John Tsui

Managing Principal at Peninsula House

Speaker

Based in New York, John F. Tsui is Managing Principal of Peninsula House, LLC which is a single family office investor (SFO) and engaged in the principal investment in direct GP/LP fund investment, as well as structured direct co-investment, be it liquid or illiquid, in the United States, Europe and Asia/Pacific. Private investment grade fixed income in private markets in partnership with Asian, European and American institutional and private investors.

He previously held managerial positions with hotel chains in their corporate headquarter and regional offices including Marriott Corporation, Sheraton Hotels in the Pacific, Landauer Associates – a leading property counseling and valuation firm and Bankers Trust Company (real estate banking division). He earned the designation MAI – the appraisal designation of the Appraisal Institute, and was a former member of the Turnaround Management Association, Urban Land Institute, Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) – Plan Sponsor Member and Young Presidents Organization (YPO). He is a member of Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA).

He was appointed by Honorable John C. Whitehead to be on the Board of Directors of The Boy Scouts of the Greater New York Council and The Economic Club of New York. One of his mentor was William Soeryadjaya, Chairman of Indonesia’s largest conglomerate – Astra International who relinquished control of Astra to personally guarantee all the Summa Bank depositors. He was a Visiting Lecturer at the SEM program at Tsinghua University and University of California at Berkeley – Haas School of Business. He was formerly an Adjunct Visiting Professor of Advanced Case Study on emerging markets investment at Columbia University and founded the international curriculum at the Masters program in Real Estate Development. He authored a Thomson Reuters report titled China Property Investments: Profits and Pitfalls.

He received a BS from Michigan State University in Hotel Administration and a Masters from Columbia University in Real Estate. He is a graduate of the Owner President Management Program (OPM) at Harvard Business School. Born in Taiwan and raised in Brazil, he is fluent in Chinese (Mandarin) and has working knowledge of Portuguese and Spanish.