Richie Lee is executive director of energy and sustainability at CB Richard Ellis Asia, an international commercial real estate company. Before joining CB Richard Ellis in February, he was a consultant to the Asian Health Fund, where he was responsible for a series of energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in China.

Lee has more than 10 years of experience in business development, sales, marketing, project management, and project investment experience, primarily focused on projects in Southeast Asia, Korea, and China involving industrial and commercial energy efficiency, green buildin,g and solar energy solutions.

Between 2006 and 2009, he served as a regional director/managing director of Energy Efficiency for Schneider Electric S. E. Asia (HQ) Pte Ltd. , where as chief technical officer (CTO) and chief financial officer (CFO), he was responsible for sustainable energy projects involving manufacturing plants, factories, hotels and shopping malls, and the business development of solar panels and solar lightings.

From 2001 through 2006, he served as executive director of K S Lee & Associates (Asia) Pte Ltd., an energy efficiency start-up based in Singapore that he co-founded. He earned a master’s degree in engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, Mich., and a Ph.D. in management of research and development at the University of Cambridge. He also served as a research scholar at the University of Tokyo.

 
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