CEO MONTHLY / DECEMBER 2025 28 Kenny Lam: Asset Management in the Big Apple and Beyond s its name suggests, Blue Ocean Property Group’s entire operation is built on the guiding belief that, in today’s highly competitive business environment, companies looking to succeed should pioneer ‘blue oceans’ of untapped market space, rather than trying to secure their footing in the overcrowded and fiercely competitive ‘red oceans’. This foundation has paved the way for lasting relationships with clients built on a combination of expertise, integrity, and the successful implementation of the strategic approaches discussed below. Beginning with investor sales, the first of three speciality areas focused on by the firm, the team assist investors across a variety of sectors, from office spaces and retail outlets through to industrial properties, mutlifamily residences, hospitality establishments, and healthcare facilities. Regardless of the nature of the property, the end goal is the same: to deliver value to clients by identifying investment properties that offer either immediate upside potential or which are likely to yield a high investment in the longer term. Providing just one example of this in action, a recent closing made by the firm saw a property they purchased for just $52k sell for $430k, with this single family, real estate flip on the West Coast acquired to capitalise on huge demand across what is a popular Airbnb market area. The remarkable A boutique advisory firm located in the beating heart of New York City, Blue Ocean Property Group’s services span investment sales, capital advisory, and property management alike. The goal across the firm is to add value to the lives of clients at every turn, by helping them to both understand and navigate this complex market. CEO and Founding Partner Kenny Lam is one of the men responsible for upholding this aim, and with him being named the Most Influential CEO 2025 – Distressed Asset Management (New York), we take a closer look at both his career and the wider firm’s success. A 827% return on investment boasted by the property demonstrates the capability of Blue Ocean Property Group in getting the results it promises, and this property being on the other side of the US highlights its immense reach. Similarly, Blue Ocean Property Group excels when it comes to capital advisory services, specifically securing suitable capital financing solutions and helping to minimise ownership dilution. In this area specifically, the firm utilises a tried-and-tested methodology to demonstrably raise capital, at the same time negotiating terms that will work for clients and investors. Its offering here is huge, spanning a multitude of business lines, asset types, financing types, and terms, meaning that there is something for every organisation’s needs. Last but certainly not least, the third area rounding out Blue Ocean Property Group’s portfolio is property management. Here, the firm leverages its reliability in this landscape to handle all of the intricacies associated with both managing the property itself and ensuring that the investment yields the maximum return. This includes invoicing, rent collection, expense payment review, insurance procurement, repair/maintenance, lease renewals, property inspections, and all the regulatory filing/ compliance. Behind every one of the services delivered by this boutique asset management firm is a team who share more than 100 years of combined experience – not just in the NYC market but across the whole of the US. Their unrivalled understanding of one of the world’s toughest commercial markets ensures these professionals can help their clients make it anywhere, and the commitment they have to enriching the experience as they do so – meaning clients can comprehend and traverse the marker with confidence, rather than blindly following orders – is laid out in both the firm’s mission and its pillars of success. These pillars span people, integrity, relationships, commitment, service, and excellence. More than just words on a wall, they are Blue Ocean Property Group’s guiding light, illuminating the path and ensuring it can make the impactful choices that lead to personal growth and positive development on a companywide scale. This includes decisions that are both significant and minor, both of which contribute to something greater in the longer term. “Innovate, Invest, Inspire.” Helping to keep everything running smoothly across this operation, Kenny Lam is the CEO of Blue Ocean Property Group, a role he has inhabited since co-founding the firm alongside Khant P. Lwin in early 2017. Kenny is certainly no stranger to investments, being a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist himself. He is steered at every turn by more than 20 years of first-hand experience, having honed his skills as a mortgage broker, mortgage banker, and retail banking institutions before the firm. With high-level roles at leading organisations such as JP Morgan Chase, Capital One, and Citibank all under his belt, Kenny’s track record of success knows no bounds. Aside from excellence in self-origination and boasting an ability to nurture top performing teams across every organisation he works with, Kenny is distinguished through the fact that he has generated an impressive loan volume totalling more than $500m, not to mention a prolific investor in real estate and both small and medium-sized operations alike across the US. Regarding his personal life, Kenny is driven to investing both time and resources into the local community, seen through him serving on the board of directors for two of the most prominent real estate trade organisations in the New York City region: the Chinese American Real Estate Association (CAREA) and the Asian Real Estate Association of America (AREAA). However, these roles only scratch the surface of how Kenny supports the local Asian community, which he does primarily through LunarNYC. LunarNYC is a non-profit organisation striving to empower the world’s youth, all
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