Ms. Sim was appointed as the Director on 8 November 2016 and was re-designated as the Executive Director and the Chairman of the Board on 12 July 2017. She is one of the Founder and also one of the Controlling Shareholders. Ms. Sim is primarily responsible for the marketing activities of the Group and the overall administrative management and the co-ordination of the Group’s operational activities. She is also a Director of ZACD (Australia) Pty Ltd., ZACD Financial Group Limited (“ZACD Financial”), ZACD Fund Holdings Pte. Ltd. (“ZACD Fund”), ZACD Group Holdings Limited, ZACD International and ZACD Posh Pte. Ltd..
Ms. Sim co-founded ZACD International with Mr. Yeo through ZACD Investments in 2011. Ms. Sim has amassed extensive experience in International Investment sale. Prior to joining the Group, Ms. Sim was the Associate Director for International Investment Sales for Colliers International 1995–2000. She specialised in Australia and London market. During her tenure in Colliers, she had transacted over $1 billion worth of property ranging from Commercial office building, hotel, shopping mall, residential en-bloc and development sites. Ms. Sim also founded SLP International Property Consultants Pte. Ltd. with Mr. Yeo in April 2003 to engage in the real estate agency and consultancy business. Additionally, she also ran a boutique advertising agency from 2007 to 2016. As such, Ms. Sim is a conversant business lady experience in growing a company from startup to maturity, a skill that will be invaluable in the evolving business of the ZACD Group.
Mr Yeo was appointed as the Director on 8 November 2016 and was re-designated as the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer on 12 July 2017. He is also one of the Controlling Shareholders. As one of the Founders, Mr. Yeo is primarily responsible for overseeing the operations and strategic planning and development of the Group. He is also a Director of all of the subsidiaries. Mr. Yeo co-founded ZACD International Pte. Ltd. (“ZACD International”) with Ms. Sim through ZACD Investments Pte. Ltd. (“ZACD Investments”) in 2011.
Prior to founding ZACD Investments, Mr. Yeo specialises in the Industrial Project Marketing and Development sector. As a result of that, he was often consulted by various industrial developers in Singapore. In 2005, due to his foresight on the release of 30 years Industrial land development, he has led ZACD Investments to successfully joint venture and sell out several 30 years Industrial Projects. i.e. Penjuru Techub, One Commonwealth and Alexcier.
Following the success of several Industrial projects, In 2008, amidst the slowdown in the luxury property sector, Mr. Yeo also spotted the growth potential of the HDB upgraders market. He pioneered the first Executive Condominium development in Punggol with a joint-venture partner. This was followed by a slew of Executive Condominium and mass market Condominiums in Punggol/Sengkang.
Due to his success in the Industrial Development and the Mass market Condominium market, it has helped to position ZACD as choice joint venture partners amongst the developer circuit in Singapore.
Despite his busy schedule, he was also active in community services. Mr. Yeo was awarded the Public Service Medal in 2015 by the President of Singapore and has served as the Chairman of the Tampines North Citizens’ Consultative Committee. He was also awarded the Teochew Entrepreneurs Award in 2016 and again in 2018, he was named grand winner of the Teochew Entrepreneurs Award (Asia Pacific) in the Prestige Award Category.
Mr. Tan is a veteran in real estate consultancy with over fourteen (14) years of experience. He joined the group five (5) years ago as a director in the family office of ZACD Investments Pte. Ltd. before assuming the role of Group Chief Operating Officer and Interim Chief Investment Officer in June 2024.
Mr. Tan started his career with the civil service in 2002, serving as a senior education officer on the leadership track in a junior college under the Ministry of Education. After the completion of his teaching bond, he joined Knight Frank, Singapore in 2010 as a real estate consultant. He subsequently moved on to Savills Singapore in 2012, holding a Unit Head position. In 2013, he was a co-founder of the real estate consultancy, SLP Scotia Pte Ltd, and assumed the position of Vice President in 2014. He was later promoted to the position of Chief Investment Officer in 2015 and serves as a consultant to local real estate developer in the field of land development. He was responsible for some of the largest commercial collective sales exercises in Singapore, the most recent being the Sim Lim Square collective sale in 2019. In that same year, he assumed the position of Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) of SLP Scotia, before moving up to the position of CEO of SLP International Property Consultants Pte. Ltd. (“SLP International”) in 2020 to oversee all the business lines of the SLP Group. Notably, in 2021, he also led SLP International to broker the highest priced Good Class Bungalow (Land) in the Nassim Road area and whole building capital market deals.
