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Jim Ayala, 43, became President of Ayala Land, Inc. on
July 1, 2004. He joined ALI in January 2004 as
Executive Vice President and member of the
Management Committee.
Concurrently, he is Managing Director of Ayala
Corporation. His other significant positions
include: Chairman of the Board of Directors and
President of Makati Property Ventures, Inc.;
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ayala Property
Management Corp., Cebu Holdings, Inc., Cebu Insular
Hotel co., Inc., Cebu Property Ventures & Dev't.
Corp., Community Innovations, Inc., Laguna
Properties Holdings, Inc., Laguna Technopark, Inc.,
Station Square East Commercial Corp. and Makati
Development Corp.; Member of the Board of Directors
and President of Ayala Hotels, Inc., Enjay Hotels,
Inc., Roxas Land Corp. and Vesta Property Holdings,
Inc.; Member of the Board of Directors of Alabang
Commercial Corp., Ayala Greenfield Development
Corp., Ayala Infrastructure Ventures, Inc., Ayala
Land Sales, Inc., Berkshire Holdings, Inc.,
Bonifacio Arts Foundation, Inc., Bonifacio Land
Corp., Emerging City Holdings, Inc., Fort Bonifacio
Development Corp., myAyala.com, Inc., Ayala Center
Association and Makati Parking Authority.
Prior to joining ALI, he spent 19 years with
McKinsey & Company in the US, Mexico, Tokyo and Hong
Kong. At McKinsey, he was a Director (senior
partner) and played a number of global and regional
leadership roles, including that of President of
McKinsey's Manila office. He was also a leader of
the firm's Asia-Pacific Director Group, which
oversees the firm's 17 offices and 1,200
personnel in Asia. In addition, he was Chairman of
the Geographic Development Committee for Southeast
Asia, which is responsible for the reputation
building, networking, and local development of the
five Southeast Asian offices, comprising 200 staff.
He chaired the Asian Professional Development
Committee, which oversees the firm's staffing,
evaluation, compensation, and training processes and
policies in the region. On the knowledge side, J. I.
Ayala was a leader of the firm's Global Business
Process Offshoring and Outsourcing practice and part
of the Global Leadership Organization Practice
practitioner's network. He also founded and headed
the Asia-Pacific Energy Practice for several years.
In Asia, he has counseled multinational and local
clients in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India,
Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the
Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. His
clients have spanned a broad spectrum of industries,
including retail, tourism, real estate, energy,
banking, telecommunications, consumer goods, basic
industries, and transportation.
J. I. Ayala is the only Filipino to have ever been
elected to McKinsey's global partnership. He brings
with him extensive experience in general management
and his skills in strategy development, operations
management, performance management, organizational
effectiveness and change management, mergers and
acquisitions, and government relations and policy.
Before joining McKinsey, J. I. Ayala worked at the
Hong Kong Resort Company and the Philippine
Commercial International Bank.
Throughout his career, he has played leadership
roles in civic organizations. He is a trustee of the
World Wildlife Fund in the Philippines, and Chairman
of the Programs Committee which oversees performance
and prioritization of WWF's programs. His is also a
member of the executive committee of the Philippine
Chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization. He is
a former president of the Harvard Business School
Association of the Philippines, and a former VP of
the group's Hong Kong chapter. He has organized and
participated in a number of Habitat for Humanity
builds.
He earned his M.B.A. from Harvard School, graduating
with honors in 1988. He completed his undergraduate
work in 1984 at Princeton University, where he
graduated Magna Cum Laude in Economics, with a minor
in Engineering.
J. I. Ayala pursues a number of continuing personal
interests. His favorite sports include scuba-diving,
golf, volleyball, tennis, and alpine skiing.
Past-times include multi-media imaging, personal
communication and productivity technology, adventure
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Ms. Teh Lip Kim, 38, is the
Managing Director of the Selangor Dredging Berhad (SDB)
Group. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours)
in Accounting and Economics from Southampton University
in United Kingdom, and a Masters in Shipping, Trade and
Finance from the City University Business School. She is
actively involved in Young Presidents' Organization (YPO)
and is currently the Chapter Chair for YPO Malaysian
Chapter.
SDB was incorporated in 1962 by Mr.
Teh Kien Toh, Ms. Teh Lip Kim's father. It was
originally a tin mining company and made history when
its second dredge became the largest and most advanced
dredge in the world. SDB began diversifying its business
from the early 1980s and this included property leasing,
steel and aluminium manufacturing, distribution of
hardware, sand reclamation, manufacturing of steel wheel
rims for national cars, and hotel operations.
When Ms. Teh took the helm in 1998,
it was the midst of the Asian financial crisis. Like
most companies, SDB was not spared. To steer the company
from further difficulty, she was forced to re-evaluate
the various activities of the Group and to restructure
its business activities including disposing of
non-performing assets. This process of re-alignment led
to focusing on the Group's current core business. From
2004, SDB is now fully concentrating on property related
activities namely property leasing and management,
property development and hotel operations. Guided by her
passion for property development and hotel, this marks
the start of grooming and re-branding SDB into a
lifestyle property company.
SDB's leasing property is Wisma
Selangor Dredging located in the hub of Kuala Lumpur.
For property development, the first project began in
November 2004 with AmanSari, a gated and guarded
development in Puchong, Selangor. This was followed by
the flagship luxury condominium development, Park Seven,
located in the exclusive heart of Kuala Lumpur City
Centre. The latest addition to the Group is the
transformation of its hotel, Hotel Maya, into Kuala
Lumpur's first Malaysian owned and managed boutique
urban resort hotel.
Although a new comer in the
property development scene, SDB has already made
headlines when it took proactive steps to reinforce Park
Seven into an earthquake resistant building. In
September 2005, both AmanSari and Hotel Maya won the
Malaysian Interior Design Awards (MIDA) for Design
Excellence for Residential, and Hotel and Restaurant
categories, respectively.
With Ms. Teh spearheading its new
direction, the Group has come up with innovative
property development concepts and an exciting new
boutique hotel property. SDB has also recorded an
improvement in results ¨C
the pretax profit for the financial year ended 31 March
2005 has improved by 48% over the previous year. SDB is
set to be a quality lifestyle property company, and
creating new benchmarks within the industry. |
