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CDL
HOSPITALITY TRUSTS
WONG HONG REN, 63
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 currently the Non-Executive Chairman of Grand
Plaza Hotel Corporation, First Sponsor Group Limited,
Millennium & Copthorne Hotels New Zealand Limited
and CDL Investments New Zealand Limited. He has been
appointed the Chief Executive Officer of City e-Solutions
Limited with effect from 2 March 2015.
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 was the Chief Executive Officer of
M&C from June 2011 to February 2015, having first joined
M&C in 1996 as a Non-Executive Director and subsequently
took on the role of Chief Financial Officer and Executive
Director in 2001 before his redesignation in 2011. Mr Wong
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, 46
Mr Vincent Yeo Wee Eng was appointed an Executive
Director on 17 May 2006 as well as the Chief Executive Officer
on 19 July 2006 of the H-REIT Manager and the HBT Trustee-
Manager. He also sits on the Risk Management Committees
of the H-REIT Manager and the HBT Trustee-Manager.
Mr Yeo is responsible for working within the H-REIT Manager
Board and the HBT Trustee-Manager Board to determine
the overall business, investment and operational strategies
for H-REIT and HBT. 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 and HBT. This includes overseeing the
acquisition of hospitality and hospitality-related assets
and property management strategies for H-REIT, as well
as the activities of HBT, which acts as master lessee of any
of H-REIT’s hotel property or when it undertakes certain
hospitality or hospitality-related development projects which
may not be suitable for H-REIT. Mr Yeo also handles the asset
management function relating to the hotels currently.
Prior to his appointment as the Chief Executive Officer of
the H-REIT Manager and HBT Trustee-Manager, he was the
President of Millennium & Copthorne International Limited
(
"
MCIL
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) – Asia Pacific from 2003 to July 2006, responsible
for overseeing the hotel operations in Asia Pacific and the
corporate office in Singapore. Prior to that, he held the
position of Chief Operating Officer from 2001 to 2003. Mr Yeo
served as Chief Executive Officer 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).
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
M&C REIT Management Limited and
M&C Business Trust Management Limited
Premier Club Meeting Room, Orchard Hotel
