Tetsuya Fujita has over 40 years of experience in the real estate industry. He joined what was then ING Real Estate Investment Management K.K., now CBRE Investment Management Japan K.K., in June 2009 as Director. He has served as Managing Director and Country Manager of Japan since July 2010.

Fujita began his career at Sumitomo Realty & Development K.K., spending five years on residential condominium development in Japan and then spent over 13 years leading Sumitomo Realty’s U.S. operations. In 2002, he went on to join CB Richard Ellis Investors Japan K.K. as Managing Director. He later joined CBRE Residential Management, Inc., becoming president. In 2007, he served as Group President at New City Corporation. Subsequently, he held senior positions at affiliates of New City Corporation.

He is a RICS Fellow, a member of the investment committee of the APAC region, and an Executive Committee member of ULI Japan.