SPEAKER INTRODUCTION

Rick Yvanovich Mr. Rick Yvanovich FCMA CGMA FCPA MSc., Founder and CEO, TRG International

Mr. Rick Yvanovich is a Chartered Management Accountant with 30 years of diverse experiences including Oil & Gas, Hospitality, Retail, Telecommunications, Financial Services, Property development, Defense Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Breweries, FMCG, High Technology, and the Accounting profession. He has been living in Vietnam since May 1990. A consultant and serial entrepreneur he has been directly involved in hundreds of client engagements in 39 countries and founded several companies including TRG International. Rick is Deputy Chairman and a Board Member of the South East Asia Regional Board for CIMA, Chairman of the AMCHAM HCMC ICT group, Chairman of the Eurocham IT Sector Committee and a Member of the Board for BBGV.

Richard Leech Executive Director of Retail Services, CBRE Southeast Asia & Executive Director of CBRE Vietnam

Mr. Richard Leech joined Garlick’s Department Store in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1986. There, he spent 5 years in merchandising and marketing before leaving for a career in shopping centre management with Southern Life Properties, a subsidiary of Anglo American Properties. In 1993 Mr. Leech joined the Retail Portfolio Management Department of Colliers in Johannesburg. Mr. Leech joined developer Stocks & Stocks, Johannesburg, in 1997 as a Property Portfolio Manager, managing clients’ retail and commercial properties in Southern Africa. Stocks & Stocks were acquired by Rand Merchant Bank in 2000, where Mr. Leech continued to work as a Senior Property Manager until he left in 2002 to consult with the Commonwealth Development Corporation on their property portfolio in Zambia. Richard was consulting with CBRE Thailand from July 2002 until relocating to their offices in Vietnam in 2003, where he has been consulting on commercial projects around the Indochina Region for the last 12 years.

Richard now is the Executive Director of Retail Services, CBRE Southeast Asia  and Executive Director of CBRE Vietnam