GRI Light Industrial & Logistics
Europe eSummit 2021

Mr. Graham FRICS has over 30 years' international experience in the real estate logistics sector. Prior to joining Gramercy, Paul headed real estate at DHL, the world's largest logistics provider, for the region Europe, Middle East and Africa. He led a front line team of 80 people with responsibility for around 3,000 facilities in 100-plus countries. Paul brings substantial occupational and business experience to Gramercy.

Ben Bannatyne is president of Prologis Europe and chairman of the company’s European Management Executive Committee. He is responsible for Europe’s leading logistics real estate platform, which comprises 17 million square meters across 12 countries, as of 30 June 2019. Previously, Ben served as the company’s managing director and regional head for Central & Eastern Europe – a role which he held for more than seven years - with overall responsibility for the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. Ben joined Prologis in 2008 from JLL where he was managing director for Central Europe. An accomplished leader, Ben brings significant real estate knowledge and expertise with more than 25 years’ experience.

Mike is Head of UK, overseeing all UK business operations, having previously held the position of Head of Asset Management for Europe excluding Ireland. Mike joined Kennedy Wilson Europe in October 2015 and brings over twenty years' experience in the property and investment industry. Prior to Kennedy Wilson Europe, Mike worked at The Blackstone Group for ten years, where he was a Managing Director in the Real Estate Group, and latterly he led the management of its pan-European logistics business (Logicor) as well as its office portfolio. Prior to Blackstone, Mike was at Deloitte. Mike is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

Nick Cook is Chief Executive Officer of Gazeley, GLP’s platform in Europe. Nick was previously Chief Operating Officer of Gazeley where he oversaw all capital deployment, disposition and operational aspects of the business in Europe. Nick joined Gazeley in 2002 and has held several key positions including establishing Gazeley’s profitable UAE business unit and looking after Gazeley’s business in China, while maintaining a detailed involvement in all aspects of the European business. Nick is a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and has 19 years’ experience in the real estate development and investment market.

Christian Jamison is the managing partner of Valor Real Estate Partners LLP (‘Valor’), a pan-European industrial platform, headquartered in London, focused on urban/infill industrial and logistics properties. Founded in 2016 by Christian and his partners, Valor is a full-service development management and investment business with offices in London and Paris. The company currently manages a 75 asset portfolio totalling approximately 6 million sq. ft on behalf of global investors. Prior to Valor, Christian established and served as CEO of Delin Property until 2016 and previously held senior roles at JP Morgan, GE Capital and Credit Suisse.

David is Global Managing Partner and Global Head of Logistics Acquisitions at Thor Equities. Previously David was a European director with The Blackstone Group’s European logistics platform, Logicor. He was involved in over €3bn of transactions in over 10 countries across Europe and was responsible for the valuations of the €13bn platform sold to China Invesment Corporation (CIC). David received an Executive MBA from the University of Cambridge, where he and peers formed Lookfit, an avatar / augmented reality based startup, focussing on solving the issue of reverse logistics.

Logan Smith is Head of European Logistics at Hines since April 2020. Previously, he oversaw Logistics and Industrial RE with BNP Paribas Real Estate. He has 19 years’ experience in logistics RE investing in Europe and North America. Prior to BNP, he served as Head of Acquisitions and Dispositions for Prologis in Europe where he and his team sourced and executed €2.2bn of transactions. In other roles, he has served as CIO of the TPG Capital owned entity P3 Logistic Parks in Prague, and Head of Acquisitions for an affiliate of Realterm Global, based in the United States. He began his career in real estate as an Associate in the Management Development Program of Security Capital Industrial Trust in Europe, which subsequently became Prologis.

Marco Riva is a Managing Director and is responsible for logistics investments across Europe, as well as acquisitions and asset management in Southern Europe. Prior to joining Meyer Bergman in 2018, Marco worked for 5 years at LogiCor where he invested over €2 billion in logistics properties. Marco began his career at Goldman Sachs in Italy and graduated from the University of Bologna with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration. Marco speaks Italian, English and French.

