Deutsche GRI 2019

Joseph von Schaesberg joined CBRE in November 2005 and works as a Director in the Residential Investment Team in Munich. During the last years Mr von Schaesberg participated in all portfolio transactions (buy- and sell-side) advised by CBRE. He has a strong focus on the evaluation of properties and portfolios, the management of due diligence processes as well as investor guidance. Due to several internships Joseph von Schaesberg gained extensive work experience in different branches of the real estate sector prior to joining CBRE.

Kruno Crepulja blickt sowohl auf umfassende Erfahrungen als Ingenieur, Bauleiter und Projektentwickler als auch auf eine 14-jährige Praxis in der Geschäftsführung großer Entwicklungsgesellschaften zurück – beispielsweise bei der Wilma Wohnen Süd GmbH. Seit 2008 ist er als Geschäftsführer für die Instone Real Estate-Vorgängergesellschaft formart tätig. Außerdem verantwortete er in den Jahren 2011 bis 2013 die Projektentwicklung von HOCHTIEF in Europa.

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

Since June 2018, Stephanie is regional head of South & East Germany in the Commerical Real Estate department. She is advising the existing client base in all matters around real estate lending, sourcing and structuring senior, mezzanine and equity financings. In addition, she is responsible for the further expansion of Dr. Klein’s network in the aforementioned regional areas. Before joining Dr. Klein, Stephanie worked as a Key Account Manager for Airbus Bank GmbH, where she was responsible for expanding a portfolio of commercial real estate loans, primarily targeting medium-sized developers and institutional investors. Stephanie is a qualified banker and studied banking and finance at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and at ABG

Günter Minge is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Planning and Development), He studied real estate in Zurich and business mediation in Munich. In a variety of different positions with high responsibility, he was able to acquire a large amount of interdisciplinary experience. His special expertise is linked to modular construction and the design of address-forming residential developments. From 2011 to 2014 he was CEO of the Deutsche Eigenheim and previously worked in the field of ​​joint venture at HBOS. He founded the platform structure ResiLab in 2015. Here he devotes himself to the implementation of his visionary ideas in research and product development in cooperation with international investors.

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.

Matteo Ghedini is the founder and CEO of Brera Serviced Apartments. Matteo started Brera in 2013 by opening the first location in Nuremberg. Since then Brera expanded in Munich and Frankfurt and manages today ca. 150 Apartments. Born in Italy, Matteo started his career as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, attended an MBA at INSEAD and thereafter successfully completed the turnaround of a Real Estate Family Officein Germany. Passionate about Interior Design and about unleashing People´s talent, Matteo´s goal is to develop Brera to one of the most important long stay players in Europe.

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.

Mr Widhalm has been Head of Sales Department Real Estate Finance in the Berliner Volksbank eG since 2008. His responsibility lays at all corporate clients with more than 70 Mill. € revenue, the professional real estate market and the infrastructure market, including renewable energies. He is also Member of the Supervisory Board of the BBT, a company which consults many Berlin based companies owning residential properties, and of the VVBI Capital AG.

Dipl. Kfm. and Immobilienökonom (ebs) Oliver Hecht is heading the S-Group and Domestic Business at Berlin Hyp AG. Since over 20 years Oliver Hecht was able to gain solid real estate experience in different roles and companies throughout the industry. Besides having worked for commercial investors, developers and financial institutions in a leading role for over 15 years, he spends some of his spare time lecturing at the Akademie der Immobilienwirtschaft GmbH.

ounder of URSUS Kapital with over 20 years of pan-European experience across various real estate sectors like office, retail, residential and industrial/logistics. Over the last 10 years URSUS Kapital has invested and managed value-add residential and retail portfolios on behalf of private clients in Berlin​, Madrid and Barcelona​. Prior to founding URSUS Kapital he was the Pan-European Fund Manager for Healey & Baker Investment Managers (formerly part of Cushman & Wakefield) in London and worked for GE Capital Real Estate in Madrid and Paris where he was Business Development Director of Acquisitions for Spain and Portugal. Additionally he has worked for UBS in London and Deutsche Bank in Madrid.

