Turner & Townsend has strengthened its senior leadership team across Asia, with new appointments reflecting the needs of global clients, and supporting the business’s future growth and ambitions in target sectors and markets.
As of 1 May, Brian Shuptrine has assumed the role of Regional Managing Director for Asia. Brian takes over the reins of the Asia business from Anooj Oodit, former Managing Director for Australia, New Zealand and Asia, who becomes Regional Managing Director for the Americas.
Stepping up from his previous role as Head of Real Estate for Asia, Brian takes responsibility for Turner & Townsend’s strategic direction in the region across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources business lines. He brings his extensive local market experience to bear at a time when global construction continues to grapple with cost escalation, supply chain constraints, the adaptation to digital ways of delivery, and a need to achieve ambitious net zero goals.
Since joining the firm in 2006, Brian has worked and lived in Japan, Singapore and now Hong Kong, helping to drive Turner & Townsend’s exponential business growth in Asia during his 15 years in the region. He has recently overseen the growth of the firm’s market leading position in both data centres and portfolio management in Asia, while cultivating local industry expertise across all sectors and markets in which we operate.
With a keen interest in driving transformation in Asia’s construction sector, Brian also serves as the newly elected Vice Chair of the Construction, Property & Infrastructure Committee at the Australia Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong (AustCham).
Supporting Brian, other new appointments with Turner & Townsend’s Asia business include Sumit Mukherjee, appointed as Head of Real Estate for Southeast Asia, and Tino Chang, taking on the role of Head of Mainland China. Both Sumit and Tino join as members of the Asia Board tasked with realising bold business expansion plans across the region.
