NAME: DR. CHRISTOPHER SHUN KONG LENG, CFP®, RFP
PERSONAL DETAILS: DATE OF BIRTH – 15 OCT 1965
MALE
MARRIED WITH THREE (3) CHILDREN
MALAYSIAN CITIZEN
EDUCATION : 2005 DOCTOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (DBA) (SPECIALISATION: PROPERTY PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT)
HENLEY MANAGEMENT COLLEGE,
BRUNEL UNIVERSITY,
UNITED KINGDOM
2000 ADVANCED POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY
HENLEY MANAGEMENT COLLEGE, HENLEY-On-THAMES, OXFORDSHIRE,
UNITED KINGDOM
1991 MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MANAGEMENT (INTL. MGMT.)
MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS,
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
1987 BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (SUMMA CUM LAUDE)
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS,
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
1987 BACHELOR OF ARTS IN ECONOMICS (MAGNA CUM LAUDE)
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS,
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS:
2006 REGISTERED FINANCIAL PLANNER (RFP)
2005 SECURITIES COMISSION (SC) OF MALAYSIA – LICENSED FINANCIAL PLANNER
2003 CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER (CFP)
1988 CORPORATE FINANCE EXECUTIVE (CFE) PROGRAMME
LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL, LONDON,
UNITED KINGDOM
CAREER BACKGROUND :
- i) GROUP DEPUTY MANAGING DIRECTOR (MENANG CORPORATION)
ii) GROUP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (MENANG CORPORATION)
iii) ASSOCIATE (MERGER & ACQUISITION - DEUTSCHE BANKERS TRUST )
iv) CORPORATE FINANCE EXECUTIVE (HILL SAMUEL BANK)
v) GROUP BOARD DIRECTOR - ( Malaysian NGO FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY STUDIES AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT)
CURRENT STATUS : GROUP DEPUTY MANAGING DIRECTOR
MENANG CORPORATION (M) BERHAD
CAREER HISTORY
JAN 1992 – DEC 2007 MENANG CORPORATION (M) BERHAD (“MENANG”)
POSITION: GROUP DEPUTY MANAGING DIRECTOR
Menang, a public listed company listed on the Main Board (Property) of the Bursa Malaysia. Dr Shun was appointed as Group Executive Director when joined and was subsequently promoted to Group Deputy Managing Director of Menang in 2005.
Responsibilities:
· Reporting directly to the Board of Directors.
· Supervises the total operations and personnel policies of the Group.
· Organising external and internal financing for the Group.
· Sits on the Audit Committee representing Management to the Independent Non-Executive Directors with respect to Corporate Governance and Policy matters.
· Also a member of the Remuneration Committee to ensure attractive and competitive remuneration policies are adopted to retain and attract management calibre for the Menang Group.
· Implementation of the Group’s regional diversification into Australia wherein he established a wholly owned subsidiary in Perth, Western Australia since June 1997.
Accomplishment:
Crisis Management and Turn around Specialist.
Chief Strategist as the company successfully re-engineered from a Section 176 and regularised within 2 years (1999-2001)
FEB 1991 – DEC 1991 BANKERS TRUST INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, LONDON,
MERGER & ACQUISITION DEPARTMENT
POSITION: ASSOCIATE
Responsibilities:
· Authored an internal cross border Europe-Asian Economic Survey for Bankers Trust International Ltd.
· Part of the transaction team involved in the BASF (US) US $250 M divestiture.
· Handled the entire property portfolio of the late Robert Maxwell of Mirror Group PLC.
JUN 1987 – AUG 1989 HILL SAMUEL BANK LIMITED LONDON, UK
POSITION : CORPORATE FINANCE SENIOR EXECUTIVE
Responsibilities:
· Designing valuation models for US Fortune 500 companies.
· Property development consulting for British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
· Conduct market entry studies for Australian property PLC’s into the United Kingdom.
1998 to PRESENT FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY STUDIES AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (YKPM) , KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA
POSITION: GROUP BOARD DIRECTOR - FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION
Responsibilities:
Refer to link http://www.ykpm.org/management.html
. Chairing the Management steering and oversight committees to establish sound financial policies and to implement operational goals with respect to fund raising, external liaison with foreign embassies, capital budgeting and corporate planning.