Mr. Broch has 11 years of experience in top positions in the field of real estate. Prior to joining ÆRIUM in 2012, Mr. Broch worked as Managing Director for Garigal Private Wealth Management and as head of Asset and Property Management for Secur GmbH. Before focusing on Real Estate, Steven worked for several Private Banks and Financial Institutions. He graduated from ETH Zurich and from GSBA with a Bachelor of Business Administration and International Business, as well as Master in Finance.

Ulf Christiansen joined Rockspring in 2011 and is responsible for acquisitions and sales of properties in Germany Austria and Switzerland advising Rockspring funds in the German market. Ulf joined from Internos previously GPT Halverton where he worked f

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.

Michiel Olland, is an Investment Management Director at Collegiate AC and an Executive Director of BCRE - Brack Capital Real Estate Investments N.V. He is also the principal of MO Real Estate BV, an investment, capital and finance services firm based in the Netherlands. Between 1992 and 2012, he has had Executive Director roles in the international real estate sector, most importantly as global co-head of RE investments with APG Asset Management, Managing Director of Bouwfonds Property Finance International (an ABN Amro subsidiary) and as a real estate lender at ING Group.

Franz-Josef Lickteig joined BPD Immobilienentwicklung GmbH, former „Bouwfonds“, in 2000 as Regional Director responsible for the activities in Rhein-Main-area. In 2009 he became CEO of the BPD activities in all of Germany with eight branches by now.

Friedrich Einhoff joined Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG (pbb) in 2006 and is a Director in the Loan Markets Real Estate team. Pbb 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. Friedrich has worked for more than 20 years in the German banking industry with more than 15 years’ experience in the commercial real estate finance business. He holds a degree in business administration (Diplom-Kaufmann) from University of Mannheim.

Klaus joined the European Catella Group in 2008 as Managing Director and is responsible for all real estate development projects in Germany. In 2015 Catella Project Management (CPM) was founded as an independent division direct linked to the Stockholm headquarter of Catella. Meanwhile CPM has realised or initiated project volumes of approx. 1.8 b EUR in commercial and residential properties. As Managing Partner Klaus is one of the shareholders of these development projects. The set-up of all Catella projects is based on sustainable and long-term oriented investments. Consequently the economic and ecological goals must be combined.

Dr. Martin Hellweger is the CEO and Founder of the Kronberg International Group, which has several co-investments with, among others, conwert Immobilien Invest SE (Vienna) und Prelios S.p.A. (Milan). He has successfully concluded property and finance businesses with a transaction volume of 2.2 Billion Euros. In 2002 he established together with CONWERT a Joint Venture for purchase of property portfolios in Germany. In 2005 he established through a joint venture with PRELIOS S.p.A. a cooperate management platform. 700 Million euros were invested in apartment complexes, especially in Berlin. In the course of these Joint Ventures, KRONBERG have gained 450 Million Euros with Prelios, Conwert and Eco Business Property AG (Vienna).

Thomas Doll has been the Managing Partner of the TREUCON Group since 1999. The native Berliner has spent his entire career working in various roles in the property industry. He is a qualified housing and real estate management consultant/specialist and between 1987 to 1992 he worked for the Becker & Kries Group among others in the areas of project development, RE management and property fund management. In 1993, together with two partners, he founded his first company and became the Managing Director of BDS Immobilienentwicklung & Baubetreuung GbR and BDS Grundstücks GmbH; in both companies he was responsible, among other things, for commercial project management as well as for the technical and financial aspects of construction supervision

Since April 2018: MD TSC Real Estate Germany. 2013 – 2018: Managing Director and Head of Asset Management Operations, Acrest Property Group being sold to JLL as of end of 2015, subsequently Managing Director and Head of Asset Management Operations of JLL Retail Asset Management GmbH 2008-2013: Managing Director and Head of Asset Management of Internos Global Investors KAG 2008: Associate Director, JLL Asset Management GmbH 2006-2007: Deloitte & Touche, Manager Real Estate Advisory 2005-2006: Acquisitions Manager, Bauhaus München GmbH (Munich based RE developer) 2000 – 2005: Technical Project and Development Manager, Nixdorf Consult Education 2010 – 2011: Real Estate Investment & Finance (ebs) 2005 – 2007: MBA Intern

