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GRI Global Committee: Light Industrial & Logistics Chapter (April edition)
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Light Industrial & Logistics Chapter
Alfredo Rizo
Presidente & CEO
Terranum
Alistair Calvert
CEO
Gramercy Property Trust- Europe
Aloke Bhuniya
CEO
Alok Buniya
Anita Simaza
Founder
AS Real Estate
Anshul Singhal
Managing Director
Welspun One
Artie Ioakim
Partner & Chief Investment Officer
NVELOP Real Estate
Ben Bannatyne
President
Prologis
Ben Segelman
Head of Capital Markets UK & MLEMEA
DHL
Brian Oravec
CEO & Managing Partner
IndoSpace Capital
Charles Pease
Head of Real Estate Europe
XPO Logistics
Christian Jamison
Managing Partner
Valor Real Estate Partners
Christopher Zeuner
CIO
7R
David Ebbrell
CEO
M7 Real Estate
David Hunt-Cuadrado
Global Managing Partner
Thor Equities
David Perlman
Managing Director
Thorofare Capital
Diego Ysita
CEO
Fibra Storage
Eduardo Bastitta Harriet
CEO
Plaza Logística
Ekaterina Avdonina
Co-Founder & CEO
Mirastar
Emmanuel Van der Stichele
CEO
Mileway
Ernesto Navarro
Head of Logistics and Industrial
Round Hill Capital
Gregorio Schneider
Managing Partner
TC Latin America Partners
Guilherme Rossi Cuppoloni
CEO & Founding Partner
GR Properties
Guillermo Medrano
CEO
Fibra NOVA
Gunther Deutsch
MD, Head of Investment Transactions EU
Barings Asset Management
Gustavo Cardozo
Managing Director Spain & Portugal
Panattoni Europe
Ingo Steves
Managing Partner
BEOS AG
Jai Mirpuri
co-CEO & Country Head, India
ESR
James Freeman
Principal
Bridge Investment Group Partners
James Markby
Managing Director
Logistics Capital Partners
Javier Camarena
CEO
Meor
Jay Cornforth
Managing Partner
Brookfield Properties
Joan Vidiella
Managing Partner
Spinnia
Jonny Allen
Head of Logistics Real Estate - Europe
Amazon
Marcela Drigo
Diretora de Real Estate
CPPIB
Marcelo da Costa Santos
Head of Logistics
REC
Mark Bowden
Founding Partner
Caisson
Patrick Zehetmayr
Managing Director
Erste Group Bank AG
Paul Graham
Chairman
Gramercy Property Trust- Europe
Rajesh Jaggi
Managing Partner - Real Estate
Everstone
Richard Wilkinson
Group CFO
CTP Invest
Robert Cotterell
Head of Transactions Europe
Cromwell Property Group
Rolf Elgeti
CEO
Deutsche Industrie REIT
Ronald Philip
Senior Director - Strategic Planning
Agility Logistics
Sandeep Chanda
Head Strategy & Acquisitions
Embassy Group
Spencer Patton
Managing Director - USA
ICM Realty Group
Stefan Walldorf
Managing Director
Cerberus
Stephen Tanenbaum
Managing Director
GTIS Partners - Brazil
Steven Mathieson
Managing Director
Hines
Victor Song
CEO & Managing Director
Elite Partners Capital
Vineet Sekhsaria
Executive Director
Morgan Stanley
Vojkan Brankovic
CEO & Founder
Apeiron Capital Limited
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Alfredo
Alfredo Rizo
Presidente & CEOTerranum
Colombia
Mr. Rizo is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Terranum Private Equity Fund, a developer and operator of office, logistics and industrial assets. Prior to his current position Mr. Rizo was the Corporate Vice-President of Terranum where he played a critical role in the definition and implementation of the investment planning and strategy as well as the definition of the capital structure the corporate strategy and the corporate governance.

Alistair
Alistair Calvert
CEOGramercy Property Trust- Europe
United Kingdom
Mr. Calvert is CEO of Gramercy Europe Limited, which was formerly ThreadGreen Europe. Mr. Calvert established the original ThreadGreen business in 2006, launching its first fund in 2007, and subsequently selling the business to Gramercy Property Trust in December 2014. Simultaneously with Gramercy Property Trust being acquired by Blackstone in October 2018, Gramercy Europe became an independent fund manager through a management buyout from Blackstone. Under Mr. Calvert’s leadership, Gramercy Europe has transacted on more than £2.2 billion of logistics and light industrial property in the past 4 years.

Aloke
Aloke Bhuniya
CEOAlok Buniya
India
Mr Aloke Bhuniya is the Chief Executive Officer of the Ascendas-Firstspace platform. Aloke brings with him 17 years of experience across Real Estate Investment & Development, Private Equity and M&A Transactions across industries in India. Previously, Aloke has spent over 9 years in Everstone group, managing the various initiatives of the group in real estate, which included IndoSpace and Everstone Capital. As Managing Director of IndoSpace Capital Advisors, Aloke was responsible for investment to develop Industrial Real Estate in India. His responsibilities included identifying investment opportunities, monitoring developments, achieving financial closure and exiting projects after development and leasing.

