Mr Wijayawardana oversees the engineering operation and hotel safety and security. He started his engineering career in Sri Lanka and joined the hospitality industry in 1980.

Syson Wong

General manager

Sys Solutions Technology Consulting

Syson Wong has held regional positions for major United States and Finnish IT companies, including IBM, Microsoft, Seagate, Brio Software and F-Secure. She holds a master's degree in operational research and a bachelor's (honours) degree in statistics and pure mathematics from the University of Lancaster, Britain.

Paul Tchen

Vice-president, operations planning and support

The Peninsula Hotels

Mr Tchen's responsibilities range from developing operating guidelines and providing support to new Peninsula hotels in Tokyo and Shanghai. He will also aim to improve services.

Patricia Rosentreter

Regional director, communications

The Peninsula Hotels

Ms Rosentreter is Peninsula Hotels' regional director of communications, overseeing New York, Chicago and Beverly Hills. Before she was at Weber Shandwick Worldwide in New York.

Daniel McDonald

Executive director, industrial and logistics services, Asia

CB Richard Ellis

Singapore-based Mr McDonald, who has industry experience in both Singapore and Australia, will supervise all Asian industrial and logistics activities.

Albert Lam

Chief operating officer

hongkong.com

Mr Lam will be responsible for the daily operation of its portal and mobile applications businesses within the hongkong.com group. He has more than 23 years of experience in the telecommunications and information technology industries in North America and Greater China, of which more than seven years were with Motorola, where he was vice-president of Asia-Pacific and general manager of the Taiwan PCS division.

Jens Corder

Director, food and beverage Kowloon

Shangri-La

Mr Corder will strengthen the department after the hotel's major renovations and opening of new and rejuvenated outlets. He has been with the hotel group for almost eight years.

Frank Chan Chi-chung

Independent non-executive director

Gold Peak Industries (Holdings)

Mr Chan, group executive director and group chief financial officer of Techtronic Industries, is a fellow of the Hong Kong Society of Accountants.

Stephen Briones

Country head, Thailand

ING

Mr Briones will manage and develop ING's wholesale banking client coverage activities in Thailand. He brings 14 years of investment banking and relationship management experience and joins from Devonshire Capital Group, where he led the origination and execution of transactions in Southeast Asia and India.

Kenny Lau

Head of small-cap company research, non-Japan Asia

CSFB

Mr Lau, who joins from CLSA, will cover the small-cap sector in Hong Kong and will co-ordinate CSFB's small-cap efforts in the region.

Jin-Yi Lee

Chief executive International

Bank of Asia

Mr Lee joins IBA after working at JP Morgan, BNP Paribas Peregrine and the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. He graduated from Harvard Business School with an MBA.

Brian Negley

Regional client executive director, Greater China

ACNielsen

Mr Negley, the executive director of retail measurement services, will take on responsibility for the management of the company's key retail clients in Greater China.

Wayne Shum

Director of marketing, client servicing and deputy managing director

Franklin Templeton Institutional Asia

Mr Shum will co-ordinate regional institutional marketing activities with Franklin Templeton offices in Seoul, Singapore and India. He has more than 17 years of investment and actuarial experience.

Grace Ng

Greater China economist

JP Morgan

Based in Hong Kong, Ms Ng will cover the economies of Greater China. Most recently, she was at Goldman Sachs, although she started her sell-side career with JP Morgan.