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, Global Co-Head for BentallGreenOak's Strategic Capital Partners ("BGO SCP") and sits on its global investment committee. BGO SCP provides strategic capital by way of asset and portfolio recapitalisations, structured transactions, co investments 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 real estate sectors in Europe 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, British 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.
Katja Pazelskaya
Managing PartnerBlue Tagus
Portugal
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.
Since 2018, Xavier Scheibli is Portfolio Director at GSA, based out of Frankfurt. He has more than 17 years of experience in multiple RE sectors, both on the equity & debt sides. In his current role, he’s responsible for managing portfolios of PBSA assets in Germany & UK, maintaining a close relationship with all players in the capital stack. Prior to GSA, Xavier was a Director at LNR/Hatfield Philips, leading NPL underwriting activities in Continental Europe & the firm’s co-investment opportunities. Before joining LNR in 2013, Xavier served as VP at Hudson Advisors & held posts in the RE division of UBS Wealth Mgt, where he was involved in fund structuring, acquisitions & distributions to high net worth individuals & inst. investors.
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 Transactions - IberiaActivum 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.
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.
Yeliz Bicici
COO & RE Development - Spain, Germany & FinlandCofinimmo
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
Nebil Senman
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.
Rossitsa is a managing director in Real Estate Investing within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where she is responsible for the origination and execution of new investments for the Real Estate Credit Partners program in Europe.
Rossitsa earned a Masters degree in Management and Corporate Finance from ESSEC Business School in Paris in 2010.
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 Matta
Head of EuropeCA Ventures
United Kingdom
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.
Frank Steffen
Managing Director, Head of Underwriting Internationalpbb 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 Managing Partner of Arcturus Capital Management. 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 working with Arcturus. 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.
Eric Davy
Directeur ExécutifFIDJI
France
Éric Davy, diplômé de l’université Paris X M2 Sciences de gestion, maitre de conférences, a travaillé comme directeur général dans une entreprise de construction régionale avant de développer l’offre européenne de grands éditeurs de système d’information immobilier.
En 2017, il a créé APY, structure de conseil en développement stratégique qui intervient principalement auprès des acteurs publics et privés de l’industrie immobilière. En 2018 il est devenu le Directeur Exécutif de l’Institut FIDJI qui travaille sur l’industrialisation numérique de l’industrie immobilière française et européenne. Il est également le commissaire général de la journée annuelle professionnelle : « Real IT, la réalité du numérique dans l’industrie immobilière » .
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 Zlatarev
Managing DirectorH.I.G Capital
United Kingdom
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 of International & Institutional Clients, REF Germanypbb 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
Office Investments
Buying spree or are performance indicators getting harder to predict?
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Office Rental Growth – actual growth or “re-calibration” of Grade A?
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 for sale through its brand Kronos Homes and BTR through its brand STAY. 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 leading the international growth for Smartrental. We are a group of hospitality and living brands leading the spanish market for hospitality (hostel, hotels, serviced apartments) and living (coliving, senior and student housing). Currently, we operate +4.000 beds.
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 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
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 is a Partner at Spencer House Partners (www.spencerhousepartners.com).
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)
France
Émilie Jaskula
Global Head of OfficesAXA IM
France
Emilie Jaskula has been appointed to the newly created role of Global Head of Offices within the Asset Management team, in recognition of AXA IM Alts continued conviction for low carbon, high-quality offices in prime locations alongside the significant opportunity to lead the transition of older generation office product. Emilie has been at AXA IM Alts for almost twelve years, most recently as Head of Asset Management for France.
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 EuropeDeutsche Pfandbriefbank AG
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.
European Head - RBC Real Estate Capital Partners & Real Estate Corporate BankingRBC Capital Markets
United Kingdom
Axel Brinkmann is the European Head of the Royal Bank of Canada’s Real Estate Capital Partners (RECP) group. This group provides a range of financial services including mortgage, whole-loan, mezzanine, and loan-on-loan facilities to real estate sponsors in the US, Europe, UK, and Australia. Axel is also a member of the RBC Capital Markets' European Executive Committee and manages the bank's European real estate corporate banking activities. Previously, he was part of LaSalle Investment Management's Debt Investment and Special Situations group, contributing to its establishment and growth since 2010. Axel began his career in the real estate structured finance team at Wells Fargo, working in Frankfurt and London.
Partner and Head of Commercial Real Estate Debt in EuropeApollo Global Management
United Kingdom
Mr. Ben Eppley joined Apollo in 2013. Prior to that time, Mr. Eppley was a member of the Real Estate Structured Finance group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and prior to that was a member of the Commercial Real Estate Debt Capital Markets group at Barclays Capital. Mr. Eppley graduated from Yale College with a BA in English Language and Literature.
David White is a Managing Director at LaSalle in the Debt Investments team, and Head of LaSalle Real Estate Debt Strategies. David has a 14+ year track record of working in real estate private equity and debt investment. He has extensive experience lending throughout the capital structure and in real estate debt investments, including mezzanine and whole loans, as well as direct real estate investments, distressed credit, and restructuring. Prior, David was a Partner at Intriva Capital Advisors LLP, where he was based in London as a member of the Investment Committee, and oversaw the investment team. David was also a founding Partner at Tyndaris Real Estate, an alternative lending platform based in London.
Director, Real Estate InvestmentsStarz Real Estate
United Kingdom
Gregoire is a Director at Starz Real Estate, where he is involved in all aspects of origination, underwriting and execution of real estate credit opportunities across Europe. Prior to joining Starz Gregoire worked for Deutsche Bank’s Credit Solutions Group, focused on illiquid and esoteric credit trades backed by real assets and Bank of America Merrill Lynch RESF team where he focused on underwriting, structuring and execution of senior loans, mezzanine debt, loan-on-loan financings and CMBS, across all real estate classes in Europe. Gregoire started his career as an Analyst at Westmont Hospitality Group involved in all corporate finance aspects. Fluent in French and English, Gregoire holds an MBA from ESSEC Business School.
As Delancey’s Head of Real Estate Debt Strategies, Martin is responsible for managing debt investments and developing and executing real estate debt strategies. Martin has over 25 years of experience in real estate finance and investment and, prior to joining Delancey in 2022, Martin was at Brookfield, where he ran the European CRE credit business sourcing, evaluating and executing new investments.
Mr. Savoia has over 20 years of experience in finance and real estate and closed deals for over Euro 8 billion covering capital markets, M&A, real estate and structured debt. He is Chairman and CEO of Three Stars Capital Partners. Mr. Savoia also headed Merrill Lynch Real Estate Finance in Italy. Before then, Mr. Savoia worked at Morgan Stanley, in M&A, Securitization and Real Estate. He also spent 3 years at Dresser Industries in Houston (TX). Mr. Savoia graduated from Università Cattolica Milan and was awarded with Premio Gemelli as “Best Graduate of the 1995 Class”. He also holds an MBA in Finance from HBU in Houston (TX).
