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Mr Albert Saychuan Cheok
Chairman and Independent
Non-Executive Director
Mr Cheok graduated from the
University of Adelaide, Australia with
First Class Honours in Economics. He
is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of
Certified Public Accountants and has
over 30 years of experience in banking
within the Asia-Pacific region.
Between May 1979 and February
1982, Mr Cheok was an adviser to the
Australian Government Inquiry into
the Australian Financial System which
introduced comprehensive reforms
to the Australian banking system. He
was Chief Manager at the Reserve
Bank of Australia from October 1988
to September 1989 before becoming
the Deputy Commissioner of Banking
of Hong Kong for about three and a half
years. He was subsequently appointed
as the Executive Director in charge of
Banking Supervision at the Hong Kong
Monetary Authority from April 1993 to
May 1995.
From September 1995 to November
2005, Mr Cheok was the Chairman of
Bangkok Bank Berhad in Malaysia, a
wholly owned-subsidiary of Bangkok
Bank of Thailand. He also served as
the Deputy Chairman of Asia Life (M)
Berhad, a major life insurer in Malaysia
from January 1999 to June 2008.
Mr Cheok was appointed as non-
executive director of Eoncap Islamic
Bank Berhad and MIMB Investment
Berhad from June 2009 to June
2011. He is the Independent Non-
Executive Chairman of Auric Pacific
Group Limited, Bowsprit Capital
Corporation Limited (the manager of
First Real Estate Investment Trust),
International Standard Resources
Holdings Limited, AcrossAsia Limited
and Amplefield Limited. Mr Cheok also
holds Independent Non-Executive
directorships in HongKong Chinese
Limited, Adavale Resources Limited,
Macau Chinese Bank Limited and
China Aircraft Leasing Group Holdings
Limited.
Mr Cheok is a Vice Governor of the
Board of Governors of the Malaysian
Institute of Corporate Governance.
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Ms Viven Gouw Sitiabudi
Executive Director
Ms Sitiabudi has more than 25
years of experience in management,
marketing and sales and was the
President Director of the Sponsor.
During her stewardship, the Sponsor
has become the largest listed property
company in Indonesia by assets.
She has been integral in identifying
the opportunity for the Sponsor
to invest in retail properties (the
strata malls and the planned leased
malls), enhancing existing assets and
ensuring the delivery of the Sponsor’s
development projects, which span
across a variety of real estate sectors,
including urban/township, residential
clusters, condominium, hospitals as
well as hotel projects, throughout
Indonesia. Ms Sitiabudi graduated from
the University of New South Wales,
Australia with a degree in Computer
Science and Statistics.
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