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19 MACQUARIE MEAG PRIME REIT
ANNUAL REPORT 2007
Mr Franklin Heng
Executive Director
Mr Heng is the Chief Executive Officer of the Manager.
He was previously engaged in real estate investments
for the ERGO Group companies and property funds
management for the Pacific Star Group. With more
than 15 years of real estate and investment banking
experience (including eight years in JP Morgan),
Mr Heng is well-versed in regional mergers and
acquisitions, project finance advisory, equity and debt
capital markets transactions. He obtained a Masters
in Telecommunications Management from Institut
National des Telecommunications, Evry, France in 1993
through a France Telecom Scholarship and an Honours
(Second Upper) Degree in Business Administration from
the National University of Singapore in 1990.
Mr James Hodgkinson
Non-Executive Director
Mr Hodgkinson is an Executive Director of MGL and
Joint Head of Macquarie Bank’s Real Estate Capital
(REC) Division. With over 20 years of experience in
property funds management, investment banking and
chartered accounting, he oversees all of REC’s businesses,
including REIT development in Asia and core real estate
investments for MGL. He was responsible for Macquarie
Industrial Trust, which was successfully merged with
Goodman Hardie Trust to form what became known
as the Goodman Group (GMG). He sits on the board
of GMG, as well as the management company of
Ascendas REIT. He is also on the board of a number of
management companies of various wholesale funds across
the Macquarie Asia platform.
Mr Keith Tay Ah Kee
Independent Director
Mr Tay is the Chairman of Stirling Coleman Capital Ltd
and Aviva Ltd, Vice-Chairman of the Singapore Institute
of Directors and a Board Member of the Singapore
International Chamber of Commerce. In addition to
the Manager, Mr Tay is also a director of Singapore Post
Limited, FJ Benjamin Holdings Ltd, Allgreen Properties
Ltd, Rotary Engineering Ltd and Singapore Airport
Terminal Services Limited. He was the Chairman and
Managing Partner of KPMG Peat Marwick Singapore
from 1984 to 1993 and President of the Institute of
Certified Public Accountants of Singapore. He was
conferred the BBM – Public Service Star in 1990 by the
President of the Republic of Singapore.
Mr Wolfgang Wente
Non-Executive Director
As Head of International Real Estate Investment
Management for MEAG MUNICH ERGO
AssetManagement GmbH (MEAG), Mr Wente is
responsible for all foreign real estate activities such as
Fund Management, Asset Management, Partnership
Network, Product Development and Acquisitions and
Sales. He has been with ERGO Trust/MEAG since 1997
and was responsible for ERGO Treasury Centre Ltd.,
an ERGO Group financing entity, for more than eight
years. As Head of Finance in ERGO Trust GmbH, he
oversaw the accounting, control and asset management
of ERGO Trust’s direct participations and ERGO Group
companies. Mr Wente’s experience in asset management
spans more than 13 years. He continues to manage
several closed-end real estate funds in Europe and the
United States.