As Malaysia gears up for a new wave of real estate investment trusts Reits, CIMB has named a CEO and CIO to run its Reit JV with Mapletree of Singapore. Raja Noorma Othman started yesterday as CEO of CIMB Mapletree Management CMM, while Tham Kuo Wei has been appointed CIO and will start as soon as regulatory approvals have been granted.
Raja Noorma joins the venture from JPMorgan in Malaysia where she was a VP in investment banking. She had been with the firm for five years with stints in Singapore and Hong Kong prior to returning to Malaysia in 2003. Before JPMorgan she was a corporate...