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Dr Choo Kian Koon, aged 54, joined the UM Land Board
as a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director on 1 January 2003.
He was a member of the Executive Committee, Audit Committee
and Tender Board Committee of UM Land.
Dr Choo was the Senior Vice President, Malaysia Investment,
at CapitaLand Residential Limited. He has worked as an estates
officer with the Singapore Ministry of Defence and was a senior
lecturer with the National University of Singapore. He was also
with property consultants Richard Ellis and Jones Lang LaSalle
where he has held several senior local and regional positions. He
is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers, a
member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and an
affiliate of the Singapore Institute of Planners.
Dr Choo, a Singapore citizen, graduated in 1974 from the
University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Science in Estate
Management. He also holds a Masters Degree in Environmental
Planning from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom,
and a PhD (Urban Planning) with a Certificate of Achievement in
Urban Design from the University of Washington, United States
of America.
Dr Choo has no family relationship with any director or major
shareholder of UM Land except by virtue of being a nominee of
CapitaLand. He has never been charged for any offences and does
not have any conflict of interest with UM Land.
He resigned as Director on 17 March 2006.
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Dr Choo Kian Koon, berusia 54 tahun, menyertai Lembaga
Pengarah UM Land pada 1 Januari 2003 sebagai Pengarah Bukan
Bebas Bukan Eksekutif. Beliau merupakan bekas ahli
Jawatankuasa Eksekutif, Jawatankuasa Audit dan Jawatankuasa
Lembaga Tender UM Land.
Dr Choo merupakan bekas Naib Presiden Kanan, Pelaburan
Malaysia, di CapitaLand Residential Limited. Beliau pernah
berkhidmat sebagai pegawai estet di Kementerian Pertahanan
Singapura dan sebagai pensyarah kanan di Universiti
Kebangsaan Singapura. Beliau juga pernah menyandang
beberapa jawatan kanan setempat dan serantau ketika
berkhidmat dengan Richard Ellis dan Jones Lang La Salle.
Beliau merupakan ahli Fellow Singapore Institute of Surveyors
and Valuers, ahli Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors dan
anggota gabungan Singapore Institute of Planners.
Dr. Choo, seorang warganegara Singapura, telah
menamatkan pengajiannya di Universiti Singapura pada tahun
1974 dan memiliki Ijazah Sarjana Muda Sains dalam bidang
Pengurusan Estet. Beliau juga memegang Ijazah Sarjana
Perancangan Alam Sekitar dari Universiti Nottingham, United
Kingdom dan memiliki Kedoktoran (Perancangan Bandar)
dengan Sijil Pencapaian di dalam Seni Reka Perbandaran dari
Universiti Washington, Amerika Syarikat.
Dr. Choo tiada sebarang pertalian kekeluargaan dengan
mana-mana pengarah atau pemegang saham utama UM Land
kecuali sebagai pengarah nomini CapitaLand. Beliau tidak
pernah disabit dengan sebarang kesalahan dan tiada sebarang
konflik kepentingan dengan UM Land.
Beliau meletak jawatan sebagai Pengarah pada 17 Mac 2006.
YB Datuk Nur Jazlan bin Tan Sri Mohamed
YBhg Datuk Syed Ahmad Khalid bin Syed Mohammed
Dr Choo Kian Koon
UNITED MALAYAN LAND BHD