Europe GRI is a get-together of senior investors, lenders and developers active in the European real estate market.
Much like a conversation in your own living room, the discussion format enables you to interact and engage. Quickly find the right partners for your business, build high value relationships, and continue the conversation afterwards.
Extra Activities
WOMEN IN REAL ESTATE
What are the priorities for women and how can the industry come together not only to build a community of mentorship but to sponsor and activate the potential of new talent?
The private discussion and networking are complementary and open to all female participants of Europe GRI and GRI Club Members.
HOW TO USE, INVEST AND GET AHEAD OF THE COMPETITION WITH PROPTECH
How can property owners approach digitalisation from a position of strength, rather than of weakness; and what is the best way to navigate the complex PropTech landscape (over 3,200 companies only in Europe)?
Europe Real Estate Growth - Was 2022 Just What the Doctor Ordered?
Only to Real Estate CEOs of substantial property owners, this Retreat Member meeting will address pressing issues currently keeping leaders awake at night.
Leading Real Estate Investors, Fund Managers, Lenders, Asset Owners, Developers
Real estate investors are gearing up to continue where they left off pre-pandemic. However, between supply chain disruptions, unrest and geopolitical tensions, questions arise.
ESG
Leading investors, Heads of ESG, Developers, Lenders, Asset Owners
Looking at the whole value chain, the ESG stream will have a closer look at climate and transitional risks, impacts on returns, measuring outcomes, as well as new developments and the embodied carbon elephant in the room.
Tech
CTOs, CIOs, Heads of Innovation, Data, Digital Transformation
With growing investments in private real estate tech companies and new market expectations for 2022, what does the future hold for innovation in Real Estate?
Asset Classes
Leading Investors, Asset Owners, Developers, Lenders, Operators
We will have a closer look at each asset class to understand where current opportunities lie, rental values and costs are behaving, as well as where future demand and trends are headed.
Country Specific
CEOs, Heads of RE, Managing Partners
Whether you are a domestic or inbound yield hunter, country-specific market discussions will take place in order to match capital to product, understand barriers to entry on a local level and meet the key movers and shakers.
Jamie has been Chief European Economist for Bloomberg Economics in London since 2015. He has previously worked at HM Treasury, the New Zealand Treasury and the U.K. Office for Budget Responsibility. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Sheffield.
Forecasting European Markets in a Global Economic Context
Inflation, interest rates & recession fears; where do we go from here?
Inflation - How high can we go?
Interest Rates - An end to the long term low interest rate environment or can we expect rates to decline in the short term?
Potential Recession - Will the super cycle finally come to an end and what impacts could this have on economic factors & pricing landscapes?
Political Volatility - How to navigate the markets in a time of geopolitical tensions
Jamie has been Chief European Economist for Bloomberg Economics in London since 2015. He has previously worked at HM Treasury, the New Zealand Treasury and the U.K. Office for Budget Responsibility. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Sheffield.
Plenary
Investors' Talkshow - Edge of an economic void or always reasons to be optimisitc?
The Cycle - Investing in the current inflationary and economic slowdown
ESG - Constraints vs consumer retention
Monetary Policy - Can we expect intervention?
Working the Assets - Winner, Losers, Locations
Buy, Sell & Lending Opportunities or Wait & See is Best?
Global Head Real EstateGoldman Sachs Asset Management
United Kingdom
Jim is head of EMEA Alternatives and co-head of Real Estate within Goldman Sachs Asset Management. In this role, he is responsible for the oversight of EMEA Alternatives as well as implementation of the division’s real estate investment strategy.
Global Head, Real Estate Corporate Banking and Real Estate Capital PartnersRBC Capital Markets
USA
Kathryn Ogden is a Managing Director and Head of RBC Real Estate Capital Partners (“RECP”). RECP originates mortgage and mezzanine loans secured by stabilized and transitional real estate assets in all major commercial real estate product types throughout the US, UK, Europe and Australia. Kathryn joined RBC in 2009 and helped launch the RECP platform in 2011. She moved to London in 2013 to launch the Real Estate Capital Partners platform in Europe before moving back to Dallas in 2016. Prior to joining RBC, Kathryn worked in the London office of the Real Estate Principal Investment Area of Goldman, Sachs & Co. responsible for the management of a portfolio of real estate assets in the United Kingdom and Europe.
President - EMEA Real EstateCBRE Investment Management
Sweden
Rik is responsible for all elements of investment execution in the EMEA region, including acquisition, disposition, asset management, development, redevelopment and asset finance. Rik is an experienced retail fund manager and previously managed the CBRE Dutch Retail Fund, the European Shopping Center Funds series and the CBRE Nordic Property Fund. In this combined role, he was responsible for an AUM base of over €4 billion across Europe. His leadership experience in different parts of the direct real estate business give him a wide-ranging perspective on the business and inform his approach to opportunities and challenges.
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.
Executive Director - European Real Estate Debt InvestmentsTristan Capital Partners
United Kingdom
Ashil is an Executive Director at Tristan Capital Partners where he is responsible for spearheading the origination of new debt investment opportunities across all European jurisdictions. Prior to joining Tristan, Ashil was a Vice President at Starz Real Estate, based in London where he played a key role in creating and scaling a new real estate lending platform investing in public and private real estate debt. Prior to joining Starz, Ashil was at BlackRock where he was an investment professional in the Global Real Estate Debt business, responsible for underwriting, both in the U.S. and Europe. Ashil holds the CFA IMC qualification and received a BA with Honours in Economics and Hispanic Studies from the University of Sheffield.
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.
Hal Shaw
Partner, Head of European Capital SolutionsKSL Capital Partners
United Kingdom
Hal Shaw is a Partner at KSL Capital Partners where he serves as Head of European Capital Solutions and
is based out of London. Hal joined KSL in 2007 as a Summer Associate with the Private Equity Team.
During his time at KSL, Hal has invested across the capital structure ranging from senior and mezzanine
debt originations to acquisitions and has played a lead role in the formation and subsequent growth of
KSL’s Capital Solutions strategies. Hal is a member of KSL’s Equity Investment Committee, Credit
Investment Committee and Tactical Opportunities Investment Committee.
Michael Shields joined ING in May 2004 and has 25 years experience in real estate lending, asset management & restructuring. Based in London, he is currently responsible for ING REF’s EMEA lending platform – lending assets totalling over €18bn. He is also international head for Real Estate, looking after clients with a global real estate reach. Prior to his current role, he led ING REF’s highly successful U.S. lending platform which he helped grow from $200m to over $7.5bn at its peak in 2008. Before ING, Michael was an originator in BHF Capital’s U.S real estate lending team and was one of the original members of Helaba’s CRE finance team in the U.S. Michael started his banking career in Chemical Bank’s real estate group in Manhattan.
Head of Capital Solutions, EMEA Capital MarketsJLL
United Kingdom
Assem El Alami
Head of International Real Estate FinanceBerlin Hyp
Germany
Assem El Alami is the Head of the International Real Estate Finance Sales Division of Berlin Hyp AG. As such he supervises four sales teams: Origination International Investors based in Berlin, as well as the offices in Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw. Berlin Hyp's loan book accounts for approximately 26 bn EUR. Being a law graduate, Assem has more than 25 years of experience in the real estate sector of which he has spent 10 years in France. He joined Berlin Hyp in 2010.
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Berlin Hyp is a wholly owned subsidiary of LBBW and specialises in large-volume real estate financing for professional investors and housing companies. It also provides German savings banks with a comprehensive range of products and services.
Managing Director, Co-Head BGO Strategic Capital PartnersBentallGreenOak
USA
Cherine Aboulzelof is Managing Director, Co-Head for BentallGreenOak's Strategic Capital Partners ("BGO SCP") and sits on its global investment committee. BGO SCP provides liquidity solutions to LPs, and strategic capital by way of co investments, recapitalisations and fund investments to GPs. Prior to joining BGO SCP platform in 2017, she has been responsible for Europe investments with two different real estate investment managers, investing across a number of sectors between 2005 and 2017. She started her career in investment banking with Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley. She holds an M.B.A from INSEAD and a graduate degree from EM Lyon. She is a French, Bristih and Lebanese citizen.
Eric Tam is a Managing Director, having joined Strategic Partners in 2016. Based in London, Mr. Tam is involved in the international activities of the Strategic Partners Real Estate funds. Mr. Tam sits on Strategic Partners’ Real Estate Investment Committee and is an advisory board member of multiple funds.
Most recently George was Global Head of Hotels at Savills, and advised, transacted and oversaw the valuations of over €18bn of hotel, mixed-use CRE for banking, sovereign and private clients globally.
