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GRI Global Committee
Future Retail Chapter
Future Retail Chapter
Committee Chair
Ajay Prasad
Country Managing Director - India
Taurus Investment
Committee Vice-Chair
Adam Ifshin
Founder & CEO
DLC Management Corporation
Committee Vice-Chair
Cyrille Deslandes
CIO
Klépierre
Committee Vice-Chair
Liad Barzilai
CEO
ERL Engenharia
Adriano
Mantesso
Managing Director - Head of LatAm
Ivanhoé Cambridge
Alejandro
Luna
CEO
Conquer
Alfonso
Brunet
CEO
Castellana Properties
Angelus
Bernreuther
Director, Head of Investor Relations
Kaufland
Armando
D'Almeida Neto
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Director
Multiplan
Briain
Morris
Managing Director
Slate Asset Management
Carlos
Jereissati Filho
Member of the Board
Iguatemi S.A
Cintia
Guimarães
Senior Managing Director, Real Estate
OTPP
Dariusz
Kunik
Head of Transactions
METRO Properties AG
Fabio
Adegas Faccio
CEO
Lojas Renner
Gonzalo
Robina
CEO
Fibra UNO
Jared
Hart
Principal
Maya Capital
João
Carlos Lelis
Director Fund Management
Sonae Sierra
John
Wilkinson
CEO
Greenman
Jorge
Gomez
CEO
Ouest
Larissa
Jacobson
VP, Retail
QuadReal Property Group
Luis
Cantú
CEO
Caspian Investment Management
Luis
Pereda
Executive Chairman
Grupo Lar
Marco
Mutti
Managing Director
Foruminvest
Misael
Shimizu
CEO
Real Plaza
Neel
Raheja
Group President
K Raheja Corp
Paola
Macchi
Europe Real Estate Director
Valentino spa
Roelof
Opperman
Founder & CEO
CogNovum
Roger
Wade
Founder and CEO
Boxpark
Rouzbeh
Badi-Arez
Founding Partner
Black Swan Real Estate Capital
Ruy
Kameyama
CEO
BR Malls
Sascha
Wilhelm
CEO
x+bricks SA
Umberto
Trussoni
Head of Asset Management
Klépierre Management
Volker
Kraft
Managing Partner
ECE Real Estate Partners
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Ajay Prasad
Country Managing Director - IndiaTaurus Investment
Mauritius
As Country Managing Director, Ajay is responsible for end-to-end management of all investments in India and leads Taurus India’ team of highly experienced real estate professionals. He builds and manages relationships with global investors as well as development partners to deliver world-class projects across the country. Ajay has more than fifteen years of professional and academic experience in a variety of markets in India and in the United States. Among the projects that he is currently leading is the development of a 5.5 million square foot, office-and-retail-centric, mixed use development.
Adam Ifshin
Founder & CEODLC Management Corporation
USA
Adam Ifshin is Founder and CEO of DLC Management Corp., which he founded in 1991. Over the last 29 years, he has built DLC into one of the nation’s largest owners and operators of retail real estate, and one of the most active acquirers of assets with value added potential. Mr. Ifshin oversees DLC’s acquisitions and dispositions, capital markets activities, redevelopments, joint ventures, and corporate strategy, and is well versed in the complex world of foreclosures, bankruptcies, and restructurings. As a principal, he has been involved in over $4.5 billion of real estate transactions.
Cyrille Deslandes
CIOKlépierre
France
Cyrille joined Klépierre in 2014 as Head of M&A. From 2007 he worked for HSBC Investment banking in Paris where he started the M&A real estate team in 2009. Cyrille started his career at Deloitte in France and thereafter in the US doing due diligence for private equity funds.