Mr. Maroš joined Helske Ltd in 2016 as a Head of Sales and Business Development for Europe. By then, he had already accumulated over 20 years of experience in the financial area on roles like: insurance advisor, soft skills and business communication trainer at ING-Nationale Nederlanden. business development, education and training at Mutual Fund company SFM Group, where he was responsible for the Slovakian and Czech Republic market. As addition to that, he also has worked at VUB Banka, as a Head of regional VIP sales advisers. Three years he spent as sales director and area manager in one of the biggest retail advisory company Fincentrum. Since 2011 he worked as a professional consultant, coach and trainer focused on the banking sector.

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.

John Wilkinson is CEO and founding member of Greenman Investments. He has been managing the company since 2005. While working in leading positions for more than 15 years, John gained a significant expertise in the selection, funding, purchase and management of German Food and Non-food retail warehousing. Since forming Greenman Investments, the company has acquired, managed and sold real estate projects to a total value of €279m.

If we believe that the future of retail is really all about online, what strategies might businesses adopt to survive the oncoming onslaught? Should we embrace disruptive tech, or shall we sit back, relax and argue that online services can never substitute the in store, physical experience?. Kasia from Yosh.AI says yes to online! - With her disruptive interactive retail AI that replaces sales assistants with an online advisor, thus, blurring the lines between off- and online in the discussion “Bricks ‘n’ Mortar Retail - Any success stories and what can we learn from them?”.

Some say that the retail sector is undergoing a structural change and that potentially, retail real estate and logistics will go hand-in-hand as fully integrated omnichannel solutions. But what will these new solutions look like and how big a role should e-commerce play? Raimund Pätzmann from Zalando will give some insight on how the retail sector is changing in the discussion “Bricks ‘n’ Mortar Retail vs E-Commerce - Any success stories and what we can learn from them?”.

Christian Sundquist joined Aberdeen Asset Management in 2015. In his role as Senior Transactions Manager he is responsible for acquisitions and sales for Commercial Properties in Germany. He has more than 16 years professional experience in real estate business and is specialised in Transactions and Asset Management. Previously he was in various positions e.g. he has been working for DG ANLAGE and being responsible for Fund-, Asset- and Investment Management.

Nils Hübener is Chief Investment Officer at BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment Management. Prior to this, Nils was the Head of Real Estate Investments of SEB Asset Management, a subsidiary of one of the biggest Swedish Banks, SEB. In addition, he was also responsible for the Asset Management of the European Portfolio of SEB Asset Management. Prior to this, Nils held the position of Head of Investment at both Deutsche Bank Real Estate and IBI Real Estate. Nils holds a degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Berlin and Oxford and a Master’s Degree in European Property Development and Planning from the University College London.

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.

Hans Peter Hähnlein is the Country Commercial Director for the international office developer HB Reavis. Based in Berlin he is responsible for the acquisition and expansion in Germany. With more than 700 professionals in 6 countries and total assets of more than 2 Bill Euro the group is one of the largest developers operating in the EU. HB Reavis is one of the few fully integrated property developers with focus on office products. This being a trendsetter in the market in workplace solutions and user experience. Hans Peter Hähnlein has more than 20 years experience in the RE field including positions as Managing Director for the Investment and Asset Manager INOVALIS as well senior positions in COMMERZREAL and in the Construction Industry

James Bauer MRICS is the Country Managing Director at Duff & Phelps REAG GmbH. He has experience in transaction advisory, development, as well as asset management of commercial buildings, office buildings, portfolio strategy and valuation. He holds a MBA degree from City University and is a member of various national and international organizations and a speaker at conferences. Prior to joining REAG in 2004, he worked with CALLISTON development company as a manager responsible for acquisition, development and asset management of commercial properties. Before coming to Germany in 1990, he worked in the field of real estate in the USA. He’s a registered valuer with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

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.

