SINGAPORE, April 17, 2008 – The iProperty.com Group (www.iproperty.com), Asia’s leading network of property portals and owner of Singapore’s leading property and real estate website (www.ipropery.com.sg), has strengthened its bid for regional domination with two senior appointments - Sherry Wong as General Manager of its Hong Kong operations – the GoHome.com.hk network; and Shen Yi Loh-Lim as Group Head of Product.
In her new role as General Manager of GoHome.com.hk, Sherry will be responsible for iProperty.com’s Hong Kong business which includes the SAR’s No. 1 property portal, GoHome.com.hk (www.gohome.com.hk), as well as a leading home services portal - House18.com (www.house18.com). Prior to joining iProperty.com, Sherry spent eight years at digital and interactive communications agency Digitas Greater China, formerly Communications Central Group (CCG). As Senior Vice President, General Manager at Digitas, Sherry was responsible for operations, finance and marketing communications. Prior to this role, Sherry was the General Manager of Hong Kong’s Lemon (Asia) Limited.
Shen joins iProperty.com as Group Head of Product, in charge of strategising, planning and rolling out products and services across the region. His key responsibilities will include enhancing user experiences and improving the efficiency of online property searches through the development of innovative products, as well as providing effective marketing platforms for property developers and agents. Shen was previously Project Director at leading interactive agency, XM Malaysia. During his five-year tenure there, he worked on prominent global accounts including Toyota, Citibank, Sony and GlaxoSmithKline.
Said Patrick Grove, Executive Chairman, iProperty.com Group, “Both Sherry and Shen bring a wealth of experience to the Group and I am confident that their skills sets will play an instrumental role in consolidating our market leading positions in each country and helping us achieve our goal of regional dominance.”
“The whole Group is going through exciting times. Within the past year, we have listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, formed alliances with the Singapore Institute of Estate Agents, bought over Hong Kong’s No. 1 property network www.GoHome.com.hk and recently acquired Keagen Sdn Bhd, the owner and organiser of Asia’s leading series of exhibitions. There are definitely even more exciting new developments in the pipeline so I am truly excited to have both Sherry and Shen join and contribute to the iProperty.com family,” he added.
Both Sherry and Shen report directly to the CEO of the iProperty.com Group, Ken Tsurumaru.
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About iProperty.com Singapore (www.iproperty.com.sg)
iProperty.com Singapore is Singapore's No.1 property and real estate website with more than 200,000 current and archive property listings. Working with more than 1,000 real estate agents, iProperty.com hosts the largest and most comprehensive online database of properties for sale and rent in Singapore.
About iProperty.com (www.iproperty.com)
iProperty.com is Asia’s leading network of property portals, with over 750,000 unique users every month (confirmed by Comscore, Frost & Sullivan and Alexa.com). The Group operates consumer and business online property portals in the Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Philippines markets, with a Heads of Agreement in place to acquire an online property portal in Thailand.
iProperty.com has an average of over 100,000 property listings available on its network daily, and is utilised by more than 4,000 real estate agents and 100 developers. With further expansion planned, iProperty.com is continuously working to capitalise on its market-leading positions and the rapidly growing online property advertising market throughout the region. iProperty.com is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Australian Stock Exchange-listed IPGA Limited, www.ipgalimited.com (ASX: IPP).
iProperty.com Network of Websites:
Singapore: iProperty.com Singapore
Malaysia: iProperty.com Malaysia and iLuxury.com.my
Hong Kong: GoHome.com.hk and House18.com
Philippines: iProperty.com Philippines
For media queries, please contact:
Harpreet Kaur/Tracy Goh
PR Communications Pte Ltd
Tel: (65) 6227 2135
Email :harpreet@prcomm.com.sg/
tracy@prcomm.com.sg
Chris Cheung
iProperty.com
Mobile: (65) 98428922
Email: chris@iproperty.com
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