Prior to leading the Savills team, George worked with JLL Hotels & Hospitality in London, CBRE Hotels in Asia Pacific, Hotel Partners in Orange County, California, and in various operational management positions including with Merivale Group in Australia.
George holds a BSc. from Cornell University, and a Diploma in Hotel Administration from the Swiss Hotel Association Hotel Management School, “Les Roches”.
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As a Partner of Landmark Partners, Paul Parker leads the team responsible for real estate transaction origination, execution and business development across Europe and Asia. Landmark Partners is a private fund investment management business with a focus on secondaries. It has US$22.0bn of capital commitments across its private equity, real estate and real assets funds invested across over 2,100 partnership interests, managed by over 750 sponsors. Previously Paul was a director of DTZ Investment Management Ltd, a subsidiary of DTZ Plc. (now Cushman & Wakefield). Paul is a Chartered Surveyor (MRICS), a graduate of Leeds University and Cass Business School at City, University of London and member of the IPF, INREV and the ULI.
Founder and CEO of BONARD and has over 20 years’ experience advising real estate investors, funds, developers and operators. Since 2007, under his leadership, his staff of 50 researchers and analysts operating in four offices around the world have been providing the highest level of secondary and primary in-field data, making BONARD a leading provider of independent and reliable research and solutions. Samuel, an individual member of the world's leading professional research association ESOMAR, is a frequent speaker at the major global real estate stages, attending dozens of conferences a year and sharing latest insights backed by his long-term industry experience
Brian Welsh has over 14 years’ experience in the student accommodation and private rental sector markets. He has been responsible for the development and management of over 50,000 beds globally. Brian assumed the role of CEO of Nido Student in October 2017. Within this time, he has overseen the expansion of the portfolio from 2,000 to a pipeline of over 20,000 beds. Prior to joining Nido, Brian was Head of Operational Management at Liberty Living plc and then assumed the role of COO of Threesixty Developments and The Student Housing Company, where he oversaw the acquisition and delivery of over 17,100 beds across Europe, breaking into new PRS markets which have since become established, in particular Ireland and Spain.
Esteve leads all Node Iberian efforts, which are organized across three departments: development, operations and capital markets. He has extensive experience in coliving, multifamily and vacation rentals and previously worked at Starcity, Airbnb and VTS. Esteve has a degree in Finance from New York University.
Jill is currently building True North Management, a next-gen real estate platform creating a better way of living for today, tomorrow and the day after. Prior to that, Jill was the Chief Investment Officer at The Collective and was a member of the firm's Executive Committee. Prior to The Collective, she worked as Investment Director for Greystar Europe, where she sourced and managed a £1bn + student housing portfolio, and also in charge of the company’s Asia growth strategy and investor relationships. Jill received her Bachelor of Economics from Peking University, China and MBA from Harvard Business School, United States.
Justin is based in London and is a Founder and Chief Operating Officer of BaseCamp Group Ltd a vertically integrated investment adviser, development manager and PBSA property manager. Through the Basecamp
managed Funds he has overseen the construction of a student housing portfolio of approximately €2bn GDV
across Germany, Poland, Denmark and Sweden. Basecamp has grown to 104 employees and recently
announced its sale to Xior Student Housing in a transaction that included c.45% of the portfolios managed by Basecamp in a total transaction value of €970m.
Following a decade of experience in the real estate financing sector, Katja (Ekaterina) Pazelskaya became a managing partner at Blue Tagus, co-founded by her in 2013. In her role, she has been focused on translating investment strategies into tailor-made real estate investment programmes that work in geography-specific context. Next to that, Katja manages acquisitions, as well as creates real estate products adequate to the economic and market cycle. Before co-founding Blue Tagus, Katja had extensive experience in structuring and placement of funding and capital solutions for real estate loans portfolio. She was an Executive Director at ABN AMRO (Amsterdam / London) , overseeing a €120 billion real estate loan book.
As Head of International Expansion, Ricky Bichel is responsible for the strategic development of limehome's portfolio, including internationalization and business model diversification. He is also responsible for marketing activities to increase brand awareness and has been instrumental in the expansion in the DACH region and especially the Benelux countries. Ricky has in-depth experience in real estate transactions and investments and can demonstrate several years of practice in leading global real estate consulting firms. Among other qualifications, Ricky holds a Master's degree in International Business with a focus on Strategy & Finance (M.Sc.) from EDHEC Business School as well as a Master of Business Administration (MBA).
Sourcing and execution of residential investments for Heimstaden in Germany, Central Europe, France and Finland. Formerly responsible for residential investments in Europe at Round Hill Capital. Prior to this, he was an investment banker in the Goldman Sachs’ European real estate team in London. Stan holds a master’s degree in Finance and Business Strategy from Sciences Po University in Paris.
Rima joined Auxadi in 2009, and is Senior VP, Head of Funds and a member of the Board of Directors. Before joining Auxadi, Rima worked at Discovery Communications’ UK regional office, managing the European Internal Audit Team, and was soon promoted to Director of Consolidation and Reporting in the firm’s London office. Prior to this, she worked in Public Practice in a Big Four firm. Rima holds an Economics degree from UB (2001), achieved certification as an account auditor from ICAC (2006) and an Executive MBA from CEF in 2008. She undertook postgraduate studies in Tax at IE Business School in 2010, followed by Harvard Business School’s LPSF (2010) and PLD in 2019/20.
Brian Betel
Head of Direct TransactionsActivum SG UK Advisors Limited
United Kingdom
Brian Betel is Head of Direct Assets at Activum SG and founding partner of Spanish homebuilding ASG Homes. Prior to Activum SG Brian was a Managing Director at Cerberus Capital Management. In a 14 year career at Cerberus, Brian helped to open and run advisory offices in Mexico and Spain in addition to advising on investments in Canada, the UK and Germany. Prior to Cerberus Brian worked at Citibank in Mexico City and the Bank of Mexico, the central bank, selling the REO portfolios of their bad bank. Brian is also a founding partner of Tech-Stone Developments, a Spanish hotel development company.
Managing Partner/ Director of Strategy and Corporate DevelopmentGrupo Azora
Spain
Cristina García-Peri is Senior Partner and Head of Strategy and Corporate Development for the Azora Group. Prior to joining Azora in 2011, she worked for 16 years in the investment- banking sector at both Merrill Lynch (2 years) and JP Morgan (14 years), where she held various positions across M&A and Equity Capital Markets, and for 10 year, she was Managing Director responsible for Corporate Equity Derivatives for EMEA as well as Equity Capital Markets for Spain and Portugal. Cristina holds a bachelor degree in Economics from ICADE (Spain) and an MBA from Harvard Business School (USA). Cristina is Board Member at Bankinter, a Spanish IBEX 35 banking institution, where she Chairs the Nominations and Sustainability Committee.
Head of Capital Deployment Europe and UKScannell Properties
France
Geoffrey Pizzanelli oversees the acquisition and disposal strategy across Europe and the UK. In his role, Geoffrey sources investment opportunities, monitors the regional underwriting and defines and lead disposal strategy. He is also responsible for setting bank and capital financing with the objective to develop long term relationships with capital partners.
Co Founder & Head of European AcquisitionsSTONEWEG
Switzerland
Joaquin Castellvi is a former transaction manager with major consultancy firms, investment banks and developers. He was directly involved in transactions totalising over $ 2.0 billion. Mr Castellvi holds a master’s degree from university of Barcelona and an MBA from Ramon Lull University.
Head of Real Estate Finance International Clients & CEE
pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank
Kevin Turpin
Regional Director of Capital Markets for CEEColliers
Czech Republic
Kevin has been working in the commercial real estate industry in the field of property market research and consultancy for over 16 years. Kevin manages a team of analysts covering up to 17 numerous markets across the CEE region and is responsible for the delivery of market research and insights to both Colliers clients and its business lines. Kevin and team research and advise on all market sectors with a key focus on Offices, Retail, Industrial & Logistics, Residential and Investment. Kevin's previous roles have been in the HR consultancy, Information Technology and Public sectors, where he has gained valuable international experience working closely with people, technology, business and finance.
Partner, Head of Real Estate and Construction PolandCMS Law
Poland
Agata Jurek-Zbrojska is a qualified legal advisor and Head of the Real Estate and Construction Department at CMS – one of the largest real estate teams in Poland, comprising approximately 40 experienced lawyers
For over twenty years Agata has successfully advised on the largest real estate transactions in Poland and on numerous cross-border projects, with particular focus on office, commercial, logistics and residential real estate at all stages of the investment process.
