What makes the GRI Club experience different?
GRI Club Events generate the perfect space for C-Level executives to generate new business opportunities and stay up to date on the latest real estate trends.
Efficient Networking
Our events gather real estate’s top decision-makers, including REIT managers, developers, investors, operators, banks, project finance companies, among others. By placing the right people in the right place we create a more effective networking experience.
Our events gather real estate’s top decision-makers, including REIT managers, developers, investors, operators, banks, project finance companies, among others. By placing the right people in the right place we create a more effective networking experience.
Discussions among peers
Each event has over 10 discussion rooms where participants deliberate face-to-face the industry’s most pressing challenges, newest trends, technologies and success stories focusing on each real estate segment.
Each event has over 10 discussion rooms where participants deliberate face-to-face the industry’s most pressing challenges, newest trends, technologies and success stories focusing on each real estate segment.

Investors
Banks
Family Offices
Investment Banks
Pension Funds
Private Equity Funds
Property Companies
REITs
Sovereign Funds
Developers
HotelOperators
Industrial & Logistics
Land Development Companies
Offices
Residential
Shopping Centers
Industrial & Logistics
Land Development Companies
Offices
Residential
Shopping Centers

Market Specialists
Architects
Construction & Engineering Companies
Consultants
Lawyers
Construction & Engineering Companies
Consultants
Lawyers
Past Keynote Speakers
Jim Worms
Chairman and CEO
Paladin Realty Partners
Eduardo Uribe Ordoñez
Vicepresidente Comercial Banca Inmobiliaria y Constructor
Bancolombia
Jonathan Malagón González
Ministro de Vivienda,Ciudad y Territorio
MINVIVIENDA - Ministerio de Vivienda, Ciudad y Territorio de Colombia
Sandra Forero Ramírez
Presidenta
Cámara Colombiana de la Construcción CAMACOL

Jim
Jim Worms
Chairman and CEOPaladin Realty Partners
USA
James R. Worms is Chairman and Chief Executive Office of Paladin Realty Partners, LLC, an SEC- registered investment advisor headquartered in Los Angeles. Prior to forming the firm in 1995, Mr. Worms was a Managing Director of Salomon Brothers, where he co-managed the firm’s worldwide real estate investment banking activities. Before joining Salomon Brothers, Mr. Worms was a principal at Eastdil Realty, and prior to Eastdil, Mr. Worms worked as a CPA at Coopers & Lybrand. Mr. Worms graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics, from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA with a Master’s degree in Business Administration, and from Hastings College of Law with a J.D. degree. He is a licensed attorney.

Eduardo
Eduardo Uribe Ordoñez
Vicepresidente Comercial Banca Inmobiliaria y ConstructorBancolombia
Colombia
Desde el 2005 lidera el equipo comercial que atiende a los constructores, logrando posicionar al Banco como el líder en este sector. Administrador de Empresas de la Universidad de los Andes, Programa de Alta Gerencia y Altos Estudios en gestión y Liderazgo Estratégico de la misma Universidad y diplomado En Construcción para Directivos Bancarios, a través del Tecnológico de Monterrey. Cuenta con experiencia de más de 30 años en el sector financiero en diferentes entidades Bancarias. Está vinculado al Grupo Bancolombia desde 2003, con responsabilidad en temas comerciales. Ha dictado charlas y cursos en diferentes foros relacionados con los sectores Financiero y Constructor.

Jonathan
Jonathan Malagón González
Ministro de Vivienda,Ciudad y TerritorioMINVIVIENDA - Ministerio de Vivienda, Ciudad y Territorio de Colombia

Sandra
Sandra Forero Ramírez
PresidentaCámara Colombiana de la Construcción CAMACOL
Colombia
Arquitecta de la Universidad Piloto de Colombia, con especializaciones en Arquitectura Urbana de la Escuela de Arquitectura de París Belleville y en Montaje de Operaciones Públicas de la Escuela de Arquitectura de París Villemin. Cuenta con un DEA en Geografía y Urbanismo del Instituto IEAL de la Universidad de la Sorbona de París y una especialización en Derecho Urbano de la Universidad del Rosario. LLegó a Camacol en el año 2006 como Gerente de la regional Bogotá y Cundinamarca, luego de trabajar como Directora de Desarrollo Territorial en el Ministerio de Ambiente, Vivienda y Desarrollo Territorial, tiempo en el cual también fue Presidenta del Consejo Profesional Nacional de Arquitectura.

