Deutsche GRI

Andreas Wuermeling is Head of the business area Loan Markets Real Estate and Public Investment Finance and has worked for HRE Group since 2006. The Group is looking after large loan arrangement, loan trades (club and post, in and out) and structured solutions (incl. Mezz and Equity) for all global pbb exposures. Andreas has worked in this and similar roles, but also on the securitization side for 15 years. He is a qualified lawyer for German Law.

Anna Ginkel has 20 years of experience in Real Estate Finance ; thereof focusing on syndication since 2002. In October 2013 Anna became head of the Syndication Department at Aareal Bank. Before joining Aareal Bank and after working in various positions at Frankfurter Hypothekenbank (former Eurohypo), lastly being in charge of Syndication Execution & Agency, Anna was responsible for the set-up of the European Syndication desk at Westdeutsche ImmobilienBank. She has been directly involved in large-volume club-arrangements and syndication of a wide variety of real estate loans nationally and internationally.

Managing Director for Equity Raising for Institutional Investors globally (ex-Germany), Responsible for Establishing (new) client contacts for the Corestate Group within institutional investors outside of Germany; advising, supporting and implementing product ideas; leading our London-based client relations team; Supporting, assisting and advising the Corestate Group with respect to back-to-frontprocess (in particular related to sourcing of the right deals, structuring of deals in line with the needs of the client base and preparing and implementing sales and after sales activities in relation to aforementioned functions); developing new standards.

Ben Lehrecke is Managing Director at Round Hill Capital, responsible for European core residential and all asset classes German investments. Throughout his career of over twenty years in real estate, Ben Lehrecke has held numerous senior positions in acquisition, business development and management for the Pears Family Trust, KanAm Group, Tishman Speyer with a transaction track record of over €5bn. Ben holds a joined master in business management and engineering from Technical University Berlin and a master of real estate development from University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

In 2012 Claudia co-founded KIWI, the secure solution for keyless access, a B2B PropTech business in the real estate industry. At KIWI she leads the finance, operations and technology teams. Since 2012 she is very active in the Berlin Start-up scene and beyond. In February 2018, she founded the PropTech Company Builder High Rise Ventures, which aims to advance the adoption of new technologies in existing buildings. Beyond her knowledge focus on high tech and smart buildings Claudia is actively contributing to the digital inclusion of women in tech and advancing new leadership styles.

David is a Director responsible for commercial mortgage originations in continental Europe. He joined the company in 2012 to help advise on the European mortgage lending initiative. Prior to his arrival, David worked with Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG in London where he was part of their Global Real Estate Workout Group. Prior to that David held a restructuring role within the UK NAMA Unit - Anglo Irish Bank, also in London. David started his career in audit with KPMG based in Frankfurt, Germany. David received a BA (Hons) in Economics with German from The University of Nottingham and is a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder.

Mr Frank Forster joined EQT Partners in September 2015. Prior to joining EQT Partners, Mr. Forster was part of Mount Kellett’s European real estate team, involved in transaction across all real estate asset classes, with a focus on Germany and Spain. Prior to that, Mr Forster worked at Strategic Value Partners (“SVP”) and Blackstone. He graduated 2001 from European Business School in Germany.

Gerhard Meitinger is Managing Director at pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank and is responsible for the Real Estate Finance Business Germany. He has many years of experience in the German Real Estate and Lending business both with real estate professionals as well as international and institutional clients. The focus of his activities is the financing of real estate investments with single properties and portfolios. He also focuses on the financing of development projects in appropriate locations and adequate financing models.

Guillaume BERNARD has been active in the real estate finance markets for more than 10 years. He started his career at Société Générale in Frankfurt in the Debt Capital Markets and then moved to the Real Estate Finance. He joined NATIXIS in 2012 in the real estate finance origination team.

Gunther Schmidt is Founder and CEO of the Medici Living Group, the biggest Co-Living provider worldwide with over 1.800 active units. He started the company in 2012. As an innovative serial entrepreneur and startup executive, he has launched and invested in several successful start-up companies himself over the past 15 years. Before starting the Medici Living Group, he co-founded eKomi in 2008. Nowadays eKomi is Europe's largest independent provider of transaction-based reviews & ratings with over 14.000 customers, backed by Goldman Sachs & Tengelmann Group. Schmidt still serves at eKomi as a Board Member today.

Gustav Kirschner, Head of Real Estate Finance, is responsible for German Real Estate Customers. In his more than 20 years of business experience Gustav has held various specialist and management positions within real estate. He studied business administration at University of Passau and is lecturing part time at Technische Universität München (TUM).

Heiko joined WeWork in November 2018, heading the Real Estate department for Northern Europe and Central Eastern Europe from Berlin. Prior to joining WeWork, he spent 12 years at Cushman & Wakefield as a member of the German Executive Board, Business Unit Head of Office Agency Germany and Head of the Berlin office. Heiko has handled numerous complex transaction projects for national and international clients. Before to joining Cushman & Wakefield, he worked as a Senior Consultant in the office letting department of Aengevelt Immobilien GmbH & C. KG. He completed his training as a business graduate with a focus on real estate management and real estate management at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK).