In recent years she has advised on the first projects in the pioneering PRS
Dobrin Staikov serves as CFO & Head of Capital Markets at Lion's Head. Prior to this he joined AG Capital’s executive team in July 2016 after over 12 years at EBRD in London. At EBRD he developed the bank's distressed asset & non-performing loan financing and investing practice and enhanced the private-equity type business in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Turkey and North Africa. He was also part of the Deutsche Bank (London) Emerging Markets Structuring team with focus on the CEE region. He has been a board member of equity investee companies across CEE and Turkey. He holds MBA from INSEAD and is chartered certified accountant in the UK (ACCA).
Marian Herman is the CEO and Member of the Board of Directors of HB Reavis Group. Previously, as Group CFO, he was responsible for all of the company’s finance-related activities including debt financing, divestments, investment management, budgeting, controlling and accounting. He joined HB Reavis in 2010 as Head of Investment Management & Divestments. In this role he was responsible for the Group’s M&A and divestment activities across all markets, having successfully concluded over €1bn of commercial RE deals. Marian has over 20 years of experience in investment mgmt and investment banking. Prior to joining HB Reavis, he had been working for over 10 years in London for RREEF Infrastructure, Deutsche Bank and ING Group
Co-Owner & Managing PartnerGriffin Capital Partners
Poland
Managing Partner at Griffin Capital Partners. Nebil Senman held leading positions for nine years as Senior Vice President and Supervisory Board Member of Oaktree’s German and Polish real estate funds and operations worth several billion Euro. Before joining Oaktree, he spent eight years handling real estate and corporate consulting at Ernst & Young Real Estate (formerly Arthur Andersen), where he held various managerial positions. He is a graduate of universities in Berlin (TU Berlin, EBS), Paris (ESCP Europe) and London (LSE) and holds an MBA and a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering. He also holds a post-graduate diploma in real estate management (EBS), and is a Chartered Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, MRICS.
Chairman & CEO, WING; Chairman of the Supervisory Board, ECHO InvestmentWING
Hungary
Noah M. Steinberg (Wing, ECHO, Bauwert, Germany, Poland, Hungary)
Noah M. Steinberg is Chairman and CEO of the WING Group and Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of Echo Investment SA in Poland and Bauwert AG in Germany.
Noah Steinberg was born in the US and has lived and worked in Central Europe since 1990. Based in Budapest, he was a founder of Wing in 1999 and he has been the company's Chief Executive since then, responsible for the development and investment activities of the WING group across all asset classes and geographies. He graduated from Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) with a BA and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna with an MA.He speaks English, French, German, Spanish and Hungarian
Omar Koleilat is a co-founder of the Crestyl Group. He draws up business strategy, maintains relations with investors and ensures funds. He graduated in architecture and holds the British RICS postgraduate diploma in RE investments. He has been active in the RE development in Central Europe since 1998. Thanks to him the CRESTYL group became a respected market leader with a Eur 2 billion development program, including for example lucrative and unique Savarin project.
Peter Noack is co-founder of ZEITGEIST Asset Management. Today ZEITGEIST has over 50 projects under management with a total investment volume of ca. 800 mio Euro. ZEITGEIST with offices in Prague, Warsaw and Berlin, is a Real Estate Developer and Asset Manager for private and institutional investors in Germany and Central Eastern Europe. Prior to ZEITGEIST, Peter worked in institutional real estate in Germany, Central Eastern Europe and Turkey for HOCHTIEF Development and Rödl & Partner in Germany and Czech Republic. He is registered as licenced attorney at law in Germany and Czech Republic and holds a Law degree from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.
Deputy Head of Asset Management (UK), Real Estate Technology LeadAberdeen Standard Investments
United Kingdom
Deputy Head of Asset Management (UK), Real Estate Technology Lead, leading a team of 30 asset managers with responsibility for cross-sector assets on a UK wide basis. Stephen has carried out Fund and Asset Management positions at Aberdeen Standard Investments and has wide-ranging investment and strategic asset management experience gained in both private practice and client side positions. Stephen is Chair of ASI’s Global Proptech team and drives policy in relation to Flexible Office provision. He is also a member of the Property Investment Committee (EMEA) considering transactions and projects across the UK.
The co-founder of Trulia, Pete is a serial entrepreneur who built one of today’s most successful marketplaces. As CEO, Pete led the company from inception to one of the largest and fastest growing real estate websites in the U.S. with more than 50 million monthly unique users and a merger with Zillow in 2015 that valued Trulia at $3.5 billion.
Prior to starting Trulia, Pete was part of the founding team of lastminute.com, a leading European online travel site that was acquired in 2005 by Travelocity / Sabre Holdings for over $1 billion.
These experiences gave Pete a rarely acquired understanding of what it takes to scale a company from a great idea to a $1 billion+ exit, all from a founder’s perspective.
Margaret is CEO and Board Director of IRES REIT, Ireland’s leading private rental residential owner and operator with €1.5bn of assets. She is Chair of the Dublin City University Business School Advisory Board and is a former Non-Executive Director of Dalata Hotel Group plc, Birmingham Airport, Dusseldorf and Hamburg Airports, HSBC Security Servicces Ireland DAC. She has over 20 years of C Level and board director leadership experience She is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland and Chartered Director of IoD UK.
Global Capital Markets Head, Real Estate SolutionsDHL
United Kingdom
Ben is an experienced property professional having worked on both the principal and advisory side of the commercial property markets in the UK, Europe and within the Emerging Markets. He has a deep knowledge of fund and asset management (UK and Europe) and investment management (UK, Europe and CEE region). Within the Emerging Markets, Ben has managed equity and debt funds and sought to develop and attract new business opportunities globally through mergers and acquisitions.
CEO Real Estate & Head of Private Markets, Chairman MEPCFederated Hermes
United Kingdom
Chris joined Federated Hermes in 2010, having successfully established Australian fund manager QIC’s European office in London. Prior to that he was head of European Property at HSBC. Chris spent the majority of his career as a fund manager at Prudential, where he led the diversification of its UK real estate exposure into overseas markets in 2001. As CEO of Real Estate, managing over £7 billion of real estate, Chris is also the BTPS Director on the Argent Board and has taken a lead role in promoting responsible investment with major regeneration schemes such as King’s Cross London, Paradise Circus Birmingham, NOMA Manchester and Wellington Place Leeds.
With a carreer of more than 25 years in all fields of the european real estate business Hans:Peter can draw on extensive experience in the fields of Construction Industry, Investment and Asset Management as well Project Developement. Hans-Peter has a master degree in civil engineering and construction management. Since 2020 and based in Berlin, Hans-Peter is responsible as CEO for all german activities of the european real estate devoloper EQUILIS.
EQUIILIS was founded in 2006 in Belgium by Carl Mestdagh. It develops and delievers ambitious real estate projects across a wide spectrum of activities. Creating places where people build the stories of their lives. Love stories, business stories.
Happy stories....
He graduated in Civil Engineering from IST, Lisbon in 1988 and started his career at Proman, Centro de Estudos e Projectos, SA, in the Structural Design Department, with special emphasis on participation in the stability projects at Quinta de Carvalhais of Metro Rotunda II, cold storage centers in the Azores. Among many other residential and industrial projects design. Recently, he has been a member of Hagen Imobiliária SA Board for approximately 2 years. Currently and for the last 6 years he is Board Member of Fidelidade Property Europe, SA., a company 100 % held by Fidelidade Companhia de Seguros, managing all Real Estate Investments of the Insurance Group.
Stefan is a founding partner of 4 Friends Investment Group (4FI) and responsible for the general strategy, acquisition and structuring as well as member of the investment committee. 4FI is a privately held investment manager with a focus in the sectors health & lifestyle and real estate combining both platform and corporate investments. Through different subsidiaries 4FI has acquired real estate in continental Europe in excess of 700mn EUR and has invested into five different platforms. Prior to 4FI, Stefan founded ACREST Property Group, Germany’s largest non captive retail asset manager and worked for companies such as TishmanSpeyer or Tenkhoff Properties. He is an active member of ULI and ZIA.
IBM Global Real Estate EMEA Strategy & Transactions
IBM - France
Jérémy Convert
MD - Head of InvestmentsAEW
France
Jeremy, who has been with AEW since 2013 as an Executive Director in the Investment team, will lead the investment team in Paris with responsibility for all investments in France on behalf of AEW’s European funds and separate account clients. Thierry Locatelli has also been appointed Deputy Head of the investment team in Paris to support Jeremy.
