laguna resorts & hotels pcl
(LRH:Bangkok)

Executive Profile*

Background*

Mr. Ho Kwon Ping serves as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at Thai Wah Food Products Public Company Limited. Mr. Ho is the Founder of Banyan Tree Al Wadi and has been its Executive Chairman since April 2009. He is a Co-Founder of Banyan Tree Holdings Limited. He serves as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Laguna Resorts & Hotels Public Company Limited. He joined the family business in 1981. In 1994, he launched Banyan Tree Hotels ... & Resorts Pte. Ltd. He has been the Executive Chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings Limited since March 1, 2004. Mr. Ho serves as an Executive Chairman of Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts Pte. Ltd. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Tropical Resorts Limited and Tropical Resorts Management Co Ltd. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Wah-Chang Group and Singapore Management University. He served as the Chairman of MediaCorp Pte Ltd. until July 2010. He has been an Executive Director of Banyan Tree Holdings Ltd. since July 05, 2000. He has been a Non-Executive Director of Diageo plc since October 01, 2012. He has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Standard Chartered Bank Australia since October 22, 1996 and Standard Chartered Bank (Thai) Public Company Ltd. since October 22, 1996. He serves as a Director of Air Seychelles, Standard Chartered Bank and Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. He has been a Director of Banyan Tree Al Wadi since July 2000. He serves as a Director of Li-Ho Holdings (Private) Limited. He serves as a Director of Chang Fung Company Limited., Wah-Chang Offshore (Hong Kong) Company Limited., Bibace Investments Ltd., KAP Holdings Ltd., Recourse Investments Ltd., Freesia Investments Ltd., Asia Tapioca Products Company Limited and Tay Ninh Tapioca Company Limited. He served as an Independent Director of Singapore Airlines Ltd. from July 2000 to July 2007. Mr. Ho served as an Independent Non-Executive Director at Standard Chartered Plc from October 22, 1996 to May 4, 2006 and Singapore Tourism until 2004. He was a Journalist and the Economics Editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review. He is a Co-Chairman of the Thailand-Singapore Business Council. He is a Member of the Singapore-US Business Council, International Advisory Panel of Media Development Authority of Singapore, Asia-Pacific Council of the Nature Conservancy, Asia Pacific Advisory Board of London Business School, International Council of the Asia Society, International Council and East Asia Council of INSEAD, and National Economic Planning Council of Seychelles. Mr. Ho was awarded the Singapore Government's Meritorious Service Medal for his contribution in the founding of SMU. In 2010, he became the first Asian to receive the ACA (American Creativity Association) Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his creativity and innovation in various spheres of endeavour. In 2011, he was voted top Thinker in Singapore in the Yahoo! Singapore 9 Awards, a testament to his business innovations and leadership in civic causes. He received the London Business School 2005 Entrepreneurship Award. In 2008, he was named CEO of the Year at the Singapore Corporate Awards. In 2009, he was the recipient of the Hospitality Lifetime Achievement Award at the China Hotel Investment Summit in Shanghai. Mr. Ho holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the then University of Singapore and an Honorary Doctorate of Business Administration in Hospitality Management in May 2000 from Johnson & Wales University, USA. He was educated in Tunghai University, Taiwan, where he studied Economics and Stanford University, California.

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