Executive Briefing Series: Real Estate Market Outlook

Yardi’s Executive Briefing Series is an exploration of current real estate market trends and the economic outlook within the Asia Pacific region. With the series taking place twice a year, we hope to uncover shifts and movement within the real estate industry to provide a better understanding of where we are and what we should focus on moving forward.

This is your opportunity to network with peers and get insights into the trends and challenges that global commercial real estate faces in the year ahead. Discussions are joined by industry experts from MSCI and Cushman & Wakefield, and will focus on different geographies within Australia. 

Ben Martin-Henry
Head of Real Assets Research, Pacific
MSCI

Ben is Head of Private Assets Research and Senior Strategic Advisor for the Pacific at MSCI, leading action-oriented insights across major and emerging property sectors.

With over 15 years’ experience in Australia and the UK, he specialises in investment analysis, research, strategy, and product development, with expertise in property performance metrics, macroeconomic data interpretation, and financial markets.

Ben began his career at IPD in London (now MSCI) before moving to Sydney as Lead Client Consultant for Asia Pacific. He then spent five years at CBRE as Head of Capital Markets, Office & BTR Research before joining RCA as Head of Analytics for the Pacific, which MSCI acquired in 2021.

Andrew Gargiulo
Director and Founder
Accelerate Partners

Andrew Gargiulo is the Director & Founder of Accelerate AI Partners, a Melbourne-based consultancy helping mid-sized Australian organisations build genuine AI capability at the leadership and team level.

His career spans 15 years across five continents and more than a dozen industries. Chemical engineering, project management, operations management and business development with Halliburton in New Zealand, Australia, Africa and the Middle East. An MBA at IE Business School Madrid. Four years leading large strategy and transformation programs at a Tier 1 management consulting firm. Then senior leadership at Transurban. Andrew left corporate in early 2025 after watching a reasoning model produce in 30 minutes what his consulting team used to deliver in a week. Today he helps executives and their teams become Top 1% users of the AI tools they already have.

Bernie Devine
Senior Regional Director, Asia Pacific
Yardi

With 30+ years’ experience dedicated to real estate and technology, Bernie is a leader in digital transformation in real estate and using data to create a more competitive and collaborative environment.

Currently responsible for the growth of Yardi Systems in Asia Pacific, Bernie lives in Hong Kong and is a qualified accountant and economist.

He supports real estate clients with Retail, Commercial, Industrial, Residential and Mixed-Use assets, helping them to grow their operations, create efficiencies, and gain better insight into their business. His expertise includes asset and investment management, private equity, operations improvement, program and project management, finance, technology implementation and compliance.