As chief investment officer for Interstate Hotels & Resorts, Leslie Ng is responsible for all of the company's investment and acquisition activity as well as new business development. Ng has a broad range of experience in real estate investment and finance and has consummated hundreds of hotel transactions involving the nation's leading hotel companies.

Prior to joining Interstate in 2005, Ng was senior vice president for Patriot American Hospitality (later renamed Wyndham International), where as head of acquisitions, he played an instrumental role in growing Patriot to one of the largest hotel companies worldwide. Ng joined Patriot/Wyndham through his previous position as senior vice president for Carnival Hotels, one of the founding partners of Patriot.  Ng was part of the senior management team that took Patriot public in the largest hotel REIT IPO at that time. Earlier in his career, he served as a vice president for Tobishima Associates Ltd., a multinational real estate investment subsidiary of a major Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed company, where he was responsible for the acquisition and asset management of all of the company's real estate assets, including the company's global hotel portfolio.  

Ng holds a B.E. in Civil Engineering from The Cooper Union and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.