Arnaud Taverne est diplômé de l’Université Paris IX Dauphine d’un Magistère Banque Finance Assurance (License, Master 1 et Master 2) et d’un Master 2 (DEA) en Economie et Finance internationale. Il a débuté sa carrière chez PWC en 1997 (Auditeur Senior Banques et Assurance) avant de rejoindre Arthur Andersen en 2000 (Restructuring Transaction Advisory Services Paris, Senior Manager).En 2006, il a intégré la Direction Financière de Veolia Transport en tant que Responsable acquisitions. Il a rejoint la Direction Financière du Groupe Caisse des Dépôts fin 2007 au sein du département immobilier compte propre et a pris la direction générale deCDC Investissement Immobilier (anciennement CDC GPI) en juillet 2014.
Benjamin has extensive experience in the work with clients on complex real estate operations. He advises on a broad range of aspects related to it, including acquisition and disposal of real estate assets or companies, of French or pan-European portfolios, the structuring of projects and the negotiation of JV and partnership agreements.
Benjamin’s work covers all asset classes (office, retail, logistics, hotel and leisure, residential…).
Benjamin’s work also covers property development transactions, commercial leases and management agreements.
Deputy General Managers/ Head of capital markets since 2018, 10 Billions transacted in 2019 in French Real Estate, Worked for 15 years for Bourdais /CBRE, for 3 years in property development (Breguet and Bouwfonds Marignan), BNPPARIBAS since 2005, deputy Head For 13 years in Logistic, Retail and Office capital Markets.
Head of French Branch,UK and BeneluxGenerali Real Estate
France
Sebastien Pezet joined Generali Real Estate in 2001. Nominated as Head of the French Branch in 2015, he is also in charge of UK, Benelux from January 2018 with a total portfolio of €11 billion. Previously he worked 2 years for Archon Group ( Goldman Sachs subsidiary ). Sebastien obtained a Master in Economics and a Master in Real Estate from the University of Paris Dauphine, and is a Chartered Accountant.
Principal, Commercial Real Estate DebtApollo Global Management
United Kingdom
Richard is a Principal within Apollo's Real Estate Commercial Team, he has been with the team for over 8 years. Previously, he was Associate Director, Real Estate Banking within UBS.
MD, Co-Head of EMEA RE FinanceGoldman Sachs Asset Management
United Kingdom
Andrea Bora is a Managing Director in Goldman Sachs Real Estate Finance team, he is located in London and co-heads the firm's EMEA CRE debt team, focusing on distribution. Andrea joined the firm from Morgan Stanley where he worked for 7 years in CRE finance mainly within the ELOC CMBS program and prior to that he was for 5 years at Bear Stearns on a similar role. Andrea has extensive experience in all aspects of CRE finance including origination, structuring and distribution. From his current role Andrea has recently run distribution of debt transactions in various jurisdictions including UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Benelux and Poland.
Clark Coffee is the Chief Investment Officer and Head of European Commercial Real Estate Debt at AllianceBernstein (AB). His previous business, Lacarne Capital, was acquired by AB in 2020 to establish the firm’s real estate debt business in Europe. Previously, Coffee was head of Tyndaris Real Estate, where he was responsible for building the business into a top-10 real estate debt fund in Europe. Prior to that, he co-headed origination for Deutsche Bank’s European commercial real estate credit business and oversaw the risk management and restructuring of more than €2 billion of troubled loans during the global financial crisis.
David Gorleku is a Principal in the Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies Group, based in London. Before joining Blackstone, David was a Principal at London-based Actis Capital in the real estate private equity group. Prior to that, David worked at TPG Real Estate Finance and before that at Goldman Sachs in New York where he focused on real estate debt and equity investments. David received a BA from Williams College in Massachusetts and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Mr. Meyer is a senior vice president and portfolio manager in the London office, focusing on real estate debt investment opportunities across EMEA.
Prior to joining PIMCO in 2014, he was an investment director in the debt and special situations team at LaSalle Investment Management in London.
Previously, he was an investment vice president in the opportunistic CRE equity team at JER Partners, a pan-European real estate private equity firm in London.
He has 17 years of investment experience and holds master's degrees from EM Lyon Business School and University Lyon III in France.
Head of International ClientsMünchener Hypothekenbank
Germany
Nicole Jürgensen joined commercial real estate lender Rheinhyp in late 1998 and started her career in the International Property Lending Department, covering Spain. Thereafter, she was involved in setting up offices in Athens, Greece and Istanbul, Turkey to eventually take over, in late 2006, the Latin American business development at Eurohypo. After 5 years in Spain, between 2009 and 2014, where she was in charge of managing Hypothekenbank Frankfurt’s Branch in Madrid, she joined Commerzbank in 02/2015 to head the Frankfurt office of the Centre of Competence - Corporate Clients Real Estate.
Thibaut is an investment Banking expert starting his career working for Naxicap Partners, focused on small and mid-cap LBO investments. He joined CBRE Global Investors in 2007 where he first served in the acquisition team working on value-added transactions across continental Europe. In 2009 he joined the risk management team and then participated in the setting-up of the financing department in charge of debt raising and loan’s book management (up to €2bn debt commitment). Thibaut joined DekaBank in 2011 to reinforce the origination team in Paris following domestic and international clients. Since then he has arranged over €2bn senior loans. He is graduated from Toulouse Business School and a degree of Financial Engineering from EM Lyon.
David Smith is a Senior Vice President in the European Acquisitions team at Starwood Capital. In this role, Mr. Smith is responsible for leading Starwood's equity investments in the DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) and CEE regions and Digital Infrastructure investments on a Pan-European basis. Mr. Smith was previously a member of the International Capital Markets team at Starwood where he closed >$10bn in financing across greater than 60 transactions in 16 different countries. Prior to joining Starwood in 2016, Mr. Smith spent five years at Citi, across a number of roles in real estate finance and corporate & investment banking. Mr. Smith received a BSc. (Hons) degree in Economics and Finance from University College Dublin.
Fabio is CEO of Redo Sgr since 2019. A certified BCorp, Redo is an Italian RE fund and investment management company focused on urban regeneration and mixed use development, mainly residential (PRS and affordable housing) and student housing (PBSA).
Fabio has more than 20 years of experience in Real Estate, having served previously as Managing Director GE Real Estate Italy, Project Director Hines, CEO Amplus, CEO Polaris Real Estate, Managing Director and Board Member InvestiRE Sgr.
He has extensive knowledge of the Italian market and real estate transactions and development process, having dealt with the start-up of Real Estate investment businesses and fund management companies and structured numerous deals and fund vehicles.
With a solid experience in the TLC and Energy sectors, Giovanna Della Posta has led for the past ten years insurance and Real Estate turnaround projects, supporting companies in rethinking their business model. She graduated in Economics, then earned a master’s degree in Economics and Finance and ultimately achieved a General Management program at Harvard Business School (2016). She won the Marisa Bellisario Prize (2012), within the Young Talents category, granted to women who distinguish themselves in management and economy. In 2019 Finance Community selected her among the 50 most influential people in Italian finance. Since January 2019 she is Invimit SGR’s CEO, a company 100% owned by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance.
Klaus is a Managing Director and Head of the DACH region in the Ares Real Estate Group based in London. He is also Board member of Swiss listed Peach Property, an owner of c. 28,000 apartments in Germany. He focuses on European real estate equity investments. Prior to joining Ares, Klaus worked at Starwood Capital and Rothschild’s Real Estate M&A group in London. Klaus holds a B.Sc. from the London School of Economics in Economics and Philosophy and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Michael Swank is a Senior Managing Director in the Real Estate Group based in London, where he is involved in Blackstone’s real estate acquisitions across continental Europe. Since joining Blackstone in 2010, Mr. Swank has been involved in a number of Blackstone’s investments in Europe and the U.S., including Dream Global, Hembla (D. Carnegie), Obligo, Sponda, Hilton Worldwide, and Gecina. Mr. Swank graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a BS in Economics from the Wharton School.
Patrick is Executive Vice President of Real Estate at WeWork. He currently heads WeWork’s European real estate expansion. He holds a MBA from Columbia University and is originally from London.
Jon is the founder and managing partner of Realty Corporation, a pan-European real estate and PropTech investor with a strong ESG ethos. Realty invests in compelling residential, logistics, data center, and life sciences opportunities, particularly in key European cities where densification and urban vibrancy are disrupting the way people need or use real estate. Realty brings a creative mindset to investment, executing with simplicity and transparency in the transactions it pursues. Jon also currently serves as a senior adviser to McKinsey & Company, advising leading institutions around the globe on their investment strategies. He is on the board of Round Hill Capital and NEPI Rockcastle plc. Previously he worked at Blackstone and Goldman.
