Our Team
Alina Aeby, Phd.
Founder / President
San Francisco / Silicon Valley
Alina is a global real estate and PropTech consultant, speaker and investor based in San Francisco, California. She offers solutions for different aspects of PropTech solution implementation, global real estate, advising on business development, marketing, transactions, real estate practice and ethics, education, and volunteering. She prides herself in connecting the private, government and non-governmental sectors, with SDG 17 and ESG principles in mind. Alina has a background in journalism and economic research, she is an avid web 3.0 technologies student and enthusiast, holds a PhD in Economics with emphasis in globalization and a California real estate broker license. She serves as 2023 NAR (National Association of Realtors) Global Coordinator for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, overseeing and coordinating relationships with bilateral real estate partners in 21 countries, promoting and facilitating educational, PropTech and business exchange programs. 2022-2024 Co-Chair of Business and Industry Group, The General Assembly of Partners (GAP), an independent, multi- stakeholder platform that was set up at the initiative of the World Urban Campaign to support stakeholder engagement and contributions to the UN Habitat III process, VP of FIABCI (International Real Estate Federation) World Council of Property Technology, AsiaProptech- San Francisco Bay Area and CEE Ambassador, broker-associate with COMPASS San Francisco and a Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS).
Digital Technologies: Credentials: Blockchain Applications in Business - Executive Course at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business (2020). Certified Metaverse Expert - Blockchain Council (2023).
Languages: English, Romanian, French, Italian and Spanish.
Rusmin Lawin
Co-Founder
Asia Pacific
Rusmin is a global entrepreneur, well known as Global Ambassador of Real Estate Indonesia.(REI)
He also serves as Chairman of Regional Developments Committee of Indonesia, Chamber Of Commerce and industry(KADIN), the Global Ambassador of Asia Proptech (HK), and the Vice President of Real Estate Indonesia (REI) Developers Association. He is in charge of Foreign Affairs, Board Member of Indonesia - Hong Kong Business Association. He is President of FIABCI Asia Pacific region, and a member of the International Board of Directors. He was the FIABCI Representative to United Nation Geneva 2021-2022.
He is Co-Chair of Business & Industry Committee for the General Assembly Partners (GAP) Paris , a UN Habitat think tank, and Co-Chair at The City We need must be Affordable , a FIABCI program endorsed by UN Habitat since 2017. He also serves as International Advisor of Fundacion Metropoli, Spain, and Middle East Cities Center, Dubai.
His latest role is the Special Envoy of Nusantara Capital City Authority, a new Authority/Ministry under President Jokowi administration.
Zeeshan Shaikh
Advisory Board Member
UAE / MENA
With a background in Neuroscience, Zeeshan is passionate about AI systems, molecular digital twins, neural bridges to synthetic biology, including expanding biological systems’ computational capacity, morphogenetic autonomy and material production ability to innovate self-constructing, living architectures.
He went on to establish ShaikhTech, leading the way in implementing the use of digital twins, AR/VR, computer vision and IOT in the real estate, construction, investment, tourism and hospitality sectors - serving growth cities in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Leveraging emerging technologies for large scale social impact and sustainable development.
Zeeshan is a Member of Forbes Technology Council, Digital Twin Consortium and Dubai Land Department Proptech Thinktank. Some of his clients include NEOM, Roshn, PIF, and Saudi Aramco.
Leo Lo
Advisory Board Member
Hong Kong
Mr. Leo Lo is the founder of Asia PropTech. A surveyor-turned-serial entrepreneur, Leo is the CEO of Fonto Holdings, which is an integrated corporate based in Hong Kong, dedicated to real estate investment, development, financing and advisory with property technology innovations with futuristic and entrepreneurial views. Fonto delivers solutions in the Asia-Pacific Region for real estate and infrastructure as set projects financing, investment, valuation and asset management.
Teresa Grobecker
Advisory Board Member
San Francisco / Silicon Valley
Teresa leads several companies in the real estate industry. She founded the first online real estate brokerage in San Francisco. Teresa put US real estate, (the world’s largest asset class) on her private, patent-pending blockchain. The purpose of the ledger is to satisfy Dodd-Frank. Consortia is part of the National Association of Realtors portfolio of companies through SCV REACH. Teresa manages and advises several prop-tech companies. She also consults the largest owners of SFRs, title and escrow, underwriting and real estate companies on Web 3.0, aka, blockchain.
Teresa has a very unique blend of skills that will ensure your financial well-being through your real estate transaction and career. She works diligently for the aspirations of her clients, agents and broker-managers. Her keen ability to foresee and expertly navigate challenges eases the minds of her clients and team. With her background in finance, her strengths lie in maintaining the overall soundness of each transaction. Her personal goal is to counsel you through to realize your own personal goals.
Christina Prostano
Advisory Board Member
NYC, New York
With almost 25 years in investment, sales, and development in Manhattan and Brooklyn real estate, Christina is a hyper-local expert in her beloved New York City. A member of the prestigious New York Residential Agent Continuum (NYRAC) and a RealTrends Top 1000 agent, Christina and her team appreciate bringing their expertise and top-notch service to assisting clients with their investment goals – whether a dream home or a large commercial investment or development – anywhere in the world.
Christina is Founder and Principal of the CP Global Team at Compass, and the international Global Real Estate Collective, a global community of like-minded professionals who share resources and enable each other to service clients across borders.
A Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS), Christina is fluent in international real estate, serving as Co-Chair of the Global Business Council for the Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors (HGAR) and is an active member of FIABCI, serving on both the PropTech and Commercial Committees. She also holds a certificate in Commercial Real Estate Investment and Analysis from MIT.
Christina believes that blockchain, AI, and other digital technologies will inevitably play a greater role in real estate transactions and that we should embrace them for their inherent benefits such as reducing friction and increasing transparency in transactions. As a Crypto Certified Agent through Propy and through the Blockchain Council, she is a regularly-featured speaker and is happy to discuss proptech, blockchain, tokenization, AI, and all aspects of digital technologies in real estate.
. She has a working knowledge of French, Italian, and Spanish, in addition to her native English.