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Our Expert Team
George Li
Founder & Chairman
Basel Capital
Dr. Li is the Founder and Chairman of Basel Capital. He also founded Imperial Group and its subsidiary entities in Hong Kong. Under his leadership, the group has completed real estate investment transactions in Hong Kong SAR, Mainland China, United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and many other countries. Types of real estate investment involve residential, commercial, and mixed use properties.
Dr. Li has over 20 years of investment experience in the real estate sector at individual & corporate level. Not only compasses the economic cycle of real estate industry well, Dr. Li always emphasizes the potential of added value to a particular deal, by upgrading the structure, design, facility and property management to realize the profit gain in the investment.
Dr. Li held a Senior Lecturer position at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and graduated at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.
Christine Lin
CEO
Basel Capital
Ms. Lin is the Chief Executive Officer of Basel Capital and is responsible for acquisitions and asset management. Ms. Lin has a total of 20 years of real estate experience. Prior to joining Basel Capital, Ms. Lin started her career in banking and wealth management with HSBC and later founded a prestigious overseas property platform, Imperial Overseas. Ms. Lin has been investing in real estate since 1998, focusing on the United States, China and Hong Kong SAR.
Ms. Lin earned her MBA Degree from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Sciences from The City University of Hong Kong.
Pokman Yiu
Chief Operating Officer
Basel Capital
Mr. Pokman Yiu is the Chief Operating Officer of Basel Capital, responsible for the group’s operations strategy.
Prior with Basel, Mr. Yiu was the Co-Founder and Deputy CEO of a private family office and the Investment Director and Portfolio Manager of Gopher Asset Management. He was primarily responsible for managing the endowment strategy and discretionary portfolios. In addition he drove the firm’s investment strategy and asset management business for its parent company Noah Holdings Limited (NYSE: NOAH, a Sequoia China portfolio company) in Hong Kong.
Prior to joining Gopher in 2014, Mr. Yiu held various investment banking positions in Hong Kong with Citigroup, Bank of American Merrill Lynch and UBS. He has more than nine years’ private equity and investment banking experience and executed a wide variety of corporate finance transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, and debt and equity financings across Asia Pacific region.
Mr. Yiu received both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is also a CFA and CAIA charterholder.
Lucy Chen
Vice President
Basel CapitalMs. Chen is experienced in financial analysis and financial management. She has worked for Bank of China (Shanghai). In Basel Capital Group, she mainly performs project preliminary due diligence, feasibility study, financial forecast and analysis, land acquisition and negotiation. She handles the different stages of the projects from planning to execution ensuring the timely and cost effective completion of projects.
Ms. Chen graduated from the University of Washington with a Master’s Degree in Real Estate Finance and Investment, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Real Estate Management from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.