Florian heads up the Frankfurt office team and leads Verdion’s investment activity in Germany. A member of the Investment Committee, he is responsible for sourcing and executing Verdion’s value-add investment strategy and the urban logistics development programme. He is regularly called on to speak to the industry about our focus on brownfield regeneration. Joining Verdion in 2020 from DEKA, where he was Senior Investment Manager, Florian has over 18 years’ high-level experience in the German logistics real estate market with previous senior roles at Catella and CBRE.
Joan is the Managing Partner of Spinnia, a leading real estate investment manager mainly focussed in Spain, Portugal and México, sourcing, executing and managing opportunities for a broad base of international institutional investors in the industrial/logistics and hospitality sectors, eventually coinvesting in the opportunities.
Through his 30-year career of real estate investment and development experience in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, Joan has been active across various asset classes including industrial, office, mixed use, and residential, totalling a track record of almost €4 Bn of investments.
Joan holds a BA (UB, Barcelona), and an MBA-MIM (ESADE, Barcelona).
Michael Eisenkolb is currently Director Special Property Finance within Aareal Bank's Special Property Finance division, based in Wiesbaden, Germany. Since joining Aareal Bank he has been involved in the origination of commercial real estate investment and development loans based in Amsterdam, thereafter in Berlin and currently ou of Wiesbaden for various international markets wirh a special emphasis on logistics and retail property finance. He has extensive experience in single-country single assets loans, portfolio financings as well a cross-border financing structures.
Stefan Walldorf is a Managing Director in Cerberus’ European Real Estate Group and a member of the Cerberus NPL Committee, Real Estate Committee, and Real Estate Debt Committee. Since joining Cerberus in 2006, Mr. Walldorf has led a wide range of transactions in Europe, including acquisitions of commercial properties, restructurings and loan portfolios. He is currently overseeing the built-up of Cerberus’ EUR 3bn Strategic Industrial Real Estate (SIRE) platform across Europe. 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.
Dr. Wulf Meinel (German nationality) has over 25 years of real estate experience as an investment manager, banker and real estate lawyer. He heads up Frasers Property Europe (FPE). FPE was formed through a merger between Geneba Properties, which Frasers acquired in July 2017, follow-on investments into grade A logistical properties and the acquisition of Alpha Industrial, a German development company, in July 2018. FPE focuses on modern logistical assets and mission critical light industrial properties in Europe, mainly in Germany and The Netherlands. The Assets under Management exceed € 2 billion.
MD & Head of Asset Management for EuropeStarwood Capital Group
United Kingdom
Federico Bianchi is a Managing Director & Head of Asset Management at Starwood Capital Europe, based in London and responsible for the management of the European assets. Prior to joining Starwood, Federico was a Principal, Asset Management at GreenOak Real Estate (London), where he worked for 4 years with a specific focus on Spain and Italy. Previously, Federico was Italian Country Manager and a Member of the European Board of ISG; at that time he also joined the Executive Committee of ULI in Italy. Prior to that, he served as a Director of Asset Management at Condotte Real Estate and a Director at Tishman Speyer Properties, where he was overseeing deals and projects for a combined value of more than € 1.5 Bn.
Carlo heads the CA Ventures’ European platform and he is responsible for all development activity, acquisitions and operations in the region. Prior to that he had set-up and served as CEO for Actis London development platform in West Africa where he developed $500m of commercial class A assets. Between 2002 and 2010, he spent eight years as MD with Hines Europe. His time with Hines included responsibilities for the development of large mix-use scheme Porta Nuova in Milan, the pan-European Hines European Development Fund and the Hines CalPERS Spain Fund. He is a registered architect, graduated from the Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and received an MBA from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin
Fabrizio began his career in 1998 with General Electric, where he held various leadership positions in Europe in the Finance/BD functions until 2006. He subsequently worked for 14 years in the investment management sector, first as Head of Europe Asset Management at D.B. Zwirn & Co., then as CFO/COO of Spazio Investment NV, subsequently as CEO of Arkos Capital SA, a Swiss hedge fund manager and finally as Head of BD & Fund Raising at InvestiRE SGR, a leading Italian RE asset manager. In 2021 he joined Duff & Phelps as Managing Director of its capital markets business. Since 2023 Fabrizio joined Panattoni as Head of Capital Markets. He holds a MSc degree in Economics from the University of Genoa, where he graduated cum laude in 1996.
Giampiero Schiavo is CEO and shareholder of Castello SGR SpA. Before joining Castello in 2007, Mr Schiavo spent 7 years at E. Capital Partners, where he was partner and member of the BoD. He started his career in 1997 at Gruppo RE. Mr Schiavo graduated with a business degree from Università L. Bocconi. Castello currently manages 40 RE funds for an overall asset under management of 2,6 Billion Euro. The Funds managed by Castello SGR target a wide range of investments including development projects.
Chairman & Managing Partner at CAINVEST Srl, 33y+ experience of the financial, real estate, hospitality and retail sectors across different products such as M&A, Financing, Structured Finance, Equity Investments and Capital Markets, Turn-around.. Previous roles: Chief Real Estate Officer at Aquileia Capital Services S.r.l./Bain Capital Credit, Industry Coverage - Head of Real Estate, Corporate & Investment Banking at Ubibanca, Senior Advisor HPI/LNR PE (a Starwood Capital affiliate), Sansedoni SpA -General Manager reporting to the board, JPMorgan, Head of Real Estate Structured Finance Italy, ABN Amro, Head of Italy - Real Estate Structured Capital, and Banca IntesaSan Paolo - Director of Structured Finance Real Estate & Head of Real Estate
Head of Real Estate Italy & Managing DirectorArdian
Italy
Matteo Minardi joined Ardian in 2016 with nine years of real estate experience. Prior to joining Ardian, Matteo was Fund Manager at Generali Real Estate. Prior to that, he was Senior Investment Manager at Redbrick Investment Group. Matteo studied at SDA Bocconi (MSc) and at Politecnico of Milan (Civil Engineering).
Marcus is Chief Executive Officer of Savills Germany and Head of Investment Europe. Marcus started his real estate career in 1996 with Jones Lang LaSalle, at that time Jones Lang Wootton, in Frankfurt. In 1998 he changed to the Madrid office of Jones Lang Wootton and took over the leadership of the investment department for Spain. From 2005 to 2006 Marcus headed the investment department of Savills in Madrid. In 2006 he returned to Jones Lang LaSalle as head of leasing & capital markets Germany. He was also member of the German management board of Jones Lang LaSalle. In July 2012 Marcus joined Savills as Head of Investment Europe and since October 2012 he is responsible for the German business as CEO Savills Germany.
After a career in strategy consulting at McKinsey, Alberto became a real estate and venture capital investor from his Boston basis, as well as in selected emerging markets. He previously was a senior executive in several multinational companies including IBM, Olivetti and Eastman Kodak. Alberto sits on several boards of directors and advisory boards. He is also a Senior Advisor of d.i.i, a German real estate investment platform managing more than €2bn. A graduate from Sciences-Po Paris (EcoFi), Alberto also holds a Master of Science (MBA) from MIT and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the American University of Beirut.
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.
Managing Director/Head of Investment ManagementCA Immo Deutschland
Germany
Christof Altendorfer joined CA Immo in September 2019 as Head of Investment Management Germany and was also appointed to the management of CA Immo Deutschland GmbH. In this function, he is responsible for all CA Immo real estate transactions in Germany and is particularly responsible for the development and expansion of the portfolio in the core German markets of Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich. Before joining CA Immo, Christof Altendorfer worked as a portfolio manager at Norges Bank Real Estate Management (NBREM) in London. He was responsible for the development and management of a high-quality real estate portfolio worth a total of around two billion euros.
Head of International Clients Germanypbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank
Germany
Frank Steffen has been working within the property financing sector since the mid-1990s. In his role as Managing 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.
Karsten is a founding partner of 4 MORE Capital Partners. He has lived almost half his life abroad, while covering the German speaking property market with his own transaction advisory business and as investment manager for various international opportunity and private equity funds before co-founding 4 MORE. 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.
Simon Koenig founded Lakeward Holding 2013. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director at Armada Investment AG, the single Family Office of Daniel S. Aegerter. During his time at Armada he was also a CEO at Gutburg Immobilien SA, the owner and manager of a large German residential real estate portfolio. Before this he held various positions in Asset Management, Corporate Finance, Accounting/Controlling and Banking for companies like Pempa Credit Advisors (Man Investments), KPMG Corporate Finance, Credit Suisse First Boston and Schweiz. Kreditanstalt.