Liad Barzilai
CEOERL Engenharia
Netherlands
Liad was appointed as Group Deputy Chief Executive Officer on 21 December 2016 and took over the role of Group Chief Executive Officer on 23 February 2017. Liad was previously with the Atrium Group from 2008 until November 2015, latterly in the position of Group Chief Investment Officer responsible for the Group’s pipeline of acquisitions and divestments, and from November 2015 until his appointment to Atrium held the role of Chief Investment Officer with Gazit-Globe. Liad has a B.A. in Business Economics & Management from Guilford Glazer School of Business & Management, Ben-Gurion University and an MBA from Reccanati Business School, Tel Aviv University.
Adriano Mantesso
Managing Director - Head of LatAmIvanhoé Cambridge
Brazil
As the leader of the Latin America team, Adriano Mantesso is responsible for making RE investments locally, developing asset-management strategies and overseeing strategic partnerships for the region. Mr. Mantesso has extensive experience in the industry. Before joining Ivanhoé Cambridge in 2017, he worked for five years at the investment bank BTG Pactual, where he became Partner and Head of Income Producing Properties (RE), managing what was then the largest local REIT. From 2005 to 2012, he worked for Brazilian Capital, managing private and public RE investment funds.
Alejandro Luna
CEOConquer
Mexico
Prior to his appointment as CEO of CONQUER, Alejandro led the company's area of operations. Prior to joining CONQUER, he served as a procurement leader in Latin America for GLL REAL ESTATE PARTNERS for two years, participating in acquisitions and negotiations of AAA office buildings in Chile, Peru and Mexico for more than US $ 150M. He previously collaborated for 5 years with KIMCO REALTY CORP (US REIT) as Commercial Director prior to his role for almost 2 years as Director of Growth and Development for INMOBILIARIA CITELIS.
Alfonso Brunet
CEOCastellana Properties
Spain
Real Estate expert with more than 20 years of experience in the industry, from retail and offices to industrial & logistics. Alfonso Brunet holds a Bachelor in Business Administration with Concentration in Finance from Boston University. He has dedicated his last 14 years in the retail Real Estate industry heading different projects, at CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) he assumed the position of responsible for logistics and industrial assets and in Pradera, a Private Equity Retail Fund he held the position of Country Head. Alfonso is since 2017, CEO of Castellana Properties REIT.
Angelus Bernreuther
Director, Head of Investor RelationsKaufland
Germany
Dr. Angelus Bernreuther has been with Kaufland since 2017, currently responsible for relationship management with institutional investors and the real estate industry in Germany. Before that he was head of location research and international clients for BBE Handelsberatung GmbH & in municipal consulting. Studies in geography at the University of Bayreuth as well as an additional real estate studies course at EIPOS at the TU Dresden laid the foundation for his activities in market research, location evaluation and project development for retail properties. He has many years of expertise in retail and real estate topics, gives lectures on leading congresses on current challenges and publishes specialist articles.
Armando D'Almeida Neto
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations DirectorMultiplan
Brazil
Mr. d’Almeida joined Multiplan in February 2008 as an Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Director. Prior to Multiplan Mr. d’Almeida worked for 27 years in the financial industry. He was the President of BullTick Brasil Consultoria in Brazil from 2006 to 2008, Managing Director of Santander Investments in New York from 2000 to 2005 and Managing Director of Banco Bozano, Simonsen in Brazil from 1997 to 2000.
Briain Morris
Managing DirectorSlate Asset Management
Ireland
Briain is Managing Director of Slate Asset Management. He has significant corporate finance, restructuring, and capital markets experience in both North America and Europe. Briain leads the Slate European platform. His responsibilities include originating and executing acquisitions, capital raising, overseeing various asset management functions and establishing new investment platforms.
Carlos Jereissati Filho
Member of the BoardIguatemi S.A
Brazil
Carlos Jereissati Filho grew up in the universe of shopping centers and was always encouraged by his father to be interested in the family business. In 1997, he officially joined Iguatemi Empresa de Shopping Centers and, since then, has held several positions in the group. Since 2005, when he assumed the presidency, he has had the mission of making the company grow, preserving its culture and its DNA. Over the past decade, he led the IPO process and opened several projects.