Rainer was appointed Managing Director of Investa Holding GmbH in 2012. He is responsible for its Investment/Asset Management in Germany. Prior to this, he was the CEO of GE Real Estate Germany since 2006 and former CEO of Investment Management platform Sireo, which he built up. Before this, he was member of the Management Committee of Sireo Real Estate Asset Management and Head of Sales and Placements. Past positions also include Head of Asset Management of DeTeImmobilien and the corporate M&A group in the headquarters of Deutsche Telekom AG. Rainer holds degrees in Law from Bonn, Berlin University and WHU Koblenz.

Stefan Klingsöhr is Managing Partner of Klingsöhr Group, Berlin. He has more than 20 years of experience in real estate management and business administration services for institutional and private investors, covering the asset classes "residential", "commercial", and "healthcare." Prior to the formation of Klingsöhr Group, Stefan Klingsöhr headed the fund concepts division at Dr. Böckmann & Partner. Afterwards, he was head of the project development division at Rentaco AG.

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.

Herr Georgiev verantwortet als Geschäftsführer den Bereich Projektentwicklung der Hammer Firmenfamilie. Er ist mit seinem Team für die Akquise, die Strukturierung, die Baurechtsschaffung, die Vermarktung und den Verkauf von Immobilienprojekten verantwortlich. Die Entwicklung von Grundstücken und die Investitionen in bestehenden Value Add Objekten mit einer Manage to Core Strategie gehören ebenfalls zu seiner Tätigkeit. Herr Georgiev hat davor diverse Projekte in den Bereichen Projektmanagement, Controlling und Transaktionsmanagement erfolgreich abgeschlossen. In Österreich, Japan, Russland und Bulgarien war er in der Immobilienbranche in unterschiedlichen Positionen wirkend.

Andrew Jackson is the Sales Director for Western Europe at First Title Insurance plc. Andrew is responsible for identifying and developing business opportunities within the region.

Christian Jamison is the managing partner of Valor Real Estate Partners LLP, an investment and asset management platform focussed on logistics & industrial real estate in Europe. Christian formed Valor in 2016 with Jeffrey Kelter & Robert Savage, the founders of KTR Capital. Previously Christian established and served as CEO until 2016 of Delin Capital Asset Management and he was formerly an Executive Director within the RE structured finance group at JP Morgan. Christian began his career in 1997, he was an M&A banker at Credit Suisse First Boston before specialising in RE investment at GE Capital from 2002.

Seit 2004 hat Herr Bosselmann eine Zulassung als Rechtsanwalt, seit 2007 ist er Geschäftsführer und seit 2019 Vorsitzender des Bundesverbandes Paket und Expresslogistik e. V. und verschiedene Beiratsfunktionen (u. a. BMUB, BMVI, BVL).

Rainer Kiehl arbeitet seit 1986 für die Firma UPS. Bis zum Jahr 2015 war Herr Kiehl in der Funktion als Niederlassungsleiter an verschiedenen Standorten in Deutschland tätig. Während der Zeit in Hamburg entwickelte Herr Kiehl das „Hamburger City Logistik Modell“. Seit 2015 ist Herr Kiehl Projekt Manager City Logistik bei UPS und in dieser Tätigkeit verantwortlich für die Weiterentwicklung unterschiedlicher City Logistik Modelle.

Anton Thomas Schöpkens has been working in the real estate industry over the past two decades. After working as a consultant, Schöpkens joined the controlling of the WCM Beteiligungs-und Grundbesitz AG in Frankfurt in 2004. Due to the sale of WCM in 2005 he joined the Vitus group and became group director responsible for controlling and accounting. In addition, he was appointed as the board chairman of the supervisory board of the GEWG mbH in Wuppertal in 2009. From 2012 to 2015 he was Interim- / Deputy CFO of the Vitus group and accompanied the sale to Deutsche Annington Immobilien SE. Since 2015 Schöpkens is the CFO of 6B47 Germany GmbH.

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).

Hans Hammer studied civil engineering at Munich's Technical University and gained his MBA at INSEAD. In 1998 he took over the management of the Hammer Group and has been CEO of Hammer AG since 2002.

