Metro Holdings Ltd
Lt-Gen (Retd) Winston Choo Wee Leong was appointed a Director of Metro Holdings Limited (“Metro”) in June 2007 and assumed the position of Chairman in July 2007. He is also the Chairman of the Nominating, Remuneration and Investment Committees.
He had a distinguished military career from 1959 to 1992 and was Singapore’s Chief of Defence Force from 1974 to 1992. He served as Singapore’s High Commissioner to Australia and concurrently Ambassador to Fiji from 1994 to 1997. He also served as Singapore’s Non-Resident High Commissioner to the Republic of South Africa and the Independent State of Papua New Guinea from 2000 to 2006 and Singapore’s Non-Resident Ambassador to the State of Israel from 2006 to 2020.
Lt-Gen Choo is an experienced company director, having served on the Boards of several listed companies since 1993. Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors of Foodfare Catering Pte Ltd, Newstar Investment Holdings Pte Ltd and Tridex Pte Ltd.
Lt-Gen Choo holds a Master of Arts in History from Duke University, USA and has completed the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard University, USA.
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Metro Holdings Ltd
Metro Holdings Limited is a holding company engaged in the business of management and property investment. The Company operates through two segments: property development and investment, and retail. The property development and investment segment is involved in the leasing of shopping and office spaces owned by the Company and investing in property-related investments. The Company has interests approximately 108, 000 square meters of retail and office investment properties in several cities in the People's Republic of China, such as Shanghai and Guangzhou, and over 826, 000 square meters of residential and mixed-use development properties held predominantly for sale. The retail segment is involved in the business of retailing and operating of departmental stores. The retail segment serves customers through a chain of over three Metro department stores and approximately three M.2 specialty shops in Singapore, and over nine department stores in Indonesia.