Anita
Anita Simaza
FounderAS Real Estate
Netherlands
Founder of AS REAL ESTATE since 2020, a pan European advisory for Logistics & Industrial real estate, connecting developers, investors, owner-occupiers and advisors with cross border capital. Anita was previously Head of Logistics & Industrial Europe at BNP Paribas Real Estate, responsible for coordinating investment activities for the company in the sector and working on pan European and single country transactions. Prior to this, Anita was Director European Valuations at Prologis in Amsterdam, responsible for all valuation related workflows across Europe. Anita worked earlier with Knight Frank in London in the European Valuations team and qualified as MRICS with Savills in Exeter in the residential development department.

Anshul
Anshul Singhal
Managing DirectorWelspun One
India
Anshul is the Managing Director of Welspun One Logistics Parks, an integrated fund, asset and development management organization to deliver large format, institutional Grade A warehousing and industrial parks in key micro markets across India. Anshul Singhal founded One Industrial Spaces and in July 2019. On December 01, 2019, Welspun Promoters acquired a majority stake in the company, re-branding it to Welspun One Logistics Parks. From 2014 to 2019, Anshul was the Director & CEO of Embassy Industrial Parks (EIP), a joint venture between Warburg Pincus and the Embassy Group.

Artie
Artie Ioakim
Partner & Chief Investment OfficerNVELOP Real Estate
United Kingdom
Artie is the Chief Investment Officer of NVELOP Real Estate, a business which he co-founded in 2019. Prior to co-founding NVELOP, Artie spent 10 years in real estate advisory and investing at Macquarie Group where he was Managing Director and Head of Real Estate in Europe (2009-19). At Macquarie, Artie was involved with over €30 billion of real estate transactions across Europe and Asia Pacific, largely in logistics and industrial real estate.

Ben
Ben Bannatyne
PresidentPrologis
Netherlands
Ben Bannatyne is president of Prologis Europe and chairman of the company’s European Management Executive Committee. He is responsible for Europe’s leading logistics real estate platform, which comprises 17 million square meters across 12 countries, as of 30 June 2019. Previously, Ben served as the company’s managing director and regional head for Central & Eastern Europe – a role which he held for more than seven years - with overall responsibility for the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. Ben joined Prologis in 2008 from JLL where he was managing director for Central Europe. An accomplished leader, Ben brings significant real estate knowledge and expertise with more than 25 years’ experience.

Ben
Ben Segelman
Head of Capital Markets UK & MLEMEADHL
United Kingdom
Ben is an experienced property professional having worked on both the principal and advisory side of the commercial property markets in the UK, Europe and within the Emerging Markets. He has a deep knowledge of fund and asset management (UK and Europe) and investment management (UK, Europe and CEE region). Within the Emerging Markets, Ben has managed equity and debt funds and sought to develop and attract new business opportunities globally through mergers and acquisitions.

Brian
Brian Oravec
CEO & Managing PartnerIndoSpace Capital
Singapore
Mr. Oravec is the Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of IndoSpace Capital Asia. With $2.0 billion in AUM across four investment vehicles, IndoSpace is the largest developer and owner of modern industrial and logistics real estate in India. Prior to leading IndoSpace, Brian focused on investments and business development for Aeroterm, the air cargo vertical of Realterm. Before joining Realterm, Brian was with Citigroup Corporate and Investment Bank in New York. Brian has an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University and a Bachelor of Arts in Quantitative Economics from Tufts University.

Charles
Charles Pease
Head of Real Estate EuropeXPO Logistics
France
Charles is a chartered surveyor who has been working in the industrial, logistics and technology sectors of commercial real estate for the last 28 years across Europe, Middle East and Africa. He has worked for several international companies including Deluxe Entertainment, SEGRO, General Electric and Walt Disney and for the last 18 months has been with XPO Logistics where he heads up Real Estate for Europe. Leading a team of ten people he manages over 4.5 million square metres of logistics and transport space in 15 countries.

Christian
Christian Jamison
Managing PartnerValor Real Estate Partners
United Kingdom
Christian Jamison is the managing partner of Valor Real Estate Partners LLP (‘Valor’), a pan-European industrial platform, headquartered in London, focused on urban/infill industrial and logistics properties. Founded in 2016 by Christian and his partners, Valor is a full-service development management and investment business with offices in London and Paris. The company currently manages a 75 asset portfolio totalling approximately 6 million sq. ft on behalf of global investors.
Prior to Valor, Christian established and served as CEO of Delin Property until 2016 and previously held senior roles at JP Morgan, GE Capital and Credit Suisse.