MD Real Estate - Structured FinanceEastdil Secured
United Kingdom
Riaz Azadi is a Managing Director at Eastdil Secured LLC based in London responsible for the firms U.K. and European CRE debt placement, structured finance and structured equity transactions. Riaz was brought in by Eastdil Secured in 2011 having previously worked for Hypo Real Estate International AG on the Real Estate Investment Banking team as well as Wachovia and Wells Fargo Special Situations Group restructuring and selling loans.
Steve Plavin is a Senior Managing Director based in London and oversees Blackstone’s Real Estate Debt Strategies business in Europe. Previously, from when he joined Blackstone in 2012 until June 2021, Mr. Plavin was the Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone Mortgage Trust, Inc., a NYSE- listed commercial mortgage REIT managed by Blackstone. Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Plavin served as CEO of Capital Trust, Inc. (predecessor of Blackstone Mortgage Trust) and CT Investment Management Co., LLC, a commercial real estate debt investment manager and rated special servicer that was wholly owned by Capital Trust and acquired by Blackstone in 2012.
Britta is Principal at Apollo Global Management, based in London. Previously, she was a Director at Eastdil Secured Debt Advisory in the UK and Continental Europe, Real Estate Investment Banking.
Head of Real Estate Finance UK & USApbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank
United Kingdom
Charles Balch has been working within the property financing sector since the mid-1980s. His role as Head of Real Estate Finance International Clients, UK, CEE and USA. Previously he was Managing Director, Chief Credit Officer, responsible for new business & existing portfolio for Asia, Europe, Germany, US & Asset Finance. His previous roles include Managing Director, Europe, heading the Origination Structured Finance & Investment Banking Team for Europe at Hypo Real Estate Bank International. Before joining the Hypo Group, he was Head of Global Clients, building a multi-cultural acquisition team & as a 'Bereichsleiter' within the Head Office, managing certain country teams at Aareal Bank.
Ian Williamson leads KKR Real Estate’s pan-European core plus focused strategy, focusing on investing behind high quality, substantially stabilized assets with long-term growth potential. Williamson has worked within the real estate industry in Europe for 19 years. At BlackRock, Williamson oversaw the fundraise of €550 million of third party capital for BlackRock Eurozone Core Property Fund and developed and drove the fund’s investment strategy. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2018, Williamson was a Regional Director and Fund Manager at LaSalle Investment Management.
Licensed in Law and having earned an MBA degree, with an extensive experience of more than 22 years in real estate developing. Starting with the year 2000, he has chosen entrepreneurship, founding companies that are part of the PAZO Group & Forty Management, representative as a model of successful and visionary business. Often quoted as an authority on the market, with numerous listings in the press, his professional background positions him as an expert in the Romanian real estate market evolution.
Forty Management is a real estate developer of mixed-use project and green urban reconvesion. We seek to create places that inspire, projects where vision and thoughtful design add lasting value.
Paul Raingold is the Founder and President of Générale Continentale Investissements which is based in Paris. Générale Continentale Investissements has invested in over 1.000.000 m2 of offices and other commercial properties mainly in the Paris region and o
Rebekah heads Business Development at MARCOL, a UK family office and investment firm, to introduce new business growth opportunities and investor relationships across a diverse range of sectors in private equity and real estate.Prior to joining MARCOL, Rebekah worked at M7 as Divisional Director in the investor relations and capital raising team. Previously, she held various senior roles at CBRE in New York and London before moving to Cushman & Wakefield as a Partner in the London-based cross border capital markets team with primary responsibility for capital flows from North America into Europe.
Head of Acquisitions - Private Equity Real EstateBridge Industrial
United Kingdom
Lily Lin
MD - Head of UK and IrelandMARK
United Kingdom
Lily Lin is a Managing Director responsible for acquisitions and asset management across the UK and Ireland. Prior to joining, Lily worked at Vanke from 2015 to 2020, where she established its UK platform as Managing Director. Previously, she worked at UBS in London across various UK and Pan European real estate funds, and at Ascendas, Singapore’s first and largest industrial REIT, in Shanghai.
Mohamad is the CEO of SFO Capital Partners. He is also a member of SFO’s Board of Directors and its ESG Committee, and chairs the firm’s Executive and Investment Committees. Mohamad has been leading all aspects of the firm’s development since 2013.
With over 18 years of experience, Mohamad has been involved in more than USD15 billion of transactions in both advisory and principal roles across the real estate, hospitality and financial services sectors. Prior to joining SFO, Mohamad held positions at Kingdom Hotel Investments, JLL and Gulf Merger where he advised and acted on behalf of institutional investors and family offices on cross border transactions including mergers and acquisitions, direct investments and asset management.
Will is the Vice President, EMEA and Corporate Development at NavigatorCRE. He is primarily responsible for leading the EMEA markets for Navigator, as well as managing the organization's Investor Relations and Strategic Finance initiatives.
Portugal Deals
Size matters or happy in the middle of capital stack?
Volkert is presently President of the Board of Directors of Novo Banco Real Estate and has over twenty years of international experience in M&A, private equity and real estate. Prior to joining Grupo Novo Banco (GNB), Mr. Reig served as a Managing Director for Hudson Advisors. Mr. Reig Schmidt has a Master in Law from the Universidad San Pablo CEU and is admitted to practice in the Madrid Bar Association. Volkert is fluent in Spanish, German and English and has a basic knowledge of French and Portuguese.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Independent Advisor & Keynote Speaker, - Ex Amazon, Ex ZalandoVoice of the Occupier
Germany
Raimund is a Corporate Real Estate professional with 25 years experience in all sectors of Real Estate. Starting his career 1991 he has worked for a “medium sized enterprise” with a portfolio across all asset classes, he has worked 3 years for Union Investment and continued with 14 years’ tenure at Amazon Europe. Here he has been part of an amazing success story witnessing a growth from 600 million USD net sales to around 130 billion USD in 2016, building the most advances ecommerce logistic network for Europe. In September 2017, he has started as Vice President Corporate Real Estate for the number one European ecommerce Fashion platform Zalando SE in Berlin. Since June 2018 he is also Vice Chairman of the Committee on Logistics Properties
Scott O'Donnell is Senior Managing Director of Harbert Management Corporation ("HMC"), an investor in alternative investment strategies. Scott is head of Europe and responsible for HMCs European real estate investment activities. Prior to joining HMC, Scott served as a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in London and as the European Head and Investment Committee Member (International) of DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners.
Development vs Redevelopment
Which easy ESG wins, which carry the risks?
Transactional Behaviour - Underwriting risks & what assets offer decent value propositions?
Investment Appetite - Are investors ready to move up the risk curve?
The New Super Core - What role will ESG play in upcoming valuations?