Horst Lieder is Founder and Chairman of the International Campus Group. He is an international expert in Micro Living and Student Housing. He has more than 30 years of experience in Real Estate Investment, Development and Operations. Horst Lieder founded International Campus in 2011 and has been its CEO until Fall 2018. The Brookfield backed company and fully integrated real estate platform is specialized on student housing under the brand THE FIZZ and has actually more than 3.500 units in operation and more than 7.500 in construction or under development in central Europe.

As Investment Director at The Collective, Jill is responsible for the firm’s fund raising, investment acquisitions, and strategic growth internationally. The Collective has developed the largest co-living community, a well-amenitized, fully-stabilized 546-bed asset in London, and is expanding internationally to be the best co-living provider worldwide. Prior to joining the Collective, Jill worked as Investment Director for Greystar overseeing its London student housing portfolio Chapter Living. Jill received her MBA from Harvard Business School and graduated from Peking University with a Bachelor of Economics. She was listed by Forbes as “30 Under 30” in European Finance.

Joseph has over 20 years’ experience in the real estate industry across Europe and North America. Joseph joined Benson Elliot in 2008 and co-heads all investment and asset management activity. Before joining Benson Elliot, he was a Managing Director at Fortress Investment Group in Frankfurt, Germany where he built and managed a team of 40 real estate professionals with investments of €5.5bn, and led c. €700m of exits and re-financings. Prior to joining Fortress, Joseph was a Vice President at Oxford Properties Group in Toronto, Canada and worked at Borealis Capital Corp, where he managed a C$3.8bn retail investment business.

Karl-Josef Schneiders, Ambassador Global Real Estate, is based in Frankfurt with more than 25 years of experience in the banking, asset management and real estate sector. Before joining Credit Suisse, he was a co-founder of Verianos AG, he held management positions at Corpus Sireo, Morgan Stanley, the retail group Metro and at Citibank. Mr. Schneiders is business graduate of the University of Applied Sciences in Trier, he holds an MBA from the University of Wales and an Executive MBA from the Zurich Institute of Business Education (CEIBS).

Der studierte Jurist (Ass. Jur.) und Immobilienökonom (ebs) trat nach einer Anwaltstätigkeit (Schwerpunkt Baurecht) 1990 in die Mercedes-Benz AG ein und war maßgeblich am Aufbau des Immobilienbereichs des Daimler-Konzerns beteiligt. Schwerpunkte seiner 17-jährigen Tätigkeit waren Baurechtschaffung, Logistik, Koordination und Asset Management für das Daimler Proj. Potsdamer Platz und für die nicht betriebsnotwendigen Daimler Immobilien weltweit. Nach seinem Ausscheiden 2007 arbeitete er als Einkaufsvorstand für ein britisch-deutsches Unternehmen in Berlin. Im Jahr 2009 übernahm er die Leitung der Akquisition bei der ZBI-Gruppe. In den vergangenen 5 Jahren wurden in rund 200 Trans. Immobilien im Wert von über 2 Mrd. € angekauft

Markus Reinert FRICS is the Chairman of the Executive Board / CEO of IC Immobilien Holding AG. IC Immobilien Group is one of the largest independent full-service-provider for commercial real estate in Germany. Markus Reinert FRICS is a real estate professional with thirty years experience in the national and international real estate sector, working in a variety of international roles and positions, mainly at Cushman & Wakefield LLP and Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).

Michael is a Partner and a member of TPG Real Estate’s Investment Committee and TPG Europe’s Executive Committee. Before joining TPG, he worked for Europa Capital and in the Private Equity Real Estate divisions of J.P.Morgan and Lehman Brothers. He holds a Diplome de Grande Ecole and MSc in Management from ESCP Europe, and speaks German, Spanish, English, Portuguese and French. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of A&O Hotels and Hostels and Campo Properties, and is also a member of the board at Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity, a non-profit organization that supports seriously ill children.

Michael Morgan joined CA Immo Deutschland GmbH in 2017 as Group Co-Head of Investment Management and managing director of the German operation. He will jointly oversee investment management across the CA Immo group, with a particular focus on Germany. Michael has over 20 years of experience in asset management, investment management and development having held various managerial positions within the German real estate market. Prior to his arrival at CA Immo he served as International Partner and Head of Investment at Cushman & Wakefield’s Frankfurt office. Morgan studied Real Estate Management at Oxford Brookes University and Real Estate Economics at the European Business School in Östrich-Winkel.