Christopher
Christopher Zeuner
CIO7R
Czech Republic

David
David Ebbrell
CEOM7 Real Estate
United Kingdom
David Ebbrell is the Chief Executive Officer for M7 Real Estate. He is responsible for sourcing new properties across Europe. Prior to co-founding M7 in 2009, David was a Fund Director at GPT Halverton where he was responsible for Funds with a combined value of €600m. These included BIP (which invested in German and Dutch multi-let industrial property) and DAF (which invested in Dutch multi-let industrial office properties). As Fund Director, David had responsibility for acquisitions, portfolio performance, client reporting and asset management strategy. He was also responsible for many of the acquisitions made by the Halverton Babock Industrial fund; his primary responsibility being the German and French acquisitions.

David
David Hunt-Cuadrado
Global Managing PartnerThor Equities
United Kingdom
David is Global Managing Partner and Global Head of Logistics Acquisitions at Thor Equities. Previously David was a European director with The Blackstone Group’s European logistics platform, Logicor. He was involved in over €3bn of transactions in over 10 countries across Europe and was responsible for the valuations of the €13bn platform sold to China Invesment Corporation (CIC). David received an Executive MBA from the University of Cambridge, where he and peers formed Lookfit, an avatar / augmented reality based startup, focussing on solving the issue of reverse logistics.

David
David Perlman
Managing DirectorThorofare Capital
USA
David Perlman is Managing Director of Capital Markets and Originations and the Head of Capital Markets and the New York Thorofare office. He brings over 16 years of real estate experience with a diverse skill set and knowledge base, having participated in more than $10B in debt and equity transactions over his career. Previously, David co-led the Floating-Rate Balance Sheet Desk at Natixis and served in originations, credit, and syndication roles. There he focused on loans up to $2B in size and across the risk spectrum, from stabilized Class A assets to construction loans in strong secondary markets. He also would syndicate, on average, a $1B of notes to market participants annually.

Diego
Diego Ysita
CEOFibra Storage
Mexico
Diego Isita Portilla is a Mexican businessman and entrepreneur. He founded and is currently the CEO of U-Storage Group, a Mexican based development and management platform focused on the establishment and expansion of the self-storage market. In 2008 he partnered with Kenneth T. Woolley and Extra Space Storage, a self-storage REIT that owns and operates more than 1,000 facilities in the US. In 2018 U-Storage became the first self-storage focused REIT (FIBRA) in Mexico - Fibra Storage. This vehicle accelerates growth and encourages small and medium developers, as well as landowners to look for ways of contribution or association with Fibra Storage, allowing them to co-participate in the development of new U–Storage facilities.

Eduardo
Eduardo Bastitta Harriet
CEOPlaza Logística
Argentina
CEO of Plaza Logística, Argentina. Eduardo Bastitta has a degree in Business Economics, graduated from the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. In 2009, he co-founded and assumed the position of General Manager of Plaza Logística, a pioneering company in the provision of industrial and logistics infrastructure in the country and the region. Mr. Bastitta is a member of the Consejo Consultivo de CIPPEC and advisor to the Coalición Cívica.

Ekaterina
Ekaterina Avdonina
Co-Founder & CEOMirastar
United Kingdom
Ekaterina is a CEO and Co-Founder of Mirastar. Mirastar is a new specialist pan-European developer, investor and manager of big box logistics assets established by Ekaterina Avdonina, CEO, and Anthony Butler, CIO, in a joint venture with M7 Real Estate. From 2010 to 2018 Ekaterina was with Delin Capital Group focused on real estate investments and raising debt and co-founded DCAM. Previously, Ekaterina was with ING Real Estate in the Netherlands. Prior to ING, Ekaterina was with GVA in Moscow focused on the execution of development projects. Ekaterina graduated with a MSc. in Real Estate from Cass Business School and received a degree in Corporate Finance and Accounting from the Finance Academy under the Russian Government.

Emmanuel
Emmanuel Van der Stichele
CEOMileway
Netherlands
Mr. Van der Stichele has more than 20 years of experience in real estate and finance. Prior to Mileway, Emmanuel worked at Goodman for nearly eight years as a member of the European management team and board member of the management company of the Goodman European Partnership. Previously, he was a London-based member of Credit Suisse’s (formerly DLJ) real estate private equity and debt financing groups. He has also worked for JP Morgan in several corporate finance roles in Brussels, New York and London.

Ernesto
Ernesto Navarro
Head of Logistics and IndustrialRound Hill Capital
United Kingdom
Mr. Navarro is the Head of Logistics and Industrial at Round Hill Capital, which he joined in 2019, bringing thirteen years of experience in the logistics and industrial real estate sector. Mr Navarro is responsible for the management and growth of the logistics strategies at RHC across Europe.
Prior to joining RHC, Mr. Navarro spent 3 years at the Pan-European Acquisitions team at Logicor, sourcing and executing on investments in several geographies across Europe. Prior to that Mr. Navarro lived in Mexico, where he bought and managed countrywide platforms of logistics assets in excess of US$1.5B at Macquarie and of US$1.2B at PGIM, for 3 and 6 years respectively.