Obsolescence Timeline - Safeguarding portfolios, preparing exit strategies and understanding potential to retrofit assets
Mobilising Capital - Adapting business models, reassessing risk & government incentives
Head of Sustainability, National Capital MarketsJLL
United Kingdom
Onno Saes
Director TransactionsEDGE
Netherlands
In 2016 Onno joined EDGE, a company owned by OVG Real Estate, as manager of the Capital Markets Team. He was named a Senior Capital Markets Manager in January, 2019. The Capital Markets Team is responsible for raising capital, and the structuring of funds and joint ventures. As a developer, EDGE has a large track record with institutional investors, investment banks and private equity firms. Experienced, methodical and confident, Onno is perfectly-suited to the high-pressure stakes of negotiating real estate transactions. Prior to his role at EDGE, he was with CBRE where he advised its clients on the valuation and underwriting of commercial real estate in and around Amsterdam’s CBD. Onno holds a MSc in Real Estate management & development.
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.
Expériences since October 2018 – Managing Director Constructa Asset Management - From June 2015 – October 2018 - Constructa Asset Management- Portfolio Director ( Retail and Offices) -2015 - 20009: The Retail Consulting GROUP -Retail Asset Management Partner -2009 - 2006: ACOFI National Investment Manager -2006 - 2000 : Wereldhave- Retail and Office Asset Manager RICS : Chartered Surveyor – MRICS – ESSEC : Master Management Real Estate – Université Aix en Provence – Marseille : Master in Law and Real Estate
Philip B. Gaillard is a Managing Director of HRO. Since joining in 1997, he has been instrumental in developing, leasing and selling many of HRO's projects in the Paris Region. Philip holds an AB degree in Economics and MBA in Real Estate, both obtained from University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). Since 1997, HRO has been a key player in Europe's dominant cities developing over 600,000 m² of offices occupied by some of the world's leading corporations. HRO provides a full range of advisory and asset management services to institutional clients
Anni made her way into the Real Estate Industry as a Banker. During the 1990's until 2007 she held various senior positions at Eurohypo in International Real Estate Lending. Between 2007 and 2019 she was Global Head of Real Estate Lending at DekaBank. Since then Anni is working on her own advising and consulting RE Investment Companies and PropTechs. For Companies undergoing a change process or for Start-Ups she acts as challenger and coach.
Anni's priority is her Senior Advisor Role for Gulf Islamic Investments (GII), an UAE-based financial services Company regulated by ESCA.
Arnaud joined Invel in 2014 and is instrumental in the execution & management of Invel’s transactions and the firm’s investment philosophy. Arnaud comes from an Investment Banking Advisory background, he was Managing Partner with Brookfield Financial, and was a director in the Eurohypo Global Advisory team. Arnaud has advised institutional clients on a range of RE transactions across Europe, from M&A to corporate and debt restructuring, fund raising, JV creations, and IPOs. He was involved in RREEF and Borletti Group’s equity disposal of the “Le Printemps” transaction in 2013, the Inmobiliaria Colonial restructuring, and the acquisitions of Groupe Taittinger & Société du Louvre. Arnaud started his career with PwC audit in Paris & London.
Mr. Fouillé is a Managing Director of H.I.G. Capital. He is involved in the Firm’s real estate investment activities across Europe. Mr. Fouillé has 20 years of experience. Prior to joining H.I.G. Capital, he was a Senior Vice-President at GIC and before that at Colony Capital where he was focused on Western Europe Real Estate investment strategy, pursuing both equity and debt investments. Mr. Fouillé previously held senior positions at Heitman and Tishman Speyer where he was pursuing a broad range of value add real estate investments across all asset classes and across Western and Eastern Europe.
Manuel graduated in Business Administration from Denver University (Colorado, USA) and holds an MBA from the University of Notre Dame. He has worked almost his whole career in Investor Relations. He joins Sareb from the consultancy King Worldwide Investor Relations, where he worked for the past four years. He was also the Founder and Managing Partner of Logical IR Solutions, Director of Strategy and External Relations at Parquesol Inmobiliaria, CEO of Eurocofin Investor Relations, Director of Equities at AB Asesores Bursatiles, Director of Investor Relations at Bankinter, and CEO of Link Securities, among other roles. He founded the Spanish Association of Investor Relations, being an Honorary Member and serving on it's Board.
Guillaume has an 18-year experience in the real estate industry and is Managing Partner at FARO CAPITAL PARTNERS, a boutique real estate investment and asset management company. He held senior positions at AEW and CBRE Global Investors from 2006 to 2017. Fellow member of the RICS, Guillaume holds a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from ESTP School and a Master’s Degree in Finance and Real Estate from Paris Dauphine University – where he is also a teacher.
An enthusiastic property professional with extensive acquisitions, asset management, property management, sales and leasing, planning and development, finance and investment experience in residential and commercial markets. I have gained exceptional experience and knowledge in both the commercial and residential real estate markets throughout my years as a property professional.
Mr. Jan Demeyere graduated with honors as architect in 1991 from Sint Lucas Ghent - Belgium and has over 20 years of experience in the international construction and real estate market, out of which more than 15 years in Romania. In 2015, Didier Balcaen and Jan Demeyere joined forces and founded Speedwell Real Estate Development.
Rebekah heads Business Development at MARCOL, a UK family office and investment firm, to introduce new business growth opportunities and investor relationships across a diverse range of sectors in private equity and real estate.Prior to joining MARCOL, Rebekah worked at M7 as Divisional Director in the investor relations and capital raising team. Previously, she held various senior roles at CBRE in New York and London before moving to Cushman & Wakefield as a Partner in the London-based cross border capital markets team with primary responsibility for capital flows from North America into Europe.
Simon is a Managing Director of H.I.G. Capital based in London, responsible for Asset Management across the H.I.G. European Real Estate portfolio. Simon has over 25 years of experience working in the European RE market in both advisory and investor roles. As a qualified MRICS surveyor, he has managed a diverse range of RE projects, including retail, offices and industrial portfolios covering acquisition, development, operational management and value add roles across Europe. Prior to joining H.I.G. Capital, Simon was Director and Head of Asset Management at Evans Randall Limited, RE investment firm whose holdings included a number of high profile assets in UK and Europe such as the Gherkin office building in London.
Head of Value Add Investing EuropeBarings Real Estate
Italy
Valeria Falcone is Managing Director for Barings Real Estate, a member of Mass Mutual Financial Group, based in Milan and covering the role Portfolio Manager for Barings Europe Value Add Fund and Italy Country Head. Since she joined Barings covered the role of Managing Director and Real Estate Country Head for The Carlyle Group for 11 years, where she had served also as Managing Director of Carlyle Real Estate SGR and board member for several spv vehicles across Europe. Prior to joining Carlyle, Valeria Falcone was with Pirelli & C. Real Estate (now Prelios), one of the largest Italian Real Estate Company with various roles. Prior to that Valeria Falcone was with CityBank as Project and Operational Manager and in Astrim as a Project Manager
George Molesworth is Managing Director, Credit at Apollo, where he works on the origination, structuring and execution of performing commercial real estate debt. Prior to joining in 2018, George was Executive Director in the Commercial Real Estate Finance Group at Goldman Sachs, and Associate Director in the Structured Real Estate Finance Group at Santander before that.
