Keppel Corporation has appointed its CEO-designate Loh Chin Hua to its Board of Directors as an executive director. Loh will also succeed Choo as the chairman on the Boards of the Group’s key listed and non-listed subsidiaries, Keppel Land, Keppel Offshore & Marine and Keppel Infrastructure Holdings.
Loh, 52, has been with the Keppel Group for 11 years and possesses over 25 years of experience in real estate investing and fund management spanning the US, Europe and Asia. He was appointed as Keppel Corporation’s CFO in January 2012 and then CEO-Designate in July 2013. He has been supporting the CEO in strategic business planning, major investment initiatives and decisions, financing strategy as well as investor relations.
Prior to this, Loh was MD of Keppel Land’s real estate fund management arm, Alpha Investment Partners, which he founded in 2003. Under his leadership, Alpha grew its assets under management to about EUR 6.1B today. Prior to Alpha, Loh was MD at Prudential Investment Management, and held several senior appointments in the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation.
