Dato’ Sharon Low
Co-founder and Managing Director
Dato’ Sharon started StemLife in 2001 and is currently its Managing Director and is responsible for the management, strategies and business direction of StemLife. Prior to the founding of StemLife, she graduated with honours in Biochemistry from Bristol University, UK and worked as a research scientist at a research institute in the National University of Singapore. She held a managing position at a South-East Asian internet corporation before reviving her interest in science. Dato’ Sharon is an active participant in international health and scientific conferences and is a regular invited speaker to business and stem cell awareness events. In 2004, StemLife was one of the co-founders of the Asia-Pacific Cord Blood Bank Consortium comprising of leading cord blood banks from 7 countries including Taiwan, Singapore, Korea and Japan.
Dato’ Sharon serves as an advisor to the Malaysian Biotechnology Information Centre and is a scientific board member of the US based Parents’ Guide to Cord Blood Banking Foundation. Most recently, in her support for women’s education in science, she was appointed to the Secretariat Committee of the Elsevier-TWOWS Young Womens’ Scientist Award for Malaysia 2009.
Dato’ Christina Lim
Co-founder and Deputy Managing Director
Dato’ Christina is a co-founder and has served as the Executive Director since 2002. Before joining the company, she served as a Director and General Manager at a securities firm. She brings to StemLife over 25 years of financial and management experience and oversees all operations and financial planning for the company.
Prof. Dr. Aw Tar Choon
MBBS, MMed (Internal Medicine), MRCP, FRCP Edin, FRCPA
Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer
Prof. Aw is a co-founder of StemLife and is currently the Chief Medical Officer, overseeing the Company’s medical and scientific matters.
Prof. Aw graduated as a medical doctor (MBBS) from the University of Malaya and trained in internal medicine at the Singapore General Hospital and King’s College Hospital, UK. He underwent further training at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US. He has Specialist Certification in Internal Medicine from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Royal College of Physicians, UK and in chemical pathology from the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia. Prof. Aw was the Chief of the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the National University Hospital, Singapore from 1988 to 2002. He was the Vice Dean of the NUS Medical School from 1994 to 2002 and served as the Chief Executive of Alexandra Hospital in Singapore from 1995 to 2002. Prof. Aw has published widely in the medical literature, lectured in numerous congresses in 21 countries and received several distinguished awards.
Prior to joining StemLife, he was Group Medical Advisor to the Health Management International Group, a Singapore public listed company. He also co-founded two medical science companies in Thailand and Singapore.
Lim Jit Soon
Executive Director
Mr. Lim is responsible for overseeing StemLife’s finances, corporate matters, and administration. He qualified as an accountant in 1983 and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Prior to joining StemLife, he was the Senior Vice President of Finance of the Star Cruises Group. During the last 15 years of his working experience he has held senior management positions in several companies, including 3 public listed companies in Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong, namely Star Cruises Group, Ipco International Ltd. and Kuala Lumpur Industries Holdings Berhad.
Leong Jiann Chong
Director of Legal & Corporate Affairs
Mr. Leong is the Director of Legal and Corporate Affairs. He qualified as a Barrister-at-law of Gray’s Inn in 1983. Prior to joining StemLife in December 2006, he was in active private legal practice after being called to the Malaysian Bar. Besides his legal practice he was also involved in non-governmental organisations, primarily concerned with community service. His role in StemLife involves the provision of advisory work on legal and corporate matters.
Zahrein Redza
Director of Operations
En. Zahrein is StemLife’s Director of Operations, Sales & Logistics. He obtained his Masters in Biochemistry from Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada in 1993. He has had a diverse range of healthcare and clinical exposure in industry, hospitals and academia in Canada, Singapore and Malaysia. His tenure includes positions as Research Scientist in Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, Canada, Research Scientist at Scitech Genetics, Singapore, Diagnostics Division Executive in Subang Jaya Medical Centre, Director of Malaysian Technology Development Corporation and management positions at other private hospitals. More recently, he was the Group Manager of Business Development at Columbia Asia Group of Hospitals as well as the Administrator of Columbia Asia Medical Center, Miri. In 2004 he was appointed the Chief Operating Officer of the Tun Hussein Onn National Eye Hospital. He joined StemLife as Director of Operations in June 2005.
Hoe Lu Lu
Director of Marketing – Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Division
Ms. Hoe has held the position of Senior Account Director in multinational advertising agencies and subsequently as VP in the corporate sector and consultant with a public listed company in the property business. She joined StemLife in 2005 holding the position as Director of Marketing - PBSC, responsible for the growing developments and marketing of Adult Stem Cell Banking at StemLife.
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