Qian Wang has over 22 years of experience investing in residential properties in China and the US. Between 2015 and 2019, he partnered with leading private equity and real estate funds to build and manage a real estate portfolio with approximately 1,500 apartments, and over 130,000 square...

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Qian Wang has over 22 years of experience investing in residential properties in China and the US. Between 2015 and 2019, he partnered with leading private equity and real estate funds to build and manage a real estate portfolio with approximately 1,500 apartments, and over 130,000 square feet of creative office space valued at $3.1 billion. His partners in these ventures includes Warburg Pincus, the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (“GIC”), the investment management business of Prudential Financial, Inc.(“PGIM”), and InfraRed Capital Partners. Over the years, Mr. Wang has led over 50 transactions in Shanghai and Beijing in China, as well as in California and New Jersey in the United States. Mr. Wang received two master’s degrees in architecture and real estate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and has recently completed the Owner/President Management program at Harvard Business School. In 2021, he established the Wang Real Estate Innovation Fund at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Bill Caragol is the Managing Director of Quidem LLC, which leverages his 30+ years of experience with emerging growth companies.  Bill has spent his career working with companies as a director and executive, including positions as Chairman, CEO and CFO of numerous public (six Nasdaq IPOs...

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Bill Caragol is the Managing Director of Quidem LLC, which leverages his 30+ years of experience with emerging growth companies.  Bill has spent his career working with companies as a director and executive, including positions as Chairman, CEO and CFO of numerous public (six Nasdaq IPOs and an officer and/or director) and private emerging growth companies across a wide range of industries.

Bill has led dozens of merger and acquisition transactions, both buy and sell side, including valuation, due diligence, negotiation and structuring.  He has been involved in various types of financing including public equity, venture financing, public debt, working capital (both revolving and factoring), bridge and acquisition financing

Bill has his BS from Washington & Lee University, and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

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Aileen Lai has over 8 years of experience in real estate accounting and portfolio management in Canada and the U.S. Prior to joining Collab, she worked on $2 billion real estate asset operation at Hungerford Properties, Bosa Properties, and LaSalle Investment Management...

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Aileen Lai has over 8 years of experience in real estate accounting and portfolio management in Canada and the U.S. Prior to joining Collab, she worked on $2 billion real estate asset operation at Hungerford Properties, Bosa Properties, and LaSalle Investment Management.

Aileen obtained a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of British Columbia and a Master of Science degree in Real Estate Development from MIT. Additionally, she previously held a CPA designation in Canada.

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Allison Tomek is a seasoned investor relations executive, with 25 years of experience in investorrelations, corporate communications, and corporate governance practices. She has held investorrelations and corporate communications roles at NYSE, NASDAQ, the former AMEX, and OTC companies. Her...
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Allison Tomek is a seasoned investor relations executive, with 25 years of experience in investor relations, corporate communications, and corporate governance practices. She has held investor relations and corporate communications roles at NYSE, NASDAQ, the former AMEX, and OTC companies. Her experience covers a variety of industries including pharmaceuticals, railroads, radio frequency identification, glass strengthening technologies, and more. She is well versed in shareholder engagement, corporate actions including M&A, strategic messaging, and regulatory compliance.

Ms. Tomek served as the two-term president and member of the South Florida chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute. She has also served as corporate secretary for the boards of directors of several public companies and in a director capacity. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in News/Editorial from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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Jill Wallach is a prominent member of the international legal community with more than 30 years of experience advising companies through private practice and as a general counsel.  She has built and managed high performing legal and compliance departments.From 2008 to 2019,  Ms Wallach...
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Jill Wallach is a prominent member of the international legal community with more than 30 years of experience advising companies through private practice and as a general counsel.  She has built and managed high performing legal and compliance departments.

From 2008 to 2019,  Ms Wallach served as international General Counsel  and Secretary to the Board of Directors for Banco BTG Pactual S.A., a global investment bank and from 2013 to 2019 as General Counsel to Engelhart CTP Holding (UK) Limited, a commodities trading firm. She also served on the boards of BTG Pactual’s hedge and UCITs funds.  She started her career at top-tier law firms (Linklaters, London and Cadwalader) handling M&A, capital markets, securities, and asset management transactions which she continued at Credit Suisse and Merrill Lynch for 10 years in their legal investment banking departments.

Ms. Wallach holds an L.L.M. in international business law from the University of Salzburg in Austria and the University of the Pacific in Sacramento, California. She earned her J.D. from New York Law School and a B.A. from the State University of New York in Albany. Ms. Wallach served on both the securities regulation and financial reporting committees of the New York Bar Association. Ms. Wallach holds the FINRA Series 7, 24 and 63 securities licenses.  Her accolades include being named as Top 100 Latin American Corporate Counsel and Top 100 In-House Corporate Counsel in United States, and was in the Financial Times as Legal Innovator of Year for in-house counsel.

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