People First

Fourteen years after she opened the first restaurant in her hospitality empire, Yenn Wong, the CEO of Jia Group, continues to prioritise the team behind her operations

By Khoa Tran.

At the heart of her leadership at Jia Group, which today boasts 12 restaurants, Yenn Wong (Asia’s Most Influential 2023, 2022) has always prioritised the people behind them. The Singaporean entrepreneur, who is the CEO of Jia Group, first came to Hong Kong at age 23 in 2003, tasked by her father, the Malaysian tycoon Danny Wong, with reviving a struggling, mid-range hotel in Causeway Bay he had bought. She transformed it into Jia Hotel (later J Plus), and it became widely known as Hong Kong’s first boutique hotel—you could almost say she fell into the hospitality industry by accident. She went on to launch Jia Group in 2010, and in the same year opened its first restaurant, 208 Duecento Otto. Wong has since made her mark on the city’s…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2024

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