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Giles CarterOperating Partner
TDR Capital
Giles Carter
Operating PartnerTDR Capital
United Kingdom
Giles joined TDR Capital in July 2015. Prior to joining TDR, he worked for ten years at UK-based smoothie and juice producer Innocent Drinks, where most recently he was Managing Director - Europe, leading the business outside of the UK. He also served as Director and Head of Operations. Previously Giles worked at Unilever Plc and Ford Motor Company. He received a MEng in Mechanical Engineering, with first class honours, from the University of Sheffield.
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Are Modular Homes the Future?
Join Giles Carter, CEO of ilke Homes Group at our Venture Capital/Proptech Committee Meeting in June to discuss if modular homes are the future. Giles led the informal joint venture between Elliott and Keepmoat, in his role as Operating Partner at TDR Capital. That joint venture ultimately formed ilke Homes and Giles is now working to engineer the growth and development of ilke Homes.
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GRI Global Committee
Venture Capital/Proptech Chapter
Venture Capital/Proptech Chapter
Committee Chair
Roelof Opperman
Founder & CEO
CogNovum
Committee Vice-Chair
Minh Q. Tran
Managing Partner and Co-Founder
Proptech Capital
Alec
Page
Vice President
RET Ventures
Alexander
Lorenz
Managing Partner
Surplus Invest
Arne
Allewaert
Managing Partner
AMAVI Capital
Arnie
Sriskandarajah
Managing Director
Round Hill Ventures
Clelia
Peters
Venture Partner
Bain Capital Ventures
Constance
Freedman
Founder & Managing Partner
Moderne Ventures
Courtney
Cooper
Alate Partners
Cristobal
Perdomo
Co-Founder and General Partner
Jaguar Ventures
Daniel
Kraft
Partner, Head of Proptech
Stronghold Invest
Dave
Eisenberg
Fouding Partner
Zigg Capital
Faisal
Butt
Pi Labs
Gregory
Dewerpe
Founder
A/O PropTech
Hannah
Prideaux
Principal
Sustainable Future Ventures
Jamie
James
Managing Partner
Greensoil PropTech Ventures
Jonathan
Hannam
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Taronga Ventures
Joseph
Stecher
Founder & CEO
Candlewood Investors
Louis
Schotsky
Managing Partner
Navitas Capital
Micah
Kotch
Managing Director
URBAN-X
Michelle
Killoran
Principal
OMERS Ventures
MJ
Cootsona
Co-Founder, Real Estate & Construction Tech
Plug and Play Tech Center
Nate
Loewentheil
Vice President
Camber Creek
Paul
Ferreira
Managing Partner
Blue Hawk Investments
Samuel
Delisi
Operating Partner
Moderne Ventures
Taylor
Wescoatt
Managing Director
Concrete
Ted
Orf
Co-Founder
Revolt Ventures
Vinay
Yarlagadda
Vice President
GIC Real Estate
Vincent
See
Head of New Ventures
Swire Properties
Wiktor
Karol Waligora
Realty Corporation
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Roelof Opperman
Founder & CEOCogNovum
United Kingdom
Roelof is Founder & CEO of CogNovum, a new tech VC platform. Prior, Roelof was Head of Europe on the Real Estate Technology Investment team at Fifth Wall, where he focused on technology and innovations within the multifamily, office, and hospitality real estate asset classes.
Roelof has led Fifth Wall’s investments in Lyric, Eden, Appear Here, Hippo, Industrious, Loggi, Recharge, Lime, and Aurora Solar. Previously, Roelof worked at Norwest Venture Partners, Evercore Partners, Goldman Sachs, and Bridgewater Associates. Roelof is originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, from Emory University. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Giles Carter
Operating PartnerTDR Capital
United Kingdom
Giles joined TDR Capital in July 2015. Prior to joining TDR, he worked for ten years at UK-based smoothie and juice producer Innocent Drinks, where most recently he was Managing Director - Europe, leading the business outside of the UK. He also served as Director and Head of Operations. Previously Giles worked at Unilever Plc and Ford Motor Company. He received a MEng in Mechanical Engineering, with first class honours, from the University of Sheffield.
Roelof Opperman
Founder & CEOCogNovum
United Kingdom
Roelof is Founder & CEO of CogNovum, a new tech VC platform. Prior, Roelof was Head of Europe on the Real Estate Technology Investment team at Fifth Wall, where he focused on technology and innovations within the multifamily, office, and hospitality real estate asset classes.