Heinz Joachim Kummer is a partner of CMS Germany with more than 25 years of in-depth experience in the real estate sector, having advised on various landmark deals and projects. His expertise includes the full range of commercial real estate law with the focus on complex real estate transactions, structuring and advising private equity and other real estate funds. Before joining CMS, Heinz Joachim was a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP for over 20 years. Heinz Joachim is recognized as a leading real estate lawyer in the current issue of The Who’s Who Legal 2017. The same is true for the major legal directories.

Matthias Heimann is Executive Director Debt Finance of CORESTATE Capital Advisors and responsible for the Senior Debt unit as well as other object-based alternative financial instruments in Germany and abroad. Previously, Matthias was Regional Director at the DG Hyp subsidiary in Frankfurt where he was in charge of, among other things, the acquisition and account management of national and international commercial real estate customers. He has more than 20 years of real estate & financing experience, including positions at Lloyds Banking Group & DAL Structured Finance GmbH/HSH Nordic Finance AB. Matthias holds a degree in banking of the Bank Academy in Frankfurt and a master’s degree in real estate management of the University of Freiburg.

Patrick founded caleus capital investors together with Dr. Ulrich Weber in 2010. Since then, caleus has grown into a preeminent investor and asset manager in ‘manage-to-core’ strategies for real estate situated in Berlin and across Germany. Patrick started his career in 1993 at the Berlin based BAUWERT Property Group where he became partner in 1994. In 2000, Pramerica bought the majority of his company that later merged with the Apellas Group founded by Ulrich Weber together with Soros Real Estate Investors in 2003.

Dr. Peter Bartholomäus is Director of Mergers and Acquisitions at ECE Projektmanagement G.m.b.H. & Co. KG in Hamburg, Germany. He is responsible for business and expansion activities in Germany, the Nordics and CEE. Dr. Bartholomäus has over 15 years of experience in the real estate industry, primarily in real estate development and retail investment transactions. He began his career as an attorney in Osnabrück before moving to a law firm in Hamburg. He joined ECE in 2006 and since 2011 has been one of three Directors of the Mergers & Acquisitions team. Dr. Bartholomäus studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Münster, has a Degree in Law and completed his bar examination

Christian is a founding partner of Waterway Investments, manages the Frankfurt office and is responsible for all aspects of the transaction process on behalf of Waterway’s international client base. Prior to co-founding Waterway, Christian has worked for various American opportunity funds as well as German open-ended fund vehicles. He received a Master ´s in Economics from Freie Universität Berlin/Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil and a Master´s in Real Estate Economics from European Business School (ebs), Germany. Christian is fluent in German, English, French and Portuguese.

Frank Steffen has been working within the property financing sector since the mid-1990s. In his role as Senior Director International Clients, Germany he is responsible for originating and structuring commercial real estate transactions for international customers of pbb. His previous roles also include the responsibility of the Russian business, underwriting of European real estate transactions and Restructuring of critical facilities with a focus on UK, CEE & Asia.

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.

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).

Kean Hird oversees Catalyst Capital's activities in Germany and Poland along with fund raising and investor relations. Catalyst Capital purchases, develops and manages a significant portfolio of retail, office and industrial assets in Europe. Since its inception, Catalyst Capital has invested more than €5.8 billion in 60 real estate transactions in nine countries and has approximately €1.4 billion of assets under management. Kean began his career at Townsend Thoresen Properties and then subsequently spent 13 years with Imry Group Plc, before becoming MD and principle shareholder of Frame Investments.

As Director at Hamburg Commercial Bank Michael Windoffer is responsible for the Bank's real estate cross border business with a focus on international investors active in Germany. The bank provides financing for existing properties and portfolios as well as for residential and commercial developments. Michael Windoffer has more than 20 years of experience in banking and international real estate finance, both on the origination and the credit side. He studied Economics in Hamburg and Cardiff.

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.

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.

Aren Wegner, 58 years old and since more than 27 years active in the real estate financing industry. Thereof more than 15 years at DekaBank, where he is in charge for the commercial real estate lending activities in Europe with the focus on Germany, UK, Ireland, France and Italy. After studying law, he started his career as a lawyer in the legal department of a specialised real estate financing bank in Germany.