Gregorio
Gregorio Schneider
Managing PartnerTC Latin America Partners
USA
Gregorio Schneider is the co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of TC Latin America Partners. He has more than 25 years of experience in emerging markets, investing in both the public and private markets through a variety of assets and strategies, including debt, equity, distressed assets and real estate. Prior to forming TC Latin America Partners, Gregorio was Managing Director and Head of Emerging Markets at Och-Ziff Capital Management, Portfolio Manager at The Rohatyn Group (TRG) and worked at Spinnaker Capital. Gregorio is a member of the EMPEA Latin America Council and the LAVCA real estate council. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the ITAM in Mexico City.

Guilherme
Guilherme Rossi Cuppoloni
CEO & Founding PartnerGR Properties
Brazil
Guilherme Rossi is a founding partner and president of GR Properties, a developer of logistics and industrial condos with a strong presence in the state of São Paulo. Previously, he worked in residential and commercial development at Rossi Residencial.

Guillermo
Guillermo Medrano
CEOFibra NOVA
Mexico
A Public Accountant with a Master in Business Administration from ITESM and studies in Senior Management by IPADE, Guillermo has more than 16 years of experience in the Real Estate sector and more than 10 years in the industrial sector. He was CEO of Intermex Parques Industriales and held important positions in Grupo Chihuahua. He was director of the Real Estate division of Grupo Bafar and formed a portfolio of 81 properties in just 4 years.

Gunther
Gunther Deutsch
MD, Head of Investment Transactions EUBarings Asset Management
Germany
Gunther Deutsch is Barings Head of Transactions Europe and Managing Director at Barings Germany. He is overseeing the investment markets Sweden, Finland, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, France and the UK. Transaction volume executed over the last 3 years. 3 bn EUR of acquisistions and 2.25 bn EUR of dispositions. Prior to co-founding PAMERA in 2010 (before its acquisition by Cornerstone/Barings in 2014), Gunther Deutsch was founder and owner of the asset management platform Metis Asset Management GmbH in 2004. Previous to that, he spent 13 years in senior positions at Deutsche Bank (RREEF) and Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) in Munich, Berlin and New York.

Gustavo
Gustavo Cardozo
Managing Director Spain & PortugalPanattoni Europe
Spain
I joined Prologis in 2002 and left the company in 2019. During this time, I was directly involved in the development of 750K SM and the acquisition of 800 K SM of logistics buildings from third-parties, the disposition of 350K SM of assets. During 13 years, I led a team that managed a portfolio of 1.200.000 sqm of real estate (€800 Million value), occupied by 92 customers and generating €59 Million per annum of Gross Rental Income at the time I left Prologis. In February 2020, I joined Panattoni as Managing Director for Spain & Portugal, with the main goal of creating and managing the team that will take Panattoni to become one of the top leaders in the development of logistics and industrial real estate in these 2 countries in a few years.

Ingo
Ingo Steves
Managing PartnerBEOS AG
Germany

Jai
Jai Mirpuri
co-CEO & Country Head, IndiaESR
Singapore
Jai Mirpuri has over 17 years of real estate investing and funds management experience across various geographies and asset types. He has spent the last 13 years in Asia with ESR across Japan, China and India. Since 2017 he has co-headed the India platform at ESR building a full stack team of over 70 professionals and a portfolio of close to 20 million sq. ft. Prior to ESR, he was part of the IBD at Deutsche Bank (Singapore) & Capital One Bank (USA). He has an MBA from INSEAD, a B.Tech & M.Tech from IIT Bombay and speaks Japanese (fluent) & Mandarin (basic).

James
James Freeman
PrincipalBridge Investment Group Partners
USA
Mr. Freeman is responsible for investment strategy, acquisitions and business development, which includes market research, deal sourcing, capital sourcing, establishing and maintaining relationships with joint venture partners and ensuring successful investment execution. Prior to Cardinal, Mr. Freeman was Senior Managing Partner for Evolution Real Estate Partners, a subsidiary of Evolution Financial Group (EVO), a $1 billion+ AUM investment advisory firm. Prior to EVO, Mr. Freeman was Vice President, Business Development for Wyndham Hotels & Resorts a global hospitality company with a $10 billion market cap. Mr. Freeman graduated with a B.A. from Princeton University, and attended New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate.

James
James Markby
Managing DirectorLogistics Capital Partners
United Kingdom
James Markby is co-founder and owner of Logistics Capital Partners, specialising in logistics real estate, development, project management, asset management. With offices in London, Paris, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, and Luxembourg, the group operates across the UK and Continental Europe and over €1 billion AUM, with a further short-term development pipeline totalling €2 billion GDV.
Logistics Capital Partners offers dedicated logistics expertise and a strong occupier and corporate real estate focus, combined with access to global capital providers, to deliver a leading pan European commercial real estate business. James has 20 years real estate investment experience, is a qualified member of the RICS.