Roelof has led Fifth Wall’s investments in Lyric, Eden, Appear Here, Hippo, Industrious, Loggi, Recharge, Lime, and Aurora Solar. Previously, Roelof worked at Norwest Venture Partners, Evercore Partners, Goldman Sachs, and Bridgewater Associates. Roelof is originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, from Emory University. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Minh Q. Tran
Managing Partner and Co-FounderProptech Capital
Luxembourg
Minh Q. Tran is an investor and entrepreneur with over 20 years of investing experience. Currently, he is the Founder of Insurtech Capital and Co-Founder of Proptech Capital. As an investor, he brings his unique international expertise and passion for entrepreneurship at the service of funding great startups. Minh lived in Asia, New York, Finland and Paris, and worked for several prestigious VC funds (Bertelsmann Ventures, Nokia Ventures, Truffle Capital) where he led successful investments in tech, media and mobile ventures worldwide. He now sits on the board of several tech companies and focuses on InsurTech mainly. Minh is an MBA graduate from INSEAD.
Alec Page
Vice PresidentRET Ventures
USA
Alec joined RET Ventures in 2017 from the Leveraged Finance group at BofA Merrill Lynch in New York, where he worked on debt capital financings for corporate issuers and private equity funds. He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago. Originally from San Francisco, Alec is a traveler at heart and spends his time out of the office outdoors: hiking, skiing, snowboarding, and skydiving.
Alexander Lorenz
Managing PartnerSurplus Invest
Germany
Alexander has 15 years of investment experience in the real estate sector and has made more than 30 investments in the Prop- and FinTech space in recent years. Prior to that, Alexander founded, scaled and sold a health care business in Asia and worked as an investment manager in banking.
Arne Allewaert
Managing PartnerAMAVI Capital
Belgium
Arne is a real estate expert with over 10 years of expertise and a passion for innovation and disruption. Within AMAVI, Arne focuses on sourcing new investment opportunities and the general management of the investment portfolio. With his in-depth expertise of the real estate industry, Arne offers a unique insight into the real pain points of the industry and a sound base for assessing and selecting the innovations that shape the real estate industry of tomorrow. Being involved in the set-up of Belgium based property developer ION, he lifted the company to a top 3 property developer in Belgium and Luxemburg in just 8 years time (+250 mio EUR in turnover, +100 FTEs, 2 bio EUR in development pipeline).
Arnie Sriskandarajah
Managing DirectorRound Hill Ventures
United Kingdom
Arnie focusses on RHV's investment strategy and portfolio growth. He previously built the corporate venture arm of FTSE listed Capital & Counties and was a senior executive at Bloomsbury AI ($30m+ exit to Facebook), The Collective (>$400m in debt & equity financing) & Rocket Internet's HelloFresh ($2.5bn IPO). He is frequently featured in the media: Wired's 100 Most Influential People in Technology and was Forbes 30Under30 in 2016. He is an active angel investor in European startups and has advised the European Commission's Startup Europe initiative. He is a graduate of Imperial College London and continues to have an active interest in the intersection of deep science, technology and human behaviour.
Clelia Peters
Venture PartnerBain Capital Ventures
USA
Clelia is an innovator, operator and investor working in the real estate industry. Prior to her role at Bain Capital Ventures, Clelia co-founded MetaProp, a $40 million seed stage venture fund focused exclusively on real estate technology and one of the first sector specific funds focused on PropTech. In addition to investing in real estate technology, Clelia currently serves as president of Warburg Realty, acting as key advisor to her father, CEO Frederick Warburg Peters, in managing and growing New York’s only remaining independent mid-size real estate brokerage. She is the elected co-chair of the Real Estate Board of New York’s RLS Board of Directors (the New York MLS system equivalent), and sits on the Board of REBNY’s Tech Committee.
Constance Freedman
Founder & Managing PartnerModerne Ventures
USA
Constance Freedman is the Founder and Managing Partner of Moderne Ventures and the Moderne Passport, an early stage investment fund and industry immersion program which is focused on investing in technology companies in and around the multi-trillion dollar industries of real estate, mortgage, finance, insurance and home services. Constance has invested in more than 70 companies and actively partners with 700+ industry executives and corporations to help build strategic value and scale.
