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Board of directors
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 Ofcer 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.
Mr Wong joined Hong Leong Management Services
Pte. Ltd. , a whol ly-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 andmerger 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.
WONG HONG REN, 61 VINCENT YEO WEE ENG, 44
Mr Vincent Yeo Wee Eng was appointed an Executive
Director on 17 May 2006 as well as the Chief Executive
Ofcer 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
alsoworks with other members of the H-REITManager’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 Ofcer
of the H-REIT Manager, he was the President of
Millennium & Copthorne International Limited (“MCIL”)
– Asia Pacifc from 2003 to July 2006, responsible for
overseeing the hotel operations in Asia Pacifc and
the corporate ofce in Singapore. He was previously
its Chief Operating Ofcer from 2001 to 2003. Mr Yeo
served as Chief Executive Ofcer of City e-Solutions
Limited until November 2008 and as an Executive
Director until April 2009. He is also a non-executive
Director of CDL Investments New Zealand Limited and
Millennium & Copthorne Hotels New Zealand Limited.
Between 1998 and 2000, he was an Executive Director
of M&C based in London overseeing global sales
and marketing. Between 1993 and 1998, he was the
Executive Director and then the Managing Director of
Millennium & Copthorne Hotels New Zealand Limited
where he developed and integrated the largest chain
of hotels in New Zealand.
Mr Yeo graduated Summa Cum Laude and the top
of his faculty in 1988 from Boston University with
a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
(Major in Finance).
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