Leadership / Our Team

Patty Chen: President and CEO. Patty Chen leads PattyC Property Group, investing in the commercial and residential mixed properties, large apartment complexes in multiple states of United States since 2001. She also expanded her real estate investment business into China. She founded America Asia Business Tour Group-Boston (AABT-Boston) to provide superior personalized full-service for Chinese entrepreneurs and other companies interested in real-estate investment, Real Estate EB5 Immigration Investment , business collaborations, and strategic alliances between Asia and America, and to improve their children’s education in the US. AABT-Boston also bridges American entrepreneurs wanting to do business in China. She is the Chairman of The AmericAsia Investment Association (http://aa-ia.org/), is honored with a Life Time Membership from The Overseas Chinese-American Entrepreneurs Association. She is a very experienced Realtor.  She is a member of Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce,  a member of the Wellesley and Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce. She volunteers in many local and Chinese community activities. She has been trained in the MBA program; she received a Master’s degree in Molecular Biology from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) at Chicago. She has two Bachelor’s degrees, one in macro-economics from Ren Min University of China at Beijing and one in biology. In the past, she worked at DuPont Inc, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Chicago as a Sr. research associate and led many important projects. She was honored as an Outstanding Sr. associate and as a leader for the Asian American Network at DuPont Inc.

Boaz Cohen: Director of Real Estate Management. Boaz Cohen oversees all apartment complexes managers and staff at all sites; He also prepares and monitors the Real Estate & Facilities’s operating budget, develops management, management policies and capital improvement regarding office location and facilities. He has supervised over 60 sites and offices in 40 countries in his 12 year Real Estate Management career. He graduated from the Mechanical Engineering National College of the Technion (Haifa Israel) in 1990 and from the Real Estate Surveying – Ramat Gan College (Israel) in 2005.

Tom Deng:  Director of Business Tour. Tom Deng is responsible for business tours. He has 15 years of excellent experiences in the field of business travel management  and guiding tours .  He is also skilled at translation and writing articles for Chinese newspapers. He has a Master Degree in accounting from Southern Illinois University. He also is a real estate broker. He holds another Master Degree from the China Academy of Social Sciences.

Yuan Gao: Director of Education. Yuan Gao is responsible for marketing and providing guidance with our internationally recognized educational institution partners for Chinese students coming to USA. He has 15 years of extensive international trading and marketing experience.  He has been conducting business between North America and Asia including merchandise, production and marketing services for 10 years. He holds a Master Degree of Science from Tufts University.

Peter Genta: Director of Real Estate Acquisition and Development. Peter Genta is responsible for the commercial real estate acquisition and development. He has 25 years experiences of successful real estate transaction, development, and project management. He has worked with a private capital group as general partner for identifying new opportunities, contract negotiations, risk managements, and asset analysis and allocations.  He holds a Master Degree in Real Estate Development from MIT the Sloan School and a Bachelor Degree in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School.

Ronald Klasko (Ron):  Immigration Attorney for EB-5 investors.  Ronald Klasko is one of the country’s leading lawyers representing investors in EB-5 cases and other visas. He served as the Chairman of the EB-5 Committee of the American Immigration Lawyers Association from 2009 to 2012.  He led advocacy efforts with USCIS to improve the EB-5 program. He presently serves as Chair of the association of EB-5 regional centers. He is a former national president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). He has also served as National Chair of AILA’s Business Immigration Committee. He has been included in the highly regarded Best Lawyers in America for 19 years . He is one of only three practicing attorneys ever honored with the AILA Founders Award for his contributions to immigration jurisprudence. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.

Lorne McDougall: Real Estate Business Lawyer. Lorne McDougall has extensive experience in a wide range of complex real estate financings and structured real estate finance and capital markets transactions secured by a wide array of commercial property types. He also handles all aspects of real estate loan restructurings, workouts, foreclosures and REO sales. He is a partner at Edward Wildman LLP Boston Office in the Real Estate Department.  He is the head of Edward Wildman’s Hong Kong office and is a member of the Hong Kong Law Society. He received his B.A. from the University of New Haven, received his LL.B. from Queens University, and received his LL.M. from New York University.

Dorothy Manning: Director of Public Relations. Dorothy Manning is in charge of relationships and communication with the public and other organizations. She has worked as a real estate broker and has invested in both commercial and residential real estate, She has been a member of ChinaBiz Round Table, French American Chamber of Commerce, The Japan Society, Women in World Trade, Boston Real Estate Investors Association, Boston World Partnerships, and other international organizations in Boston. She also has been elected to Who’s Who of American Woman. She is fluent in French and received a PhD from Duke University.

Michael Register: Director of Financial Strategist and CPA. Michael Register has 25 years of experience in the areas of accounting and financial strategy.

Angelina Xu:  Director of Real Estate Brokerage. Angelina Xu is responsible for real estate brokerage and investment property management. She has 15 years of extensive real estate business knowledge and experience. She devotes herself in real estate business. She helps clients to buy, sell and manage residential and commercial properties. She always puts the interests of customers first and has won the highest customer satisfaction. She holds MBA degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

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1.   Company  Team  Members:

 -Headquarters Team Members

-Patty Chen, President & CEO

-Boaz Cohen Director of Real Estate Management

-Tom Deng, Director of Real Estate Brokerage

-Peter Genta, Director of Development and Financing

- Ronald Klasko, Immigration Attorney for EB-5 investors

-Dorothy Manning, Director of Public Relations

-Lorne McDougall, Real Estate Business Lawyer

-Michael Register: Director of Financial Strategist and CPA

Angelina Xu:  Director of Real Estate Brokerage

 -Regional Team Members

-Hu Jia, Beijing Manager (Education, Tour, and Training),

-Xue Jia, Beijing Manager (Real Estate, EB5 Investment)

-Guo Fang, Shanghai Manager

-Michael Lai, Hong Kong & Shenzhen Manager

-Yuan Gao, Director of Education (China )

 -Administration & I.T.

-Dorothy Manning, Director of Public Relations

- Jessie Lee, General Assistant

-Anthony Shawson, General Assistant

-Harry Yu, I.T.

-Troy Shu

-John Harding, I.T and Acquisitions

2.    Company Divisions:

1)    Real Estate Investment

-Boaz Cohen Director of Real Estate Management

-Peter Genta, Director of Development and Financing

-Lorne McDougall, Real Estate Business Lawyer

-John Harding, I.T. and Acquisitions

Angelina Xu:  Real Estate Brokerage

 2)     EB5 Real Estate Immigration Investment

- Peter Genta, Director of Development and Financing       

 - Ronald Klasko, Immigration Attorney for EB-5 investors

-John Harding, I.T. and Acquisitions

3)    Real Estate Management and Brokerage

-Angelina Xu, Director of Real Estate Brokerage

-Boaz Cohen Director of Real Estate Management

4)    Serving Chinese Students

- Yuan Gao, Director of Education

- Hu Jia, Regional Manager    

5)    Harvard Training / Business Tour

-Tom Deng, Director of Business Tour