Cintia Guimarães
Senior Managing Director, Real EstateOTPP
Brazil
Cintia is a Senior Managing Director at Ontario Teachers’. Based in São Paulo, she is responsible for the Latin American real estate investment portfolio. Cintia joined Cadillac Fairview / OTPP in 2014 and brings more than 25 years of transactional experience with a focus on M&A and real estate. Before that, she held progressively senior positions at TozziniFreire Advogados in M&A, real estate, and project finance. She holds a Post-MBA Advanced Boardroom Program for Women degree from Saint Paul Escola de Negócios, a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Comparative Jurisprudence from the New York University School of Law, and a Juris Doctor (JD) degree with a concentration in Private Law and Civil Procedure from the University of São Paulo.
Dariusz Kunik
Head of TransactionsMETRO Properties AG
Germany
His professional career in real estate and finance began in 2007. He has a successful track-record in preparation, structuring and execution of property & share transactions across the world (i.a. Germany, India, Spain, Turkey, China, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Croatia, Egypt, Hungary, Romania, Portugal, Austria, Pakistan, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, France, the Netherlands). His responsibilities include inter alia: transaction management; leadership of international/multicultural teams; portfolio and asset management; lease contract negotiations; implementation of due diligence processes, financial analyses and investment research. He has profound knowledge and experience in the asset classes wholesale, retail, office and logistics.
Fabio Adegas Faccio
CEOLojas Renner
Brazil
Fabio Adegas Faccio is CEO of Lojas Renner S.A., which comprises the brands Renner, Camicado, Youcom, Ashua and a Realize financial institution. He has a degree in Business Administration from PUC / SP, an MBA in Finance from FGV / SP and a degree from Harvard. The executive joined the company as a trainee in 1999 and has a professional trajectory strongly linked to the growth of the company, which registered a net profit of R $ 1.1 billion in 2019 and is present in Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina.
Gonzalo Robina
CEOFibra UNO
Mexico
Mr. Gonzalo Pedro Robina Ibarra serves as Chief Executive Officer of Fibra Uno. He has over 30 years of experience in the real estate sector. Before joining Fibra Uno, he was founder and Chairman of MexFund Private Investmetn Fund created in 2007. He was Chairman of Fenix Capital Group, a real estate fund owned by Deutsche Bank with over 7,000 real estate assets in Mexico and 14,000 properties under its management.
Jared Hart
PrincipalMaya Capital
United Kingdom
Jared is responsible for sourcing and acquiring new assets in the UK and Europe at may capital. He has over 16 years of real estate experience, having previously worked for both Thor Equities and Pears Global, where he was responsible for sourcing acquisitions, financing and asset management. Jared has been involved in an excess of £2bn real estate transactions.
Originally born in New Zealand and now a UK resident, Jared studied at Lincoln University in Christchurch where he received a B.A. in Property.
João Carlos Lelis
Director Fund ManagementSonae Sierra
Portugal
João Lélis joined Sonae Sierra in 2004 as an investment analyst, later becoming Director of the Fund Management business. As member of the executive team, current responsibilities include management of the real estate funds co-owned by Sonae Sierra, of the direct investments outside Iberia and transaction support. Prior to Sonae Sierra, João was a consultant with McKinsey & Company and also with Arthur Andersen. João completed the INSEAD – Advanced Management Programme in 2018 and the INSEAD - International Executive Programme in 2010. He also holds an MBA from the Yale University School of Management (2002) and a BS in Management from Faculdade de Economia do Porto (1997).
John Wilkinson
CEOGreenman
Ireland
John Wilkinson is CEO and founding member of Greenman. John has over 15 years’ experience in real estate development and investment. Since managing the company from 2005, John gained a significant expertise in the selection, funding, purchase and management of German food and non-food retail warehousing. Since forming Greenman, the company has acquired and manages real estate projects to a value of €900m including Greenman OPEN, Germany’s largest grocery focused retail RE fund. John is currently leading the execution of Greenman’s European expansion, with the target of acquiring c.€175m of grocery dominated retail real estate in France and Spain during 2020.
