Our 2024 judges
From authoritative bodies to the most established organisations, the jury members represent every aspect of our real estate industry.
BERNARD TONG
CEO
EdgeProp Singapore
Bernard Tong is the CEO of EdgeProp Singapore, recently voted as the 88th fastest growing company in Asia Pacific by Financial Times. He also manages The Edge Singapore, a leading weekly investment and business publication. His previous experiences include working for The Boston Consulting Group as a Management Consultant, where he advised multinational corporations and government agencies on strategic initiatives.
DESMOND SIM
CEO
Edmund Tie & Company
With more than 20 years’ experience in real estate, Desmond is backed with robust acumen and know-how across diverse property sectors – including commercial, residential, retail, industrial, hospitality and institutional real estate. His broad expertise in research and consulting, coupled with his wide-ranging experience across commercial, government and non-profit organisations, gives him an excellent overview of the industry.
As EDMUND TIE’s key media spokesperson, Desmond is also a well sought-after speaker for various forums and seminars organised by real estate developers and associations, financial institutions, as well as institutions. With a strong passion for retail, he also sits on the inaugural Fair Tenancy Industry Committee.
In his earlier roles, Desmond was the head of Research for CBRE Singapore and Southeast Asia. Before embarking on real estate research, he was a licensed real estate appraiser and has experience in property tax consultancy. Desmond was also part of a team which incepted and completed various private equity real estate funds in China and India. He had also undertaken numerous research, feasibility and master planning studies in Singapore and other countries, including Brunei, Indonesia, Maldives and Thailand.
SANDY TAN
Founder
Chalked Private Limited
Specialising in multi-disciplinary projects over the past 18 years, Sandy has proven her expertise in managing a wide variety of projects from ultra-luxurious private residential homes to multiple show suites within the region.
Consistently praised for her holistic approach to design development, Sandy is particularly committed to a hands-on approach from overseeing innovation concept design to project management and completion.
Tan believes in the power of people and ideas to unlock new possibilities: The future is what we make of it!
DR SKY KIAT YING SEAH
Academic Director, Master of Science in Real Estate
National University of Singapore
Sky’s research interests range from racial differences in housing markets and social capital investment to studying institutional investment in real estate. Her work has been published in Regional Science and Urban Economics, Economics Letters, Urban Studies, and Real Estate Economics. A winner of the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award in 2016, Sky teaches courses in urban economics and real estate investment. She currently serves as a member of the Professional Development Committee at the Council of Estate Agencies, and is an Honorary Academic Advisor of the Institute of Estate Agents. Before NUS, she was a senior officer at JTC Corporation, served as Secretary of the accreditation committee of the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers, and consulted at the Office of the Chief Economist of Freddie Mac. She was the Deputy Head of the Real Estate department at the NUS School of Design and Environment from 2017 to 2021.
NG SZE OUN
Director
Compound Collaborative Pte Ltd
Designing for non Human.
Compound Collaborative works closely with all their partners to express genuine opinions on what spaces are. They constantly challenge how much one would be willing to build for the better of Nature, seeing each of their projects as the chance to encourage a greater bio-diverse
environment, to coexist with buildings for mankind.
TANG KOK THYE
Associate Partner
ADDP Architects LLP
Tang Kok Thye is an Associate Partner with ADDP Architects LLP. He graduated from NUS School of Architecture in 1994 and further obtained a Master of Science (Real Estate) in 2005. He has been a qualified architect registered with the Board of Architects Singapore since 1997 and a member of Singapore Institute of Architects. He is also registered as an ASEAN and APEC Architect.
A certified SGBC Green Mark Accredited Professional (SGBC-GMAP), he has completed numerous Green Mark projects, including 9 certified to the highest possible Green Mark Platinum rating, one of which is the first Platinum SLEB (Super Low Energy Building) for residential at 80 Anson Road. Another project, the Treehouse condominium in Bukit Timah, holds the Guinness World Records as the world’s largest vertical garden
In 2012, Ar. Tang was named Green Architect of the Year under the BCA-SGBC Green Building Individual Awards, jointly conferred by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) and the Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC). In 2014, he designed the first residential project in Singapore using Pre-Finished Pre-Cast Volumetric Construction (PPVC) to improve the productivity of the building and construction sector.
He is currently the President of the Singapore Green Building Council Board, Co-Chairman of the Green Built-Environment Advisory Committee as well as REDAS Honorary Architectural Advisor.