Andrew became ASK4 CEO in October 2021 with the aim of accelerating growth, diversifying sectors and services, and continuing the Group's expansion overseas. With over 20 years' working in executive leadership roles across multiple different sectors, Andrew has experience in internationalising and scaling business through acquisition and organic growth. Andrew has also successfully managed business on behalf of private equity and founder owned businesses, returning real shareholder value.
The Real Estate world is under much pressure to reduce its CO2 emissions. With our triple strategy, we are a natural partner to help our customers towards net-zero carbon, first by reducing consumption, secondly by preparing for grid interaction, and finally by advising on the carbon return of retro-fit investments.
Everything we do needs to help the commercial real estate sector to reduce its carbon emission drastically. We start with connecting building portfolios with our AI solution and commit ourselves to clear results: CO² and energy reduction, operational efficiency, and comfort optimization.
Taxonomy as value creation or danger of greenwashing?
Regulations - How to create value out of SFDR & the EU/UK Taxonomy?
Aligning Investment Approaches with SDGs
Green Finance - Sustainability linked and green loans, is there confusion in the market? Growing popularity across lenders, what are they looking for from investors and asset managers?
Circular Economy - When & how will it be included in the EU taxonomy?
Impact on Value - How will ESG be factored into valuations going forward?
Creating Science-Based Net Zero Pathways & Targets
Sam joined EP&T in 2011 and was appointed Head of Operations for UK & Europe in 2017. He is responsible for the management and growth of the business there, including oversight of all commercial and operational delivery. Sam has over 20 years’ experience in financial services, technology and sustainability and a strong track record of delivering sustainable growth across these sectors. He is a keen sportsman and spends his free time playing field hockey, coaching minis rugby and practicing martial arts with his 3 sons.
MD, REF Continental Europe Westpbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank
Germany
Norbert Müller is Managing Director at pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, in charge of Real Estate Finance in Continental Europe West (Scandinavia, Benelux, France and Spain) with teams in Munich, Paris, Stockholm and Madrid. He has been working in the property industry for more than 30 years of which more than 10 years as International Director in the Capital Markets Group at Jones Lang LaSalle. Norbert Müller has in-depth knowledge of and experience in most of the real estate markets on the Continent, including Germany. He speaks fluently German, French, English and Dutch.
Philippe finances commercial real estate mainly in France and Germany for institutional investors, focusing on core and core+ assets. He joined BayernLB in 2010 after a short stint at ING. Previously, he worked in various property finance roles at Citigroup and Hypo Real Estate in London and Paris. Philippe entered the financial sector after graduating with an MSc in real estate development at MIT. Prior, he advised public and private property developers in Belgium and in the US as a landscape architect.
Founder and CEO of Varig. Varig makes sustainability software for Commercial Real Estate. Experienced Leader with a demonstrated history of working in the Construction and Real Estate industries. Focused on technology as a key enabler for Sustainability within the use and ownership of buildings . Strong operations professional with a Master focused in Property development and Facilities management from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
Victor de Verthamon is specialized in structured financing for both French and international creditors (credit institutions, insurance companies, debt funds) or borrowers (property companies, etc.) in the arrangement of real estate and corporate financing (mainly property companies). Before joining CHEUVREUX, Victor was an associate at Gide in Bucharest then in Paris, after having obtained two degrees in French and German Law, and a post-graduate degree in Tax and Public Finance law. He speaks French, English, German and Romanian, and his atypical career and international profile allow him to focus on cross-borders transactions and assisting international investors.
Cédric Dujardin
Head of France, Italy & BelgiumBlackRock
France
Cédric Dujardin est nommé depuis Septembre 2019 Managing Director dans l’équipe Investissement Immobilier de BlackRock. Basé à Paris, il sera en charge de la gestion des fonds immobiliers de BlackRock en France, Italie et Belgique, sous la responsabilité de Justin Brown, Head of Real Estate Europe. Cédric Dujardin dispose de près de 20 ans d’expérience dans l’immobilier et la gestion de fonds, avec une expertise liée à l’impact environnemental et sociétal des actifs immobiliers. Avant de rejoindre BlackRock, il était Directeur des opérations immobilières pour la France, la Belgique et le Luxembourg chez DWS. Il avait précédemment été Directeur Investissements Europe chez Ivanhoé Cambridge et occupé différentes fonctions chez Gécina.
President-France & Senior Partner IberiaDEA Capital Real Estate France
France
Emanuele Dubini joined, as Managing Partner, DeA Capital Real Estate Building up the French Operations. DeA Capital Real Estate France IS Part of DeA Capital pan-European real estate Expansion Via Group Subsidiaries Through Local Senior Management Teams.The Company, headquarter in Paris, is a joint venture between the DeA Capital Group and a local Senior Management team with a proven track record in the French real estate sector. Emanuele has a proven experience and knowledge of the sector, having held numerous senior leadership roles in companies in Europe and the USA.
Before founding TRUSTONE REIM, Jean-Philippe was Deputy Director within the Investment team at BNP PARIBAS REAL ESTATE and led the team dedicated to Families and Institutional Investors which he had launched 10 years before.
He worked on all types operations: development, yield investment, property trading transactions and supervised more than 500 commercial Real Estate transactions. Jean-Philippe started his career structuring Real Estate investment funds. He then moved to BNP PARIBAS where he held various positions in the Real Estate market. Jean-Philippe graduated from IEP Paris and ASSAS University, Paris.
Pierre Leocadio is responsible for Oxford Properties’ French platform, including the responsibility of the asset management and leasing strategies for the existing Paris portfolio. Oxford Properties currently owns and manages a portfolio of four offices and one luxury high street retail in Paris, totalling approximately €1.5 billion of assets under management.
Xavier is a member of the Management Committee and the Board of Directors at AG Real Estate, a Brussels based real estate investor and developer with an international and diversified portfolio under management in excess of €6bn. As Chief Development Officer, he is responsible for all development projects of the group representing a 1.000.000 m² pipeline. Xavier is also Chairman of AG Real Estate France. Prior to his current positions, Xavier was Chief Operating Officer and Board Member at Cofinimmo. Xavier graduated from UCL as Civil Engineer Architect, received an MBA from INSEAD and attended different executive programmes at the Harvard Business School. Xavier is Past Chair of the Urban Land Institute for Belgium & Luxembourg.
MD & Head of Asset Management for EuropeStarwood Capital Group
United Kingdom
Federico Bianchi is a Managing Director & Head of Asset Management at Starwood Capital Europe, based in London and responsible for the management of the European assets. Prior to joining Starwood, Federico was a Principal, Asset Management at GreenOak Real Estate (London), where he worked for 4 years with a specific focus on Spain and Italy. Previously, Federico was Italian Country Manager and a Member of the European Board of ISG; at that time he also joined the Executive Committee of ULI in Italy. Prior to that, he served as a Director of Asset Management at Condotte Real Estate and a Director at Tishman Speyer Properties, where he was overseeing deals and projects for a combined value of more than € 1.5 Bn.
Chris is responsible for investing and monitoring real estate investments across Europe. He has over ten years of principal investing experience across value added, opportunistic and distressed real estate strategies and has completed transactions for HIG in both direct acquisitions and non-performing loans across multiple real estate sectors and geographies. Previously, Chris was a Partner at Kildare Partners and also held investment roles at Varde Partners and AIG Global Real Estate. Chris holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BSc in Finance from Drexel University.
STAM Europe is a Paris based real estate investment management company with €2billion of assets under management. Edward is responsible for setting the strategy of the company as well as being involved in the capital raising, acquisitions and asset management. He has developed and invested capital in more than 50 transactions totaling approximately €5 billion. Prior to joining STAM, Edward was a Sr Principal and Co-Head of Real Estate at Doughty Hanson&Co. Before that, he was a founding member of Orion Capital Managers and served as an Investment Director. Edward, has over 25 years of real estate investment experience in Europe and the USA. He graduated from Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia, where he majored in Mathematics and Economics.
Mr. Kolev is a Partner at Apollo. Since joining the firm in 2012, he has been responsible for distressed debt and equity investments in real estate and asset heavy operating companies and has led the team’s investments in leisure and hospitality in Europe. Previously, Mr. Kolev worked on executing special situations investments for Lone Star Funds including acquisitions of distressed real estate and corporate loans and assets across Europe. Prior to that, he held investment roles at State Street and Merrill Lynch in the US and Europe. Mr. Kolev holds double BA degree in Economics and Mathematics from St. Lawrence University in New York and is a CFA charterholder.