Located in BayernLB’s office in Frankfurt, Gunnar Rüffer is responsible for international real estate clients in the Greater Frankfurt area. Before joining BayernLB he was heading the Loan Sales and Securitisation within Eurohypo’s Debt Capital Markets division. Altogether he can look back on a 25 years of banking experiences. Prior to joining Eurohypo in 2002 he worked as an analyst within the CRE Structured Finance sector at Dresdner Bank New York Branch.

Michael Ziegler is an attorney and partner of Beiten Burkhardt. He is trained as a banker. Michael heads the firm's finance practice and specialises in banking and financing transactions - in particular real estate finance, project finance and restructurings. He advises German and international lenders as well as sponsors on complex cross-border financing transactions. In addition, he has extensive experience with real estate acquisitions and project developments.

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”

Dr. Verwiebe is a vice president at Helaba’s real estate finance (sales) division with a focus on Germany and Austria. Before joining Helaba in 2008, he worked as an attorney at law at Clifford Chance's Real Estate and Banking Finance Divisions for several years focusing on major UK and US Clients active in the German market and introducing the then new standards of securitised loans to German banks and investors. Ralf has worked on a wide range of financing transactions with more than 15 years of professional experience in the European real estate and banking finance business, both on the legal and commercial origination side.

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.

Richard joined Activum SG Advisory GmbH in January 2011 as a managing director with a specific focus on acquisitions and dispositions. Activum SG, is a fund management platform focused on investing in niche opportunities in European real estate related sectors. The portfolio includes diversified assets, such as office value add, residential (re-) development, turn around retail, mezzanine loans, and special corporate situations. Previously Richard worked at Apellas Asset Management where he had a wide range of responsibilities including acquisitions, asset management, leasing and dispositions. Richard has been working in the real estate industry since 1991 and is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS).

Stefan Walldorf is a Managing Director in Cerberus' European Real Estate Group responsible for the firm's acquisitions in Germany, BeNeLux, CEE and the Nordics. Since joining Cerberus in 2006, Mr. Walldorf has been involved in a wide range of transactions in Europe. He has sourced and advised on a number of real estate opportunities, including acquisitions of commercial properties, restructurings and loan portfolios. 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.

Daniel Werth is managing director for MOMENI’s investment and asset management businesses. After graduating in business administration in Hamburg, he gained a masters in real estate investment and finance from Henley Business School at the University of Reading and completed further executive education in private equity at London Business School. Before joining MOMENI Group in 2014, he was a director at German asset management firm HIH, in the network of M. M. Warburg & CO, responsible for national and international asset management mandates and strategy development.

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).

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.

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.

Burkhard Schlickenrieder is Managing Partner of Lenwood Capital, a debt investment manager investing instititutional capital across the entire financing structure in mezzanine, junior and senior loans secured by real estate covering almost all asset classes. He has a backgroud in structured finance, investment banking and in the planning & construction business, with former positions as an architect and afterwards in the financial industry at Hypo Vereinsbank (HVB), Hypo Real Estate (HRE) and REFTA. Burkhard Schlickenrieder holds an MSc in Philosophy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a Diploma in Engineering/Architecture from Dortmund University.

Dieter Koch joined the NORD/LB in 2001 as Head of Real Estate Investment Banking (REIB). He took over the same function at Deutsche Hypo after it was acquired by the NORD/LB in October 2008. The focus of the department is on the support of large international customers, arranging structured finance, portfolio and acquisition finance as well as structured alternatives and financial advice. Dieter Koch and his team can present higher business volumes by integrating Structured Financing Alternatives. Combining regional expertise with high structuring know-how and linking objectives of clients with those of potential investors, REIB provides an optimized use of available resources.

Ruprecht founded Albulus, an investment advisor to the Albulus CREDIT fund and several separately managed accounts, in 2011. Albulus is actively acquiring sub-performing and non-performing CRE loans on the secondary market with a focus on the DACH region. In 2004 together with the Soros Real Estate Partners he founded one of the first NPL investment platforms in Germany. Ruprecht has 25 years of real estate investment experience. His career started with Gerald Hines as a project manager for a major development in Berlin. He holds a diploma from Hochschule St. Gallen and a MBA from the University of Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna in BA, specializing in real estate.

