THE LEADERSHIP TEAM
Pius K. Leung CCIM, MRICS, CPM
Principal
Pius is the Principal with SPAK Interests, Inc. and was the Chief Administrative Officer and Managing Director - Americas of the ARGUS Software, Inc., the standard provider of investment management solutions to the commercial real estate industry, from 2006 to January 2013. Prior to joining ARGUS in 2006, Pius was the President of Charter Equity, Inc. providing commercial real estate brokerage and property management services to investors from Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Japan, Canada, Germany and Switzerland.
Pius is a CCIM (Certified Commercial Investment Member), a CPM (Certified Property Manager) and Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS).
He served as the President of the CCIM Institute in 2005, the 39th president of the CCIM Institute and the first ever president born outside the United State of America. He served on the executive committee of the National Association of Realtors, the world’s largest trade association with membership over 1.1 million, in 2006 and 2007.
Pius is one of the founding members of the Asian American Real Estate Association, previously known as Greater Houston Chinese Real Estate Association in 1995 and served as the Treasurer of the Asian Real Estate Association of America, as well as serving on its Board of Directors from 2004 – 2007.
Pius is a senior faculty member of the CCIM Institute and faculty emeritus of the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM). He is currently holding the title of visiting professor of the School of International Economic and Trade of the University of International Business and Economic in Beijing, China and Adjunct Professor at the Jones Graduate School of Business of the Rice University in Houston. He has teaching experience around the world in countries such as Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Japan, Mexico, Korea and China.
The Houston Association of Realtors named him the International Realtor of the Year in 1998 and the Realtor of the Year in 2002 and the National Association of Realtors awarded him the CIPS Instructor of the Year in 1999. The Houston/Gulf Coast CCIM Chapter named him 2004 CCIM of the Year.
Lauris Tam
Principal
His wholly-owned architecture firm Office Interiors, Inc. was named in the Top-200 Interior Design Firms in the nation for five consecutive years during the 1980s.
Lauris was Co-Founder and Chairman of Hong Kong Association of Houston for over 20 years. Currently he is President of Guangdong Association of Texas and was former President of Asian American Real Estate Association of America as well as a founding board member. He was field producer for an “Emmy Award Winner” for “Hong Kong Under the Dragon” on CBS-KHOU-TV Houston.
Lauris earned his Master of Urban Planning degree from Texas A&M University and a Bachelor or Architecture from the University of Houston.
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