Global Head, Real Estate Corporate Banking and Real Estate Capital PartnersRBC Capital Markets
USA
Kathryn Ogden is a Managing Director and Head of RBC Real Estate Capital Partners (“RECP”). RECP originates mortgage and mezzanine loans secured by stabilized and transitional real estate assets in all major commercial real estate product types throughout the US, UK, Europe and Australia. Kathryn joined RBC in 2009 and helped launch the RECP platform in 2011. She moved to London in 2013 to launch the Real Estate Capital Partners platform in Europe before moving back to Dallas in 2016. Prior to joining RBC, Kathryn worked in the London office of the Real Estate Principal Investment Area of Goldman, Sachs & Co. responsible for the management of a portfolio of real estate assets in the United Kingdom and Europe.
Head REF Germany Inst. & Private Equitypbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank
Germany
Markus Wehnelt is a Managing Director and Head of Real Estate Finance Germany Institutional and Private Equity Clients for Germany at pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG. He has many years of experience in complex structured real estate financing transactions. In the past years, Markus and his team successfully closed a large number of lending transactions with a focus on Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Partner - Global Co Head - Real EstateQuilvest Capital Partners
United Kingdom
Michael has over 27 years of experience in real estate private equity, having worked in Europe, Asia and the U.S. He started as one of the initiating members of the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds in Europe, out of London and NYC. He was then a Founding Partner of Soros Real Estate (later Grove), building up the firm’s business in Asia with close to $2.0bn in equity invested across a variety of asset classes. He is now responsible for Quilvest funds that invest in the EMEA region and a member of the firm's global Investment Committee. Michael sits at the boards of numerous investee companies. He also sits at the board of the Hellenic Public Properties Company, the largest company for management and development of public assets in Greece.
Reda Khatim is the Managing Partner and founder of Palm Capital. Palm Capital is a pan European real estate investment firm, with offices in London and Madrid. Palm Capital invests in various thematic strategies including European logistics, Office 4.0 and special situations. Prior to starting Palm, Reda was a founding principal of Citigroup Property Investors European opportunistic fund, €1.2bn pan European fund. He previously worked with Lonestar Funds in Europe and held various positions at Credit Suisse and Lazard. Reda holds a MBA from Harvard Business School.
Mr. Musseau is President of Hines France since October 2020. Xavier headed up the finance and acquisition team when he first joined Hines in 2000. Promoted to Managing Director in 2013, he put together a team responsible for investment management activities, covering the supervision of acquisitions, asset management and project financing. In the past five years, he has overseen over €4 billion of acquisitions involving office and retail buildings on behalf of Hines' funds and third-party sources of capital. He was also named President of Hines SGP, Hines’ management company licensed by French Financial Market Authorities AMF in 2018.
Prior to joining Hines in 2000, Mr. Musseau spent 10 years in banking activities at Crédit Lyonnais bank co
Chris has 25+ years of pan-European office Capital Markets experience and a significant track record in office transactions spanning more 15 European markets. Chris has worked in London, Paris and Brussels. Chris has deep, long-established knowledge of Europe’s Office markets and strong relationships with the main investor, developer and lender groups. Chris works closely with JLL’s International Capital Coverage Team, sourcing global capital for major European office transactions and JLL’s European Debt team.
Head of Divestments CEESkanska Commercial Development Europe
Poland
As Head of Divestments at Skanska’s commercial development unit in CEE, Adrian is responsible for sourcing buyers and conducting transaction processes in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania. While working at Skanska, Adrian has divested over 40 office buildings totaling almost EUR 2 bn. He has also expanded Skanska’s clients portfolio by 15 new buyers. Moreover, Adrian was involved in the sales process of Skanska’s asset in London and Helsinki. Adrian started his professional career in 1997 at Gerald Eve International. He went on to work for Knight Frank and GE Capital Golub Real Estate. Prior to joining Skanska in 2013, he worked for Echo Investment as the director responsible for the company’s asset divestments.
Has over 12 years of real estate investment experience. David was previously Head of the Real Estate practice at Helios Capital, a London-based family office, and, prior to that, a senior member of the investment team at Moor Park Capital Partners. He has an extensive track record in real estate, having been involved in £2bn+ real estate transactions since the start of his career, both in equity and debt positions. David holds an MA from HEC Lausanne, HEC Paris and La Sorbonne University. He speaks French and English and is a Swiss and French citizen.
Ilyas Aslam is Chief Operating Officer at Quadrum Global and has been there since Quadrum’s inception in late 2013. Ilyas has over 18 years’ experience working within the investment and real estate sectors. During this time Ilyas has held various senior positions. He has established and maintained international offices as well as multi-jurisdictional corporate structures and has also managed numerous cross-border debt projects. He is a finance professional with broad Director level experience of both pan-European corporate & investment structures as well as in wider jurisdictions.
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 €7 billion in 60 real estate transactions in nine countries and has approximately €1.7 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.
Pierre joined Investcorp in 2016 from Real Estate Private Equity firm Catalyst Capital where he spent four years as an Associate Director in the UK investment team. He started his career at Citi in the Real Estate Private Equity group focusing on European opportunistic real estate investments, followed by two years at AEW Europe. Pierre holds an MSc in Management from HEC Paris.
Margaret is CEO and Board Director of IRES REIT, Ireland’s leading private rental residential owner and operator with €1.5bn of assets. She is Chair of the Dublin City University Business School Advisory Board and is a former Non-Executive Director of Dalata Hotel Group plc, Birmingham Airport, Dusseldorf and Hamburg Airports, HSBC Security Servicces Ireland DAC. She has over 20 years of C Level and board director leadership experience She is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland and Chartered Director of IoD UK.
Mr. Piper is a Partner based in London and a member of TPG Real Estate’s Investment Committee. Prior to joining TPG, he was a Partner in the Real Estate Group at Ares Management, where he spent 12 years, before which he was a member of the European Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Credit Suisse. He received a Masters degree in Physics from the University of Cambridge, where he graduated with First Class Honours. He is also a trustee and Honorary Treasurer of the Royal Trinity Hospice, a charity providing care and support for those with life-limiting conditions in London.
Saïd Hejal is the CEO & founding partner at Kronos Real Estate Group, an investment management platform with offices in London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Barcelona, Málaga and Lisbon. Kronos focuses on the development of residential, office and retail properties. Previous to Kronos, Saïd was at Fortress responsible for investments in Spain, France and Greece. Saïd started his career at Morgan Stanley’s real estate group in New York. He holds a Bachelor in Commerce from McGill University and an MBA from Columbia University.
Mr. Troy Javaher is currently Managing Director of UK/European operations for Lincoln Property Company (LPC). Lincoln Property Company was founded in Dallas in 1965 and has developed more than 14 million square meters of commercial projects and 220,000 multifamily units at a total cost of over $30 billion. Troy has a Master's degree in Real Estate from Columbia University in New York.
Mattia specialises in sourcing investment opportunities, the establishment and management of real estate funds and the coordination of working groups. In addition, Mattia also focuses on asset management, investment/divestment management, feasibility studies and the structuring of loans. He has over 25 years of experience in companies such as AEW Italia SPA, CBRE Professional Services, Reag Spa, Prefimco SA (Belgian investment company) and Gruppo Nazca. Mattia served as director for Grove Fund Management Italian SPVs and is serving as director for CDL Hospitality Trust Italian SPVs. Mattia is a Member of RICS, a RICS Registered Valuer and RICS Assessor for the Valuation pathway. Mattia is a Young Leader member of the Urban Land Institute.
Global Capital Markets Head, Real Estate SolutionsDHL
United Kingdom
Ben is an experienced property professional having worked on both the principal and advisory side of the commercial property markets in the UK, Europe and within the Emerging Markets. He has a deep knowledge of fund and asset management (UK and Europe) and investment management (UK, Europe and CEE region). Within the Emerging Markets, Ben has managed equity and debt funds and sought to develop and attract new business opportunities globally through mergers and acquisitions.
John Wilkinson is CEO and founding member of Greenman. John has over 15 years’ experience in real estate development and investment. Since managing the company from 2005, John gained a significant expertise in the selection, funding, purchase and management of German food and non-food retail warehousing. Since forming Greenman, the company has acquired and manages real estate projects to a value of €900m including Greenman OPEN, Germany’s largest grocery focused retail RE fund. John is currently leading the execution of Greenman’s European expansion, with the target of acquiring c.€175m of grocery dominated retail real estate in France and Spain during 2020.
