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Mr Leo Lo

Mr Leo Lo

Part-time Lecturer; CEO, Fonto Holdings Limited; Managing Director, CHFT Advisory and Appraisal Limited; Founder, Asia PropTech

Teaching ProgrammePgDip in Financial Markets and Portfolio Management
StreamFinancial Management

Mr. Leo Lo is a surveyor-turned-serial entrepreneur. Leo is the CEO of Fonto Holdings, which is an integrated corporate based in Hong Kong, dedicated to real estate investment, development, financing and ESG advisory with real estate innovations with futuristic and entrepreneurial views. Fonto delivers solutions, with the arm of its subsidiary, CHFT Advisory and Appraisal, in the Asia-Pacific Region for real estate and infrastructure asset projects financing, investment, valuation, ESG advisory and asset management.

Leo has been an Estate Surveyor and possesses for over 20 years’ experience in the real estate and capital market industry. With branch offices in the Mainland China, Singapore and San Francisco, Fonto has extensive footprint in the Asia-Pacific Region. By leveraging Fonto’s digital assets and investment in industry-leading portfolio of companies, Leo is developing real estate as a futurist.

He is also a founder of a real estate technology company which is working on the A.I. and blockchain applications in the real estate sector, with solutions in AVM and tech-enabled real estate analysis. He is a trailblazer in the PropTech industry and actively forges partnerships with PropTech companies in the globe and building up the ecosystem: Asia PropTech, synergizing the forces and knowledge from PropTech startups, real estate players and investors to co-create ideas and solutions.

Leo is in high demand as a speaker for his thought leadership at different conferences and summits across the globe, he attended over 50 PropTech/real estate conferences as speaker in over 20 countries in the past 2 to 3 years. He contributed over 250 byline articles to various newspapers and magazines in the past years.

Leo is the RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) Excellent Young Achiever of the Year 2016 and he is also well connected in the society by being a Chairman Member (PropTech and Blockchain) of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao-Bay Area Economic and Trade Association, Executive Committee Member of Shanghai-Hong Kong Coalition of Professionals, Founding member of Hong Kong-ASEAN Economic Cooperation Foundation, etc.