The Manager
Board of Directors
Cheah Kim Teck
Mr Cheah Kim Teck
Non-Executive Chairman and Director

Mr Cheah Kim Teck is the Non-Executive Chairman and Director of the Manager.

Mr Cheah is currently Director, Business Development of Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited (JC&C), and is responsible for overseeing JC&C’s investment in Truong Hai Auto Corporation and developing new lines of business in the region. He was formerly the Chief Executive Officer for JC&C’s motor operations (excluding those held by PT Astra International Tbk) until he stepped down from his position in December 2013. He also served on JC&C’s Board from 2005 to 2014. Prior to joining JC&C, Mr Cheah held several senior marketing positions in multinational companies, namely, McDonald’s Restaurants, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Coca-Cola. Mr Cheah was formerly a Director of Singapore Pools (Private) Limited.

Mr Cheah is a Non-Executive Director as well as the Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Sponsor. He was formerly an Independent Non-Executive Director and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee of Mapletree Logistics Trust Management Ltd..

Mr Cheah holds a Master of Marketing degree from the University of Lancaster, United Kingdom.

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Andrew Chong Yang Hsueh
Mr Andrew Chong Yang Hsueh
Lead Independent Non-Executive Director

Mr Andrew Chong Yang Hsueh is the Lead Independent Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Nominating and Remuneration Committee of the Manager.

Mr Chong is also the Independent Chairman of the Investor Committees of both Mapletree Europe Income Trust and Mapletree US Income Commercial Trust.

Mr Chong has over thirty years of experience in the fields of strategy, management, marketing and engineering. He is a board member of ASMPT Limited, a semiconductor equipment manufacturer listed on HK Stock Exchange (HKSE). Mr Chong is also on the board of the Ministry of Manpower's Workforce Singapore Agency (WSG), NTUC’s Employment and Employability Institute (e2i), the Advanced Manufacturing Training Academy (AMTA) and the Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association (SSIA). He also chairs the Board of Governors of the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) and he is active on the board of a social enterprise in Singapore.

Mr Chong received his Bachelor of Electronics Engineering in 1987 and his Master of Business Administration in 1993 from the University of Adelaide in South Australia. He was conferred a Medal of Commendation at the 2017 May Day Awards for promoting good industrial relations and initiating workers’ training and skills upgrading programmes.

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Mr Pok Soy Yoong
Independent Non-Executive Director

Mr Pok Soy Yoong is an Independent Non-Executive Director and the Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Manager.

Mr Pok Soy Yoong has over 30 years of working experience in the areas of Singapore direct tax and international tax. He is among the leading tax experts in Singapore on complex tax transactions and issues, and is particularly noted for his leading role in the creation of the taxation framework for real estate investment trusts. Prior to his retirement from professional practice on 31 December 2008, Mr Pok was the Head of Tax with a Big Four accounting firm as well as a member of its Management Committee. He served as the Chief Operating Officer (Tax) of the firm’s Far East Tax Practices, covering 15 countries. Since retirement, Mr Pok served as the lead technical editor of the authoritative book on Singapore taxation, The Law and Practice of Singapore Income Tax (1st and 2nd editions), and the leader of this public-private sector collaborative project.

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Ms Chan Chia Lin
Ms Chan Chia Lin
Independent Non-Executive Director

Ms Chan Chia Lin is an Independent Non-Executive Director and a member of the Nominating and Remuneration Committee of the Manager.

Ms Chan is a Non-Executive Director of investment holding company Lam Soon Cannery Private Limited. Ms Chan was a Non-Executive Director of Mapletree Oakwood Holdings Pte. Ltd., the Chief Investment Officer of Fullerton Fund Management Company, and Managing Director and Head of Currency and Strategy at Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited. Prior to joining the Temasek Group, Ms Chan had also worked at ABN AMRO Bank and the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Ms Chan is active in the social service sector where she serves on the boards and investment committees of several charitable foundations and church-related organisations. She is currently the Chairperson of HealthServe Ltd. and a board member of mental health charity Resilience Collective and the NUS Mind Science Centre. She was Vice President and Chairperson of the Investment Committee of the National Council of Social Service.

