France GRI est un événement annuel organisé à Paris et rassemblant des investisseurs seniors, de prêteurs et de promoteurs actifs sur le marché immobilier français et européen.
Notre format exclusif permet aux discussions d’être engageantes et libres entre pairs, traitant les actualités les plus importantes du secteur. Trouvez rapidement les bons partenaires pour votre entreprise, établissez des relations de grande valeur et poursuivez la conversation par la suite.
Gestion de portefeuille - Les acteurs immobiliers adoptent-ils de plus en plus de solutions tech, innovation & ESG pour construire et diversifier un portefeuille CRE innovant ?
William De Vijlder is the Group Chief Economist of BNP Paribas. He began his career in the Economic Research Department at Belgium’s Generale Bank in 1987 and became Chief Investment Strategist in the Asset Management division in 1989. He was subsequently Managing Director and Global Chief Investment Officer at Fortis Investments. When Fortis Investments merged with BNP Paribas Investment Partners in 2010, he became a member of the Executive Committee of BNP Paribas Investment Partners as CIO Partners and Alternative Investments and subsequently CIO Strategy and Partners. In September 2013, he was appointed Vice Chairman of BNP Paribas Investment Partners. Since September 2014 he is Group Chief Economist of BNP Paribas.
Accelerated shifts of technology and innovation or slow financial results?
Portfolio Management - Are real estate players embracing more and more tech, innovative & ESG solutions to build and diversify an innovative CRE portfolio?
Improvise, Adapt, Overcome - What are the main core business changes on real estate investment and operational management?Â
Space & Digital Transformation - Are these transformations generating some of the fastest-growing smart and innovative building management practices?
User Experience & Preferences - Are efficiency and value the most challenging paths towards creating well-being and greater experiences for the users?Â
Optimizing Portfolio Performance - Are AI and Big Data Analytics enhancing efficiency and creating better experiences towards new management and operational practices?
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 Office & Retail - EuropeOxford Properties Group
France
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 Denis
PresidentAG Real Estate
Belgium
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.
Etienne Pax is Managing Director, responsible for investments and strategic asset management in Europe. Previously, Etienne served as Managing Director with Richemont Group, where he set up a fund focusing on value-add opportunities in North America and Europe. He also worked for Standard Life Investments where he was responsible for acquisitions, asset management and dispositions across Continental Europe. Etienne graduated from HEC Business School in Paris and received a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Chicago.
Sandrine Talbot
Head of Sales FranceDrooms
France
After 15 years spent in large companies in marketing and sales positions, I took up the Drooms challenge: to develop the activity of this digitalization expert on French-speaking markets. With 18 years of experience, Drooms improves asset management through technological innovation and makes Due Diligence intelligent. Results-oriented, tenacious, attentive to customer issues, I combine your constraints and our solutions to optimize your processes and enhance your assets.
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.
Thomas joined QuadReal as Vice President, International Real Estate in May 2019. He forms part of the investment team which is focused on building the international portfolio, with an emphasis on investing in Global Cities in UK and Europe. Thomas joins QuadReal having spent eight years at Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (MSREI) in London, where he was originally hired as an Analyst and was promoted to Vice President prior to joining QuadReal. At MSREI, he was a part of the pan-European acquisitions team, where he invested in Western Europe and CEE. Prior to MSREI, Thomas spent a year as an investment analyst for AEW Europe’s real estate private equity fund. Thomas graduated from HEC Paris with a specialisation in Economics.
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.
Benjamin Richard is the General Manager of Aareal Paris Branch. Since joining Aareal in 2006, Benjamin has held various positions within the bank and has worked on a wide range of financings secured against all class of assets: office, logistics, retail, residential and hotel.
Graduate of a Paris IX Dauphine Magistère, CFA charterholder, SFAF, Gilles CASTIEL has extensive experience in financing real estate in Europe. Before joining SCOR Global Investments in 2013, Gilles was, from 2005 to 2013, Director of the French origination department of Eurohypo in Paris. He previously held various finance positions within the CDC group and then at Natixis.
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.
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
Charles de Guerry is Managing Director at Meeschaert Capital Partners, leading the French platform of Real Estate investments. He has over 14 years of experience in real estate, with a primary expertise in value-add deals. Prior to joining Meeschaert Capital Partners, Charles worked for 12 years at BlackRock Real Estate in London and Paris, successively in acquisitions and in asset management, before taking charge of the French platform for real estate investments. Charles started his career in 2006 at Nomura in London, working on the financing of value-add transactions.
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.
Nabil Mabed joined PGIM Real Estate in 2014. He is acting as Head of France, Spain and Portugal, and Senior Portfolio Manager responsible for PGIM Real Estate’s European Value-Add funds business. Before joining PGIM Real Estate, Nabil had previous experiences with Doughty Hanson & Co, Morgan Stanley Real Estate and Morgan Stanley Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley in London and Paris. Nabil has a Masters degree in Civil Engineering and Finance from Ecole Centrale Paris, is fluent in French, English, Spanish and Arabic. Nabil is a French and Algerian national.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Global Real Estate leader for more than 25 years, Xavier has a solid international experience in Real Estate and Construction matters, on most of the asset types.
