Starlight Investments Expands Asia-Pacific Presence with Senior Hire in Korea

Starlight appoints TK Gong as Vice President, Global Markets, Asia and the Pacific and opens office in Seoul

TORONTO and SEOUL, South Korea, March 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Starlight Investments, a leading global real estate investment and asset management firm, today announced the appointment of Tae Kyoung (TK) Gong as Vice President, Global Markets, Asia and the Pacific. Based in Seoul, Mr. Gong will lead Starlight's regional engagement with investors and partners and support the firm's activities across key Asia–Pacific markets.

Mr. Gong brings 14 years of professional experience across investment management and advisory roles with KPMG and Mirae Asset Global Investments. He previously served as Head of the Overseas Real Estate Investment team at Mirae, where he led global acquisitions across North America, Europe, and Asia and oversaw more than CAD $1 billion in assets under management (AUM). He holds an international educational background, having studied at institutions in the United States, Japan, and Korea.

With deep expertise in Korea's institutional investment landscape and extensive global real estate experience, Mr. Gong brings a cross‑border perspective shaped by diverse experience in Korea, Japan and the United States, supporting Starlight's expansion across Asia–Pacific and its ability to connect regional capital with international opportunities.

Starlight also announced the opening of its Asia–Pacific headquarters in Seoul, further strengthening the firm's long‑term commitment to the Asia–Pacific region. The Seoul office deepens Starlight's engagement with institutional investors and positions the firm within one of Asia's most sophisticated and globally integrated capital markets. Located in IFC Seoul (International Finance Centre Seoul) within the Yeouido Business District, the office places Starlight at the center of the region's capital markets and investment community. It will support regional relationship management, investment partnership activities, and broader market development as the firm continues to expand its international platform.

"We are excited to expand our presence in Asia–Pacific," said Raj Mehta, President, Global Markets, Starlight Investments. "Korea and the broader region are home to many important investors and strategic partners. Opening our Seoul office reflects our momentum as a global company and our commitment to building long-term relationships that create value for our stakeholders."

About Starlight Investments

Starlight Investments is a leading global real estate investment and asset management firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A privately held owner, developer and asset manager of over 70,000 multi-residential suites and over 7 million square feet of commercial property space with CAD $30 billion AUM, Starlight offers a range of investment vehicles across various real estate strategies. Starlight's guiding mission is to balance its tenure with visionary curiosity to create positive impact for investors and communities alike. At Starlight, we invest with impact.

Learn more at www.starlightinvest.com or connect with us on LinkedIn.

 

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Starlight Investments Expands Asia-Pacific Presence with Senior Hire in Korea

Starlight Investments Expands Asia-Pacific Presence with Senior Hire in Korea

BARCELONA, Spain, March 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- At MWC Barcelona 2026, Enterprise Strategy Group, now part of Omdia, released a technical validation report on Huawei's New-Gen OceanStor Dorado Converged All-Flash Storage.

The report emphasizes that enterprise data volumes are growing rapidly in the AI era, reshaping how organizations operate and raising the bar for storage infrastructure in terms of performance, resilience, intelligence, and cost-effectiveness. While many storage vendors offer all-flash solutions, architectural design trade-offs often make it difficult to balance performance, reliability, and cost, ultimately limiting the benefits delivered to organizations.

The report provides a comprehensive evaluation of New-Gen OceanStor Dorado Converged All-Flash Storage across performance, resilience, intelligent management, and total cost of ownership (TCO). The results confirm that the product leads the way in these key areas and demonstrates strong market competitiveness, delivering a compelling combination of high performance, strong resilience, and optimal TCO. This meets enterprise needs for digital and intelligent transformation.

Testing conducted in a simulated high-concurrency database environment shows that the all-flash system sustains ultra-high performance of more than 876,256 IOPS, with an average response time of just 32 μs. The system stores diverse data with native and parallel architecture for blocks, files, and objects.

The active-active solution supports seamless failover across data centers. The SmartMatrix full-mesh architecture can tolerate the failure of up to seven out of eight controller enclosures without service interruptions. FlashEver enables cross-gen convergence and eliminates service interruptions during storage replacement. The system delivers end-to-end intelligent protection with built-in ransomware detection for both SAN and NAS.

The DataMaster agent of the iMaster DME data management platform enables automatic system health assessment, performance trend prediction, and fault location within minutes.

In addition, the five-year TCO analysis indicates that New-Gen OceanStor Dorado Converged All-Flash Storage can reduce TCO by up to 64% compared with traditional hybrid storage. This achieves significant savings in procurement, O&M, and energy consumption.

Yuan Yuan, President of Huawei Data Storage Product Line, stated, "This Enterprise Strategy Group technical validation demonstrates Huawei's ongoing leadership in storage technology innovation. Going forward, we will continue to deepen our innovation efforts and help accelerate the digital and intelligent transformation across industries."

For more information, visit: https://omdia.tech.informa.com/commissioned-research/articles/huawei-new-gen-oceanstor-dorado-converged-all-flash-storage 

About Enterprise Strategy Group

Enterprise Strategy Group, now part of Omdia, provides focused and actionable market intelligence, demand-side research, analyst advisory services, GTM strategy guidance, solution validations, and custom content supporting enterprise technology buying and selling.

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Huawei New-Gen OceanStor Dorado Converged All-Flash Storage Passes Enterprise Strategy Group Technical Validation