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EVENT MANAGER
Leonardo Faria
Head of CEE & DACH
GRI Club
Richard Wells
GRI Club
Talita Rodrigues
Conference Producer
GRI Club
Laura
Laura Sancesario
Club Manager - GRI Real Estate - Southern EuropeGRI Club
With over 13 years of experience in an international company and with corporate events she was able to work with many levels of seniority, roles, departments, and transformation projects.
Leonardo
Leonardo Faria
Head of CEE & DACHGRI Club
Richard Wells
GRI Club
United Kingdom
Talita
Talita Rodrigues
Conference ProducerGRI Club
Discussion
Selecting a Tenant Engagement/Workplace Experience App
This session will be a very good opportunity to listen and also share experiences and lessons learned from this topic that many Real Estate Tech Specialists are experiencing right now.
- Market Dynamics - What is going on right now?
- Selection Process - What are the ways of navigating these processes?
- Lessons Learned - What are the experiences driven from the landlord’s perspective?
- Measuring Success - Is It possible to measure success and ROI?
Committee Members
GRI Global Committee
Technology & Innovation Chapter
Alex
Edds
Head Of Sustainability, Europe
LaSalle Investment Management
Alexander
Piur
Head of Innovation and Sustainability
ING Wholesale Banking
Audrey
Klein
Partner
Spencer House Partners
Ben
Grippi
Senior Director, Head of Real Estate Technology & Innovation
The RMR Group
Cesar
Jeri
Head of Innovation & Technology
Verizon
Chris
Zissis
Global Head - Investment Technology & International CTO
Nuveen Real Estate
Craig
O'Donnell
Group Innovation Director
Grosvenor
Dean
Hopkins
Executive Vice President & Chief Operations Officer
Oxford Properties Group
François
Lacoursière
Senior Vice President, Innovation
Ivanhoé Cambridge
James
Whalen
SVP, Chief Information & Technology Officer
Boston Properties
Katia
Saenko
Senior Vice President, Data & Technology
Cadillac Fairview
Kitty
Rietveld - de Haan
Global Head of Digital & Technology
CBRE Investment Management
Michael
Grant
Chief Operations Officer
Metrikus
Paul
Birkin
Chief Digital and Technology Officer
CB Richard Ellis
Paul
Finkbeiner
Global Head of Real Estate
GWL Realty Advisors
Perttu
Rönkkö
Director, Head of Innovation and Technology
NREP
Sara
Shank
Managing Director, Global Head of Innovation
PGIM Real Estate - USA
Simon
Lee
Head of Information Systems - Europe
Cromwell Property Group
Stephen
Walker
Deputy Head of Asset Management (UK), Real Estate Technology Lead
Aberdeen Standard Investments
Volker
Buscher
Chief Data Officer
ARUP
William
Lee
Senior Director - Head of Master Planning
Gilead Sciences, Inc - HQ
Dean Hopkins
Executive Vice President & Chief Operations OfficerOxford Properties Group
Canada
Dean Hopkins is the Executive VP and Chief Operations Officer of Oxford Properties, a leading real estate investor, developer and manager. His role is to help design and enable the RE company of the future by evolving a wide variety of capabilities, systems, processes, and information necessary to support a rapidly growing, global platform. Prior to Oxford, he was the CEO of a scale-up hub established to help entrepreneurial technology companies through periods of substantial growth. Before that he spent a decade advising a leading multi-national media conglomerate on global transformation, and a decade founding and growing a pioneer in internet strategies. He began his career as a business analyst at a leading global management consultancy
James Whalen
SVP, Chief Information & Technology OfficerBoston Properties
USA
James Whalen serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Information and Technology Officer for Boston Properties where he is responsible for the direction and implementation of technology, applications and security. Prior to joining the Company in March 1998, he served as Vice President, Information Systems of Beacon Properties. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and a recipient of the New York City Urban Fellowship. Mr. Whalen is a current trustee and past President of the Boston Chapter of the Society for Information Management (SIM) and serves on the Realcomm Advisory Council, TechHire Boston and Boston Private Industry Council.
