Surbana Jurong names Sean Chiao new group CEO
Sean Chiao, who was a higher exec at AECOM, has recently been identified as new group CEO of Surbana Jurong. Chiao takes over the role emptied by Wong Heang Fine, that resigned last September.
Chiao says that in the last few years, he has actually seen how Surbana Jurong increase its approach around client emphasis, sustainability, and data-driven remedies.
Canninghill Piers Capitaland & City Developments (CDL)
“In coming to be a leading urban, facilities and managed solutions consulting firm, Surbana Jurong will be able to give the total scope of our global knowledge to consumers and even communities in every place,” he adds.
Chiao, who was from Taiwan, holds a degree in architecture along with a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, plus a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University.
“I’m inspired by the SJ 2.0 approach to position Surbana Jurong for management in an age of sustainability along with digital improvement, and also as a company of option in the developed setting, and I’m looking forward to working with the group to satisfy these desires,” says Chiao.
In its announcement on March 9, Surbana Jurong claims Chiao gives the firm more than 35 years’ knowledge in model and also architectural consulting for the built environment as well as worldwide organization leadership. His most recent role at AECOM was president for structures and also locations global business channel. Chiao had also headed AECOM’s Asia Pacific company as its head of state.
He is to help Surbana Jurong, a part of Temasek Holdings, accelerate its improvement into a worldwide consulting superior in city, framework and also managed plans.
” Sean has substantial Asia Pacific as well as worldwide knowledge, broad insights to the sector furthermore an outstanding record of organization outcomes,” claims Surbana Jurong’s director Chaly Mah.
” We are confident that we have gotten in Sean the best head for Surbana Jurong as we progress the implementation of SJ 2.0, the group’s roadmap to becoming one of the leading metropolitan, structure and handled services consulting providers in Asia Pacific.”