Alejandro
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.

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.

Andrés
Andrés Alvarado Ortiz
Managing DirectorSURA Asset Management
Colombia
Andres Alvarado is the Managing Partner charged with leading the real estate group of SURA Asset Management in Colombia. Mr. Alvarado was the founding partner of Abacus Real Estate, one of the early entrants in the market and the first manager to raise a local institutional real estate development fund in Colombia. Mr. Alvarado has over 20 years of experience in real estate and investment banking in Colombia, LatAm and the US. He holds an MA in Social Sciences from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Florida International University.

Eduardo
Eduardo Romero
PartnerBTG Pactual
Colombia
Mr. Romero is the Head of the Merchant Banking Team in Colombia, and a member of the Private Equity, Real Estate and Infrastructure LatamTeams. Eduardo joined BTG in October 2013. Prior to joining BTG, Eduardo founded North Shore Venture Partners, a venture capital advisory firm and CHG in Chicago, a private equity real estate company focus on value-add commercial transactions in main metropolitan areas in the United States. Prior to CHG, Eduardo was Managing Director for NationsBank, and Bank of America´s country manager for Colombia and Venezuela responsible for corporate finance, investment banking and proprietary investments in the region. Prior to Bank of America, Eduardo worked six years at P&G in several financial positions in Cincin

Felipe
Felipe Encinales
Socio FundadorVisum Capital
Colombia

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.

Jean
Jean Pierre Serani Toro
CEO, Investment BankingBancolombia
Colombia
Since May 2016, Jean Pierre Serani is the Head of the Investment Banking division of Bancolombia, where he is in charge of the M&A, DCM/ECM, Project, Corporate and Acquisition Finance, Merchant Banking and Special Situations teams. Previously, for three years he was the CEO of Valores Bancolombia, the bank´s brokerage unit and the Head of the Sales & Trading division. Before 2013, he held several positions on the Investment Banking division for more than eight years. Mr. Serani received his undergraduate degree in Business from Universidad EAFIT and his MBA degree from Georgia Institute of Technology as a Fulbright Scholar.

Jean-Baptiste
Jean-Baptiste Wettling
Director TransactionsJLL
Colombia
El Sr. Wettling lidera la división de transacciones de JLL en Colombia, con foco en Corretaje, Investigación de Mercado y Consultoría. Está basado en las oficinas centrales de Jones Lang LaSalle en Bogotá y tiene más de once años de experiencia en la región. Durante este tiempo, Jean Baptiste completó varios trabajos para clientes como Blackstone, JP Morgan, Microsoft, HSBC, Google, Xerox, Motorola, MSD, Verizon, Adidas, entre otros.

Joan
Joan Bertran
Global Head of Commercial RE & HotelsBanco Sabadell
USA
Joan Bertran joined Banco Sabadell in 2008 to manage the Group’s Real Estate portfolio ($15bn). Since then he served in different executive positions and today he is the Banco Sabadell’s Group Global Head of Commercial Real Estate & Hotels. Based in Miami, he is in charge of the CRE & Hotels Group’s financing activity with teams in America and Europe. Previously, Joan served as Business Manager at ‘Logispark’, a Banco Sabadell JV with a RE developer, where he managed investments for $400M to develop more than 700.000sqm of CRE in Europe. He started his professional career in 1999 as Construction Manager at Ferrovial.

Josef
Josef Preschel
Managing Director & FounderPeninsula Investment Group
USA
He has been both an Investor and Developer of residential and mixed-used projects across Latin America and the South Eastern US. While working in Latin America, Josef identified a significant regional housing deficit, which he saw as a great opportunity to create value by investing in the residential development space; therefore, in 2005 he co-founded Peninsula with Mauricio Levitin. At Peninsula, Josef is responsible for overseeing investments, portfolio allocation in Mexico, Panama and Colombia, and managing investor relations. He is a member of the Investment Committee of the different funds of the firm.

