Arnaud Taverne est diplômé de l’Université Paris IX Dauphine d’un Magistère Banque Finance Assurance (License, Master 1 et Master 2) et d’un Master 2 (DEA) en Economie et Finance internationale. Il a débuté sa carrière chez PWC en 1997 (Auditeur Senior Banques et Assurance) avant de rejoindre Arthur Andersen en 2000 (Restructuring Transaction Advisory Services Paris, Senior Manager).En 2006, il a intégré la Direction Financière de Veolia Transport en tant que Responsable acquisitions. Il a rejoint la Direction Financière du Groupe Caisse des Dépôts fin 2007 au sein du département immobilier compte propre et a pris la direction générale de CDC GPI en juillet 2014, société d’asset management détenue à 100 % par la CDC.

Frédéric Bôl is the founder of Swiss Life REIM (France) and Head of RE France - Swiss Life Group. He has 30 years of experience in asset management, banks and insurance companies. He created AF2i (French Association for Institutional investors) in 2004 and participated to the creation of OPCI (French non-listed REIT). Since its creation, Swiss Life REIM (France) is leader on the OPCI market and AIFM approved, offering real estate tailor-made solutions for institutional investors with 3 missions: investment funds, portfolio management & asset management. The Real Estate in France represents more than €7,3 bn as of end of December 2015 through 38 real estate vehicles with multi-sector competences and employs 90 people.

Inès Reinmann began her career in 1980 with the Dumez group. In 1988, she joined Bouygues as Development Manager. She then continued her career at Coprim from 1989 to 2000, where she held various management positions. In 2000, she became MD of Icade Tertial, In 2004, she became the Business Property Market Director at Icade. She is also the President of Icade EMGP, Icade Tertial, Icade Eurogem and Icade Gestion Tertiaire. In 2007 she was MD for Continental Europe at Segro PLC. In 2010 she was appointed partner at Acxior and CEO of Acxior Immo in 2012. In 2014, she becomes Managing Director in charge of Real Estate and Member of the Board at Edmond de Rothschild Corporate Finance.

Laurent Fléchet started his career as a notary public, then joined, in 2002, Ixis AEW Europe (Caisse des Dépôts Group). In 2006, he was appointed Chairman of the Board of Ciloger, a subsidiary of the Caisse d’Epargne Group and Banque Postale. He joined Group Primonial in 2011. Laurent Fléchet is currently Chairman of the Board of Primonial Real Estate Investment Management and Deputy CEO of Group Primonial

Real estate specialist and entrepreneur. Patrice has 30 years of experience in real estate as executive manager, entrepreneur and investor working cross-borders with international clients and business partners. Patrice has raised, invested and managed over 10 billion € (equity and debt) for French/European and international institutional clients.

Mr. Albrand joined Hines in 1995 and has been instrumental in the establishment and supervision of its French subsidiary. He has been active in the overall development of Hines France’s both on the Development and the Investment Management activities. Prior to working at Hines, Mr. Albrand was the Director in charge of Development at Bouygues Real Estate in Paris (1989-1995). He was a Senior Research Associate at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Berkeley, California (1983-1987), and prior to that, he was with the Ministry of Interior of Morocco (1980-1982). Mr. Albrand received a Master in Architecture at Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1980 and a Master in Real Estate Development from Columbia University in 1988.

Philip B. Gaillard is a Managing Director of HRO. Since joining in 1997, he has been instrumental in developing, leasing and selling many of HRO's projects in the Paris Region. Philip holds an AB degree in Economics and MBA in Real Estate, both obtained from University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). Since 1997, HRO has been a key player in Europe's dominant cities developing over 600,000 m² of offices occupied by some of the world's leading corporations. HRO provides a full range of advisory and asset management services to institutional clients

Tania Concejo-Bontemps is President of Union Investment Real Estate France leading the Paris subsidiary since 2011. She has over 15 years of experience in general management investment and asset management leading multi-disciplinary projects and teams

Vincent Mahé graduated from the French Ecole Normale supérieure and Ecole Nationale d’Administration, and was a student in economics in Cambridge (Trinity College) and Princeton (Woodrow Wilson School). A member of the French Conseil d’Etat, Vincent was an advisor to French President Jacques Chirac (2002-2005) and served as chief of staff of the Minister of Social Affairs and Health (2005-2007). After 4 years as an investment banker at BNP Paribas, he joined the SNI Group in 2012 as General counsel and Head of Asset management.