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The Kwee family is a Singaporean family that owns the Pontiac Land Group, a privately held luxury real estate developer and hotel owner based in Singapore. The Kwee brothers Kwee Liong Keng, Kwee Liong Tek, Kwee Liong Seen and Kwee Liong Phing collectively run the group.
Pontiac Land was founded by their Indonesian father Henry Kwee, a textile trader and real estate developer, who migrated to Singapore in 1958. In New York, the brothers own a majority stake...
Apr 3, 2022 · The Kwee family is a Singaporean family which owns the Pontiac Land Group, a privately held luxury real estate developer and hotel chain based in Singapore. The four Kwee brothers Kwee Liong Keng, Kwee Liong Tek, Kwee Liong Seen and Kwee Liong Phing run the group.
May 20, 2024 · Pontiac Land Group is pleased to welcome a newly-constituted Board of Directors, comprising Melissa Kwee, Kwee Ker-Wei, Philip Kwee and Kwee Ker Fong. They will be joined by a new Board Chairman, Peter Ong, and Independent Directors, Andrew Ang and Moses Lee.
- Background
- Career
- Board Appointments
Family
Evan Kwee was born in 1977 to a Japanese-American mother, Donna Kwee (née Aratani) and a Singaporean-Chinese father, Kwee Liong Tek, the Chairman of Pontiac Land Group. He is the third-born of four children and is the younger brother of the social activist, Melissa Kwee. He has two other sisters, Stephanie and Alison. Evan Kwee's maternal grandfather is George Aratani, the founder of Kenwood Electronics and Mikasa Chinaware.His paternal grandfather is Henry Kwee, the founder of Pontiac Land G...
Education
Evan Kwee was a student of United World College South East Asia (UWCSEA). From 1998 to 2002, Evan Kwee studied at Babson College in the United States where he graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration and Management.
Personal life
In 2013, Evan Kwee married the restaurateur, Claudia Sondakh who is the daughter of the Indonesian businessman and owner of Rajawali Corporation, Peter Sondakh. Evan Kwee and Claudia Sondakh have a son, Lucas who was born in 2017.Evan Kwee is also an avid cyclist.
Since September 2002, Evan Kwee has been a part of family-owned real estate company Pontiac Land Group where he is currently the Vice President and Director.Evan is also the Vice Chairman and Director of the Pontiac-owned luxury hotel chain, Capella Hotel Group Asia, which owns hotels such as Regent and the Ritz Carlton.
Apart from his commitments to the Kwee hotel business, Evan Kwee is also a Director at PT Brewin Mesa Development, a Singapore-based real estate and investment company focused on the Indonesian real estate market. Brewin Mesa is a joint venture between Brewin Properties and MESA Investment, the latter of which is owned by the Kwee family.Evan repre...
Aug 11, 2021 · Pontiac Land’s Evan Kwee is pushing past the pandemic with a new resort development in the Maldives, as part of the Kwee family’s expansion out of Singapore and into the global high-end ...
Mar 13, 2023 · Kwee, 46, son of Kwee Liong Tek, chairman of Pontiac Land, said the group will open one hotel in Taipei next year, with six other new additions coming in South Korea’s Yangyang, Japan’s Kyoto ...
