Pius K. Leung

Pius was born and raised in Hong Kong and came to the States in 1977. He moved to Houston in 1982 after graduating from the University of Mississippi with both a Bachelor and Master of Accountancy degrees. Pius received Honorary Doctor of Finance in 2004 from the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China.

He is currently the Executive Vice President of RealNex, a CRE technology company. He was the Chief Administrative Officer and Managing Director – Americas of the ARGUS Software, Inc. from 2006 to 2013.

Pius is a CCIM (Certified Commercial Investment Member), a CPM (Certified Property Manager), a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) and a CIPS (Certified International Property Specialist) and a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management.

He served as the President of the CCIM Institute in 2005, the 39th president of the CCIM Institute and the first ever president born outside the United State of America. He served on the executive committee of the National Association of Realtors, the world's largest trade association with a membership over 1.1 million, in 2006 and 2007.

Pius is the founding member of the Asian American Real Estate Association in Houston and the Asian Real Estate Association of America nationally. He served as the Treasurer of AREAA as well as serving on its Board of Directors from 2004 – 2007.

Pius is a senior faculty member of the CCIM Institute and faculty emeritus of the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM). He is currently holding the title of visiting professor at the School of International Economics and Trade of the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China. He served as an Adjunct Professor of the Jones Graduate School of Business of the Rice University and Bauer School of Business at the University of Houston in the past. He has teaching experience around the world in countries such as Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Japan, Mexico, Korea and China.

The Houston Association of Realtors named him the International Realtor of the Year in 1998 and the Realtor of the Year in 2002 and the National Association of Realtors awarded him the CIPS Instructor of the Year in 1999. The Houston/Gulf Coast CCIM Chapter named him 2004 CCIM of the Year.