KKR has appointed Tom Lee as managing director and head of Australia and New Zealand real estate, effective May 3, 2021.
In the role, Lee will be responsible for KKR’s real estate platform across Australia and New Zealand, and will play a critical leadership role in expanding KKR’s real estate strategies across the Asia region. He will also join the KKR Asia real estate investment committee.
Lee was most recently CEO of LOGOS, a logistics real estate investment manager with operations across Asia Pacific. Prior to that, Lee held senior roles at BlackRock, MGPA and Lendlease in Asia, Europe, U.S. and Australia.
Australia is a key part of both KKR’s real estate and Asia Pacific investment strategies. KKR has been investing in the Australian market since 2006, and since then, has invested or committed more than $7 billion of e