Georg has 20 years of experience in investment banking and real estate asset management in London, Frankfurt and Hong Kong. Before joining Kalrock as a Partner, Georg was on the board of directors of Market Tech, a London listed estate accumulating 20 acres in Camden Town, as well as in investment banking with UBS and Deutsche Bank, advising transactions with over €15bn of value.

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.

Assem El Alami is the Head of the Real Estate Finance Sales Division of Berlin Hyp AG. He is supervising the origination of real estate finance in the bank's European core markets and the syndication desk. Berlin Hyp provides financing for large scale property projects and real estate investments. Being a law graduate, Assem has more than 20 years of experience in the real estate sector of which he has spent almost 10 years in France.

Helge Pitz, born in 1973, is a qualified lawyer and works in real estate finance since 2000. He started his professional career in the international Clients in Germany team at Rheinische Hypothekenbank AG. In 2005 he moved on as a Vice President in the Debt Capital Markets team at Eurohypo AG and after 2008 he was a Director in the European Structured Finance team at Eurohypo AG. Beginning of 2013 he joined HSH Nordbank AG in Hamburg as a Senior Vice President in the real estate cross border business.

30 Jahre Erfahrung in der Immobilienfinanzierung im In- und Ausland. Einzel- wie Portfoliotransaktionen sowie Konzerngesellschaften mit Immobilienbezug sowie Sonderaufgaben im Konzernumfeld. Betriebswirt/Marketing-Kommunikationsfachwirt/ Immobiliencontroller/

More than 17 years national and international professional experience in the European lending business, covering several roles as Senior Relationship Manger and Credit Manager.

Markus Wehnelt is a Managing Director and Head of Real Estate Finance Germany Institutional and Private Equity Clients for Germany at pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank. He has many years of experience in the German Real Estate and Lending business in financing complex real estate transactions. In the past years, Markus and his team successfully completed a large number of transactions.

Stefan Niggl is a trained Banker and carries a master's degree in business from Ludwigs-Maximilian Universität (LMU) Munich. He works for more than 25 years for UniCredit Bank AG (and its predecessor organizations) in various positions: Corporate finance, Securitisation, Lease Asset Finance, Structured Transactions & Investments, Illiquid & Special Assets, Hedging Solutions, Principal Investments and held various board mandates of UniCredit subsidiaries.

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.

José Holgado is Managing Director Commercial Real Estate at FMS Wertmanagement (FMS), the German winding-down agency for the nationalised Hypo Real Estate. Mr. Holgado has more than 25 years of experience in the banking sector and thereof more than 15 years in international Real Estate finance. Prior to FMS Mr. Holgado held positions at different German banks, namely Eurohypo (Commerzbank Group), Aareal Bank, IKB, Allgemeine Hypothekenbank Rheinboden and Nord/LB. His experience includes workout, restructuring, syndications, origination as well as risk management of real estate financings all over the world and of any type of assets (office, shopping centers, hotels, warehouses, residential, etc.).

Karsten is a founding partner of Waterway Investments. Having lived almost half his life abroad, while covering the German property market as investment manager for various international opportunity and private equity funds, Karsten is responsible for all aspects of the transaction process on behalf of Waterway’s international client base. Karsten has a Diplom-Kaufmann from European Business School (ebs), Oestrich-Winkel and an MBA from Katz Graduate School of Business, Pittsburgh. Karsten speaks German, English and French.

Torsten Bickart is Managing Director (MD) for the Branch “Large Clients” within Real Estate Germany in the UniCredit Bank AG in Germany. Until summer 2012 he was a MD and head of Portfolio Finance at Unicredit and before that an Executive Director at UBS Investment Bank responsible for the German real estate finance business. Torsten Bickart has almost twenty years of business experience in originating and executing complex real estate transactions in the German real estate market including large scale residential portfolio financings, office and retail portfolio acquisition financings and landmark single asset transactions. His client focus lies in stock-listed companies, special funds and international investment managers.

