Beau Kuok Shangri La
He expanded his interests into property among other things and founded the shangri la hotel chain.
Beau kuok shangri la. Community involvement the group is involved in charitable activities in mainland china hong kong malaysia and several other parts of the world. Mr kuok khoon chen also known as beau is the eldest son of mr robert kuok at age 62. Kuok brothers started in 1949 in johor bahru malaysia as a small family business trading rice sugar and wheat flour.
Mr lim was last providing short term consultancy services to the group through his company wind group pte limited. As chairman of the hong kong listed shangri la kuok oversees total assets of 132 billion including stakes in 77 of more than 100 hotels the kuok family manages around the world under four. Mr kuok served as the chairman of shangri la asia limited from april 2008 to august 2013 and remained as a non executive director till june 2014.
It seem kuok khoo ean hospitalisation has mess up robert kuok succession planning. Today it owns the luxury shangri la hotel chain whose asia division is headed by one of his sons. In 1971 he built the first shangri la hotel in singapore.
The 94 year old began his career in british colonial malaya where he ran a food trading business. The former ceo of capitaland mall asia lim beng chee has become ceo of shangri la asia. Kuok khoo ean leave suppose to end 31 aug 2013 and resume to work in september 2013.
The following year he partnered with chinas foreign trade ministry to begin building the china world trade centre in beijing. However filing to hong kong stock exchange show that beau kuok khoon chen has resigned as chairman of kerry properties ltd 683 and has been appointed deputy chairman and managing director of shangri la asia 69 the flagship company of robert kuok. Our pioneers in the kuok group every individual makes a unique contribution.
Shangri la international hotel management limited was founded to manage the. He was also an independent non executive director of ihh healthcare berhad listed on bursa malaysia from april 2012 to may 2018. Kuok khoo ean only remain as director.
Robert kuok founded the kuok group as a commodities trader in 1949. In 1984 kuok opened his first shangri la on the mainland. As the company expanded within the region kuok singapore was founded in 1953 and the hong kong office was established in 1974 as kerry holdings.