Link Real Estate Investment Trust : Appoints Barry David Brakey as Independent Non-Executive Director

The Board of Directors (the Board) of Link Asset Management Limited (Link), the manager of Link Real Estate Investment Trust (Link REIT; Hong Kong stock code: 823), announced today (Wednesday) that Barry David Brakey has been appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director and a member of the Finance and Investment Committee and the Remuneration Committee of Link effective 30 May 2024.

Mr Brakey, aged 64, is a managing partner of CC Real International GmbH (CC Real), a European real estate investment and asset management company. He is the non-executive chairman of an Australian real estate debt investment manager, Madigan Capital Pty Ltd (a CC Real's invested company). He is also a non-executive director of Mirvac Funds Management Australia Limited, the trustee of Mirvac Wholesale Office Fund and a member of the Mirvac Group (which is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange).

Mr Brakey has more than four decades of global experience in the real estate and real estate investment sectors. From 2008 to 2018, he was the inaugural Head of Property for the Future Fund Management Agency, Australia's sovereign wealth fund. He established and managed the property investment platform and programme for the Future Fund and built a high-quality property portfolio with exposures across the APAC region, the USA and Europe. He was the Founding Principal of Pinnacle Property Group Pty. Ltd. from 1988 to 2008, providing advice and leading real estate programmes for several leading Australian superannuation and investment funds. He began his career as a valuer at Knight Frank.

Between 2015 and 2019, Mr Brakey was a director of the Australia Pacific Airports Corporation Limited which owns Melbourne and Launceston Airports.

Mr Brakey holds an Associate Diploma of Valuations from RMIT University. He is a Certified Practicing Valuer, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Life Fellow of the Australian Property Institute. He was previously the national president of Australian Property Institute, the chair of the Victorian Board of Advisors of The Property Industry Foundation and a director of its National Board.

Mr Brakey's biography is provided in the directorate change announcement published by Link REIT on the HKEXnews website today.

A picture of Mr Brakey can be downloaded here.

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About Link

Link Asset Management Limited (Link) is a leading global real estate investor and asset manager based in Hong Kong. It manages Link Real Estate Investment Trust (Hong Kong stock code: 823), the largest REIT in Asia by market capitalisation. Link REIT has been 100% held by public and institutional investors since its listing in 2005 in Hong Kong. It is a constituent of the Hong Kong securities market benchmark Hang Seng Index, as well as a component of the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index, the FTSE4Good Index Series and the Hang Seng Corporate Sustainability Index. Through Link REIT, Link owns and manages a diversified portfolio of retail facilities, car parks, offices and logistics assets spanning from China's Beijing, Greater Bay Area (Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shenzhen), and Yangtze River Delta centred around Shanghai, to Singapore, Australia's Sydney and Melbourne and the UK's London. With its expanded investment capability and dynamic growth strategy, Link aspires to be a world-class real estate investor and manager, serving and improving the lives of people around us.

For details, please visit https://www.linkreit.com.