The Board of Directors is supported
by Executive Officers who have expertise in finance,
asset management, mergers and acquisitions and hospitality.
VINCENT YEO WEE ENG
Chief Executive Officer
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 M&C REIT Management Limited and M&C Business Trust Management Limited.
Prior to his appointment as the Chief Executive Officer of M&C REIT Management Limited, he was the President of Millennium & Copthorne International Limited - Asia Pacific from 2003 to July 2006. He was previously its Chief Operating Officer from 2001 to 2003. Mr Yeo is also the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of City e-Solutions Limited (listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong) since 2000 and also sits on the boards of CDL Investments New Zealand Limited and Millennium & Copthorne Hotels New Zealand Limited (both listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange). Between 1998 and 2000, he was an Executive Director of Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc based in London overseeing global sales and marketing. Between 1993 to 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).
ANNIE GAN
Chief Financial Officer
Ms Annie Gan was appointed as Chief Financial Officer of M&C REIT Management Limited on 1 June 2007. She is responsible for the financial management and accounting functions of H-REIT including statutory reporting and compliance, debt and financing arrangements, taxation, treasury and corporate governance.
Prior to joining M&C REIT Management Limited, Ms Gan was the Group Financial Controller of the public-listed company, Orchard Parade Holdings Limited (“OPHL”), a subsidiary of Far East Organisation Pte Ltd, where she was responsible for overseeing the financial and operating functions of OPHL and was actively involved in fund raising and the re-structuring of its borrowings. She also served as a Director of all the subsidiaries of OPHL, primarily responsible for the stewardship of the subsidiaries’ affairs and advising on new investment opportunities. She has more than eighteen years experience in financial management, treasury, taxation and corporate advisory as well as in-depth knowledge of the hospitality, property development and property investment industry. She was also previously with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Singapore as a Senior Audit Manager, where she was responsible for due diligence and acquisition audits, profit forecast reviews and the statutory audits of several public-listed companies and large multinational corporations.
Ms Gan is a Certified Public Accountant of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore and of the Certified Public Accountants of Australia and holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from The Australian National University.
HO SIANG TWANG
Head, Investments
Mr Ho Siang Twang is responsible for sourcing, evaluating and executing potential acquisitions with a view to enhancing CDL
Hospitality Real Estate Investment Trust’s portfolio.
Prior to joining M&C REIT Management Limited, Mr Ho was the Director of Business Development of Millennium & Copthorne International Limited and was primarily responsible for evaluating hotel acquisition and development opportunities. Mr Ho was also
previously the Strategic Planning and Fund Management Manager of ARA Trust Management (Suntec) Limited, the manager of Suntec Real Estate Investment Trust where he was responsible for overseeing the fund management/investor relations activities, acquisition financial analysis and due diligence, and debt/financing arrangements. Mr Ho was also previously with the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation where he worked in the private equity team that was responsible for the stewardship of investments across Asia as well as the evaluation of new investment opportunities in a broad range of private equity investments globally. At the portfolio level, he was responsible for reporting the performance of the private equity portfolio and helped developed a risk management framework.
Mr Ho is a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst charter and is a Singapore Certified Public Accountant. He holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from the Nanyang Technological University and a post-graduate diploma in Systems Analysis from the Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore.
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