Mr. Tan graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree from the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University in 2001. He also attained a Post-Graduate Diploma in Education with Credit (PGDE) (Sec/Junior College) from the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in 2002. He also holds the most recent Real Estate Agency (REA) qualification and is an accredited Key Executive Officer (KEO) with the Council of Estate Agents (CEA). He also sits on the Executive Council of the professional body Singapore Estate Agent Association since 2021.
Appointed as Executive Director and Chief Legal Officer, Mr Chin brings to the Group his years of experience in the legal sector and has been tasked to oversee the Legal Department to ensure that it provides the necessary support to all other departments thus ensuring the continued smooth and efficient running of the Group as a whole.
He holds a double honours degree in Law and Political Science from the U.K. He was admitted a Barrister-at-Law with honours and is a member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple in the U.K.. He thereafter went on to undertake his postgraduate studies in law after which he was called to the bar as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore. He has been practicing for more than 25 years before joining the Group.
He started his practice in commercial and banking and went on to litigation and has represented clients (corporate, individuals, local and foreign) at all levels of the Court hierarchy and has done so on many occasions in the Court of Appeal, Singapore’s highest appellate Court.
For commendable public service to Singapore, he was awarded the Public Service Medal (PBM) by the President of Singapore.
Mr. Han has over twenty (20) years of experience in the realms of real estate investment, fund management, consultancy, and research. He joined the Group in 2016 as a director of Real Estate Investment and was promoted to executive director of ZACD Capital in 2018 overseeing the Group’s Investment Management division. He has since assumed the role of Executive Director at the group level under ZACD Group Ltd since June 2024.
Prior to joining the Group, Mr. Han was an investment manager with Frasers Centrepoint Asset Management Ltd, the Manager of Frasers Centrepoint Trust (FCT), where he was a key member of the investment team and responsible for growing and enhancing FCT’s investment portfolio in Singapore and the region. During his time at Frasers, he was actively involved in large-scale acquisitions of commercial real estate and greenfield projects, totalling over S$1.7 billion.
Prior to Frasers, Mr. Han was with Realm Capital, a real estate private equity firm, where he was responsible for sourcing, structuring, and executing investment and development opportunities in Asia. Earlier in his career, Mr. Han held various investment and research roles at prominent firms such as Jones Lang LaSalle and Knight Frank.
Mr. Han holds a Bachelor of Science (Real Estate) (Hons) from the National University of Singapore
Mr. Lau, is currently the Managing Director at Tianlong Capital Management Limited (“Tianlong Capital”) in Hong Kong. He is a licensed Responsible Person to Tianlong Capital for Type 6 regulated activity under the Securities and Futures Ordinance.
Mr. Lau has been in the corporate finance industry since 2011. He has multiple proven track record of acting as sponsors to listing applicants in Hong Kong and extensive experience in cross border mergers and acquisitions exercises. In addition, he has advised various Hong Kong listing companies, on Main Board and on GEM, regarding the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities (the “Listing Rules”) on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Stock Exchange”) and the Hong Kong Code on Takeovers and Mergers. He is familiar with the capital markets and financial industry in Hong Kong. In 2018, Mr. Lau assisted in the listing of ZACD Group Ltd. onto Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) in Hong Kong.
Mr. Lau obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2009.
Mr. Lau is the standing committee member of the Tibet Autonomous Region United Youth Association, the assistant governor of Rotary International District 3450, past president of Rotary Club of Central, the member of the Panel of Advisers on Film Censorship under the Office for Film, Newspaper and Article Administration of the HKSAR Government, and school manager of the Ho Fung College (sponsored by Sik Sik Yuen).
Eugene has over 17 years’ experience in wealth management. He played a key role providing wealth advisory to significant families in Greater China during his career as a private banker with J.P. Morgan, Hong Kong. Prior to that, he worked with private clients across North and South Asia as investment advisor with LGT Bank, and Merrill Lynch Singapore. Before joining the financial sector, he worked in management consulting on engagements that included retail bank strategy and credit risk management, for major banks in Singapore and China.
In his current role as Head of Private Wealth, Eugene Lim is responsible for the wealth management business for Matrixport, a full-service asset manager for digital assets. In Matrixport, he leads an experienced team with in-depth knowledge of the HNW and family office investment objectives, with the aim to establish Matrixport as the trusted advisor to private clients, and the end goal of including digital assets as a permanent allocation in next generation portfolios.
Eugene graduated magna cum laude from Brown University, Rhode Island, USA, in August 2003, with majors in Economics and International Relations. He has been a Chartered Financial Analyst since December 2011.
