Date of appointment as Director: 17 May 2006
Date of appointment as Chief Executive officer: 19 July 2006
Board committees:
- Board Sustainability Committees (Member)
Present directorships in other listed companies:
- CDL Investments New Zealand Limited (Non-Executive Director)
Present principal commitments:
Past directorships in other listed companies and principal commitments held in the preceding five years:
Mr Vincent Yeo Wee Eng 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 and managers of H-REIT's 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, hospitality-related and other accommodation and/or lodging 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 properties or when it undertakes certain hospitality, hospitality-related and other accommodation and/or lodging development projects. Mr Yeo also handles the asset management function relating to some of the hotels currently.
Mr Yeo has more than 30 years of experience in the hospitality and real estate industry. 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, 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.
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).