Peter Wendlinger has been active in the real estate financing and banking business for 25 years. In his current position at HYPO NOE Landesbank AG, as head of real estate clients, he is responsible for the running and ongoing development of the real estate financing business. He is also very experienced in transactional business, purchase and sale of real estates as asset or share deals. He is managing director of a real estate holding company and supervisory board member of several non-profit housing associations as well as of the NOE Immobilien Development GmbH. Peter Wendlinger is the author of numerous publications on the topic “real estate” especially the book “Immobilienkennzahlen (Real Estate Indicators)” (published at “Linde Verlag”

Raimund is a Corporate Real Estate professional with 25 years experience in all sectors of Real Estate. Starting his career 1991 he has worked for a “medium sized enterprise” with a portfolio across all asset classes, he has worked 3 years for Union Investment and continued with 14 years’ tenure at Amazon Europe. Here he has been part of an amazing success story witnessing a growth from 600 million USD net sales to around 130 billion USD in 2016, building the most advances ecommerce logistic network for Europe. In September 2017, he has started as Vice President Corporate Real Estate for the number one European ecommerce Fashion platform Zalando SE in Berlin. Since June 2018 he is also Vice Chairman of the Committee on Logistics Properties

Robert is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors beginning his career at Matthews & Goodman, specialising in hotel advisory work for brands from Hilton to Campanile, before joining Whitbread Hotels in 2002 as Strategic Development Manager for Marriott and Travel Inn (now Premier Inn). In 2004, Robert joined Travelodge and developed a growth strategy for the expansion within the M25 taking the company from 11 to more than 70 hotels. He left Travelodge in 2016 to become Property Director of Lenta Business Centres before joining Techspace as Chief Real Estate Officer in 2017 to lead the group's European expansion.

Samir Amichi is a Senior Managing Director in the Real Estate Group and the Head of Real Estate Europe Acquisitions, based in London. Since joining Blackstone in 2011, Mr. Amichi has been involved in a number of Blackstone’s investments in Europe, including OfficeFirst, the Banco Popular portfolio, and the GE European portfolio. Previously, Mr. Amichi spent seven years in Goldman Sachs International real estate private equity group focused on equity and debt investment opportunities in Europe and two years at The Richemont Group overseeing the set-up and growth of its global real estate investment business. Mr. Amichi received an MS in Management from the HEC business school in Paris, where he majored in Economics.

Sascha Wilhelm launched the real estate company x+bricks AG in August 2018. The company is initially focusing on the German market and investing in food-oriented properties such as supermarkets, discount stores, and retail parks. Sascha Wilhelm studied law at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and obtained an MBA in International Real Estate Management in Germany, London and Zurich. Wilhelm was CEO of Corestate Capital Group until April 2018. Under his leadership, Corestate’s assets under management increased from less than EUR 5 billion to over EUR 20 billion. In 2016, he successfully took the investment management company public on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, where it is now listed in the S-SDAX.

Stephan Schlomberg is a Vice President at Starwood Capital Group, where he focuses on the origination and execution of real estate investments across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and CEE. Prior to joining Starwood in 2013, Stephan worked in the Real Estate, Gaming, and Lodging coverage group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Some say the rise of proptech and multi-tenant workspaces boost the integration of service aspects in offices, similar to the residential and retail markets in recent years. But how will tenant’s demands change in the future and will the new office concepts be able to survive a slowdown in the markets? In the discussion “Office Developments - How much depends on mixed use schemes?”, Stephanie focuses on how to deliver on changing tenant’s needs such as tech startups.

Stuart has been working in real estate for over 33 years. He joined Rockspring Berlin in June 2001 and is responsible for all transactions and asset management throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Stuart was instrumental in setting up the Rockspring German Retail Box and the Spitfire Funds, leading investors in retail warehousing in Germany. In total, he oversees over €2.25 billion AUM for Rockspring focused mainly on retail assets and more recently with a focus on logistics development and value-add office investment opportunities in Berlin where Rockspring has bought 7 office properties since 2016.

Till A. Diekmann ist Leiter der Frankfurter Niederlassung der deutschlandweit tätigen CG Gruppe AG. In dieser Funktion verantwortet er vollumfänglich die Betreuung und Koordination der regionalen Bauprojekte des Unternehmens. Zudem führt und baut er das Mitarbeiterteam am Standort Frankfurt kontinuierlich aus. Herr Diekmann verfügt über langjährige Erfahrungen in den Bereichen Projektentwicklung und Asset Management. So war er u. a. als Geschäftsführer mehrerer renommierter Immobilienunternehmen im deutschsprachigen Raum tätig.

Volker is a Partner at Amadeus, working on its early-stage funds. His investment focus is on AI, machine learning, human-machine interfaces, enterprise SaaS, autonomous systems, digital health & medical tech. As an entrepreneur, he has founded/ co-founded a total of 7 companies to date. He is currently a co-founder of Blue Beck, a mobile development house & a Venture Partner at Emerge Education, a leading EdTech accelerator programme. As an angel investor, Volker was amongst the first investors in companies like Pi-Top, Bibblio ( also Chairman of the board) & Wonde. His personal investment portfolio comprises about a dozen investments with companies based across Europe & the US.