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So This Is My WhyEp 140.2: The Secret to Picking F&B Winners & Winning Michelin Stars | Loh Lik Peng (Founder & CEO, Unlisted Collection)Hey STIMIES! Welcome back to Part 2 of the So This Is My Why Podcast with Loh Lik Peng - CEO & Founder of Unlisted Collection.In Part 1, we covered Lik Peng’s journey from wanting to become a doctor (just like his parents) to becoming a commercial litigator and purchasing his first hotel property: Hotel 1929.The property that kickstarted his crazy career pivot. But the F&B industry is a tough place to be. You need a good dose of hard work, luck and… a talent for spotting F&B talent (which Lik Pe...2024-03-0636 min
So This Is My WhyEp 140.1: The No-Nonsense 'Lucky' Hotelier?! | Loh Lik Peng (Founder, Unlisted Collection)Want to know how a lawyer became a successful hotelier with 40 hotels & 9 Michelin-starred restaurants in Singapore, London, Ireland, Shanghai & Sydney?!Look no further than today’s STIMY guest: Loh Lik Peng, the founder of Unlisted Collection.Lik Peng grew up expecting to be a doctor, like his parents. But ended up practising as a commercial litigator for 3 years.During that time, the world was hit with the Asian Financial Crisis and a rundown property called Hotel 1929 came onto the Singapore property market.Hotel 1929 was located in Singapore’s red light...2024-03-0444 min
Beyond MarketsSingapore's future after the pandemic - The Hospitality industry reopensAs Singapore has embarked on the first stage of a four-step reopening with the end goal being a Covid-resilient nation and a “new normal” for the island state, we are publishing a special mini-series on Singapore’s future after the pandemic. With more than 8.7 million vaccination shots administered and 80% of its population fully vaccinated, Singapore is now the most vaccinated nation in the world. The government has outlined a controlled four-step reopening plan, which entails easing travel restrictions, changes in healthcare protocols, increased size limits for events among other and greater rostered routine testing to facilitate further economic reopening. As a n...2021-09-0127 min
Pass the Power with Paige ParkerBuilding Community & Hospitality: Paige with Loh Lik PengJoin Paige Parker and Loh Lik Peng, lawyer turned hotelier, restaurateur, and foodie, as they chat on making family a priority, and how the pandemic reshaped his world; his interest in conservation buildings, and what led him to open his first hotel, which led to his first restaurant; how he taps talented chefs for his restaurants, and his starring role on “Somebody Feed Phil”; his optimism in millennials, advice for aspiring chefs, his support of the arts and gender equality, and more wisdom to Pass the Power.
Loh Lik Peng is the founding director of Unlisted Collection, the...2021-03-2144 min
The Developers: Commercial Real Estate Developer InterviewsLoh Lik Peng: How to Develop Restaurants and Hotels People LoveHave you ever wondered what it takes to build a global network of Michelin-starred restaurants? Or a collection of celebrated hotels? If so, the man to ask is Loh Lik Peng. Peng is the restaurateur, hotelier and property developer behind a slew of iconic restaurants and hotels across Europe and Asia. Most of these form a part of his umbrella organisation, Unlisted Collection. Unlisted Collection operates sites in Singapore, Shanghai, Sydney, London, Dublin and County Kerry in Ireland. And over the past 15 years, the roll-call of chefs he has backed includes legendry names like Andre Chiang, Jason Atherton, Nuno...2020-12-1656 min
Alternative CVACV16: Building a World Class Team by Empowering Your Staff (Loh Lik Peng, Founder of Unlisted Collection, Part 2)Loh Lik Peng has successfully built a team that is able to run 5 hotels and 27 restaurants scattered across the world. I talk to him about building a team with decentralised leadership, finding unique locations for his projects and balancing passion with practicality.Dynamic hotelier and restaurateur Loh Lik Peng (instagram: @pengloh) was born in Dublin, Ireland. He attended Law school in England, University of Sheffield and Postgraduate at London School of Economics followed by bar exams in London before returning to Singapore in 1997. Loh became a corporate litigator upon his return before leaving the profession to step...2019-12-1939 minAlternative CVACV15: From Corporate Lawyer to 7 Michelin Stars and 5 Boutique Hotels (Loh Lik Peng, Founder of Unlisted Collection, Part 1)Loh Lik Peng trained as a lawyer, but has since gone on to set up 5 hotels and 27 restaurants across the world. I talk to him about how he left law, started his first boutique hotel in an unlikely location, and built it up into a worldwide empire of hotels and restaurants.Dynamic hotelier and restaurateur Loh Lik Peng (instagram: @pengloh) was born in Dublin, Ireland. He attended Law school in England, University of Sheffield and Postgraduate at London School of Economics followed by bar exams in London before returning to Singapore in 1997. Loh became a corporate litigator...2019-12-1234 min
Misfits: Wisdom from Unconventional IndividualsEp 11 - The Godfather of Singapore's Boutique Hospitality, Loh Lik PengLoh Lik Peng is the owner and director of Unlisted Collection. His career began as a litigator during the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997. He mainly dealt with company bankruptcy. His transition to hospitality occurred in 2000 when he bought a property, now known as Hotel 1929, on a bargain and treated it as a passion project. Today, he owns several boutique hotels and restaurants in Singapore, London, Shanghai and Sydney. Some of these include (but not limited to) New Majestic Hotel, Wanderlust Hotel, Burnt Ends and Pollen. He also chairs the Shatec Institute and Singapore Hotel Association and holds directo...2016-12-031h 08