CEO AEXX CAPITAL, a Madrid/London based privately held investment firm specialised in direct lending, asset backed distressed debt and other unique special situations, primarily in western Europe. Alberto is the Co-founder of URBANIA INTERNATIONAL, a real estate private equity firm with over €1 billion under management. Mr. Lopez has been involved in over €2 billion of opportunistic, value add and debt real estate investing in Europe. Mr. Lopez received an International MBA from EM Lyon & EOI and has a Bachelor’s degree of Economics.
Prior to joining Oaktree in 2019, Mr. Rich was a senior advisor to Oaktree’s Real Estate group for three years. Before joining Oaktree, he was responsible for European Commercial Real Estate lending at Credit Suisse within the Asset Finance team, and served as a managing director for LNR Partners Europe. Mr. Rich began his career in commercial real estate with Goldman, Sachs & Co., before moving on to Deutsche Bank as a director and founding member of the European Commercial Real Estate Group..
Director, Loan Markets RE FinanceDeutsche Pfandbriefbank AG
France
Fabien started his career in 2006 in the NPL department of Archon Group in Paris before joining the Credit Suisse platform of Situs in London. In 2009, he worked for Credit Foncier de France on the origination of senior loans and acquisition of CMBS notes in Europe while restructuring some of the bank’s impaired positions. In 2012, Fabien joined ACOFI Gestion to participate in the structuring, fundraising and investment of several senior debt funds. Since 2016, he is responsible for the distribution of real estate loans arranged by Deutsche Pfandbriefbank in Continental Europe and the UK.
Philippe joined ICGRE in May 2020 and serves as Managing Director and Head of European Investments. Philippe joined from BNP Paribas Asset Management where he founded and headed the Real Estate Debt activity from 2017. Beforehand he was at Acofi Gestion where he was head of Real Estate Debt funds and was responsible for managing investments in CRE loans in Europe from 2013. In 2008 Philippe joined CBRE, the property consultancy firm, to set up the Debt Advisory business for France. Philippe holds a Master's degree in Corporate Finance from EM Lyon business school and a Master's degree in Business Law from Jean Moulin University.
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.
Mr. Bonetti is the managing Partner of the Durendal Ventures Group. European operations are based in Spain and Italy with offices in Florida, New York and Hong Kong. Thomas has more than 25 years of experience in executive management, M&A and private equity. Mr. Bonetti began his career in Silicon Valley from where he was recruited to serve in various senior management positions with Verizon International (New York, Hong Kong, Rome & Brussels). Followed by directing a private equity firm in Monte-Carlo, including a George Soros Group joint-venture with the Principality of Monaco. During his career, Mr. Bonetti has participated in three successful IPO’s and completed transactions across 40 countries valued in excess of €5 billion.
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.
Balazs joined Futureal in 2018 and leads the Group’s investment activities including transaction
origination as well as operating and capital partner selection in Western European markets.
Previously, Balazs held senior international acquisitions roles with London-based fund manager
Rockspring and German insurance giant Allianz, specialising in high-profile joint venture transactions.
Balazs has led projects in more than a dozen countries across three continents.
Specialized in project and financial management, Mr. Didier Balcaen has over 25 years of experience in the international construction and real estate market, out of which 17 in Romania. He is the Co-founder and CEO of Speedwell SRL. Speedwell has a portfolio of 150.000m2 commercial real estate and 5.000 residential units under development across 6 major cities in Romania, valued at over 1.3 Billion Euro.
Prior to co-founding Alte, Florent worked in the real estate private equity division of Blackstone where he led investments across multiple asset classes in Europe. Before Blackstone, Florent launched the European real estate equity and debt investment division of Partners Group, which he joined in 2007. Florent has been involved in the sourcing, underwriting, negotiating and structuring of more than Eur 2.3 billion of capital across 25 private equity real estate transactions in Europe. Florent received an M.Sc. in Management from the ESSEC business school in Paris and is a CFA charterholder.
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.
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Yotam Alroy
Co-Founder & Chief Business DevelopmentMindspace
Israel
Mr. Alroy co-founded Mindspace, a flex space operator with over 40 locations in Europe and the US, serving the entire spectrum from start up to the largest companies in the world. Mr. Alroy currently serves as Chief of Business Development.
Prior to co-founding Mindspace, Mr. Alroy had several executive business development roles at Roboteam and SHL Telemedicine (SWX: SHLTN). During his career he served as a partner for AYRAD Investments, a single-family office focused on high tech investments. Mr. Alroy holds a BA in Law & Business Administration from the Raichman University, and an EMBA from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.
Ann Marie Aguilar earned her bachelor's degree in architecture from the New York Institute of Technology and received Chartered Environmentalist status in 2012. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, member of the Sustainability Futures Group at the RIBA and a member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment. Ann Marie Aguilar joined the IWBI team in 2016, and from a base in London oversees the day- to-day activities of IWBI Europe, Middle East and North Africa. She supports the business development and technical teams and is the first point of contact for clients and design teams interested in all applications of WELL Certification.
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.
Sandrine has worked in the European Real Estate market for 18 years, and in Real Estate debt since 2005. Sandrine Amsili joined SCOR Investment Partners in November 2013 as Senior Real Estate Debt Manager. She was promoted to Head of Real Estate Debt on the 1st of December, 2018. Sandrine started her career in 2002 as an Acquisition Analyst for several real estate investment funds at CBRE Investors. In 2004, she became Asset Manager for French and German assets. She joined Eurohypo Bank in 2005 as a Credit Manager before being appointed Business Manager in the Origination department, in 2007. Sandrine holds a Master’s degree in Finance from EDHEC Business School. She has been a member of RICS since 2016.
Alexis Trancart is Senior Originator at Aareal Bank based in Paris, responsible for the origination and structuring of senior and junior loans secured against French real estate assets. He started his career at Pfandbriefbank in London where he held origination and underwriting positions with a pan-European focus before specialising in the French market when he moved to Paris in 2010. Alexis holds an MSc in Real Estate Investment from Cass Business School.
Benjamin Cartier-Bresson, 46, is head of Berlin Hyp representative office in Paris. Cartier-Bresson has extensive knowledge of the French commercial property market. He has specialised in property debt structuring since 2002. He is a former officer of the Royal Bank of Scotland and of Credit Suisse, where he was in charge of debt origination until 2008. More recently he held a senior position at DekaBank.
Managing Director, Head of Real Estate Finance FranceDeutsche Pfandbriefbank AG
France
Olivier Katan is a Managing Director for pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank , Head of International Clients, France. Before joining pbb in October 2013, he headed since 2005 the Origination team for France at Eurohypo AG. Olivier, who has over 20 years work experience in structured and asset finance, was previously responsible for LBO and asset financing at CDC Ixis and CLF Dexia. He focuses on origination and structuring of “tailor made” financing solutions for international clients buying real estate assets or portfolios in France and throughout Europe. He holds a postgraduate MSc in International Finance from HEC school of management Paris and he is a civil engineer (ESTP).