Ms Chan holds a Bachelor of Art (Honours) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University.

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Mr Guy Daniel Harvey-Samuel
Mr Guy Daniel Harvey-Samuel
Independent Non-Executive Director

Mr Guy Daniel Harvey-Samuel is an Independent Non-Executive Director and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Manager.

Mr Harvey-Samuel is currently a Non-Executive Director of M1 Limited and Wing Tai Holdings Limited. Mr Harvey-Samuel is also Chairman of Capella Hotel Group Pte Ltd and of the Board of Trustees of the National Youth Achievement Awards Council. He was conferred the Public Service Medal in 2021 for his contributions to the National Parks Board.

Mr Harvey-Samuel started his career with the HSBC Group in 1978 and held various senior management roles within the HSBC Group in the United Kingdom, Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Mr Harvey-Samuel was the Chief Executive Officer of HSBC Singapore before his retirement in March 2017. He was previously a Non-Executive Director of JTC Corporation until 31 March 2021.

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Dr Andrew Lee Tong Kin
Independent Non-Executive Director

Dr Andrew Lee Tong Kin is an Independent Non-Executive Director and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Manager.

Dr Lee is currently Associate Professor of Accounting Practice at Singapore Management University (SMU) and a member of the University Tribunal. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee on Accounting Standards for Statutory Boards (ASSB) of the Accountant-General's Department.

Prior to joining SMU in 2003, Dr Lee held various senior analyst appointments in corporate banking, and global credit markets at DBS Bank, Standard & Poor’s, UBS, and the former Banque Paribas. He was also previously Senior Lecturer in banking and finance, and a research centre director at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Between 2009 to 2011, he served on the Accounting Standards Council of Singapore.

Dr Lee holds a PhD degree in accounting from New York University, and is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) and Chartered Valuer & Appraiser (CVA) of Singapore. He was conferred a Public Administration Medal (Bronze) at the 2014 National Day Awards in recognition of his dedication and service to Singapore’s tertiary education sector.

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Mr William Toh Thiam Siew
Independent Non-Executive Director

Mr William Toh Thiam Siew is an Independent Non-Executive Director and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Manager.

Mr Toh is also an Independent Investment Committee Member of Mapletree Global Student Accommodation Private Trust.

Mr Toh has more than 30 years of investment experience and was the Chief Investment Officer at Asia Life (2001 - 2006) and New Harbour Capital Partners (2007 - 2018). He also served on the boards of Asia Life (M) Berhad, ST Asset Management Ltd. and Moris Rasik Foundation (incorporated in Timor Leste). Mr Toh was appointed a board member of the National Council of Social Service (NCSS) Board of Council in August 2022.

Mr Toh studied at the University of Tasmania, Australia on a Colombo Plan Scholarship and graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Mathematical Economics. He completed the CFA Investment Management Workshop jointly hosted by the CFA Institute and Harvard Business School.

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Ms Noorsurainah Tengah
Ms Noorsurainah Tengah
Independent Non-Executive Director

Ms Noorsurainah Tengah is an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Manager. 

Ms Tengah is Executive Manager, Head of Alternative Assets and Head of Listed Assets at the Brunei Investment Agency, the sovereign wealth fund of the Government of Brunei. She has been with the Brunei Investment Agency for 15 years; her prior positions have included the Head of Absolute Return, Portfolio Manager Private Equity, Assistant Portfolio Manager External Fund Management, and Analyst of the Macro, Fixed Income, Credit and Equity group. 

Ms Tengah also serves on the board of EG Acquisition Corp, which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

Ms Tengah holds a Masters in Finance and Economics from the Manchester Business School. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst as well as a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst.

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Mr Chua Tiow Chye
Non-Executive Director

Mr Chua Tiow Chye is a Non-Executive Director and a member of the Nominating and Remuneration Committee of the Manager.