Courtney Cooper
Alate Partners
Canada
Cristobal Perdomo
Co-Founder and General PartnerJaguar Ventures
Mexico
Cristobal is Co-Founder & General Partner at Jaguar Ventures. Previously, he was VP of Real Estate LatAm at Navent. There, he was part of the founding team and responsible for the company’s real estate sites in Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela, and software companies in Brazil and Mexico. Prior, he was one of the founders at Groupalia, a daily deals site, where he was responsible for launching the company’s operations across 5 countries in less than 8 months and positioning as the number 1 player in the market. Cristobal began his career as a lawyer focused on international financial transactions in the energy sector. He holds an MBA with honors from Columbia University and received JD with honors from Universidad Iberoamericana.
Daniel Kraft
Partner, Head of ProptechStronghold Invest
Sweden
Dave Eisenberg
Fouding PartnerZigg Capital
USA
After 12 years as an operator (Bonobos, TellApart, Floored, CBRE), I am now a full-time investor with Zigg, a new venture capital fund that I founded. We invest in emerging technology companies in the real estate and construction industries.
Faisal Butt
Pi Labs
United Kingdom
Gregory Dewerpe
FounderA/O PropTech
United Kingdom
Gregory is the Founder of A/O Proptech where he focuses on sourcing, investments and roll-outs. He is seasoned real estate and technology investor with over 15 years of experience, a deep understanding of market dynamics & eco-systems and multi-billion deal-making history.
Gregory started his career in I-Banking, where he spent 9 years at Credit Suisse and Citigroup, looking after sourcing, structuring, financing of new investments (in both public and private markets) for sovereign and semi-sovereign institutions globally, with over $30bn of transactions, executed.
Gregory is a Swiss national, fluent in English, French and Italian; he attended HEC Lausanne University, London School of Economics (Masters), and Harvard Business School.
Hannah Prideaux
PrincipalSustainable Future Ventures
United Kingdom
Currently responsible for fund operations, managing deal flow, transactions and supporting portfolio companies. Hannah brings 13+ years of real estate advisory, transactional, start-up and operational experience. She is focused on supporting PropTech companies in Europe and frequently presents on panels to discuss Technology and RE. She is a Chartered Surveyor by trade and specialised in commercial valuations at Savills, before joining PwC, where she advised on debt portfolio transactions and RE corporate finance. In 2017, she moved into PropTech and joined a B2B2C resi platform, working with operations & product, before joining a tenant engagement platform. There, she created the business development team, before moving into VC.
Jamie James
Managing PartnerGreensoil PropTech Ventures
Canada
Jamie is a Sustainability Professional and Managing Partner with Greensoil Proptech Ventures based in Toronto, Canada.
He started working as a green building practitioner in 2003 with Tridel, one of Canada's leading high-rise residential developers, and as a partner with Windmill Developments, a boutique triple-bottom-line oriented real estate developer. From 2009-2015 he founded and led Tower Labs, which focused on facilitating pilot and demonstration projects of early stage green building technologies addressing the real estate industry. At the same time, he led 350 Capital, a micro-VC fund investing in companies following successful pilot and demonstration projects with Tridel and other real estate innovation leaders.
Jonathan Hannam
Co-Founder & Managing PartnerTaronga Ventures
Australia
Jonathan is a global citizen, having held senior executive and board roles across Asia and Europe in real estate, venture capital, technology and sporting related ventures. In 2015 Jonathan jointly founded the Taronga Group with a focus on real estate, venture capital, technology and fund management. Taronga Ventures was launched to build the bridge between institutional and corporate owners of real estate and the emerging growth companies that are now targeting the real estate sector. In 2018 Real Tech Ventures – Asia’s first VC Fund focused on investing into Real Estate technology was launched and the fund has commenced investing. Jonathan worked before for Mirvac, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and Savills.
Joseph Stecher
Founder & CEOCandlewood Investors
USA
Louis Schotsky
Managing PartnerNavitas Capital
USA
Louis Schotsky is a Managing Partner at Navitas Capital. Prior to joining Navitas Louis spent over a decade at Equity Residential in operations and investments and time as a technology and management consultant at Andersen Consulting and The Boston Consulting Group respectively. Louis holds a degree in Philosophy and Economics from Trinity College and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Micah Kotch
Managing DirectorURBAN-X
USA
Micah came to URBAN-X from NYSERDA, where he served as the Director of NY Prize and Strategic Advisor for Innovation, and spent 5 years as Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering where he launched NYC’s first sponsored tech incubator. Micah has direct experience with utilities, government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, educational institutions and early stage companies. He is interested in startups that embrace change as well as regulators and innovative large companies working on solutions for climate and energy issues.
Michelle Killoran
PrincipalOMERS Ventures
USA
In her role as Principal at OMERS Ventures, Michelle Killoran is responsible for researching and executing on investment opportunities in real estate and health technology.
