Neil Bear-Hetherington is a senior member of CBRE's Asia Pacific Capital Markets & Leasing team, specialising in the data centre sector. He provides expert guidance to data centre developers, operators, end users and investors across investment transactions, leasing, capital formation, debt issuance and land strategies, working in close collaboration with CBRE's Capital Advisory team. With eight years of experience spanning EMEA and Asia Pacific, Neil has built a proven track record executing and advising on complex, cross-border data centre investment and leasing transactions across Japan, Korea, Australia, the UK, France, the Nordics, Belgium, Romania, South Africa, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. He works with hyperscalers, neoclouds, operators, developers and institutional capital across the full data centre lifecycle, from site and power strategy through to contracting, capacity acquisition, joint ventures and major capital transactions. Neil holds a Chartered Fellowship of RICS (FRICS), a Fellowship of the RSA (FRSA) and is a Certified Data Centre Management Professional (CDCMP). He has a particular interest in the convergence of AI, compute, power and physical infrastructure.