Juan
Juan Carlos Moreno
Chief Investment OfficerAmarilo
Colombia
Mr. Moreno is Co-Founder & CIO at Yellowstone, an Amarilo Group company since inception. He has +12 years of professional experience in Private Equity and Real Estate investments and development. Between 2008 and 2012 he worked as a Private Equity Associate at MAS Equity Partners, a pioneer Private Equity Firm in the Andean Region. Mr. Moreno was born in Miami, FL and served in the Colombian Military as an Infantryman between 2002 and 2003, where he participated in desert operations in the Sinai Peninsula, and earned a medal of honor. He obtained an M.B.A. from IE Business School in Madrid, and a BSc in Industrial Engineering with minor in Mathematical Finance from Universidad de los Andes in Bogota.

María
María Clara Aristizábal
Head of the Real Estate BusinessGrupo Argos
Colombia
Maria Clara Aristizábal is the Head of the Real Estate Business at Grupo Argos, an infrastructure holding Company with over $15 billion in assets. She oversees 50.000 Ha of land for urban development and is a member of the investment committee of Pactia, a real estate fund with over 500.000 sqm in retail, office, industrial, self storage and hotels. She has a major in economics, a minor in mathematical economics and holds an MBA from New York University

Philipp
Philipp Braunfels
Managing DirectorJamestown Latin America
Colombia
Philipp Braunfels is a Director and Investment Manager for the Andean Region at Jamestown, focusing on Latin American investments and asset management out of the local office in Bogotá, Colombia. He has also worked in Jamestown’s German Fund Management department and its US offices in Atlanta and New York. Prior to joining Jamestown Mr. Braunfels worked at Deloitte Consulting in Germany and an early stage venture of Rocket Internet based in Singapore. Mr. Braunfels graduated Cum Laude from Maastricht University with a Master of Science in International Business Finance and also holds a Bachelor of Science in International Business Economics.

Rafael
Rafael Londoño
CEOQBO
Colombia
Rafael is founder, partner and CEO of QBO Constructores SAS, a company dedicated to real estate development since 2003. He is a Business Administrator from Universidad EAFIT with studies at the London School of Economics. He has held relevant positions in the Colombian financial industry during his time at the Corporación Financiera del Valle (Corfivalle) and in the aviation industry during his 5 years at Avianca where he was Commercial Vice President of the airline for Latin America.

Santiago
Santiago Porta
Global Head - Commercial PropertyIFC
USA
Santiago Porta is the IFC’s Global Sector Leader for Commercial Property. He has over 13 years in banking, leading investments and client relationships with key private sector partners across all property subsectors and emerging markets regions -including Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Asia. He lives in Washington DC, US, and, before joining IFC, he worked in the structured finance and corporate finance groups at Enron and Price Waterhouse Coopers respectively. Santiago holds an MBA from IESE Business School and an Industrial Engineering Degree at Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires.

Agostina
Agostina Airaudo
Club Manager LatAmGRI Club
Agostina has been actively studying and working with Latin American markets for more than 11 years, specializing in business development and public relations.
She has experience working in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and US real estate, financial and investment markets, fostering valuable connections among global leaders and GRI Club members. Agostina holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Administration from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in Argentina.

Giovana
Giovana Caravetti
Director of Andean Countries & HospitalityGRI Club
Graduated in Advertising and Marketing from Pontifícia Universidade de Campinas. Experience in the service and sales business. Currently focused on developing relationships among entrepreneurs in the real estate market.
Responsible for the RE Club in Chile, Colombia, Argentina and Peru. Actively involved in the decisions and organization of meetings for members, and the relationship between them. Focused on bringing new members and relevant companies from the sector, to develop the Club in the Andean countries, and Argentina. Also responsible for the Hospitality sector throughout Latin America, concentrating efforts, for the main meeting of the sector at a regional level.
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