Alex Edds
Head Of Sustainability, EuropeLaSalle Investment Management
United Kingdom
Alexander Piur
Head of Innovation and SustainabilityING Wholesale Banking
Germany
Alexander Piur is responsible for Sustainability and Innovation for the global Real Estate Finance activities of ING Wholesale Banking, with local presence in APAC, EMEA and US. He has more than 20 years of experience in the real estate financing markets in Germany and Europa. Prior joining ING, he worked for several banks in Munich. Alexander is a member of IMMOEBS, has a degree as Immobilienökonom from the International Real Estate Business School in Regensburg and holds a B.Sc. in Finance and Management from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.
Audrey Klein
PartnerSpencer House Partners
United Kingdom
Audrey Klein has held Head of Fundraising roles at several firms but is best known for starting the European business out of London for the Park Hill Real Estate Group, a Division of Blackstone, which she ran for 9 yrs. Prior to joining Park Hill, she ran her own business for 5 yrs marketing alternative asset funds across all asset classes to European investors comprised of pension funds, banks, family offices. She is a graduate of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of business where she received an MBA, and is also a graduate of Emory University with a degree in Economics. She is a Partner at Spencer House Partners (www.spencerhousepartners.com).
Ben Grippi
Senior Director, Head of Real Estate Technology & InnovationThe RMR Group
USA
Real estate innovation thought leader. Seasoned investment professional with deep portfolio management, FinTech & PropTech experience across a wide variety of asset classes including Real Estate, Public & Private Fixed Income, Derivatives and Equity. Decisive leader who has managed global implementations impacting asset management, trade execution, asset & liability management and regulatory infrastructure enhancements.
Cesar Jeri
Head of Innovation & TechnologyVerizon
United Kingdom
Real Estate Technology thought leader, focusing on the Future or Work. As the global head of Real Estate Innovation and Workplace Technology, Cesar is responsible for identifying, designing and scaling real estate technologies across Verizon’s property portfolio, which extends to over 100m sqft of real estate in 6,000 buildings worldwide; providing solutions across the RE lifecycle - strategy, design & construction, building operations, employee experience and ESG. The solutions range from IoT sensors and mobile apps to collaboration via mixed reality environments.
Chris Zissis
Global Head - Investment Technology & International CTONuveen Real Estate
United Kingdom
Chris brings more than 20 years of technology, data & digital transformation experience in various industries around the globe. He has held a number of leadership roles that have put him at the forefront of many fintech and proptech transformations.
Chris is passionate about technology products and solutions. He's driven by:
• Providing business first digital and data solutions.
• Ensuring all stakeholders are brought on the journey to drive adoption and innovation.
• Buildings and integrating future proof solutions across products and services that scale globally.
• Developing and growing high-capability teams.
Craig O'Donnell
Group Innovation DirectorGrosvenor
United Kingdom
Dean Hopkins
Executive Vice President & Chief Operations OfficerOxford Properties Group
Canada
Dean Hopkins is the Executive VP and Chief Operations Officer of Oxford Properties, a leading real estate investor, developer and manager. His role is to help design and enable the RE company of the future by evolving a wide variety of capabilities, systems, processes, and information necessary to support a rapidly growing, global platform. Prior to Oxford, he was the CEO of a scale-up hub established to help entrepreneurial technology companies through periods of substantial growth. Before that he spent a decade advising a leading multi-national media conglomerate on global transformation, and a decade founding and growing a pioneer in internet strategies. He began his career as a business analyst at a leading global management consultancy
François Lacoursière
Senior Vice President, InnovationIvanhoé Cambridge
Canada
As Senior Vice President, Innovation at Ivanhoé Cambridge, François is responsible for optimizing and bringing forward the various innovation activities, while leading collaborative efforts involving teams transversely. Recognized as an entrepreneur, a seasoned strategist and an agent of change within the corporate cultures, François Lacoursière has put his creative mind to profit for more than 25 years. Formerly a Senior Partner at Sid Lee, a world-class agency based in Montreal, François orchestrated numerous brand transformations for as many industries, geographies and disciplines.