Jorge Gomez
CEOOuest
Mexico
Mexican businessman with experience in evaluation, development and generation of projects in the real estate sector for more than 15 years. He has undertaken important projects together with internationally recognized firms such as Sanaa (Sejima + Nishizawa y Asociados), Herzog & de Meuron and SOM (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill). His career includes a wide variety of residential, tourist, urbanization and infrastructure projects, mainly in the States of Jalisco and Nayarit (Punta de Mita). He is currently developing “Distrito la Perla”; World-class mixed-use project, located on the site of the Old Kodak Plant in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area.
Larissa Jacobson
VP, RetailQuadReal Property Group
Canada
Larissa Jacobson has been with QuadReal since February 2018. As Vice President, Retail Leasing, Larissa is responsible for overseeing an active leasing portfolio of 2.8 million square feet in Western Canada consisting of enclosed shopping centres, open centres and developments under construction and in the planning stages. Larissa completed her executive MBA at the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University in 2017. Larissa was formerly with Bentall Kennedy as Director of Leasing responsible for over 2 million square feet for 10 years. Larissa began her career at CB Richard Ellis in 2002.
Luis Cantú
CEOCaspian Investment Management
Mexico
Luis Cantu is a founding partner and serves as CEO of Seris Retail Holdings, a Mexico City and metropolitan area-focused retail property investment and management firm that has invested US$100 million since 2017. Seris Retail Holdings is backed by Calzada Capital Partners, a US-based private equity firm with over US$8.5 billion under management. Before founding Seris in 2017, Mr. Cantu was de COO for the retail development arm of Abilia and was responsible for the development of over 250,000 square meters of retail space and the successful sale of its largest retail development to Fibra Shop.
Luis Pereda
Executive ChairmanGrupo Lar
Spain
Marco Mutti
Managing DirectorForuminvest
Italy
Marco Mutti is the Managing Director of Foruminvest Italia srl , a property investment and development company since the company’s incorporation in 2004. With over 25 years of development experience in the commercial real estate sector, 4 years in Cushman & Wakefield as advisor of major of international retail groups, 4 years in AIG Lincoln as development director, he is also the president of the team who won the Italian championship of Football.
Misael Shimizu
CEOReal Plaza
Peru
Misael Shimizu is the Vicepresident of Real Estate at Intercorp Retail since 2012 and Head of Real Estate at Intercorp since 2020. He also serves as a Partner at Nexus Group, a private equity firm in Peru, which he joined in 2005. Prior to this, he was an Associate Consultant with Apoyo Consultoria (Lima, Peru). Mr. Shimizu received a Bachelor degree in Economics from Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Perú) and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH).
Neel Raheja
Group PresidentK Raheja Corp
India
Paola Macchi
Europe Real Estate DirectorValentino spa
Italy
Paola is the current Europe Real Estate Director of Valentino. Since 2002 Paola Macchi was the Real Estate Director of Dolce & Gabbana, responsible for the European Region. Previously, she was head of the high street retail department of JLL in Italy. Paola is graduated in Business Economy at Bocconi University in Milan.
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.
Roger Wade
Founder and CEOBoxpark
United Kingdom
Roger Wade is the Founder and CEO of Boxpark. After graduating from University, Roger started Boxfresh, the original British Streetwear brand in 1989. He grew the Boxfresh brand from a market stall, to an International Brand selling in over 12 different countries. In 2005, Roger sold the Boxfresh to Pentland Brands and formed his own Brand Consultancy, Brands Incorporated, specialising in the development, financing and licensing of UK Fashion Brands. In 2010, Roger founded and created the World’s 1st Pop Up Mall, Boxpark Shoreditch. In 2015 Boxpark launched Boxpark Croydon its first Food and Drink only retail concept, and in 2018 launched Boxpark Wembley, a new Fanzone for Wembley Stadium and Arena visitors.