Pierre joined DeA Capital in 2018 and is supporting the investment and asset management strategy. He has more than 11 years of experience in M&A, financing and investment. Prior to joining DeA Capital Pierre was investment manager at FREO. Before, he worked 10 years at GE Capital including roles as Senior Manager for the M&A team (executing on several transactions across Europe) and the Private Equity funds. Pierre joined GE Capital through the Financial Management Program (FMP). Pierre graduated from NEOMA Business school, France.
Rémi has 24 years of experience in the real estate industry and leads the Firm’s activities in France. Prior to joining Benson Elliot in 2006, Rémi was an Investment Manager at Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners where he was responsible for four real estate portfolios in France and Italy. Previously, Rémi spent six years at Archon Group (a Goldman Sachs Group company), latterly as Portfolio Manager where he managed five portfolios valued at €1.8bn. Rémi holds a Masters in Finance & Real Estate from Paris University XII and a Bachelor’s in Law & Tax from the Sorbonne University. Rémi is a native French speaker and is fluent in Italian.
Chief Investment OfficerSienna Real Estate Capital
France
Samy is Chief Investment Officer at Sienna Real Estate. He has has over 18 years of experience in M&A and real estate investments. Samy has a Master of Business from HEC Paris. He speaks French, German, English and Arabic.
Sienna Investment Managers is a multi-expertise pan-European asset manager of the publicly traded investment holding company Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL). With a team of roughly 300 professionals, Sienna IM operates in Paris, Luxembourg, London, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Madrid, Amsterdam, and Seoul.
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.
Starting from January 2024, he has been appointed CEO of Costim Group, an industrial group focused on real estate development and on general contracting, with real estate developments amounting to around 800 millions and a turnover of 400 millions. From 2009 to December 2023, he was Managing Director of Risanamento S.p.A, a property and development Company listed on the Milan Stock Exchange, with €1 billion of Assets Under Management and CEO of all the subsidiaries of the Group. As CEO of the subsidiaries, he sold assets for € 3.0 billion: Paris properties’portfolio for €1,5 billion, a prestigious building in New York for €0,3 billion and other Italian assets for €1,2 billion.
Elle Xu joined Lendlease in September 2023. Previously, she was the Investment Director at Qatari Diar Europe. In her role at QD, Elle has been responsible for originating new investment opportunities, structuring JVs, and raising debt finance for QD’s existing projects in Europe. Elle has over 15 years of experience in real estate and investment banking. Elle is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and holds a Msc in Investment Management from Cass Business School.
José Pellicer joined M&G Real Estate as Head of Investment Strategy in August 2019. He is responsible for setting the investment strategy across the fund range as well as overseeing the development of new products. He has over 20 years research and investment strategy experience in the UK and Continental Europe. Prior to this, he was Global Head of Research at Patrizia AG and a partner at Rockspring PIM prior to its acquisition by Patrizia. He has also worked at Goldman Sachs in the Property Derivatives team and at AEW, where he was Head of its London research operation. Jose began his career in 2000 as a general economist at Deutsche Bank and moved into the real estate division in 2002. José holds a Masters of Real Estate Investment.
KRF Capital is an independent investment firm focused on Real Estate, Infra, Renewables and Technology. We focus on scalable opportunities across public/private companies across he US, Europe, UK, and LatAm. We source, underwrite and manage risk adjusted investments and we regularly co-invest.
Our experience includes complex, challenging and innovative equity and credit mandates which we successfully execute. Our team has transacted from the perspective of the lender, borrower, seller and buyer given we have worked on the Buy-Side, Sell-Side and Advisory. We leverage our expertise to structure and negotiate optimal investments.
Heinz Joachim Kummer is a partner of CMS Germany with more than 25 years of in-depth experience in the real estate sector, having advised on various landmark deals and projects. His expertise includes the full range of commercial real estate law with the focus on complex real estate transactions, structuring and advising private equity and other real estate funds. Before joining CMS, Heinz Joachim was a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP for over 20 years. Heinz Joachim is recognized as a leading real estate lawyer in the current issue of The Who’s Who Legal 2017. The same is true for the major legal directories.
Head of the Real Estate Private Equity strategy.ICG
United Kingdom
Danya Pollard
Head of Capital SolutionsCromwell Property Group
United Kingdom
As Head of Capital Solutions, Europe Danya is responsible for Cromwell’s capital, and new product development function and the launch of new investment strategies for institutional investors across the European region. Danya joined Cromwell in December 2019 and has 20 years’ experience across the Financial Services and Investment Management industry. Prior to joining Cromwell, Danya was a Fund Manager and Advisor to Fund boards at Ahli United Bank, where she spent over 6 years overseeing the global real estate platform, products and underlying investments. This encompassed full investment lifecycles, from initiation to liquidation, across all sectors and geographies.
Director, Value Add InvestmentsLaSalle Investment Management
United Kingdom
Kevin Kong is a Director in the Value-Add Investments team at LaSalle Investment Management. Prior to that, he was a Senior Vice President in the acquisitions team at Meyer Bergman, where he worked for over 8 years, and most recently a Director in the Multi-Managers Real Estate group at UBS Asset Management in London, where he led coverage of non-fund investments such as JVs, co-investments and fund formations. Kevin began his career in the EMEA Real Estate & Lodging team at Citigroup in London. He graduated from Oxford University (MEng, 1st Class Honours in Engineering, Economics & Management) and is a CFA charterholder.
Nadra Moussalem is CEO Colony Investment Management. Nadra joined Colony in 2000 and has served as the portfolio manager for the Europe investment products since 2013, overseeing investments, asset management and risk management. Nadra has led over €5.1bn of equity and debt investments across 36 transactions through multiple investment strategies. He serves as Chairman of the Board of AccorInvest, and is also on the board of Carmila.
Olivier Vellay
Partner, Separate AccountsBauMont Real Estate Capital
France
Mr. Vellay is responsible for BauMont’s separate account activity and business development in Southern Europe. He is based in Paris. Prior to joining BauMont, Mr. Vellay was Head of Europe Investments at M&G Real Estate and Head of European acquisitions at MGPA. Before that he was a Vice President at Morgan Stanley focusing on real estate credit investments. He started his career at GE Real Estate.
20+ years backed by family office and private equity partners for direct real estate investments, growth capital, non-bank lending and proptech venture building across Europe.
Experience includes:
- Managing Director, Strategic Capital for CC Real - a leading investor, developer and operator of European commercial real estate assets;
- Senior Advisor to Austrian single family office (owner of Constantia Industries) to build out diversified pan-European real estate strategy;
- MD of Wigan Acquisitions (offshoot of old family business) leading on co-investments & separate accounts;
- Series A capital raise for Bricksave proptech crowdfunding platform;
- Regional Partner for Pepper Group (non-bank lending & loan servicing)
Mr. Alroy co-founded Mindspace, a flex space operator with over 40 locations in Europe and the US, serving the entire spectrum from start up to the largest companies in the world. Mr. Alroy currently serves as Chief of Business Development.
Prior to co-founding Mindspace, Mr. Alroy had several executive business development roles at Roboteam and SHL Telemedicine (SWX: SHLTN). During his career he served as a partner for AYRAD Investments, a single-family office focused on high tech investments. Mr. Alroy holds a BA in Law & Business Administration from the Raichman University, and an EMBA from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.
