Metro Holdings Ltd
Mr Yip Hoong Mun was appointed as the Group Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director with effect from 1 June 2019.
As Group Chief Executive Officer, he plays a key role in the Group’s investment strategies and holds executive responsibility over the business performance of the Metro Group of companies. He oversees the Group’s property investment and development projects and joint ventures in Singapore, China, Indonesia, the United Kingdom and Australia. Prior to this, he was Metro’s Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer, a position he assumed since May 2018. Before this, Mr Yip served as Group Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer of Metro China.
Mr Yip has over 30 years of experience in executive and senior management roles in strategic planning, operations, hospitality, real estate investment and development. Mr Yip started his career with Indeco Engineers and later joined BP South East Asia. Prior to joining Metro, he spent over 20 years with the CapitaLand Group, and served different roles in various strategic business units. He was Managing Director of Ascott China in 2003 and then Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific and the Gulf Region of The Ascott Group in 2006. Subsequent to that, Mr Yip has been involved in property developments in the Gulf Region, Vietnam and Indonesia of the CapitaLand Group.
Mr Yip has a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree with first class honours from the National University of Singapore and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Stanford University, USA. He also completed a management course at Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
He has accumulated extensive experience and network in numerous overseas markets and is trilingual in English, Mandarin and Malay.
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Metro Holdings Ltd
Metro Holdings Limited is a holding company engaged in the business of management and property investment. The Company operates through two segments: property development and investment, and retail. The property development and investment segment is involved in the leasing of shopping and office spaces owned by the Company and investing in property-related investments. The Company has interests approximately 108, 000 square meters of retail and office investment properties in several cities in the People's Republic of China, such as Shanghai and Guangzhou, and over 826, 000 square meters of residential and mixed-use development properties held predominantly for sale. The retail segment is involved in the business of retailing and operating of departmental stores. The retail segment serves customers through a chain of over three Metro department stores and approximately three M.2 specialty shops in Singapore, and over nine department stores in Indonesia.