Founder, Chairman and CEO of Legende Hotels & Resorts has been in the senior management with numerous international hotel groups since 1973. With more than 40 years of hotel management he brought the hotel management franchised business model to China in the 90’s. Till date Legende has more than 30 franchises and 400 over hotels under its management. Since 2014 the Group had expanded to Australia and other ASEAN countries.

Philip holds a Certified Hotel Administrator(CHA), the highest certification from the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute. He is also the Associate Professor to several universities like Cornell University, US, Hong Kong University, Beijing QingHua University, etc. and has more than 2,000 senior executives learners.