Abacus Property Group announced that Jingmin Qian has accepted the offer to join the Abacus Board as a non-executive director in late September and Steven Sewell will join the executive team as Chief Investment Officer and Head of Strategy in early October. Jingmin has significant expertise in the property, infrastructure and resource sectors as well as rich experience on Asia. Jingmin is a director of Jing Meridian specialising in advising boards and senior management on investment, strategic management and cross-cultural management. She is a senior advisor to leading global and Australian organisations. Previously she held executive roles with L.E.K. Consulting, Boral Limited and Leighton Holdings, with responsibilities covering strategy, mergers and acquisitions, capital planning, investment review and Asian expansion. Jingmin will stand for election as a director at the next Annual General Meeting in November. Steven brings extensive experience and deep commercial skills in property to the role of Chief Investment Officer and Head of Strategy. Steven will be responsible for the Group's investment and capital allocation activities. Steven joins Abacus from the Macquarie Group where he was Executive Director of Macquarie Asset Management and Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets. Previously he was Chief Executive Officer of Federation Centres Ltd, Charter Hall Retail REIT and Macquarie Countrywide Trust. Steven served as Chairman of Shopping Centres Council of Australia from 2009 to 2015.