Executive Vice PresidentSkanska Commercial Development Europe
Poland
Arkadiusz Rudzki took the position of Executive Vice President Leasing & Sales at Skanska’s CDE for Central and Eastern Europe in February 2020 and he is responsible for the leasing and sales of investment products, as well as real estate portfolio management and cooperation with key corporate clients across the CEE region. Arkadiusz joined the company in 2012 as Head of leasing and asset management for Poland, while also acting as the Key Client Director for CEE on the company’s Management Board. In January 2016, he was appointed the Managing Director the Managing Director of Skanska's development business in Poland, while remaining Board Member of the Senior Leadership Team in CEE region. Arkadiusz Rudzki has 20+ years’ experience .
Christophe Burckart, est Directeur Général France de IWG, leader mondial des espaces de travail flexibles et innovants. A ce titre, il est en charge de conduire les activités opérationnelles et la profitabilité des marques du groupe telles que Regus et Spaces et siège au conseil de surveillance de Stop&Work, autre réseau de tiers lieux innovants, dont IWG est actionnaire majoritaire. Il est également responsable de définir et de mettre en œuvre les initiatives de croissance, s’associant à des acteurs-clés du marché au travers de partenariats stratégiques. Diplômé de l’Institut Supérieur de Commerce, Paris il a développé sa carrière dans le secteur de l’informatique au sein d’IBM, Compaq, Compaq, HP, Dell et d’Honeywell Safety Products.
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
Managing Director, Co-Portfolio Manager European Real Estate
TPG Angelo Gordon
Natalie Breen
Global Head of Strategic Development – Real AssetsApex Group
United Kingdom
As the Global Head of Strategic Growth and Business Development, Natalie is responsible for driving organic growth across Sanne’s product offering and delivering cross border opportunities through the group’s network of international offices. Natalie brings more than 25 years of commercial experience having worked in Australia, Singapore, and the UK. She joins Sanne in London from PwC where she held the role of Global and UK Real Estate Legal Leader. Natalie’s extensive experience of working with international clients on cross-border transactions adds significant capability to the firm’s team of product specialists.
Partner, European Head of Core PlusApollo Global Management
United Kingdom
Boris joined Apollo in 2019 as a Managing Director responsible for the core plus real estate business. Prior to that, he was the founder and managing director of Agram Real Estate, a London based boutique real estate investment advisory firm and a former senior director at Colony NorthStar, Inc ("Colony"). Previously to that, Boris was a principal at Peakside Capital, established in 2010 following a spin out from Bank of America Merrill Lynch ("BAML"). At Peakside, he served as board member and investment committee member of various fund vehicles with responsibility for UK and central European investments. He was formerly a vice president at Real Estate Principal Investments group (“REPI”) at BAML.
Head of Acquisitions - Private Equity Real EstateBridge Industrial
United Kingdom
Eric Assimakopoulos
Founder & Managing PartnerRevetas Capital
United Kingdom
Eric has over 22 years of experience in the real estate sector, principally as a developer and investor. He is a US national and spent the majority of the last 15 years in Europe, initially investing in Belgium, Germany, and the Slovak Republic. Eric has completed over €1 billion of real estate transactions throughout US and Europe. In 2002, he launched and built Bifrost Investment Group (predecessor to Revetas Capital) into a leading CEE investment and asset manager. Since 2009, he has actively developed a platform to restructure and recapitalise distressed real estate in CEE, leading to the formation of Revetas Capital. Since then, Eric successfully restructured and recapitalised over €600 million worth of real estate assets in the region
23 years of Real Estate. Education: ESTP: Engineering diplomma, MIT: M.S. in Nuclear Engineering, Insead: MBA. Eric joined The Carlyle Group in 2001 as Fund Head in charge of establishing its European RE platform (from scratch). Over 12 years, he has raised and invested around 4 billion euros of equity (in 3 funds) in more than 100 transactions in 13 countries. Over this period, he had established a talented team of almost 50 people of different nationalities in 6 countries with no turnover. Prior to Carlyle, he was Head of Lasalle Investment Management continental European operations where he raised and invested several funds.
Mohamad is the CEO of SFO Capital Partners. He is also a member of SFO’s Board of Directors and its ESG Committee, and chairs the firm’s Executive and Investment Committees. Mohamad has been leading all aspects of the firm’s development since 2013.
With over 18 years of experience, Mohamad has been involved in more than USD15 billion of transactions in both advisory and principal roles across the real estate, hospitality and financial services sectors. Prior to joining SFO, Mohamad held positions at Kingdom Hotel Investments, JLL and Gulf Merger where he advised and acted on behalf of institutional investors and family offices on cross border transactions including mergers and acquisitions, direct investments and asset management.
Managing Director, Co-Portfolio Manager European Real EstateTPG Angelo Gordon
United Kingdom
Tom Rowley is based in London and is the co-Portfolio Manager of TPG Angelo Gordon’s Europe real estate funds. He is also a member of the European Real Estate Investment Committee. Prior to joining Angelo Gordon in 2012, Tom was the co-founder of a real estate investment and operating platform based in London. Prior to that, Tom was the Head of UK Real Estate for Babcock & Brown, where he purchased and managed opportunistic real estate investments throughout the UK, Europe and Asia. Tom has over 20 years of industry experience and holds a Business degree (Hons) from the University of South Australia.
Denis is a forward-thinking, open-minded entrepreneur with a passion for the unknown. After getting acquainted with Ethereum in early 2016 he immersed himself in studying blockchain technology and partnered up with Medius, an IT development company. In 2018 Denis co-founded Blocksquare, a company leveraging blockchain technology to enable established real estate businesses worldwide to easily create and issue tokens linked to real estate properties, opening the world of real estate investments to anyone with an internet connection.
Adrian Karczewicz
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.
Rami is a Partner & MD of Orion located in London. Since joining Orion in 2002, he has been involved in acquisitions, asset mgmt and realizations for the Orion European RE Funds across Europe with a particular focus on larger corporate transactions, pan-European portfolios, debt acquisitions, restructurings, hotel & retail investments. This includes active involvement in investments such as Infracity in Stockholm, Puerto Venecia or Sotogrande in Spain, the equity participation in Société Foncière Lyonnaise or the debt acquisition & restructuring of the Spanish company Inmobiliara Colonial. Before joining Orion he was an associate at Arthur Andersen within the transaction support team, advising large corporations on their RE strategies.
Morten Schultz is founding partner of Keystone Investment Management that works with investment and asset management for international investors. Morten has worked in the real estate sector for 20 years as advisor and operating partner for a long range of international investors and been involved transactions throughout the Nordics. He has been part of developing +275,000 sq m of residential, +100,000 sq m of office space and headed transactions in the Nordics of +2.5 bn EUR.