Javier
Javier Camarena
CEOMeor
Mexico
Javier Camarena serves as CEO of MEOR since its foundation. He has more than 15 years of experience in Real Estate and has been involved in over 350 retail and industrial transactions, with relevant experience in the whole development cycle. Before co-founding MEOR, Javier served as Executive Director of Emuna Holding for over 10 years, a group with presence in the energy, construction, finance, and engineering sectors. Javier holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial and systems engineering from ITESM and attended the Executive Management Program at IPADE.

Jay
Jay Cornforth
Managing PartnerBrookfield Properties
USA
Mr. Cornforth has over 25 years of real estate experience and joined Brookfield in late 2013 from Prologis where he was President, East Region, overseeing an operating portfolio of 92 million sq. ft. and a development land bank in excess of 30 million sq. ft. He previously worked at AMB beginning in 2003 prior to the AMB/Prologis merger in 2011. For most of his career Mr. Cornforth has focused on the industrial warehouse space beginning with Cabot Industrial Trust and its successor company, Cabot Properties, where he was an SVP and held national development duties. He also worked at AEW Capital Management in various roles as VP Portfolio Management and Investments.

Joan
Joan Vidiella
Managing PartnerSpinnia
Spain
Joan is the Managing Partner of Spinnia, a leading real estate investment manager mainly focussed in Spain and Portugal, brewing opportunities for a broad base of international institutional investors in the industrial/logistics and hospitality sectors, eventually coinvesting in the opportunities.
Joan holds a BA (UB, Barcelona), and an MBA-MIM (ESADE, Barcelona).
Joan holds a BA (UB, Barcelona), and an MBA-MIM (ESADE, Barcelona).

Jonny
Jonny Allen
Head of Logistics Real Estate - EuropeAmazon
United Kingdom

Marcela
Marcela Drigo
Diretora de Real EstateCPPIB
Brazil
Marcela Drigo is a Senior Vice President at Clarion Partners, a leading real estate investment manager with more than $25 billion in assets under management, offering a broad range of real estate strategies across the risk/return spectrum to its more than 200 domestic and international institutional investors. Marcela has responsibility for direct over-sight of the firm's acquisition and asset management activities in Brazil. She joined Clarion Partners in 2008 and has more than 15 years experience investing in emerging markets. Marcela established JVs with local and international operating partners and headed all the investments in the logistic sector for a large separate account. She holds a MBA from Columbia Business School.

Marcelo
Marcelo da Costa Santos
Head of LogisticsREC
Brazil
Head of Logistics and Portfolio Manager at REC Gestão, Marcelo has almost 30 years of experience in investment banking, private equity and real estate. Marcelo founded and was CEO of NAI Brazil/Engebanc Real Estate. In November 2018, he sold the operations with almost 50 employees to an international competitor. Previously Vice President for South America – Capital Markets and V&A at Cushman & Wakefield, Marcelo was also a Partner and Director at MaxCap, a PERE company; Associate Director – M&A at UBS Warburg and an Investment Analyst at ABN Amro’s Asset Management division. Marcelo also serves as a Board Director for Shopping Vitória and holds a Bs in Economics from the University of São Paulo (FEA-USP).

Mark
Mark Bowden
Founding PartnerCaisson
United Kingdom
Mark is a founding partner of Caisson and sits on its Management Committee which oversees the overall business direction of the firm. Mark oversees Asset Management. Mark commenced his career with Houston Lawrence, the specialist Covent Garden surveying firm, in 1993 he was involved in the development of Industrial Securities, a joint venture between Houston Lawrence and Marcol specialising in development and asset management of industrial properties throughout the UK. Mark joined The iO Group (subsequently TeeslandiOG, now Valad Property Group) in 1998 to work in the UK asset management team progressing in 2001 to the establishment of a European Asset Management platform.

Patrick
Patrick Zehetmayr
Managing DirectorErste Group Bank AG
Austria
Mr. Patrick Zehetmayr is Head of Group Commercial Real Estate at Erste Group Bank AG. Prior to that, he was a Member of the Board at Immorent AG. He had experiences at Erste Group Bank AG as Head of Relationship Management for the Group Larges Corporates Business, Head of Debt Capital Markets, Treasury and as a Trader for Fixed Income Derivatives. He speaks English and German.

Paul
Paul Graham
ChairmanGramercy Property Trust- Europe
United Kingdom
Mr. Graham FRICS has over 30 years' international experience in the real estate logistics sector. Prior to joining Gramercy, Paul headed real estate at DHL, the world's largest logistics provider, for the region Europe, Middle East and Africa. He led a front line team of 80 people with responsibility for around 3,000 facilities in 100-plus countries. Paul brings substantial occupational and business experience to Gramercy.

Rajesh
Rajesh Jaggi
Managing Partner - Real EstateEverstone
India
With more than 17 years of real estate leadership experience, Rajesh Jaggi is responsible for all real estate investments and operations of IndoSpace Development Management. He also manages Everstone Capital Advisors’ real estate business which includes strategic planning, acquisitions, finance, sales and marketing, legal, and project and facility management services. Before Everstone, he was the Managing Director of Peninsula Land Limited–a leading listed real estate company in India with a market cap of US$ 400 million. There, he led the successful commissioning of projects totalling 28 million square feet of real estate (completed development of more than six million square feet) across residential, commercial and retail space.

