MANAGEMENT
TEAM
MR. YONG YEAN CHAU
Chief Executive Officer and
Executive Director
(Please see biography under Board
of Directors)
MR. LOO HOCK LEONG
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Loo brings with him 19 years of
extensive banking and corporate
experience. He was previously the
Senior Vice President, Corporate
Advisory of Global Financial Markets
with DBS Bank Ltd. He has provided
advisory services on corporate treasury
management to large corporations in
area of corporate finance and merger
& acquisition. He has extensive
experience in the financial structuring
of interest rate and foreign exchange
risk management solutions for these
clients.
Mr. Loo graduated from the National
University of Singapore with a Bachelor
of Electrical Engineering (Hons) degree
in 1995. In 2000, he obtained a Masters
of Applied Finance from the Macquarie
University with three distinguished
awards: Best Overall Performance,
Best in Derivatives Valuation and Best
in Legal & Tax Risk in Finance. He also
possessed a professional qualification
from ISCA.
MR. TAN SEAK SZE
Senior Vice President,
Investment, Asset Allocation and
Strategic Research
Mr. Tan was the Vice President,
Investment of CapitaLand Group
before joining Parkway Life REIT. He
was responsible for the investment
MR. LOO HOCK LEONG
Chief Financial Officer
MR. TAN SEAK SZE
Senior Vice President,
Investment, Asset Allocation
and Strategic Research
MR. YONG YEAN CHAU
Chief Executive Officer and
Executive Director
activities of CapitaLand’s retail business
unit in India. Prior to this, he worked
for two years in the Philippines as the
Chief Operating Officer of a business
process outsourcing firm. In 2004, he
was seconded by Ascendas Pte Ltd
(Ascendas) to the position of Chief
Executive Officer of L&T Infocity-
Ascendas Ltd, a developer company
of IT complexes in Hyderabad, India.
In 2003, he was the Finance Manager
of Ascendas-MGMFunds Management
Limited. Prior to this, he was Assistant
Vice President, Corporate Finance of
Ascendas and was responsible for
the Ascendas Group’s domestic and
international financing programmes
including cross border financing and
strategically managing the group’s
capital structure.
From 1994 to 2000, Mr. Tan was with
JTC International Pte Ltd where he
joined as a Business Development
Officer and eventually assumed the
post of Senior Manager, Investment and
Planning. During this period, Mr. Tan
accumulated regional work experience
in areas ranging from project evaluation,
financial modelling, financial structuring,
marketing with extensive exposure to
strategic planning. After graduation, Mr.
Tan was with the Corporate Banking
Department (Real Estate Division) of
DBS Bank Ltd from 1991 to 1994. He
was responsible for the marketing and
credit assessment of the portfolios of
the bank’s real estate corporate clients.
Mr. Tan holds a Master of Business
Administration with High Honours from
the University of Chicago, Graduate
School of Business and a Bachelor
of Arts with Honours in Accounting
and Law from the University of Kent at
Canterbury, United Kingdom.
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