Marty Savenius is the Founder and CEO of Activen Ltd, a co-investing active management firm. Marty has worked with leading investors, developers and retailers across North America, Europe and Asia. Currently he is an equity partner at Atlanta based Activen affiliate, which develops, owns and operates real estate together with Lincoln Property Company in Sun Belt USA. Previously Activen served The Blackstone Group as a local operating partner in Europe and Marty also lead a €4bn Blackstone REOC workout as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Prior to that, he served H&M Hennes & Mauritz global leasing team in Asia. Marty started his investment career at Rockspring (now Patrizia AG), as Head of Nordic operations.
Mr.Slytå, Managing Director and Head of Nordics in the EMEA Real Estate team is leading a talented team of acquisitions and asset management professionals across Copenhagen and Stockholm where he is based.
Mr. Slytå is responsible for sourcing new investment opportunities and overseeing the asset management activities across the Nordics.
Prior to joining BlackRock in 2021, Mr. Slytå was the Head of Nordics for Barings Real Estate, the real estate investment management arm of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual). Before that he was the Head of Nordics for M&G Real Estate, the real estate investment arm of M&G Plc. (Prudential plc).
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Les valeurs ont-elles un sens ? Qui sont les gagnants et les perdants ?
La COVID-19 a-t-elle changé les valeurs ou les habitudes dans les affaires ?
CBD & Prime Locations - Qu’est-ce qui a changé ?
Tarifier la demande et atteindre l’échelle - Toutes les parties sont-elles alignées ?
Laurent Diot is CEO of HARVESTATE Asset Management. He was previously the CFO of NEXITY, leading French developer, from 2008 to early 2014. He has served as Vice President of NEXITY in charge of international operations and CEO of NEXITY International (2002-2007) and as Vice President, Business Development of NEXITY (2000-2002) in charge of mergers and acquisitions. Before joining the CGIS (Compagnie Générale d'Immobilier et de Services) in the Vivendi group as Director of Audit and Strategy (1996-2000), he served as project manager at the Compagnie des Eaux et de l'Ozone (Générale des Eaux Group). He holds a degree from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (H.E.C.).
Eric Salmon is a Partner and member of BauMont’s Investment Committee. Based in Paris, he is responsible Fund investments in France. Prior to co-founding BauMont, Mr. Salmon was a director with CarVal Investors.
Previously Mr. Salmon was based in London where he worked at LaSalle Investment Management in the special situations group. Mr. Salmon started his career with Lehman Brothers in the real estate investment banking group.
Executive Director Grégoire Deramecourt began his career in 2006 in Mergers and Acquisitions within the Aviva group then at Rothschild & Cie. In 2010, he joined JLL's Corporate Consulting and Transactions Services department, which is dedicated to users. In 2013, he became Senior Asset Manager at Aviva Investors Real Estate France. Since 2018, he was head of AEW's Asset Management Offices, where he was responsible for more than 1.5 billion arbitrations. Grégoire is graduated of IPAG Paris and EM Lyon Business School.
Mounir Hamrouni is Head of France for DekaBank and responsible for its Real Estate Lending business. He has in excess of 15 years of experience in Origination within multiple German banking institutions and held various positions including restructuring of non performing loans. Mounir achieved several billions of complex Investment and Development CRE loans in multiple asset classes with French and International institutional investors. He graduated from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne with a Master in Financial Engineering.
Head Real Estate Lending Department (structured loans/ development loans)La Banque Postale
France
Priscilla joined La Banque Postale in 2016 to create the arrangement desk of Structured Real Estate Loans and is currently Head of the Real Estate Lending Department (Structured loans mainly for PE investors / funds and development loans for property developers). She has a 10-year experience in corporate and investment banking with CaCib in New York and Paris and an above 15 -year experience in origination and execution of Real Estate Lending transactions in CaCib, DekaBank and currently La Banque Postale. She also had a 4-year experience as debt advisor in Hong Kong and is professor at Edhec in Real Estate Finance since 2009. Priscilla graduated from Edhec Business School and Oxford Brookes University. She is MRICS since 2016.
Rouzbeh Badi-Arez is a founding partner of Black Swan Real Estate Capital since 2021. He has more than 15 years of experience in European real estate investment, asset management and business development. Prior to joining Black Swan Real Estate Capital, Rouzbeh was heading investment and asset management activities at Dea Capital in France. Earlier in his career, he was responsible for sourcing and execution for Freo France. He also gained experience of equity and debt structuring as head of business development at Paref and he was responsible for international funds. He started his career as investment and asset management at Atemi (French Lehman Brothers asset management company). Rouzbeh graduated from Bordeaux Business School
Sophie Colin-Sansier
Head of Investment & Divestment FranceGenerali Real Estate
France
Sophie Colin Sansier joined Generali Real Estate as the Head of Investment and Divestment in 2014. Prior to this date, she has developed a consolidated experience during more than 15 years in the real estate market, holding senior positions such as Head of Investments in Beacon Capital Partners France and in charge of development, disposals and renovations for third parties at Bouygues Immobilier. She graduated from the ESSEC and holds a Master’s degree in economics and in finance.
"I’ve been so impressed by the caliber of participants who show up, it really is representative of top-level decision-makers. I think the networking has been fantastic. I really love the way that the day is organized with sessions intercourse by networking opportunities."
Rachel Hodgdon
President & CEO
IWBI
"GRI is amazing because in one or two days you're able to probably make as many meetings as you are usually able to make in one or two months. It's a great place to discuss trends, to exchange ideas, to exchange opinions. What I like about it is that people are transparent, they are able to disagree on panels, which is, when you think about it, it doesn't happen often in other conferences."
Michael Neuman
Vice president, investments, Europe
Ivanhoé Cambridge
"I really love the discussions, it is very thought-provoking. GRI always puts up a very good event in terms of sessions and attendees across the various different businesses."
Rebekah Tobias
Managing Director
MARCOL
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Greenman is a market-leading, sector specific, German real estate investment fund manager, authorised as an Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) by the Central Bank of Ireland under AIFMD Regulations 2013. Greenman manage Greenman Investments S.C.A., SICAV-FIS, a Luxembourg seated investment platform. Greenman has developed an investment model which is designed to generate investor income from the purchase, operation and sale of food anchored real estate. Using this model, Greenman has, since 2005, successfully selected, funded and purchased properties for a number of segregated compartments within the platform’s umbrella structure. Greenman follow a buy and hold strategy with a focus on food anchored retail real estate let on long term leases to highly creditworthy tenants. Currently Greenman have c.€690m of assets under management.
For over 200 years, JLL (NYSE: JLL), a leading global commercial real estate and investment management company, has helped clients buy, build, occupy, manage and invest in a variety of commercial, industrial, hotel, residential and retail properties. A Fortune 500® company with annual revenue of $20.9 billion and operations in over 80 countries around the world, our more than 103,000 employees bring the power of a global platform combined with local expertise. Driven by our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world, we help our clients, people and communities SEE A BRIGHTER WAYSM. JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. For further information, visit jll.com.
We are your strategic partner in talent acquisition for the real estate and infrastructure sector. With over 20 years of experience and a strong presence in Europe, we specialize in optimizing performance by maximizing human resources and operational strategies.