James Whalen
SVP, Chief Information & Technology OfficerBoston Properties
USA
James Whalen serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Information and Technology Officer for Boston Properties where he is responsible for the direction and implementation of technology, applications and security. Prior to joining the Company in March 1998, he served as Vice President, Information Systems of Beacon Properties. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and a recipient of the New York City Urban Fellowship. Mr. Whalen is a current trustee and past President of the Boston Chapter of the Society for Information Management (SIM) and serves on the Realcomm Advisory Council, TechHire Boston and Boston Private Industry Council.
Katia Saenko
Senior Vice President, Data & TechnologyCadillac Fairview
Canada
Katia works across the company to develop and implement strategic data, digitization, and technology capabilities. These efforts will further advance CF's digital innovation strategy to enable our business growth. In her previous role, Katia was Vice President, Information Technology at a large Canadian retailer. Her broader experience includes leading global ERP implementations, developing loyalty systems, and deploying digital marketing and payment capabilities. Katia also holds an MBA in International Finance from Moscow University.
Kitty Rietveld - de Haan
Global Head of Digital & TechnologyCBRE Investment Management
Netherlands
Michael Grant
Chief Operations OfficerMetrikus
United Kingdom
Michael is COO of Metrikus. He is an operations, strategy and management professional with extensive experience in designing, implementing and managing LEAN operations, working with teams to deliver high value operations and services. Michael has a deep operational and technical background, obtaining a degree in Electrical Engineering from Victoria University of Technology. In his roles Michael has dealt with large teams to deliver solutions with exceptional service - clients include those from banking, commercial real estate and IT sectors.
Paul Birkin
Chief Digital and Technology OfficerCB Richard Ellis
United Kingdom
Paul is a strategist, with a clear commercial acumen who has a clear understanding of the business value of IT and the future directions of the industry. Besides being a strategist, Paul is result and success oriented, an outstanding leader and has a clear history of delivering Technology driven Business Change Globally. Paul has significant global experience having global responsibility and having fulfilled expat engagements in Europe, US, Middle East and Asia. He has a track record in delivering innovation to business through the use of Innovative New Technology and Business Process Improvement. This was recently recognized with Capita being rated the 60th most innovative company in the Forbes Global 100 Most Innovative Companies (2016).
Paul Finkbeiner
Global Head of Real EstateGWL Realty Advisors
Canada
Paul oversees a global real estate platform that totals $28 billion in assets under management, in Canada, the U.S., U.K. and Ireland. He works closely with these four regional offices to expand Great-West LIFECO’s real estate business by attracting third-party investors and continuing to grow our existing client base.
Previously, Paul was President of GWL Realty Advisors for 18 years. Under his leadership, Paul grew the company’s real estate portfolio from $800 million in Canada to $17 billion in Canada and the U.S. Paul has over 30 years’ experience in the real estate Industry. He holds a Bachelor and a Master of Applied Science degree from Queen’s University and a Master of Business Administration degree from McGill University.
Perttu Rönkkö
Director, Head of Innovation and TechnologyNREP
Finland
Sara Shank
Managing Director, Global Head of InnovationPGIM Real Estate - USA
USA
Sara Shank is a managing director at PGIM Real Estate and global head of Innovation. Based in New York, Sara is responsible for developing and implementing technology solutions and data strategies across investment, asset management, operations and client servicing. This includes leading the change management of process, systems, and culture. Sara oversees the Systems organization working in close coordination with all investment and function areas.
Simon Lee
Head of Information Systems - EuropeCromwell Property Group
United Kingdom
Simon is an established professional in the real estate industry. He has over 20 years of experience working and implementing a broad range of solutions in industry to solve challenging business obstacles.
Simon currently holds a senior position at Cromwell Property Group and is leading the organisation's digital transformation strategy across its European operations. The primary technology focus areas are Microsoft Office 365 migration, AWS cloud first strategy, vendor management, business intelligence, data governance, portfolio modelling, RPA, AI and ML.
