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Eric J. Levy - Managing Director
Eric Levy is Principal and Managing Director of Tourism Solutions International (TSI). TSI is a hospitality investment firm with more than 15 years presence in Asia. In addition to its investment and asset management activities, it conducts select advisory work that is investment related.
With TSI, Eric was a partner with Octagon Capital Partners in 2002 to 2005. At Colony Capital Asia Pacific, Eric was Executive Vice President, where he was involved in various sectors of the real estate industry. His main focus was to drive Colony hotel investment efforts in Asia.
Over the last three years, he was the Senior Vice President Growth and Development for Pan Pacific Hotels Group where he had global responsibility for growing the company through acquisitions and third party management contracts.
He was also a Senior Partner with Horwath Asia Pacific and a Founder and President of Horwath Hotel Partners, providing hotel brokerage services primarily to Asian hotel owners.
Eric has lived in Singapore for the last eighteen years, dating from when he opened the Singapore office of Horwath Asia Pacific.
He joined Horwath in the early 80’s, and was based in Hong Kong prior to his move to Singapore. Throughout his tenure in Asia, he worked on hundreds of projects in various countries all over Asia Pacific – Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, India, China, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, The Philippines, Guam (USA) and Saipan.
Pok-Yih T. - Vice President
Pok-Yih is a hotel and real estate professional with over sixteen years of experience in the hospitality, real estate and financial services industries.
His experience includes a wide range of activity in underwriting, research, investments, corporate finance, and business development with exposure to projects covering transactions, asset management, advisory, and management / franchise contract negotiations.
He was previously at IHG in Shanghai and Singapore, supporting the Development function in structuring and executing non-traditional management / franchise contracts and investments with balance sheet exposure, as well as business development strategy, most recently as Vice President for Capital Investments & Transactions in Greater China.
Prior to that, he held positions at Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts (Shanghai), GE Real Estate (Sydney) and Octagon Capital Partners (Singapore) and was a hotel operations trainee and investment banking analyst in his younger days.
Pok-Yih has a MA in Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences from Columbia University and a BA in Economics from Northwestern University.
