SMU postgraduate alumna Carolyn Choo, who graduated with a Master of Professional Accounting from SMU in 2002, is Worldwide Hotels’ Managing Director. She became a company director for the family-owned business around 1998 at the age of 21, although she only joined the business full-time in 2002. Ms Choo is the eldest of four children of Mr Choo Chong Ngen – one of Singapore’s wealthiest businessmen, best known for the Hotel 81 chain he set up. Over the past six to seven years, Mr Choo has given roughly $8 million to four Singapore universities to fund bursaries, including SMU.