SINGAPORE, 11 December 2012 – PropertyGuru Group, across Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, is hosting Gift Life, a regional blood donation drive held in conjunction with the Singapore Red Cross Society.
Held on Wednesday 12 December 2012, Gift Life will see PropertyGuru’s over 200 employees from all three countries come together in a collective effort to raise awareness of the importance of donating blood and how each individual can make a difference to the lives of those who need it most.
Members of the public are invited to come down to pledge to be a donor by donating blood and participate in a slew of activities to understand more about blood and how they can contribute back to society through the slogan “Give Blood. Save Lives”.
Gift Life is part of GuruCares, PropertyGuru’s annual outreach community programme dedicated towards giving back to the community through corporate social responsibility initiatives and charities through collaboration with humanitarian organizations.
Steve Melhuish, Co-Founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of PropertyGuru is grateful for the opportunity for him and his staff to give back to the community again, “This is the 3rd year that GuruCares is involved in a large-scale community project. In previous years, we have kicked off our efforts with Hair for Hope for Children’s Cancer Foundation (CCF) where we raised more than S$18,000 for cancer-stricken children and their families, and participated in the Yellow Ribbon Run to raise awareness for ex-prisoners. This year, we aim to donate 600 units of blood from over 600 donors from Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.”
Visitors can register at
http://www.propertyguru.com.sg/gurucares and receive more information about the event.
Event DiarySINGAPORE: 12pm-8pm, Bloodbank@ Dhoby Ghaut Dhoby Xchange, 11 Orchard Road, #B1-05 to 09
MALAYSIA: 11am-5pm, Ground Floor @ Wisma F-Secure (previously UOA Foyer), Kuala Lumpur.
THAILAND: 9am-11am, National Blood Centre @ Thai Red Cross Society, Henri Dunant Road, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330.
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About PropertyGuruHeadquartered in Singapore, PropertyGuru was co-founded in 2006 as a self-funded company, with a vision to make the property search process a breeze for buyers, sellers and investors. Taking advantage of Asia’s growing affluence for property and the online boom, it received its first VC investment funding in 2008. Since then, the company has grown rapidly, reaping profits and positive cashflow in 2009 and doubling revenue growth in 2011.
PropertyGuru is now Asia’s leading online property portal group, with a high-volume of online real estate presence across nine territories in Asia, including offices in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and partnerships with leading property websites in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Vietnam and China. It has a current inventory of electronic-driven properties including 82 million property pages with 500,000 residential and commercial properties listings from 200 developers to attract 9.8 million buyers and 25,000 paying real estate agent subscribers and developer advertisers, generating close to 300,000 advertiser enquiries monthly.
To date, PropertyGuru has also created 12 mobile applications in 4 countries and 3 languages which garnered 370,000 mobile application downloads, is the first to integrate website with social media as well as circulate Singapore’s only dedicated property print publication with dispersion outreach of over 3,500 key locations island-wide.
Executive BiographySteve Melhuish, Co-Founder and Group Chief Executive Officer
Steve is an award-winning entrepreneur.
For the last two decades, Steve built profitable companies throughout Asia and Europe and in 2006 along with his partner Jani Rautiainen, founded PropertyGuru Group.
Under the auspices of this newly established holding group, PropertyGuru.com.sg was started with the aim of providing a one-stop online shop for the listing and sale of residential properties to individual and institutional home buyers and investors respectively.
Prior to Steve’s current role, he held executive positions in various venture capital firms including Skype, AOL, Virgin Media, Vodafone, Extreme Media, iPass and Ariadne Capital. In all, Steve’s expertise in leading global teams resulted in a US$500 million turnover for a business unit for Cable & Wireless. In 2007, Steve was awarded the Spirit of Enterprise Award, in recognition of his contributions to entrepreneurship in Singapore.
Steve is a non-executive director for two other firms, an angel investor and member of the Business Angels Network South East Asia.
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