Ko Iwahori

Biography: Ko co-founded Acadia Capital Limited in May 2019 in partnership with a Hong Kong based family office with a team and partners in Hong Kong, Singapore, Melbourne and Tokyo. Acadia Capital provides real estate investment advisory services across Asia Pacific including Australia for institutional clients, from core to opportunistic including development in both equity and debt opportunities. Ko has over 30 years of experience in commercial real estate, having served various senior roles with Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd (MEC). He currently is Executive Advisor of the company. His areas of expertise include capital markets, fund management, fund equity raise, property acquisition, disposition and development. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President of TA Realty, a Boston based property fund manager and a MEC group company, having raised equity from Japanese institutional investors for the manager’s U.S. value add property fund. He previously served as Group General Manager, Cross Border Investment Advisory at Mitsubishi Real Estate Services, a Tokyo based brokerage arm and 100% owned subsidiary of MEC, providing investment advisory services to multinational companies and fund managers investing inbound and outbound from Japan, the US, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and mainland China. Ko holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA from Waseda University. He was a sole recipient of MEC'