Hello. I’m Jonathan Schein, senior vice president and managing director of business development for Institutional Real Estate, Inc. Among my varied responsibilities for this prestigious information company, I’ve also been appointed managing director for the Asia Pacific region as well. I have spent the majority of my commercial real estate media career focusing on the North American market and am now looking at this new and exciting opportunity. And, to be totally honest, I don’t have much experience with this region of the world.

My first step along this new adventure was to attend the Pacific Pension Institute’s2014 San Diego Roundtable — Path Forward: New East-West Investment Dynamics. This two-day event brought together stakeholders from pan-Asian investors with global investment managers. It was a pretty hea