Prior to joining OMERS Ventures, she was a Senior Associate in Financial Advisory at Deloitte. As a part of the Valuations group, she provided valuation services to both public and private companies related to mergers and acquisitions, financial reporting, tax, and litigation.
Michelle is a Chartered Accountant (CA), Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) and Chartered Business Valuator (CBV). She has a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University. In 2020, Michelle was named one of Venture Capital Journal’s "40 Rising Stars under 40" in the global venture community.
MJ Cootsona
Co-Founder, Real Estate & Construction TechPlug and Play Tech Center
USA
As founder of the Real Estate & Construction Tech vertical at Plug and Play, MJ works with top Real Estate & Construction corporations to define their innovation strategy, hone in on technology interests, and connect them with industry leading startups and scale ups.
Plug and Play is a global innovation platform. We connect startups to corporations, and invest in over 200 startups every year. Working with the Real Estate Tech team, we are inspiring innovation in today's Real Estate corporations and connecting them with tomorrow's startups.
Nate Loewentheil
Vice PresidentCamber Creek
USA
Nate is a Vice President at Camber Creek where he advances the firm's fundraising, supports portfolio companies, and manages deal flow, diligence, and transactions. He also leads Camber Creek's public relations and thought leadership. Nate comes from a fourth-generation real estate family. Prior to joining Camber Creek, he served as a Special Assistant to the President at the National Economic Council in the Obama White House, where he led work in areas like urban development and emerging technology. Nate is also a successful social entrepreneur and former Forbes 30 under 30, Baltimore Business Journal 40 under 40 and Aspen Ideas Fellow. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fast Company, among other media outlets.
Paul Ferreira
Managing PartnerBlue Hawk Investments
USA
Samuel Delisi
Operating PartnerModerne Ventures
USA
Sam Delisi is an Operating Partner with Moderne. He was most recently the Global Head of Property Management Services for WeWork. He was recruited to stand up a third-party property management business. Sam has a 40 year career in property management leadership and commercial brokerage roles with Newmark Knight Frank, CBRE, Insignia ESG and U.S Equities Realty.
Highlights of Sam's career including developing and leading CBRE's Premier Property Platform focused on delivering experiential property management services to enhance the workplace for tenants and their employees. In that role Sam was responsible for thought leadership and tip of the spear sales. In two years the team acquired more than 70 million square feet of new management.
Taylor Wescoatt
Managing DirectorConcrete
United Kingdom
Ted Orf
Co-FounderRevolt Ventures
United Kingdom
Ted Orf is an investor at the venture capital and growth equity firm Revolt Ventures (RV). RV invests in real estate operating and technology companies in partnership with Meyer Bergman, a real estate investment manager with €5bn AUM.
Prior to Revolt, Ted worked with Value Retail, assisting in the launch of the Chinese business and VR Retail Advisors – the latter in conjunction with Meyer Bergman to create a €1.5bn outlet portfolio in continental Europe. He then assisted in the launch of Anyon – a real estate technology investor and incubator based in Berlin.
Ted received his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Economics at Brown University and his M.B.A. at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Vinay Yarlagadda
Vice PresidentGIC Real Estate
USA
Vinay is a member of GIC's tech investment group, a global team with a presence in Silicon Valley, China and India. GIC's tech investment group invests in private and public companies, seeking to form long-term relationships with category creating technology companies. Vinay’s coverage includes fintech and proptech, investing in companies such as Affirm, Checkout.com, Opendoor and Divvy Homes.
Prior to joining GIC’s tech investment group, Vinay was a part of GIC’s real estate team where he covered investment opportunities across North America spanning all real estate asset classes.
Vinay received a B.S. in Economics with concentrations in real estate and finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Vincent See
Head of New VenturesSwire Properties
Hong Kong
Enthusiastic and experienced new business leader with a strong passion for technology, innovation and transformation. Interested in helping both established and startup companies grow, especially in new and emerging opportunities.
Wiktor Karol Waligora
Realty Corporation
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
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Alejandro Krell
MD, Head of Central/South AmericaPaladin Realty Partners
USA
Alejandro (Alex) is a Managing Director with Paladin Realty Partners, where he oversees the firm’s activities in South and Central America (excluding Brazil). He serves on the firm’s investment committee. Mr. Krell has three decades of management and real estate development experience, including senior executive positions at some of the largest residential development and construction firms in the world. He was previously the Development Director for an Abu Dhabi government-owned company. Mr. Krell also held executive positions with leading US homebuilders more recently as Division President for Pulte Homes.
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