Stephen Walker
Deputy Head of Asset Management (UK), Real Estate Technology LeadAberdeen Standard Investments
United Kingdom
Deputy Head of Asset Management (UK), Real Estate Technology Lead, leading a team of 30 asset managers with responsibility for cross-sector assets on a UK wide basis. Stephen has carried out Fund and Asset Management positions at Aberdeen Standard Investments and has wide-ranging investment and strategic asset management experience gained in both private practice and client side positions. Stephen is Chair of ASI’s Global Proptech team and drives policy in relation to Flexible Office provision. He is also a member of the Property Investment Committee (EMEA) considering transactions and projects across the UK.
Volker Buscher
Chief Data OfficerARUP
United Kingdom
As Arup's Chief Data Officer, I'm responsible for developing the data solutions to support Arup wide automation, services and products. My work includes: Identifying technology trends that have a disruptive impact on the built environment, our core markets and Arup’s strategy; Developing data driven insight and design to create value for our clients, Arup and our ecosystem of partners; Engaging with partners to improve through open innovation capabilities; and Making a contribution to our work with UN Sustainable Development Goals and climate change.
Prior to Arup, I worked as a Project Director for public and private sector clients across the world.
William Lee
Senior Director - Head of Master PlanningGilead Sciences, Inc - HQ
USA
GRI SENIOR REPRESENTATIVE
Leonardo Faria
Head of CEE & DACH
GRI Club
Richard Wells
GRI Club
Talita Rodrigues
Conference Producer
GRI Club
Laura
Laura Sancesario
Club Manager - GRI Real Estate - Southern EuropeGRI Club
With over 13 years of experience in an international company and with corporate events she was able to work with many levels of seniority, roles, departments, and transformation projects.
Leonardo
Leonardo Faria
Head of CEE & DACHGRI Club
Richard Wells
GRI Club
United Kingdom
Talita
Talita Rodrigues
Conference ProducerGRI Club
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Confirmed Participants
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Co-Founder & CEOEnertiv, Inc.
USA
Connell is the Co-Founder & CEO of Enertiv, a connected SaaS platform that brings together modern software tools to digitize operations and provide real-time visibility into the performance of critical infrastructure for commercial real estate portfolios.
He’s responsible for driving the company vision, growing the team, and managing key client accounts and investor relations. Under his leadership, Enertiv was recently featured as the Most Fundable Company in the US in Entrepreneur Magazine.
https://www.enertiv.com/
6463503525
New York | USA
Enertiv is a connected SaaS platform that brings together modern software tools to digitize operations and provide real-time visibility into the performance of critical infrastructure for commercial real estate portfolios.
With Enertiv, owners and operators can ensure that on-site teams are operating buildings at peak performance while gaining unprecedented transparency into maintenance, energy efficiency, capital planning, tenant billing, the indoor environment, and more.
Imre-Gustav Vellamaa
Executive Board MemberR8tech
Estonia
I was born in May 02, 1973 in Tallinn, Estonia.
Since 2017 I am fully dedicated to develop a proptech startup R8tech in my business life. I can help to take your commercial building technical management to the next generation with AI. Energy Efficiency, Indoor Comfort and Building’s Technical Condition are the 3 main keywords. 2020 has been my return to stages, speaking at different (virtual) conferences and webinars like RE Futureproof streamed from Amsterdam, WDBE (Helsinki), DMREx (Berlin), Infoshare (Gdansk), New Energy Challengers (Vilnius), Davos Energy Week 2021 (Davos) etc.
I am a husband and father, son and brother, friend and collegue. Author and editor of some books and music. 21 years in amateur soccer.
http://r8tech.io
+3725026050
Tallinn | Estonia
R8tech is a proptech company with a HQ in Tallinn, Estonia founded in 2017. R8tech has developed an unique tool, R8 Digital Operator that takes commercial buildings' technical management to the next generation by ensuring highest indoor climate comfort and energy efficiency with Artificial Intelligence.
Our main focus are shopping malls, hotels and office buildings. Our client portfolio all around the Europe include CBRE and Radisson BLU in Finland, EDP in Portugal, WeWork in France etc.
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