ABOUT GEORG
Georg Johann Chmiel was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company on 10 November 2023. Georg has 3 decades of experience in rapidly growing, disruptive online businesses and has been leading more than 40 acquisitions and been taken over 7 times.
Georg is the Co-Founder & Chair of Juwai-IQI Holdings, the largest proptech Group in South East Asia with more than 45,000 sales agents powered by a SuperApp. He is also NonExecutive Chair of Spacetalk (ASX:SPA) and Centrepoint Alliance (ASX:CAF) and Non-Executive Director of Kinatico (ASX:KYP). He is Senior Advisor of brioHR.com, South East Asia’s fastest growing HR platform.
Georg was previously Executive Chair of iCarAsia (ASX:ICQ), the number 1 online automotive marketplace for SE Asia until its acquisition by CARSOME. He was also Managing Director & CEO of the iProperty Group (ASX:IPP) until its sale to REA Group in the biggest online takeover in SE Asia at that point in time. He was Non-Executive Director of Mitula Group (ASX:MUA) and Proptech Group (ASX:PTG) until the respective sales to Japanese Lifull Group (TSE:2120) and MRI Software. Georg was also Managing Director & CEO of LJ Hooker Group with 700 real estate offices across ten countries. Georg also held the position of Group CFO & Acting CEO at REA Group (ASX:REA), a Australian based decacorn. Georg also worked for KPMG, Deutsche Bank and McKinsey&Company.
Georg is the recipient of the 2025 Best Technology Entrepreneur Award, 2024 Outstanding Corporate Excellence & Sustainability Leadership Award, 2023 Master Entrepreneur Award (APEA), 2023 Unicorn Award – Scaleup Tech Icon (PIKOM), the 2022 Excellence Award for Digital Transformation (Malaysia Australia Business Council), the 2022 ASEAN Business Excellence Award and others. He is a regular author and guest lecturer on disruptive technologies, AI and big data and entrepreneurship at various universities.
Georg is CPA and Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia and Board Member of the World Digital Chamber, Executive Council Member of the Economic Club Kuala Lumpur. Georg holds an Master of Business Administration (MBA) of INSEAD and a Computer Science degree of Technische Universität München (TUM).