Richard
Richard Wilkinson
Group CFOCTP Invest
Czech Republic
Richard Wilkinson joined CTP Invest in 2018 as Group CFO and brings over 30 years of experience in real estate finance, asset management and executive oversight from his previous posts at Erste Bank. Richard’s unique central European experience guides his vision for CTP’s stable growth plan to reach a portfolio size of 10 million m2 across the 7 CEE countries where CTP is active. Since joining CTP, Richard oversaw the first sale of a portion of CTP’s portfolio of the portfolio to a 3rd party, and organized the largest industrial real estate refinancing in CEE history.

Robert
Robert Cotterell
Head of Transactions EuropeCromwell Property Group
United Kingdom
Rob joined Cromwell Property Group as a Fund Manager quickly taking on further responsibility for a number of key funds. With Rob's experience and expertise in acquisitions, he took on the role as Head of Transactions for Europe, managing the regional transaction teams, underwriting and closing on all acquisitions for both in-house Funds and Joint Venture partners. Now as Head of Investments, Rob’s focus is growing the European business through new Fund Products, Joint Ventures and strategic acquisitions. Rob has over 24 years of commercial property experience. Prior to joining the business, he worked at the investment agency, Allsop, and as an acquisitions and development specialist at ING Investment Management.

Rolf
Rolf Elgeti
CEODeutsche Industrie REIT
Germany
Rolf is the founder of Deutsche Industrie REIT-AG, which is a spin-off of his investment company Obotritia Capital. Before he was the CEO of TAG Immobilien AG, Hamburg, which experienced an enormous growth under his leadership and was included into German Mid-Cap Index (MDAX). Rolf worked many years as an equity strategist at ABN Amro, Commerzbank and UBS in London. He has excellent banking and real estate knowledge. Rolf is personally and financially committed to Deutsche Industrie REIT-AG.

Ronald
Ronald Philip
Senior Director - Strategic PlanningAgility Logistics
UAE

Sandeep
Sandeep Chanda
Head Strategy & AcquisitionsEmbassy Group
India
Sandeep Chanda is Heads– Strategy & Acquisition at Embassy Industrial Parks. He has over 15 years of work experience in Real Estate investment, asset management, land acquisitions, fund management and investors relations in India. He has concluded private equity, land and joint venture deals across product lines including Residential, Office, IT Parks and SEZs, Industrial & Warehousing in tier I cities in India. Sandeep over the years has been part of transactions that translates to an equity deployment of over USD 700 million. Sandeep has been one of the founding team member of Embassy Industrial Parks and he has been instrumental in setting up a Warehouse and Industrial development JV platform (USD 250 mil) between Warburg Pincus&Embassy

Spencer
Spencer Patton
Managing Director - USAICM Realty Group
USA
Mr. Patton joined ICM in 2011 and is responsible for sourcing future investment opportunities and directing company activities in the USA. Mr. Patton has over 20 years of experience in business development, acquisition, underwriting, management and fund raising activities for both real estate and private equity transactions. Mr. Patton has held senior positions at Songy Partners (Senior VP), Wells Real Estate Funds (Director/Senior VP), The Walker companies (CFO and Director of Real Estate) and Wachovia Bank. Mr. Patton was responsible for sourcing, securing, underwriting and closing core, core plus, value added and development office, hospitality and mixed-use real estate transactions across the United States.

Stefan
Stefan Walldorf
Managing DirectorCerberus
Netherlands
Stefan Walldorf is a Managing Director in Cerberus’ European Real Estate Group and a member of the Cerberus NPL Committee, Real Estate Committee, and Real Estate Debt Committee. Since joining Cerberus in 2006, Mr. Walldorf has led a wide range of transactions in Europe, including acquisitions of commercial properties, restructurings and loan portfolios. He is currently overseeing the built-up of Cerberus’ EUR 3bn Strategic Industrial Real Estate (SIRE) platform across Europe. Prior to joining Cerberus, Mr. Walldorf worked in Eurohypo’s structured real estate finance division focusing on multinational and institutional clients and structuring financing transactions in commercial and residential real estate.

Stephen
Stephen Tanenbaum
Managing DirectorGTIS Partners - Brazil
Brazil
Eleven years of Real Estate investment and development experience in the United States and Brazil with a primary focus on the industrial and logistics sector. Extensive portfolio of completed transactions including build to suit and speculative warehouse developments for end users and third party logistics providers (3PLs), acquisitions of sale-leaseback, greenfield and brownfield properties as well as asset management (leasing & property management). Participation in capital markets fundraising activity with institutional investors. Currently oversee industrial platform activities for a diversified private equity real estate fund focused on real estate investment in Brazil.