Asset Profiler bietet Immobilien-Profis einen geschlossenen Marktplatz exklusiv für zertifizierte Teilnehmer. Anbieter und Investoren bahnen in geschützter Umgebung vertraulich und strukturiert Transaktionen von Investment-Immobilien an. Asset Profiler wird von Investoren und Anbietern zum Direkt-Kontakt oder zum Kontakt über Vermittler genutzt.

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.

Natural light to improve productivity and well being; Heavn one is the world's first product combining light for visual tasks and the biological effect of 10,000 Lux in one minimalist design. As a smart device, it can dynamically recreate the natural spectrum of the sun - changing color, intensity, and direction of light automatically over the course of the day.

We transform temporarily unused commercial space into flexible workspace for start-ups and coworking, thereby solving a pain point of real estate players. Through our tech platform we integrate smart building applications and manage spaces to optimize for flexibility.

RYSTA is a Berlin-based IoT startup offering a smart data monitoring solution-as-a-service. Data transparency serves 1) for mold prevention in newly build or energetically renovated residential buildings and 2) for optimizing processes on construction sites.

Brigitte Luginbühl is a real estate expert with more than 10 years of a strong track record in Real Estate Corporate Finance and real estate M&A. She has been with the global market leader Jones Lang LaSalle in Switzerland and London. She managed numerous large-scale and complex real estate transactions with a volume of >CHF 1bn in total and was project leader of many valuation projects including recurring large portfolio valuations with a volume of >CHF 9bn annually. She is the youngest female member of Efficiency Club. She holds BA and MA in Economics Business Administration from University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Dominik is a young entrepreneur from Italy focused on realizing the Machine Economy. Already since an early age he was involved heavily in the Blockchain ecosystem. He is the Co-Founder of IOTA, a disruptive new technology that enables machines to store and send money frictionlessly between one another. In 2017 he co-founded the IOTA Foundation and established Germany’s first non-profit foundation which enables and fosters permissionless ecosystems powered by distributed ledgers. Currently he co-leads the IOTA Foundation and oversees the overall realization of the vision and the partnerships with multinational companies, NGO’s and governments.

Hans Hammer studied civil engineering at Munich's Technical University and gained his MBA at INSEAD. In 1998 he took over the management of the Hammer Group and has been CEO of Hammer AG since 2002.

Roland Farhat is head of Audit Real Estate at DekaBank, a Top-10 European asset manager, and has 20 years of real estate investment and development management experience. At Deka, Roland is responsible for the audit business of the real estate organization with a € 35bn international real estate portfolio. Prior to Deka, Roland was in charge of the real estate management advisory business at PwC in Frankfurt. Over 20 years Roland has built up a € 250 million residential and commercial real estate projects portfolio. Roland holds an MBA and studied at Harvard BS, Saïd BS, IESE BS and University of Augsburg. Roland has successfully completed the Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme. He is founder member of Oxford Blockchain Foundation.

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.

Born in 1964. Degree in physics from the Technical University of Berlin. Until 1997 Research. 1997-1999 Redevelopments in Berlin. 1999-2005 Managing partner of the Linie Projektmanagement GmbH & Co. KG. Since 2005 BEOS AG as head of acquisitions - since 2016 board member. Since 2009 Lectures at IREBS, DVFA, University of Wuppertal, TU Berlin, etc. Since 2017 head of crenet Deutschland e.V.

Jeff is responsible for looking after our finances and banking relationships, and, also, is directly involved with raising capital with the team to grow the business. Jeff was previously consultant CFO for Tritax Big Box REIT, being part of the management team that launched the REIT in 2013, before becoming Chief Financial Officer for Tritax Management LLP in 2015. He has a wealth of experience having spent the last 24 years working across a range of real estate sub-sectors. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Moore Stephens in 1989 and holds a degree in Management Science and Physics from Keele University.

Will the rise of robots, drones and big data create a new era of warehouses? Whilst some see tangible business value in the digitisation and automation through the supply chain, most developers and investors struggle to move beyond the hype. What then for the future? Dr. Julia Bendul from RWTH Aachen University will answer some of these questions concerning Industry 4.0 in the discussion “Light Industrial - Techno rule or space shuffle?”.