David Choo

About David Choo

David Choo is responsible for the overall investment activities of HMV, a single family office real estate investment/development firm with offices in California. He has over 30 years of extensive experience in the real estate investment and mortgage financing industries as an investor, land developer, and mortgage banker with an emphasis on large scale land assemblage and programmatic design of unique mixed-use projects. Mr. Choo has been a licensed California Real Estate Broker since 1995.In 2003, Mr. Choo began acquiring parcels for a development project at the corner of First and Mission Streets in San Francisco. He ultimately purchased, for his own account, 7 parcels of land, acquired from 5 separate owners, upon which he proposed a 915’ office building tower and a second 640’ hotel and hotel-branded residential tower. These two towers, totaling 2.4 Million SF, ultimately received entitlement approvals and are currently being built by the Chinese developer Oceanwide Group. The hotel/residential tower has been flagged as the Waldorf-Astoria San Francisco Hotel and Towers. Mr. Choo served two terms as President of the California Mortgage Association in addition to serving on its Board of Directors and chairing several committees.David has been a past director of the California Trust Deed Broker’s Association and has been a past member of the Mortgage Association of California, the Mortgage Banker’s Association, The Fisher Center for Real Estate Studies at U.C. Berkeley, and the California Mortgage Association. Mr.Choo has served on the Board of Directors of The San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Cal Performances at U.C. Berkeley.Mr. Choo started his career as a Software Engineer at ASK Computer Systems in Los Altos, California and designed manufacturing management software applications. Mr. Choo received dual bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, in 1984.

Experience

1. Founder

   Hmv Group

   Nov 1986 — Present

Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  Bachelor's degree

  1980 — 1984