Mr Chua, as Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer of the Sponsor, focuses on driving the Sponsor’s strategic initiatives including expanding and directing the Sponsor’s international real estate investments and developments, as well as oversees the Sponsor's multi-family apartment business.

Previously, Mr Chua was Head of the Sponsor’s Global Lodging sector and Private Capital Management function. Before this, he was the Group Chief Investment Officer and Regional Chief Executive Officer of North Asia & New Markets of the Sponsor.

Mr Chua also serves as a Non-Executive Director of MPACT Management Ltd. (the Manager of Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust) and he remains as a Director of Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust Management Ltd. after the delisting of Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust. He was also previously the Chief Executive Officer of Mapletree Logistics Trust Management Ltd..

Prior to joining the Sponsor in 2002, Mr Chua held senior positions with various companies including Vision Century Corporation Ltd, Ascendas Pte Ltd, Singapore Food Industries Pte Ltd and United Overseas Bank Ltd.

Mr Chua holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Strathclyde and graduated with a Bachelor of Regional and Town Planning (1st Class Honours) from the University of Queensland in 1982.

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Wendy Koh Mui Ai
Ms Wendy Koh Mui Ai
Non-Executive Director

Ms Wendy Koh Mui Ai is a Non-Executive Director of the Manager.

Ms Koh is currently the Group Chief Financial Officer of the Sponsor. She oversees the Finance, Tax, Treasury and Information Technology functions of the Sponsor. She holds various appointments within the Sponsor group including as the Non-Executive Director of Mapletree Logistics Trust Management Ltd. (the Manager of Mapletree Logistics Trust) and MPACT Management Ltd. (the Manager of Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust). She remains as a Director of Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust Management Ltd. after the delisting of Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust.

Prior to her current role, she was the Regional Chief Executive Officer, South East Asia of the Sponsor from August 2014 to July 2019, heading the Sponsor’s business in South East Asia and Head, Strategy and Research in 2014. She was also previously engaged by the Sponsor as an advisor to review the Sponsor’s strategy implementation from FY09/10 to FY13/14 and was involved in the formulation of the Sponsor's second Five-Year plan.

Before joining the Sponsor, Ms Koh was Co-head, Asia-Pacific Property Research at Citi Investment Research. With 20 years of experience as a real estate equities analyst, she was involved in many initial public offerings and capital raising deals including for Mapletree Logistics Trust, Mapletree Industrial Trust and Mapletree Commercial Trust (now known as Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust).

Ms Koh holds a Bachelor of Business (Honours) degree specialising in Financial Analysis from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and the professional designation of Chartered Financial Analyst from the CFA Institute.

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Mr Tham Kuo Wei
Mr Tham Kuo Wei
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer

Mr Tham Kuo Wei is both an Executive Director and the Chief Executive Officer of the Manager.

Prior to joining the Manager, he was the Deputy Chief Executive Officer (from August 2009) and Chief Investment Officer (from April 2008 to August 2009) of the Sponsor’s Industrial Business Unit where he was responsible for structuring, setting up and managing real estate investment platforms in Singapore and the region.

Prior to this, Mr Tham was the Chief Investment Officer of CIMB-Mapletree Management Sdn. Bhd. in Malaysia from July 2005, and he was responsible for setting up and managing the private equity real estate fund. He was instrumental in securing investments from institutional investors in Malaysia and overseas. He was also responsible for sourcing and acquiring completed assets as well as managing development projects across the office, retail, industrial and residential sectors.

Before Mr Tham’s secondment to CIMB-Mapletree Management Sdn. Bhd., he was the Senior Vice President of Asset Management in the Sponsor and was responsible for the Sponsor’s portfolio of Singapore commercial, industrial and residential assets. He joined the Sponsor in June 2002 as the Project Director for its new Business and Financial Centre project at the New Downtown in Singapore. Prior to joining the Sponsor, Mr Tham held various positions in engineering and logistics management in PSA Corporation from 1993 to 2002.

Mr Tham holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree from the National University of Singapore.

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