Steven
Steven Mathieson
Managing DirectorHines
Brazil
Steven Mathieson is a Director with 10 years of experience in the Brazilian real estate market. Currently, he is responsible for deal sourcing, acquisitions, development and for the management of the industrial long term hold portfolio at Hines Brazil totaling 850,000m² of leasable area. He was directly involved in the development of Distribution Parks totaling 359,000m² of logistics and industrial space.

Victor
Victor Song
CEO & Managing DirectorElite Partners Capital
Singapore
One of the founding shareholders of Elite Partners Group, Victor is responsible for the overall management and strategy of the group as well as investment and asset management activities of various Funds under management. Mr Song has 15 yrs of experience across the entire real estate investment value chain, from leasing, asset management and advisory, and build-to-suit activities to acquisitions, investment and divestment. Mr Song graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Business (Business Administration). He has also obtained a Certificate of Real Estate Valuation from the International Management Academy and a Certificate of Real Estate Investment Finance from the Asia Pacific Real Estate Association.

Vineet
Vineet Sekhsaria
Executive DirectorMorgan Stanley
India
Joined Morgan Stanley in Aug’2007 - Vineet is Head of India for Morgan Stanley Real Estate - Vineet relocated to India in June 2011 after spending a no. of years with MSRE in New York. - Vineet has experience underwriting transactions in opportunistic and core real estate and restructuring legacy deals. - Prior to joining MSRE, Vineet worked at Deloitte Consulting in the Strategy and Operations Practice helping Fortune 500 companies restructure and grow. - Vineet has an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a Bachelors degree in Economics from Miami University.

Vojkan
Vojkan Brankovic
CEO & FounderApeiron Capital Limited
United Kingdom
Vojkan Brankovic is the Founder and CEO of Apeiron; he oversees investment strategies and transactional management, product and business development and investor relations with an extensive international network of institutional investors. Vojkan has more than 25 years of global investment management experience, combining strategic senior real estate executive roles with extensive experience and a clear understanding of real estate fundamentals such as acquisition, financing, development, fund management and senior institutional investor management. Vojkan is a member of the British Property Federation Committee, IPF and ULI.
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With the largest commercial real estate team in Europe and one of the biggest worldwide, CMS is well positioned to help investors, funders, developers, landlords and occupiers navigate all aspects of the real estate market and maximise their assets. Whatever the size and scope of your project or deal, with almost 800 real estate lawyers in 47 countries we have the resources to meet your needs quickly and efficiently, offering expert advice. We have been active in real estate in our markets for decades, so we understand the culture, the economic context, the local legal context and the history.

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Alfredo
Alfredo Rizo
Presidente & CEOTerranum
Colombia
Mr. Rizo is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Terranum Private Equity Fund, a developer and operator of office, logistics and industrial assets. Prior to his current position Mr. Rizo was the Corporate Vice-President of Terranum where he played a critical role in the definition and implementation of the investment planning and strategy as well as the definition of the capital structure the corporate strategy and the corporate governance.

Alistair
Alistair Calvert
CEOGramercy Property Trust- Europe
United Kingdom
Mr. Calvert is CEO of Gramercy Europe Limited, which was formerly ThreadGreen Europe. Mr. Calvert established the original ThreadGreen business in 2006, launching its first fund in 2007, and subsequently selling the business to Gramercy Property Trust in December 2014. Simultaneously with Gramercy Property Trust being acquired by Blackstone in October 2018, Gramercy Europe became an independent fund manager through a management buyout from Blackstone. Under Mr. Calvert’s leadership, Gramercy Europe has transacted on more than £2.2 billion of logistics and light industrial property in the past 4 years.

Aloke
Aloke Bhuniya
CEOAlok Buniya
India
Mr Aloke Bhuniya is the Chief Executive Officer of the Ascendas-Firstspace platform. Aloke brings with him 17 years of experience across Real Estate Investment & Development, Private Equity and M&A Transactions across industries in India. Previously, Aloke has spent over 9 years in Everstone group, managing the various initiatives of the group in real estate, which included IndoSpace and Everstone Capital. As Managing Director of IndoSpace Capital Advisors, Aloke was responsible for investment to develop Industrial Real Estate in India. His responsibilities included identifying investment opportunities, monitoring developments, achieving financial closure and exiting projects after development and leasing.

Anita
Anita Simaza
FounderAS Real Estate
Netherlands
Founder of AS REAL ESTATE since 2020, a pan European advisory for Logistics & Industrial real estate, connecting developers, investors, owner-occupiers and advisors with cross border capital. Anita was previously Head of Logistics & Industrial Europe at BNP Paribas Real Estate, responsible for coordinating investment activities for the company in the sector and working on pan European and single country transactions. Prior to this, Anita was Director European Valuations at Prologis in Amsterdam, responsible for all valuation related workflows across Europe. Anita worked earlier with Knight Frank in London in the European Valuations team and qualified as MRICS with Savills in Exeter in the residential development department.