He is an executive specialized in footprint optimization, workplace strategy, major projects delivery, climate impact investment.
Xavier is convinced that generalized hybridization is a fantastic opportunity to generate intergenerational solidarity and sustainable developments for all kinds of organization, and that there is an urgent need to further improve buildings' energy performance, while changing the way they are used and making progress on global recycling.
In that purpose, CRE strategy must reflect the ambition of the organization and bring an increased drive on it.
Tania Bontemps is President of Union Investment Real Estate France, leading the Paris subsidiary since 2011. She has over 17 years of experience in general management, investment and asset management, leading multi-disciplinary projects and teams for international real estate companies. Prior to joining the real estate sector, Tania started her career in the high-tech sector with the Japanese-American group Senko in Boston (USA). When she moved to Paris in 2003, she joined Renta Corporacion, a listed property company. With Renta as Managing Director, she was in charge of acquisitions and asset management for the French, English and German markets. Tania joined Union Investment in 2011 as Managing Director of the French management company.
Rouzbeh Badi-Arez
Founding PartnerBlack Swan Real Estate Capital
France
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
Head of Investment and Asset ManagementAG Real Estate
France
Thibault Delamain, MRICS, is responsible for AG Real Estate investment and asset management in France. Thibault is in charge of defining and implementing the investment strategy for 1,2 b€ AUM (office, retail, Logistics and diversifies assets). Thibault has 14 years of experience in the field of real estate for private and Institutional Investors.
Ashok Balabhaskarane is responsible for WOJO's development activities in France and Europe. Ashok began his career within JLL’s Consulting & Transaction Management team in 2007 where he advised local and multi-national clients, in the development and implementation of real estate strategies. He then joined AXA IM in 2015 as Leasing Manager where he designed and marketed innovative workspaces.
M. Martin started his career within the Boston Consulting Group in Hambourg leading him to have lots of International missions. Then in 2005, he entered the famous DAIMLER Group as Commercial Director of the Mercedes-Benz “public transports” branch. In 2007, he created the ARMORGREEN company, specialized in the Renewable Energies. In 2015, ARMORGREEN integrated the Group LEGENDRE and became Legendre Energie. Pascal Martin remained President of Legendre Energie and became Managing Director of Legendre Immobilier & member of the Board of Directors of the Group LEGENDRE.
Maxime is in charge of opening new residences across Europe. He previously worked at Hammerson, in asset management, where he was in charge of investments and development of shopping centres, and then of the Outlets business, in particular the development of the recent venture VIA Outlets.
Hideki Kurata
Head of Real Estate France & Head of Living StrategiesSchroders Investment Management
France
Hideki Kurata is Head of Real Estate France & Head of Living Strategies at Schroders Capital.
He has over 25 years of experience in financial services and real estate and has previously held positions at Greystar, AXA IM, GE Capital, JP Morgan and BNP Paribas.
Hideki holds a master’s degree in economics from Paris X University, is a graduate of ESCP Business School and holds an MBA from INSEAD.
Entrepreneur and Senior executive with strong business development capacities Strong experience in team Management, in Investment process and solid track record of Real Estate Transactional experience across both France and Continental Europe. Very strong personal and professional ethics (RICS) Experience in working in Anglo Saxon environment, Reporting to German Board (IVG Asset Management Immobilien AG). Experience of Rising, Investing and Managing Prime portfolio 2.3 billion € Offices and Retails. More than 20 years’ experience in alternative Asset Classes as Executive Manager and Investor working cross-border with international clients and Funds Manager. Block sales with Institutional investors.
Eric started his career with management experiences in the trading division at Total in Singapore, in the European parliament at the European Union in Brussels, in the international private equity division at ABN AMRO bank in Amsterdam. He continued on as Director of development at REGUS Europe, before setting up GUILLON&CO, and being appointed as an Executive Advisor to the Staycity Aparthotels Group in 2010 He possesses over 20 years of experiences in the arranging and management of international investment and development most notably of innovative growth businesses, real estate, serviced offices, serviced residences, hospitality, or other related services. Eric has lived extensively on 4 continents
Senior real estate executive with 18 years’ experience in investment, development, asset and portfolio management in Europe, within leading international organizations
Specialties: Real estate investment and asset management.
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).
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.
Guillaume has a 20-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 Investment Management from 2005 to 2017. Fellow member of the RICS, Guillaume holds a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from ESTP and a Master’s Degree in Finance and Real Estate from Paris Dauphine University – where he is also a lecturer since 2013.
FARO CAPITAL PARTNERS is an affiliate of SIOR
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
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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.
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.
European leader in the commercial real estate market
We unravel the various market cycles and offer the most relevant analyses to respond to your needs. Based on more than 50 years of real estate expertise, we are present in 30 countries, mainly in Europe. Our daily mission is to anticipate economic, social and environmental changes to integrate the real estate of today into the city of the tomorrow.
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.
