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WONG HONG REN, 60
Mr Wong Hong Ren was appointed a Director of
the H-REIT Manager and the HBT Trustee-Manager
on 17 May 2006. He was subsequently appointed
as the non-executive Chairman of both Boards on
12 June 2006.
Mr Wong is an Executive Director and the Chief
Executive Offcer of M&C. He is also the Executive
Chairman of Grand Plaza Hotel Corporation and the
non-executive Chairman of Millennium & Copthorne
Hotels New Zealand Limited and CDL Investments
New Zealand Limited. In the preceding 3-year period,
he was a non-executive Director of City e-Solutions
Limited until his retirement in April 2009.
Mr Wong joined Hong Leong Management Services
Pte. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong
Leong Investment Holdings Pte. Ltd., in 1988 as
Group Investment Manager and was redesignated
to Executive Vice President (Group Investment) in
2006. He is widely experienced in hospitality and
industrial businesses overseas, investment analysis,
international capital markets and merger and
acquisition transactions as well as post-acquisition
management re-organisation matters.
Mr Wong holds a Masters in Business Administration
from Bradford University, United Kingdom.
VINCENT YEO WEE ENG, 43
Mr Vincent YeoWee Eng was appointed an Executive
Director on 17May 2006 as well as the Chief Executive
Offcer on 19 July 2006 of the H-REIT Manager and
the HBT Trustee-Manager. He also sits on the Risk
Management Committee of the H-REIT Manager.
Mr Yeo is responsible for working within the H-REIT
Manager Board to determine the overall business,
investment and operational strategies for H-REIT.
He also works with other members of the H-REIT
Manager’s management team and the master
lessees of H-REIT’s hotel properties to ensure that
the business, investment and operational strategies
of H-REIT are carried out as planned. In addition,
Mr Yeo is responsible for the overall management
and planning of the strategic direction of H-REIT,
including overseeing the acquisition of hospitality
and hospitality-related assets and asset and property
management strategies for H-REIT.
Prior to his appointment as the Chief Executive
Offcer of the H-REIT Manager, he was the President
of Millennium & Copthorne International Limited
(“ MCIL”) – Asia Pacific from 2003 to July 2006,
responsible for overseeing the hotel operations in
Asia Pacifc and the corporate offce in Singapore.
He was previously its Chief Operating Offcer from
2001 to 2003. Mr Yeo served as Chief Executive
Offcer of City e-Solutions until November 2008 and
board of directors
M&C REIT Management Limited