. Formulating and evaluating strategies to impact policies on rural and urban community development.
. Production of the NGO Report and Accounts and audited in a timely manner to augment the level of professionalism given FOCUSED’s transparency obligations to corporate, institutional and governmental donors.
APPENDIX
A Summary of Dr Christopher Shun other achievements
1 Dr. Shun has been appointed in October 2007 unto the Advisory Panel of the highly prestigious Property think-tank; the National Property Research Council (NAPREC), which is under the Malaysian Ministry of Finance as a high level policy council to advise the Government of Malaysia on macro-economic factors impacting the Real Estate Industry and its consequential impact to the country.
2 Invited to join the faculty at the Real Estate Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania as a Visiting Scholar in September 2007.
3 Dr. Shun’s Doctoral dissertation secured the 7th placing in the prestigious European Doctoral Association for Management and Business Administration (EDAMBA) Thesis competition announced in July 2005. He secured the top ten position amongst the over 300 entries from the top 60 Business, Economics and Management Universities in Europe.
4 He has participated in the Senior Management Development Programme (SMDP) conducted by the Harvard Business School in 1994.
5 Dr Shun has published/ written the following academic papers/ articles:
v “Risk Management for Property Development” @ July 2000, ISBN No: 1861811651
v “Risk Factors for Asian Property Investments: A Case for the Malaysian Property Trust” @ July 2002, ISBN No: 186181139X.
The above two papers are listed in Amazon.Co.UK for purchase.
v “An Empirical Investigation of the Role of Legal Origin on the Performance of Real Estate Stocks within the Context of a Tactical Asset Allocation Strategy” was accorded the designation of “highly commended” in the UK based Keith Macmillan Research Manuscript prize. His area of research is in Property Risk Management, Portfolio Management and Property Finance.
v Articles in the EDGE WEEKLY, a regional Malaysian and Singaporean financial weekly, with respect to Property Risk Management and Asian Property Trusts and he also regularly writes for the Journal of Malaysian Financial Planning.
v Risk Management paper and methodology, used by the Euromoney Training UK (a division of Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC), United Kingdom for a 3-day seminar entitled “Modelling Techniques for Structuring Real Estate Finance” on 10th - 12th February 2003 in London.
Dr Shun has also presented and give seminars/talks on the following:-
v Featured by Bloomberg TV on such matters as Property Trusts, Property Risk and Property Finance.
v Seminars entitled “Development Lifestyle Implications for the 21st Century: Seven key Reflections via a System Dynamics Feedback Loop Perspective” at the Multimedia University, Malaysia in 2004 and the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2006 as a blueprint for responsible and sustainable development in Emerging nations.
v Conference speaker for the 2005 CFO Conference organised by the Federation of Public Listed Companies (FPLC) and the 2006 National Accountant’s Congress organised by the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA).
v Dr. Shun presented his latest joint research with Prof. David Ho (NUS) on Value-at-Risk (VaR) for Real Estate and on Islamic Financing for Real Estate at the American Real Estate Society (ARES) Global Conference in San Francisco in 2007.
v Dr. Shun and his NUS colleague, Associate Prof. David Ho have presented a model how to set up a USD$200m property investment fund to invest in 8 Asian cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Jakarta). Dated 30 Aug 2006
v Distinguished Speaker for NUS Real Estate Department in September 2006 and August 2007 with the latest talk entitled: “Islamic Financing as a Strategic Financing Alternative for Developers; Case studies of Islamic Financing in a highly competitive Conventional Banking Environment”.
v Presenter for the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), Construction Industry Development Board of Malaysia (CIDB), Malaysian Institute for Corporate Governance (MICG), National Property Development Conference (NPDC 2002) and the Financial Planning Association of Malaysia (FPAM 2002) concerning Property Risk Management and Property Trust Management.
Dr. Shun has been involved on a voluntary basis with the Foundation for Community Studies and Development (FOCUSED), a Non-Governmental Organisation, as the Honorary Finance Director.
FOCUSED was established in 1993 and received its esteemed designation of “Foundation” in 1998 as recognition by the Malaysian Government for its invaluable support and expertise in improving the standard of living and poverty alleviation amongst the aboriginal indigenous peoples in Malaysia known as the “Orang Asli’s”.
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