Cyrille joined Klépierre in 2014 as Head of M&A. From 2007 he worked for HSBC Investment banking in Paris where he started the M&A real estate team in 2009. Cyrille started his career at Deloitte in France and thereafter in the US doing due diligence for private equity funds.
Co-Head of EMEA RE FinanceGoldman Sachs Asset Management
United Kingdom
Jan is Co-Head of Real Estate Finance for the EMEA Region at Goldman Sachs. He has extensive transaction experience across asset classes including hospitality, office, logistics, retail, datacenter, cold storage assets as well as SPL/NPL portfolio financing and construction finance. He has worked in various jurisdictions across Europe. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Jan worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Citi in real estate finance, securitization and investment banking.
Jared is responsible for sourcing and acquiring new assets in the UK and Europe at may capital. He has over 16 years of real estate experience, having previously worked for both Thor Equities and Pears Global, where he was responsible for sourcing acquisitions, financing and asset management. Jared has been involved in an excess of £2bn real estate transactions.
Originally born in New Zealand and now a UK resident, Jared studied at Lincoln University in Christchurch where he received a B.A. in Property.
João Lélis joined Sonae Sierra in 2004 as an investment analyst, later becoming Director of the Fund Management business. As member of the executive team, current responsibilities include management of the real estate funds co-owned by Sonae Sierra, of the direct investments outside Iberia and transaction support. Prior to Sonae Sierra, João was a consultant with McKinsey & Company and also with Arthur Andersen. João completed the INSEAD – Advanced Management Programme in 2018 and the INSEAD - International Executive Programme in 2010. He also holds an MBA from the Yale University School of Management (2002) and a BS in Management from Faculdade de Economia do Porto (1997).
Andrew became ASK4 CEO in October 2021 with the aim of accelerating growth, diversifying sectors and services, and continuing the Group's expansion overseas. With over 20 years' working in executive leadership roles across multiple different sectors, Andrew has experience in internationalising and scaling business through acquisition and organic growth. Andrew has also successfully managed business on behalf of private equity and founder owned businesses, returning real shareholder value.
Hugo Moreira
Managing DirectorGolden Properties
Portugal
Experienced Chief Executive Officer and Real Estate Broker with a demonstrated history of working in the real estate industry. Skilled in Negotiation, Business Planning, Sales, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Event Management. With a Degree in Tourism and Marketing, started his career in the Tourism Industry in Marketing and Management positions. With the real estate boom in 2001, changed departments and started a new challenge in the real estate area. Strong business development professional with a specialization in Real Estate Management and Valuation. Love my job and real estate industry.
Jose is the Head of Growth Capital & Real Estate at limehome, a leading European digital hospitality operator at the intersection of real estate, hospitality and tech.
Jose is responsible for the capital growth strategy in Europe, RE structures and partnerships with funds and investors. Previously, Jose worked for more than 10 years in international real estate development (Brazil, Poland, Hungary, Romania) and banking (Bankinter). In addition, he has significant experience in the financial and strategy area in foreign multinationals (SKF).
He has also undertaken several business projects in the hospitality area. International MBA and Real Estate program at Instituto de Empresa business school in Madrid.
Ondrej Vodnansky
Business Development ManagerSpaceflow
Czech Republic
Ondrej runs Business Development for CEE, Benelux and Northern Europe at Spaceflow.
At Spaceflow, our mission is to enable better life in buildings for their tenants. Spaceflow allows residential, office and PBSA landlords to provide better customer experience to their tenants thanks to a digital platform made with the user in mind.
The result are smoother processes and time saved both for the tenant and the landlord or property manager.
Ondrej joined Spaceflow after 8.5 years spent Cushman & Wakefield, managing institutional real estate transactions for clients including asset and fund managers, PE, banks and HNWIs.
Robbert Huisman
Head of TechnologyRound Hill Capital - Netherlands
Partner, Spencer House Partners; Board roles at Elix, PfP, SFO and Planet Smart CitySpencer House Partners
United Kingdom
Audrey Klein has held Head of Fundraising roles at several firms but is best known for starting the European business out of London for the Park Hill Real Estate Group, a Division of Blackstone, which she ran for 9 yrs. Prior to joining Park Hill, she ran her own business for 5 yrs marketing alternative asset funds across all asset classes to European investors comprised of pension funds, banks, family offices. She is a graduate of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of business where she received an MBA, and is also a graduate of Emory University with a degree in Economics. She serves as the ESG Chair for a real estate company called SFO Capital and an affordable housing real estate company called Planet Smart City.
Emmanuel Verhoosel is Managing Partner of the venture capital firm Fluxus Ventures. Fluxus Ventures incubates and invests in PropTech companies active in digitization, ecological transition and development of new ways of living and working in the real estate sector. He is also CEO of Square Sense, an innovative real estate data analytics company. Emmanuel has 30 years of experience in real estate, investment banking and venture capital in London, New York, Paris et Brussels. He has previously advised and financed prominent real estate investors with JPMorgan, ING et Natixis. Education: Master in Finance of the London Business School and Master of Laws of the London School of Economics
Hans Vrensen, CRE, CFA, Drs Econ & MRE, is an AEW managing director heading the European Research & Strategy team. He is a seasoned analyst in the international commercial real estate and capital markets with over 25 years of experience. He is a voting member of AEW’s European investment committee and has introduced new innovative big data methodologies and alternative data sources. Prior to AEW, Hans was global head of research at DTZ (now C&W) from 2009 to 2015. Other roles included Barclay’s head of European securitization research and senior credit officer at Moody’s. Before moving to the UK, Hans also worked at LIM and C&L (now PwC) in the US.
Head of Real Estate Italy & Managing DirectorArdian
Italy
Matteo Minardi joined Ardian in 2016 with nine years of real estate experience. Prior to joining Ardian, Matteo was Fund Manager at Generali Real Estate. Prior to that, he was Senior Investment Manager at Redbrick Investment Group. Matteo studied at SDA Bocconi (MSc) and at Politecnico of Milan (Civil Engineering).
Stéphane Villemain is responsible for our sustainable investment strategy, contributing to our portfolio’s resilience in addition to creating impact in our communities. In this capacity, his team drives asset decarbonization strategies and manages risks and opportunities arising from environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors for our investments. His mandate also includes the development of social impact and inclusion strategies.
Before joining Ivanhoé Cambridge in 2020, Stéphane was Director, Responsible Investment, at PSP Investments, where he helped define and implement ESG strategies for the private investments. He was previously Senior Manager, Climate Change and Sustainability Services at Ernst and Young from 2012
Pierre a co-fondé Accenta en 2016 et occupe depuis le poste de CEO, en charge de la stratégie et du développement d’Accenta. Véritable « serial-entrepreneur », il créé sa première société à 22 ans dans le domaine des jeux ludo-éducatifs, qu’il revendra au groupe Ubisoft. Il se lance ensuite dans le marketing en ligne ainsi que dans le e-learning. En 2005, Pierre créé le site e-commerce delamaison.fr, dont le groupe de Leroy Merlin fera l’acquisition en 2012. La même année, Pierre est co-fondateur de 50 Partners, un incubateur spécialisé dans les nouvelles technologies. Depuis 2016, il écrit un nouveau chapitre de sa vie professionnelle avec Accenta, qui combine savoir-faire digital et hardware pour répondre aux enjeux environnementaux.
Cédric Borel
DirectorInstitut Français pour la Performance du Bâtiment (IFPEB)
Professeur École des Ponts Paris TechÉcole des Ponts Paris Tech
France
Ingrid NAPPI is an economist and tenured Professor at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech. She was Professor at Essec where she launched in 2002 the Real estate track and the Real Estate and Sustainable Development Chair as well as the Workplace Management research Chair.
She concentrates her research mainly on sustainable cities and sustainable real estate as well on work spaces in organisations in the context of the twin challenges of the widening social divide and increasing global warming.
She was co-leader of two working groups for the Plan Bâtiment Durable in France (French national Sustainable Construction Plan).
Philippe Duvergne
Managing Director Origination Europepbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank
France
Philippe Duvergne is a Managing Director for Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG and is based in Paris. Philippe, who has over 25 years work experience in real estate and banking, started his career at Group Paribas where he fulfilled a number of functions. In 2000, he joined The Royal Bank of Scotland, where he was part of the new team which created the Real Estate Business. He focuses on origination and execution of domestic and cross-border structured real estate finance in France.
