Full Name
Tien-Yueh Kubach
Job Title
Managing Director
Company
Tishman Speyer
Speaker Bio
Ms. Kubach is a strategic real-estate development executive with over 25 years of global experience leading complex mixed-use developments across luxury hospitality, wellness and integrated resorts, multi-family, retail, and cultural institutions.
Tien-Yueh currently serves as the Managing Director, Design & Construction at Tishman Speyer, where she supports the firm in hospitality development and third-party development assignments. Prior to this role, Tien-Yueh was a Principal at Lubert-Adler Real Estate Partners where she led the firm’s real estate development platform, focusing on large scale adaptive reuse and historic redevelopment projects. As a member of Lubert Adler’s Sustainability Committee, she played a key role in shaping and implementing social and environmental strategies across the firm’s self-developed projects.
Tien-Yueh’s project experience spans North America, APAC, Europe and the Caribbean. Notably, she led the real estate development team for Marina Bay Sands, a Singaporean subsidiary of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation. During her time in Asia, she managed the day-to-day operations of the development team and transformed the Development and Project Management department from a group of 15 to over 115 specialized experts poised to take on the challenges of MBS’ $6 billion development. She developed and embedded global “best practices” standards in the way they brand, plan, reposition, design, and construct large scale projects while fostering a culture of collaboration and inclusivity between the internal and external global stakeholders.
Earlier in her career, Tien-Yueh served as the Vice President of Technical Services at Tishman Realty & Construction. In that role, she oversaw the development, construction, and coordination of Tishman owned and operated hotel assets. Tien-Yueh was involved in acquisition and due diligence assignments where she was responsible for performing the property assessment and preparing the property improvement plans. In addition, Tien-Yueh served as the development advisor for Mr. Tishman’s pro-bono interests.
Tien-Yueh is actively engaged in industry and community leadership. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Real Estate Council, The Center for Loss and Bereavement, People’s Light Theater and the Philadelphia Chapter of the Cornell Real Estate Council. She is a member of the President’s Council of Cornell Women, ULI Philadelphia and NAIOP Philadelphia and is an Advisory Board Member for the Independent Lodging Congress. Previously, she was a Trustees of the Agnes Irwin School, an all-girls college preparatory school located in Villanova, PA where she chaired the DEI Committee and co-led the school-wide master planning efforts.
She has also contributed to the academic field as a guest lecturer at NYU School of Professional Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Weidner University School of Hospitality Management, and the University of Delaware. Tien-Yueh holds a B.S. in Hotel Administration with a concentration in Hotel Planning, Design and Construction from Cornell University.
Tien-Yueh currently serves as the Managing Director, Design & Construction at Tishman Speyer, where she supports the firm in hospitality development and third-party development assignments. Prior to this role, Tien-Yueh was a Principal at Lubert-Adler Real Estate Partners where she led the firm’s real estate development platform, focusing on large scale adaptive reuse and historic redevelopment projects. As a member of Lubert Adler’s Sustainability Committee, she played a key role in shaping and implementing social and environmental strategies across the firm’s self-developed projects.
Tien-Yueh’s project experience spans North America, APAC, Europe and the Caribbean. Notably, she led the real estate development team for Marina Bay Sands, a Singaporean subsidiary of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation. During her time in Asia, she managed the day-to-day operations of the development team and transformed the Development and Project Management department from a group of 15 to over 115 specialized experts poised to take on the challenges of MBS’ $6 billion development. She developed and embedded global “best practices” standards in the way they brand, plan, reposition, design, and construct large scale projects while fostering a culture of collaboration and inclusivity between the internal and external global stakeholders.
Earlier in her career, Tien-Yueh served as the Vice President of Technical Services at Tishman Realty & Construction. In that role, she oversaw the development, construction, and coordination of Tishman owned and operated hotel assets. Tien-Yueh was involved in acquisition and due diligence assignments where she was responsible for performing the property assessment and preparing the property improvement plans. In addition, Tien-Yueh served as the development advisor for Mr. Tishman’s pro-bono interests.
Tien-Yueh is actively engaged in industry and community leadership. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Real Estate Council, The Center for Loss and Bereavement, People’s Light Theater and the Philadelphia Chapter of the Cornell Real Estate Council. She is a member of the President’s Council of Cornell Women, ULI Philadelphia and NAIOP Philadelphia and is an Advisory Board Member for the Independent Lodging Congress. Previously, she was a Trustees of the Agnes Irwin School, an all-girls college preparatory school located in Villanova, PA where she chaired the DEI Committee and co-led the school-wide master planning efforts.
She has also contributed to the academic field as a guest lecturer at NYU School of Professional Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Weidner University School of Hospitality Management, and the University of Delaware. Tien-Yueh holds a B.S. in Hotel Administration with a concentration in Hotel Planning, Design and Construction from Cornell University.
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