Kwek Leng Beng

Kwek Leng Beng is a Singaporean businessman. He is the executive chairman of City Developments Limited (CDL) and Hong Leong Group Singapore, the latter being a diversified conglomerate founded by his father in 1941. Under his leadership, CDL expanded globally through major hotel acquisitions, including The Gloucester and New York's Millennium Hotel, and held an 80% stake in the Plaza Hotel with Saudi investor Al Waleed bin Talal in 1995. He merged CDL's hotel chains into Millennium & Copthorne Hotels, which became the first Singapore-based company with primary listing on the London Stock Exchange in 1996.