Anshul
Anshul Singhal
Managing DirectorWelspun One
India
Anshul is the Managing Director of Welspun One Logistics Parks, an integrated fund, asset and development management organization to deliver large format, institutional Grade A warehousing and industrial parks in key micro markets across India. Anshul Singhal founded One Industrial Spaces and in July 2019. On December 01, 2019, Welspun Promoters acquired a majority stake in the company, re-branding it to Welspun One Logistics Parks. From 2014 to 2019, Anshul was the Director & CEO of Embassy Industrial Parks (EIP), a joint venture between Warburg Pincus and the Embassy Group.

Artie
Artie Ioakim
Partner & Chief Investment OfficerNVELOP Real Estate
United Kingdom
Artie is the Chief Investment Officer of NVELOP Real Estate, a business which he co-founded in 2019. Prior to co-founding NVELOP, Artie spent 10 years in real estate advisory and investing at Macquarie Group where he was Managing Director and Head of Real Estate in Europe (2009-19). At Macquarie, Artie was involved with over €30 billion of real estate transactions across Europe and Asia Pacific, largely in logistics and industrial real estate.

Ben
Ben Bannatyne
PresidentPrologis
Netherlands
Ben Bannatyne is president of Prologis Europe and chairman of the company’s European Management Executive Committee. He is responsible for Europe’s leading logistics real estate platform, which comprises 17 million square meters across 12 countries, as of 30 June 2019. Previously, Ben served as the company’s managing director and regional head for Central & Eastern Europe – a role which he held for more than seven years - with overall responsibility for the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. Ben joined Prologis in 2008 from JLL where he was managing director for Central Europe. An accomplished leader, Ben brings significant real estate knowledge and expertise with more than 25 years’ experience.

Ben
Ben Segelman
Head of Capital Markets UK & MLEMEADHL
United Kingdom
Ben is an experienced property professional having worked on both the principal and advisory side of the commercial property markets in the UK, Europe and within the Emerging Markets. He has a deep knowledge of fund and asset management (UK and Europe) and investment management (UK, Europe and CEE region). Within the Emerging Markets, Ben has managed equity and debt funds and sought to develop and attract new business opportunities globally through mergers and acquisitions.

Brian
Brian Oravec
CEO & Managing PartnerIndoSpace Capital
Singapore
Mr. Oravec is the Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of IndoSpace Capital Asia. With $2.0 billion in AUM across four investment vehicles, IndoSpace is the largest developer and owner of modern industrial and logistics real estate in India. Prior to leading IndoSpace, Brian focused on investments and business development for Aeroterm, the air cargo vertical of Realterm. Before joining Realterm, Brian was with Citigroup Corporate and Investment Bank in New York. Brian has an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University and a Bachelor of Arts in Quantitative Economics from Tufts University.

Charles
Charles Pease
Head of Real Estate EuropeXPO Logistics
France
Charles is a chartered surveyor who has been working in the industrial, logistics and technology sectors of commercial real estate for the last 28 years across Europe, Middle East and Africa. He has worked for several international companies including Deluxe Entertainment, SEGRO, General Electric and Walt Disney and for the last 18 months has been with XPO Logistics where he heads up Real Estate for Europe. Leading a team of ten people he manages over 4.5 million square metres of logistics and transport space in 15 countries.

Christian
Christian Jamison
Managing PartnerValor Real Estate Partners
United Kingdom
Christian Jamison is the managing partner of Valor Real Estate Partners LLP (‘Valor’), a pan-European industrial platform, headquartered in London, focused on urban/infill industrial and logistics properties. Founded in 2016 by Christian and his partners, Valor is a full-service development management and investment business with offices in London and Paris. The company currently manages a 75 asset portfolio totalling approximately 6 million sq. ft on behalf of global investors.
Prior to Valor, Christian established and served as CEO of Delin Property until 2016 and previously held senior roles at JP Morgan, GE Capital and Credit Suisse.

Christopher
Christopher Zeuner
CIO7R
Czech Republic

David
David Ebbrell
CEOM7 Real Estate
United Kingdom
David Ebbrell is the Chief Executive Officer for M7 Real Estate. He is responsible for sourcing new properties across Europe. Prior to co-founding M7 in 2009, David was a Fund Director at GPT Halverton where he was responsible for Funds with a combined value of €600m. These included BIP (which invested in German and Dutch multi-let industrial property) and DAF (which invested in Dutch multi-let industrial office properties). As Fund Director, David had responsibility for acquisitions, portfolio performance, client reporting and asset management strategy. He was also responsible for many of the acquisitions made by the Halverton Babock Industrial fund; his primary responsibility being the German and French acquisitions.

David
David Hunt-Cuadrado
Global Managing PartnerThor Equities
United Kingdom
David is Global Managing Partner and Global Head of Logistics Acquisitions at Thor Equities. Previously David was a European director with The Blackstone Group’s European logistics platform, Logicor. He was involved in over €3bn of transactions in over 10 countries across Europe and was responsible for the valuations of the €13bn platform sold to China Invesment Corporation (CIC). David received an Executive MBA from the University of Cambridge, where he and peers formed Lookfit, an avatar / augmented reality based startup, focussing on solving the issue of reverse logistics.