Mr Simon Wan | Chief Executive Officer
Staywell Hospitality Group | Australia

Simon Wan has been an international hotelier for more that 30 years and worked for a number of large international hotel groups such as Holiday Inn, Hyatt, Southern Pacific Hotels, Park Plaza and Accor. Simon has also lived in some major cities around the world such as London, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Singapore, Beijing, Melbourne and Sydney. Currently Simon is the key shareholder, CEO and Managing Director of StayWell Hospitality Group, a company which he started three years ago. Prior to joining the StayWell Hospitality Group, Simon was the CEO/Managing Director of an ASX listed hotel company THL for five years which has a network of 530 hotels around the around. He was also the Managing Director of the Park Plaza Hotel Group for Asia Pacific between 1997 to 2002 and before that he was the CEO for North Asia of Accor, based in Beijing, overseeing a hotel portfolio of 68 hotels in that region. StayWell Hospitality group owns the Park Regis and Leisure Inn brand with 24 hotels in the network located in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Dubai, India, China, UK and Morocco. Together with its strategic partners, the StayWell Hospitality Group owns 14 of the 28 hotels within its existing network with an estimated gross asset value of more than A$350m. The StayWell Hospitality Group has experienced a very rapid growth rate over the last 18 months adding A significant number of hotels to its original network of six hotels. Simon’s goal is to build a network of more than 100 hotels for the group within the next two years with 30 hotels in Australia and 70 hotels in the Asia Pacific region.