Kevin Murphy

Chief Advisor

Kevin is the President & CEO of Asiawide Hospitality Solutions since November 2006. Continuing to head a team of highly experienced hospitality professional advisors that provide informed guidance to existing and new hotel owners and hospitality investors for their hotel real estate interests worldwide. AHS assists both international and Asian based owners with effective and strategic hospitality investment planning, acquisition and asset management and the securing of improved profitability within their existing hospitality portfolios in Asia and elsewhere.

As the Senior Vice President – Development & Acquisitions, Kevin served in the original creation of the portfolio and brands of Langham Hotels International, the luxury subsidiary of Hong Kong’s publicly listed Great Eagle Holdings where he led their hotel portfolio investment, brand building and operating expansion for 11 years from September 1995 to early 2006 following a widely experienced 28-year career in other major international hotel companies across 5 continents.

Kevin brought his unique international perspective and worldwide hotel experience to the growth of that latter company’s billion-dollar hotel investment portfolio. He was an integral part of the team that launched its own Langham Hotels luxury operating brand in 2003 accompanied by the successful return of management of their wholly owned portfolio to the new operating company in the period 2003-2006.

Following an extensive career in senior roles with Hilton International and Le Meridien Hotels in the Asia Pacific, U.S.A., East Africa, and UAE regions, and with Southern Sun Hotels and South African Breweries Groups in Southern Africa, Kevin returned to Asia from 1984 and later served (1995-2006) as the Senior Vice President – Development & Acquisitions in the original creation of the portfolio and the brands of Langham Hotels International.

Kevin later joined the Horwath HTL team in Australia in 2017 as Director -Investor Relations & Asset Management as a highly experienced, professional hospitality advisor, providing informed guidance to existing and new hotel owners, and hospitality investors, in relation to their hotel real estate interests there and elsewhere worldwide.

His wide industry knowledge and continuing experience makes his perspective on future hotel investment needs particularly relevant to both hotel investors and portfolio owners. He has a well-earned reputation for taking complex and difficult projects to completion and turning problem hotels from receivership into successes. His current team guides owners in their interpretation of today’s hospitality trends with an emphasis within Asia and in assisting Asian investors’ ambitions internationally. His personal experience has extended to direct responsibilities and involvement in over 318 hotels & related projects to date, and across 6 continents.

Active in industry and community affairs throughout his career, he is also one of several, by election only, Asian-based members of the International Society of Hospitality Consultants, and previously served as the Ambassador in Asia for members of the Institute of Hospitality. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a past board member of Green Globe Asia Pacific.

Previously he served, 2015-16, as the Chairman of the Executive Board of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), an organization that combines Government, Carriers and Industry within the Travel & Tourism field across the Asia Pacific region, also as Vice Chairman (2014-2015) and is a past Chairman of their Hospitality & Marketing Committees.

An active member of PATA since 1984, Kevin was awarded the PATA Order of Merit in 2003, the Chairman’s Award in 2006 and their Honorary Life Membership in 2008 for his continued contributions to the aims of the association’s members and in the growth of responsible and sustainable tourism development in the Asia Pacific region.

Pow Kim Meng

AcquaNova Industry Advisor for Meat Refrigeration Industry

Pow is considered the leading Refrigeration Consultant across APAC across the Meat Industry from his headquarters in Singapore. He has accumulated more than 42 years of broad-based knowledge and experience in the livestock & meat industries. Since joining the industry, he has been working very closely with global international companies in the latest technologies and automation in every sector of the livestock industry and meat industries, the strategy and trend of the industry and etc. Trained in various sectors of livestock farming automation & meat processing.

Pow specialises in consultancy for greenfield poultry, cattle & pig abattoirs, poultry nursery planning & design and incubators and equipment. He has worked extensively in poultry breeder farm automation & closed-house systems, planning and setting up of layer farm projects, designing & upgrading existing greenfield feed milling projects and wastewater treatment projects for meat processing. He is well-versed with manure treatment systems, rendering systems (for protein recovery), poultry chilling systems, poultry hatchery systems, feed milling & storage systems automation for livestock feeding systems, and bulk grain handling & storage systems.

Pow brings a wealth of industry knowledge and vision to AcquaNova. With a key knowledge of CO2 Refrigeration as the future, and driver of cooling and heating technologies in achieving multiple temperature groups simultaneously in one system. Putting us into a fully sustainable, highly efficient, and dynamic transformational position for the industry that he has dedicated his career to. The meat industry requires heating and cooling solutions at all stages of the production process, using different temperature groups and in high ambient temperature environments; air-conditioning will continue to be critical for the smooth operational and working conditions of factory and associated office buildings.

Andi Refriawan

Oil and Gas Advisor

25 years as industry leader servicing all major Oil and Gas / Rig Clientswith heavy Machinery .Currently Regional Director of AKG Walzlager Asia – Bearing Manufacturer. Also Managing Director for Majestic Integrity Indonesia. Pipeline Intelligent Pigging for Oil and Gas.