Our commitment to excellence drives us to find tailored talent, reshaping organizations and empowering professionals for success. In collaboration with the GRI Club, our global network spans 30 countries.
The company serves clients including AEW, Primonial REIM, Generali Real Estate, SwissLife Asset Managers and the French government. In March 2022 Deepki raised €150 million in a Series C round of funding which was jointly led by Highland Europe and One Peak Partners. Other investors include Bpifrance, through their Large Venture fund, and Revaia.
Accenta s'attaque à un immense défi environnemental : décarboner le chauffage et la climatisation des bâtiments, qui représentent 10% des émissions mondiales de CO2. Elle est issue de 3 années de R&D au X-Novation Center de l'Ecole Polytechnique. Grâce à des innovations portées par l'Intelligence Artificielle, l'entreprise a mis au point des technologies énergétiques uniques qui rendent accessibles et garantissent aux propriétaires immobiliers une décarbonation drastique du chauffage et de la climatisation. Avec la chaufferie bas carbone et la plateforme d'optimisation d'Accenta, vous chauffez et climatisez vos bâtiments de manière compétitive en divisant par 14 vos émissions de carbone et réduisant vos émissions carbone jusqu’à -95%.
R8tech is a proptech company with a HQ in Tallinn, Estonia founded in 2017. R8tech has developed an unique tool, R8 Digital Operator that takes commercial buildings' technical management to the next generation by ensuring highest indoor climate comfort and energy efficiency with Artificial Intelligence.
Our main focus are shopping malls, hotels and office buildings. Our client portfolio all around the Europe include CBRE and Radisson BLU in Finland, EDP in Portugal, WeWork in France etc.
VTS is the single platform for leasing and asset management
VTS is the industry standard used by over 45,000 commercial real estate professionals for centralized operations, powerful digital marketing, and intelligent investing with real-time market data.
Drooms is the leading provider of data rooms in Europe, connecting professionals and information in the worlds´ real capital markets. Our mission is to drive the transformation of manual processes into smart digital workstreams by connecting data and professionals across boundaries. We are expanding our tools and services around the globe through online, direct and indirect distribution channels with our passionate people, the main driver of our success.
EVORA Global is a professional real asset sustainability consultancy. Since our inception, ten years ago we have grown from three founding partners to a team of over 200 passionate and empowered professionals, with common values to support one another as a cohesive team which enables us to provide the best possible solutions and services to our clients.
We are Alpha – an award-winning provider of financial solutions dedicated to global corporates and institutions operating internationally.
Working with over 1,000 clients across 50+ countries, we blend deep expertise with cutting-edge technologies to solve complex problems across three key areas: FX risk management, global accounts and mass payments.
Key to our success is our team – over 350 people based across 9 global offices, brought together by a high-performance culture and a partnership
Savills is one of the UK’s leading multi-sector global property advisors with an international network of more than 30,000 professionals and 700 offices and associates throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. By offering the full spectrum of specialist advisory, management and transactional services both locally and globally, we are perfectly-placed to help our clients achieve their real estate needs with direct access to local markets on an international scale.
VARIG puts property owners in control of their environmental performance, amid the increasing demands for action and reporting on sustainability. Providing the complete overview of embedded and operational emissions on tenant, asset and portfolio level, VARIG also has features for continuous improvement and effect measurement, as well as automated reporting.
VARIG offers one complete system for the whole vertical of commercial real estate operations
BONARD is a global market research and investment intelligence firm that assists with data, strategies and assessments in rented residential asset classes, incl. student housing, micro living, co-living, etc. The company provides the highest level of secondary and primary in-field data for real estate investors, funds, developers and operators, making it a leading provider of independent and reliable research and solutions.
Kroll Real Estate Advisory Group (REAG) provides real estate advisory services tailored to meet the requirements of specific jurisdictions and aims to develop and increase the value of individual assets or properties. REAG has a network of over 750 professionals across Europe. Kroll provides proprietary data, technology and insights to help our clients stay ahead of complex demands related to risk, governance and growth. Our solutions deliver a powerful competitive advantage, enabling faster, smarter and more sustainable decisions. With 5,000 experts around the world, we create value and impact for our clients and communities.
One of the leading international corporate law firms. It is ranked 2nd largest law firm in France by revenue. Its unique positioning and highly recognised expertise enable it to deliver innovative, high-value-added solutions in Tax, Business, Corporate and Employment law.
CMS provides expertise in Banking & Finance, Commercial, Competition, Corporate, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Energy, Intellectual Property, Lifesciences, Real Estate, Technology, Media & Communications and Tax.
Colliers (NASDAQ, TSX: CIGI) is a leading diversified professional services and investment management company. With operations in 68 countries, our more than 15,000 enterprising professionals work collaboratively to provide expert advice to maximize the value of property for real estate occupiers, owners and investors. For more than 25 years, our experienced leadership, owning approximately 40% of our equity, has delivered compound annual investment returns of almost 20% for shareholders. In 2019, corporate revenues were more than $3.0 billion ($3.5 billion including affiliates), with $33 billion of assets under management in our investment management segment.
Wolf Theiss is one of the leading law firms in CEE and SEE. We have built our reputation on a combination of unrivalled local knowledge and strong international capability. We opened our first office in Vienna 60 years ago. Our team now brings together over 340 lawyers from a diverse range of backgrounds, working in offices in 13 countries throughout the CEE and SEE region. Over 80% of our work involves cross-border representation of international clients, and we offer full range of services.
WeWork is a global network of workspaces where companies and people grow together. We transform buildings into dynamic environments for creativity, focus, and connection. More than just the best place to work, though, this is a movement toward humanizing work. We believe that CEOs can help each other, offices can use the comforts of home, and we can all look forward to Monday if we find real meaning in what we do.
Our clients include individuals who invest directly and those who invest through businesses or financial advisers. We also serve the investment needs of institutions like insurance companies, pension funds and charities.
The Real Estate Investment arm of Goldman Sachs' Asset Management Division focuses on investing in equity and debt positions across all forms of real estate.
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Prior to joining EUROSIC, Adrien BLANC worked for UBS as Head of France for its real estate division. He spent 10 years at Morgan Stanley where he took up various roles in acquisitions and asset management both in France and internationally. He was notably Director of asset management for France, Benelux and Scandinavia in 2006-2010. In the past, Adrien has held numerous board directorships positions notably for Compagnie la Lucette, Altaréa, Korian and Ogic. He began his career working for Archon (Goldman Sachs group). Adrien has obtained a masters in Management science from the Sorbonne, and holds a DESS in Construction strategy and urban development.
Alberto Haddad
Senior Advisord.i.i.
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.
Domeo è la prima piattaforma di property management online italiana per gli affitti a medio-lungo termine.
L’obiettivo di Domeo è diventare il punto di riferimento per le locazioni in Italia ed in Europa, offrendo servizi a tutela dalla morosità, di gestione dei pagamenti e dei contratti di locazione e non solo.
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