Woo, Carolina

Carolina Y.C. Woo is the owner of the CW Group, a consulting firm focused on real estate development, planning, and design in the US. She began her career in architecture and real estate in 1969, when she joined Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM), one of the largest architectural firms in the US and the designer of the Sears Tower in Chicago as well as the Freedom Tower in New York City. She became a Partner at the firm in 1984 while also serving as the President of SOM International Ltd., with overall responsibility for SOM's work in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Asia-Pacific region. Ms. Woo has an international reputation as an effective manager of large-scale private and public sector development. In Vietnam, she directed the planning of Saigon South, a new community south of Ho Chi Min City. In London, she directed the planning and first-phase implementation of Canary Wharf -- at 6.5m square feet, Europe's largest privately sponsored development. She directed the design and construction of the new San Francisco International Terminal Building, the renovation of San Francisco's historic U.S. Court of Appeals, and also led the renovation and expansion of the nearby, equally important California Supreme Court Building as a new State Office & Courts Building in San Francisco's Civic Center. In China, she directed major commercial projects in Beijing, Shanghai, and other cities, including the new headquarters of the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China in the heart of Beijing near Tiananmen Square, the JinMao Tower, and the Master Planning of XinTianDi. Ms. Woo received an MBA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Architecture from the Road Island School of Design. She is a Trustee of the Rhode Island School of Design and sits on the Board of Directors for China Housing and Development Co., Ltd.

Carolina Woo 总裁（前SOM国际有限公司总裁）， CW Group