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Annette Kroeger is CEO of North and Central Europe at Allianz Real Estate Germany with responsibility for Allianz' RE investments within the market area of Germany, Austria, CEE, Nordics and Ireland. Having joined Allianz RE in 2009 within the investment management team, she became Head of Acquisitions in 2011 and subsequently took on further responsibilities on the asset management side. In 2015 she was appointed CEO of Allianz Real Estate Germany. She is a member of the executive committee and the investment committee of Allianz RE. Prior to joining Allianz, Annette worked for Goldman Sachs, investing on behalf of the Whitehall Real Estate Funds. Annette holds a business degree from European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel, Germany.

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.

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.

As Managing Director at CORPUS SIREO, an affiliate of Swiss Life Asset Managers, Benjamin holds senior management functions within the company’s business development activities. Focusing on international investors and institutions, Benjamin has a joint responsibility to originate direct (co-)investments with preferred equity partners, i.e. through JV or Club Deals, and to acquire new asset management service mandates to be executed by the company’s full range operational platform. He joined the company in 2006. Since then he has been managing several operational value-add sectors such as transaction and portfolio management. Benjamin holds an Urban Planning degree and is a lecturer at the German Private Real Estate Academy IREBS.

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.

Assem El Alami is the Head of the Real Estate Finance Sales Division of Berlin Hyp AG. After implementing a reorganization within Berlin Hyp’s sales division effective as of January 1, 2019 Assem has taken over full responsibility for the entire supervision of the origination of real estate finance in the bank's German and European core markets. On the other hand, however, the syndication desk is now part of our newly established business division “Portfolio Management” which is not headed by Assem. 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.

Peter is a co-founder of Arminius. Since 2006, Arminius has organised private equity funds and co-investment vehicles with equity commitments from university endowments, pension funds and family offices. To 31 December 2018, the firm completed approximately €4.8 billion of transactions exclusively in Germany. Prior to Arminius, Peter was at Lone Star Europe and a partner in Lone Star Fund V. Additionally, Peter served as a Supervisory Board Member of Allgemeine HypothekenBank Rheinboden AG, (Corealcredit Bank AG). Prior to Lone Star, Peter was with The Praedium Group in New York and Lehman Brothers in London. Peter received a BA cum laude in Government from Harvard University and an MA with honors from the University of Amsterdam.

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.

Diplom-Volkswirt und diplomierter Immobilienökonom (ebs) Erik Marienfeldt hat über 20 Jahre Immobilienerfahrung und war bereits während seines Studiums für ein Hamburger Immobilienunternehmen tätig. Er ist seit 1997 für die HIH in unterschiedlichen Positionen tätig. Seit 2005 ist er Geschäftsführer bei der HIH und nimmt gleichzeitig die Rolle des Aufsichtsratsvorsitzenden bei der Warburg-HIH Invest Real Estate sowie der IntReal KVG wahr. Somit überblickt er ein multinationales Immobilienportfolio von über 24 Mrd. Euro.

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

Robert joined the Shaftesbury Asset Management Group in 2016 and is in charge of Acquisitions and Asset Management in Germany. Prior to this he spent 4 years as Director Real Estate Asset Management of GE Capital RE and GE Holding, after 3 years as Head of Asset Management with the Australian investment firm Babcock & Brown. Prior to this he was Head of Asset Management Germany of Commerz Grundbesitz Group (now Commerzreal GmbH), managing the open-ended fund Hausinvest.

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.

Nach dem Ökonomiestudium in Schottland und den USA war Herr zu Ysenburg als Real Estate Manager bei Cerberus in Frankfurt/Main für die Akquisition und Prüfung verschiedenster Ankaufsportfolien verantwortlich. Für das Great German Real Estate Advisory Team war zu Ysenburg unter anderem zuständig für Due Diligence und Investitionsberatung sowie für die Beschaffung, Verhandlung und Strukturierung von Immobilieninvestitionen für CORESTATE Capital. Nach seiner Position als Vice President bei Hudson Advisory Germany, wechselt er zur BUWOG Group für den Bereich Portfolio Transaktionen in Deutschland.

Dr. Christoph Schumacher has been appointed as Global Head Real Estate at Credit Suisse Asset Management as of June 1, 2017. Christoph served as Managing Director at Union Investment Institutional Property GmbH, Germany, in charge of the Institutional Business and a member of Union Investment’s Real Estate Investment Committee. In January 2016, he became spokesman of the board of the German Property Federation ”ZIA Region Nord“. From 2005 to 2011, Christoph worked for Generali Real Estate, in Cologne, Luxembourg and Paris. Prior to that he was a lawyer for Linklaters in Berlin and London. He was previously a personal advisor/office manager to the minister of finance in Berlin.