Rouzbeh Badi-Arez
Founding PartnerBlack Swan Real Estate Capital
France
Rouzbeh Badi-Arez is a founding partner of Black Swan Real Estate Capital since 2021. He has more than 15 years of experience in European real estate investment, asset management and business development. Prior to joining Black Swan Real Estate Capital, Rouzbeh was heading investment and asset management activities at Dea Capital in France. Earlier in his career, he was responsible for sourcing and execution for Freo France. He also gained experience of equity and debt structuring as head of business development at Paref and he was responsible for international funds. He started his career as investment and asset management at Atemi (French Lehman Brothers asset management company). Rouzbeh graduated from Bordeaux Business School
Ruy Kameyama
CEOBR Malls
Brazil
Ruy Kameyama is currently CEO of BrMalls, having been one of the founding executives of the company, initially in the M&A area, and for the past 9 years COO of the company. Before joining BRMalls, he worked in the new business area at Spoleto Franchising and was an associate at the investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort. He holds a degree in economics from IBMEC-Rio de Janeiro and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Sascha Wilhelm
CEOx+bricks SA
Luxembourg
Sascha M. Wilhelm launched the real estate company x+bricks Group in 2018. The investor specialized in grocery-anchored properties, focuses on the purchase of portfolios and individual properties in German cities. The Group has internalized the entire value chain and has a clear focus on digitalization and process optimization. Therefore, x+bricks has developed the software solution PATA ® for real estate analyses. Prior Sascha was CEO of Corestate Capital Group until April 2018. Sascha studied law at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (LMU) and obtained an MBA in International Real Estate Management in Germany, London and Zurich.
Umberto Trussoni
Head of Asset ManagementKlépierre Management
Italy
Umberto joined Klepierre as Italian Head of Asset Management in 2018 bringing 12 years of RE and PE experience. Umberto started his career in Morgan Stanley, where he was actively involved in the execution of significant real estate and private equity transactions. In 2012, he joined Quantum Global to implement the African strategy by structuring a $500m fund on top of deploying the Plaza Fund, a JV dedicated to core investments across the globe. In 2016, he moved to Fosun as Executive Director where he sourced and executed private equity deals across Europe. Bocconi University graduate with a Degree in International Economics and Management and a MSc in Management of Financial Markets and Institutions
Volker Kraft
Managing PartnerECE Real Estate Partners
Germany
Managing Partner at ECE Real Estate Partners, Volker sets the firm's strategy. ECE manages €10Bn+ in assets, primarily in European shopping centers and hotels. Before ECE, he was Director at Allianz Capital Partners, involved in management and investment committees. From 2009-15, he served on DDR Corp.'s Board, a US open-air shopping center leader. In 2014, he joined Aliansce Sonae's Board, Brazil's top mall developer & operator, and since 2022, he's on Deutsche EuroShop AG’s Board, Germany's sole public firm investing only in shopping centers. Holds an MBA and a Ph.D. in finance from University of St. Gallen.
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Ajay Prasad
Country Managing Director - IndiaTaurus Investment
Mauritius
As Country Managing Director, Ajay is responsible for end-to-end management of all investments in India and leads Taurus India’ team of highly experienced real estate professionals. He builds and manages relationships with global investors as well as development partners to deliver world-class projects across the country. Ajay has more than fifteen years of professional and academic experience in a variety of markets in India and in the United States. Among the projects that he is currently leading is the development of a 5.5 million square foot, office-and-retail-centric, mixed use development.
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Csaba Toth
Head of HotelsCBRE - Hungary
Hungary
Former CEO of TriGranit Asset Management, Development Director of TriGranit Development and Project Director of Prime Kapital with over 20 years of experience in real estate development, finance and management. Csaba has lead and completed multiple large, dominant, mixed-use development projects in Southern Eastern Europe and Central & Eastern Europe regions, worked in 6 countries and managed a portfolio including shopping centers, office buildings, hotels, sport and cultural facilities in value of over €2 billion and size of over 2 million m2.
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