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| LONDON -- April 12, 2010 -- RICS today held elections for its new officers at the organization’s Governing Council Meeting. Robert Peto was also confirmed as the president for 2010/2011. The RICS global vision and strategy is set by the 70-strong Governing Council, which is chaired by the President and includes RICS members from all world regions. The successful candidates from the officer elections are: President-elect: See Lian Ong Honorary Secretary: Rob Mahoney Senior vice-president: Alan Collett Vice-president: Michael Newey “I am delighted to announce the election of a strong group of officers. They will be fundamental in helping Governing Council to continue to shape RICS’ strategy and achieve its vision of becoming the mark of property professionalism worldwide,” said RICS president Max Crofts. According to RICS Americas Managing Director Matt Bruck, these selections represent the very best of RICS. “Robert Peto is a global leader at a global firm, with an understanding of the intricacies of international valuation standards,” Bruck said. “And See Lian Ong is an accomplished and influential quantity surveyor who leads a global firm’s interests throughout Asia. Both of them show the strength of RICS as a multidisciplinary organization with a world vision and responsibility.” Background on the Governing Council officers: President Robert Peto MA FRICS: In addition to his upcoming role as RICS president for 2010/11, he is Vice Chairman, Capital Markets, at DTZ, a global real estate consultant quoted on the London Stock Exchange employing some 10,000 people worldwide. For nine years to 2008, he was Chairman of DTZ UK and a member of the Board of DTZ Holdings Plc. Peto has had wide experience within DTZ as a General Practice and Investment Surveyor covering Strategic Property Advice, Fund Management, Acquisition and Disposal of Investment Property, Asset Management, Landlord & Tenant relations and Lease Restructuring, Development Management and Valuations. He ran the Middle Eastern Office from 1983 to 1986. At RICS Peto has chaired the RICS/IPF Working Party on Calculation of Investment Worth. He has been Chairman of the RICS Valuation Standards Board and the RICS International Valuation Professional Group. He is a member of the Bank of England Property Advisory Group and the IPD Index Consultative Committee. President-elect: See Lian Ong BSc (Hons), PPISM, FISM, FRICS, ICECA: See Lian Ong, currently RICS vice president and chairman of the RICS Asia Board, has more than 35 years of working experience in the public and private sectors of the construction industry. He is currently an executive director of Davis Langdon & Seah (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, a member of Davis Langdon & Seah International. A fellow of both the Institution of Surveyors Malaysia and RICS, Ong is also a Registered Quantity Surveyor with the Board of Quantity Surveyors Malaysia. In addition, he is an Accredited Mediator with the Construction Industry Development Board Malaysia (CIDB), and has handled mediation and arbitration cases and provided expert witness services. Ong is the past president of the Pacific Association of Quantity Surveyors (PAQS) and ISM. He is a member of the Advisory Panel for Tunku Abdul Rahman College (TARC) as well as for the MSc Program in Construction Contract Management offered by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor. Ong has also acted as an external examiner for the quantity surveying program at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang for the 2002/3 academic year. Ong is a much sought after speaker at various conferences internationally. In recognition of his vast contributions to the profession and the property and construction industry, he was awarded the PAQS Medal (2007), Malaysian Surveyor of the Year and ICE Award of Appreciation. (2008). Honorary secretary: Rob Mahoney: Robert P. Mahoney FRICS FBCartS is acknowledged as one of the most experienced independent GIS consultants in Europe and Principal of MahGeo with more than 25 years experience. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; Member of Governing Council, Management Board, and Chair of the Knowledge Board. Mahoney is the UK delegate to Féderation Internationale des Géomètres (FIG) Commission 3 and a Vice President of Comité de Liaison des Géomètres Européens (CLGE). He is also a Fellow of the British Cartographic Society. Rob has presented more than 40 papers and is an accomplished speaker. He has extensive experience in the management of land information, and land registration (cadastre) systems, together with the associated technologies and business processes. He has been engaged upon a wide variety of national and international projects, including the Feasibility Study for the National Land Information Service (NLIS); its Scottish equivalent, ScotLIS; and has been an advisor to the Hungarian, Isle of Man and other Governments on the computerization of the land registration systems. He has also worked on other projects worldwide and is a part time lecturer. Rob was a former member of UK Governments Geographic Information Panel under the direction of the Deputy Prime Minister. Senior vice-president Alan Collett: Alan Collett has worked in property since 1972, principally in residential investment, development and management. A former Senior Partner of Allsop LLP he is now Chairman of their management subsidiary, ARIM Ltd. The son and the father of a chartered surveyor, he is passionate about the career opportunities that are open to people throughout the world in land, property and construction. He is also a Trustee of the College of Estate Management, a Board member of the Empty Homes Agency and a member of both the Securities Institute and the Investment Property Forum. Vice-president : Michael Newey BSc FRICS FCIH MAHI: Newey is the Group Chief Executive of Broadland Housing Group based in Norwich, a post he has held for the past seven years. Broadland comprises a housing association owning 4,600 homes in Norfolk and Suffolk; a training, employment and support services charity, Meridian East; and a market sale residential development company, St Benedicts Homes Ltd. He previously worked for Anglia Housing Group as an Executive Director and Flagship Housing Group as Group Development Director. He started his career with Prall Champion and Prall in Dartford, Kent in 1981 and moved to London in 1988, where he worked for both Richard Ellis and Savills before moving to the social housing sector in 1997. Between December 2008 and February 2009, Michael undertook a secondment as a Special Adviser to the Minister for Housing in Victoria, Australia, on community housing capacity building. Newey has been involved in RICS for the past 24 years and was Chairman of the Junior Organisation (now known as RICS Matrics) in 1992/3. Amongst his other formal appointments, he has chaired both the Public Affairs Committee and the Communications Board. He is currently both Chairman of the RICS Awards and also Vice Chairman of the Management Board. He is a past Chairman of the European Housing Forum. As well as being a Fellow of RICS, Michael is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing and a Member of the Australasian Housing Institute. He has a degree in Urban Land Administration from Portsmouth Polytechnic. About RICS & RICS Americas RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), with headquarters in London, is the leading organization of its kind in the world for more than 100,000 professionals in property, land, construction and related environmental issues. RICS Americas, based in New York and covering North, Central and South America and the Caribbean, has more than 2,000 members in commercial and residential development, construction and project management, brokerage, planning and finance, valuation and fine arts appraisal. For further information visit www.ricsamericas.org or e-mail ricsamericas@rics.org. |