LaSalle Investment Management (“LaSalle”) today announced Chris Martin has been appointed as Regional Director and Head of Asset Management for Asia Pacific, based in Singapore. 

Reporting to the Managing Director for Asia Pacific, Philip Ling, Martin will be responsible for overseeing the Asia Pacific business’s asset management group – a team of 40 people in LaSalle’s Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea offices. This group provides asset management services for the property investment funds managed by the firm which, in total, comprise some 80 properties across a range of sectors in the region. 

Martin joins LaSalle with more than 25 years of experience in real estate, having held a number of senior positions within funds, asset and property management.  

Philip Ling commented: “We are delighted with Chris’s appointment. He is highly regarded for his expertise in real estate investment management and his long and varied experience will further strengthen LaSalle’s team. The current challenging economic environment magnifies the importance of effective and innovative asset management and Chris’s focus will be on delivering optimum asset performance for our investors.”

Martin joined LaSalle from the GPT Group, where he held the position of Executive, Wholesale Funds. Prior to GPT, Martin most recently worked for Lend Lease in Australia where he established and managed a diversified wholesale property investment fund, and BT Funds Management and Principal Global Investors, where he held senior asset management roles in both sector-specific and diversified real estate investment trusts.