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As chief investment officer for Interstate Hotels & Resorts, Leslie Ng is responsible for all acquisition activity and investments, as well as managing joint venture relationships and identifying new management opportunities. A 20-year hospitality industry veteran, Ng has more than 25 years of experience in real estate investment and finance and has consummated more than $5 billion in hotel acquisitions and dispositions in transactions involving the nation’s leading hotel companies.
Prior to joining Interstate in September 2005, Ng was senior managing director and one of the heads of the national hospitality group at Cushman & Wakefield. Previously, Ng was senior vice president of mergers and acquisitions for Wyndham International and its predecessor, Patriot American Hospitality. As head of acquisitions, he played an instrumental role in expanding the company’s portfolio from 20 hotels at the time of its IPO in 1995, to more than 450 hotels with approximately 100,000 rooms in 1999. He also led the company’s disposition program, with direct responsibility for more than 100 assets with a value in excess of $2.0 billion. Ng joined Wyndham/Patriot through his previous position as senior vice president of development for Carnival Hotels. Carnival co-founded Patriot, predecessor to Wyndham, and Ng was part of the senior management team that took Patriot public in the largest hotel REIT IPO at that time.
Earlier in his career, he served as a vice president for Tobishima Associates Ltd., a multinational real estate investment and development subsidiary of a major Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed company, where he was responsible for the acquisition and asset management of more than $1.0 billion in real estate assets, including the company’s global hotel portfolio.
Ng holds a B.E. in civil engineering from Cooper Union and an M.B.A. in real estate finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. | 