground experience establishing and managing
real estate platforms in China. Prior to joining
Forterra in 2007, Richard was the head of real estate
in China for Macquarie Group Limited, the Australia-
listed investment bank and a member of Macquarie’s
senior management team in Asia Pacific.
Mr. David is also currently a Director of the Forterra
Foundation for the Children of China, a philanthropic
organization established in 2007. He was also a
recipient of the 2012 Gold Magnolia Award and 2009
Silver Magnolia Award by the Shanghai Municipal
Government for services to the community and
business as well as the Shanghai Charity Star Award
in 2008/9.
Mr. David sits on the Council of Governors for Asia
Pacific Real Estate Association (“APREA” – Asian
based affiliate of NAREIT) and is a founding Director
of the APREA China Chapter that was launched
in 2012 and was formerly a board member of the
Australian Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.
He is a regular contributor to the leading real
estate publications and conferences throughout
Asia such as The Economist, MIPIM, Real Estate
Investment World (“REIW”) and CityScape Global,
he has also appeared on CNBC, BBC, Bloomberg
and ChannelNewsAsia as Chinese real estate market
commentator.
DR. TAN KHEE GIAP
Independent Non-Executive Director
Member of the Audit Committee and
Chairman of the Unit Option Scheme Committee
Appointed 25 July 2011
Upon graduating with a PhD from the University of
East Anglia, England, UK in 1987, Dr. Tan joined the
banking sector as a treasury manager and served as
secretary to the Assets and Liabilities Committee for
three years, thereafter he taught at the Department
of Economics and Statistics, National University
of Singapore from 1990 to 1993. Dr. Tan joined
Nanyang Technological University in 1993 and was