Colin MacDonald is Executive Chairman of Fine Grain Property, an institutional real estate investment and asset management platform he established in Singapore in 2006, with Irish real estate investment commencing in 2016.
Fine Grain has invested across the commercial, hospitality and residential sectors in Ireland and Singapore, and has raised and managed a series of institutional closed-ended funds. Investment strategy is focused on unlocking value, with a particular focus on acquiring and repositioning overlooked and undermanaged commercial and residential properties in Dublin.
Colin spent three decades in Asia between 1989 and 2019, beginning at HSBC across Singapore, Taiwan, Bahrain and Hong Kong. His career in repositioning and restoring real estate started with three years at Far East Organization, Singapore, where he led the restoration of Singapore’s iconic Fullerton Hotel. In 1997 he founded Singapore’s McCraic Group of bars and restaurants, which was sold via a trade sale in 2009.
Colin holds a Bachelor of Commerce from University College Dublin and is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He served as President of the Irish Chamber of Commerce in Singapore and of The Ireland Funds Singapore, and today is a Director of Shannon Chamber of Commerce and of the University of Limerick Foundation.