Mr Spencer is the President of the Board of PPM. He is responsible for the asset management for Polonia I and Polonia II, the origination and execution of new business in Poland, as well as the managerial oversight of Peakside’s office in Warsaw. He was until recently the Co-Head/Managing Director of KSP Real Estate Investment Management. From 2005 to 2012, Mr Spencer was active as Managing Director/Co-Head Europe and member of the Investment Committee with Heitman, directed the Portfolio Management for Heitman’s European Private Equity group and was the Portfolio Manager for Heitman European Property Partners IV.

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.

Thomas Karmann is managing director, regional head Northern Europe. He oversees all activities of Prologis in Germany, Benelux and the Nordics. This includes new developments, customer relations and working with local development teams. He is also responsible for the performance of all operating properties in the Northern Europe. He works in close cooperation with the finance and property management departments and leasing teams regarding the leasing and re-leasing of facilities. Karmann joined Prologis in June 2012. He has over 20 years of professional experience in logistics real estate. Prior to Prologis, he worked for the international logistics real estate developer Gazeley as senior vice president for European operations for six years

With an 'entrepreneurial' mind for private and international companies, as well as a strong real estate and logistics culture acquired over the last 20 years, Christophe Chauvard is responsible for the overall commercial activities and management of P3's financial performance in France, including acquisitions and development, management and maintenance of a logistics portfolio and building relationships with all partners. He takes part in the preparation and supervision of P3's BTS projects in Western Europe with the support of his team and in coordination with the P3 headquarters in Prague.

Gregory joined DTZ Investors in 2016 as a Senior Investment Manager. He started his career in 2002. After working as a solicitor in Allen & Overy’s real estate and fund practices, he joined the Joint Ventures business of Bank of Scotland in 2007, moving to Paris in 2008, where he looked after Lloyds / HBoS’s larger pan-European real estate joint ventures. Prior to joining DTZ Investors, he worked as COO / head asset manager of pan-European investment structure owned by a family office. Gregory is responsible for the sourcing and execution of European investments across all asset classes.

Jo has been active in European real estate since 1997. He broadened his real estate expertise in various companies of the Belgian listed investment fund Ackermans & van Haaren. Jo has held various positions where he was responsible for the asset management of the REIT Leasinvest Real Estate and for the investment policy of the Extensa Group. He also acted as development manager for the Tour & Taxis reconversion project in Brussels. From 2006 until 2010, Jo headed the Real Estate Department of The Brussels Airport Company. Jo has been the Chief Executive Office of Montea since 2010. Under his management, the portfolio has grown from €200 million to €1.104 billion, and it continues to grow at a pace of €100 million to €150 million per year.

Laurent VOUIN started his career in construction in 1990 in Hong Kong and Paris, and joined Nexity office development in 1996, and Tishman Speyer in 2000. He moved to Investment Management at AXA Real Estate in 2003, as a development manager, becoming later their head of Asset Management in France and then leading AXA RE development and logistic funds. Laurent VOUIN joined Savills Investment Management in 2015 as head of their France and Benelux activity.

Mai-Lan de Marcilly is a Director at KKR in charge of France and hospitality. Prior to joining KKR, Ms. de Marcilly was at PGIM in London where she focused on pan-European opportunistic investments. Ms. de Marcilly also spent time at LaSalle IM, MSREF and RBS in Paris and London. Ms. de Marcilly holds an M.B.A. from ESSEC Business School, Paris.

Philippe has over 30 years’ experience working in senior roles in the real estate sector, including in construction, development and asset management. He joined Baytree from Quartus, a leading contractor and developer in the logistics space, where he was responsible for securing land opportunities and constructing buildings for developers and owner-occupiers. Prior to Quartus, Philippe worked for GSE and DTZ Asset Management. Philippe is responsible for securing new opportunities in France and leading the delivery of Baytree’s secured development portfolio in this market of over 500,000 sqm of logistics space.

Rémy Vertupier is Co-Head of Funds & Separate Accounts of AEW. Previously, he was the Fund Manager for AEW Europe’s LOGISTIS fund and was involved in the management of the LOGISTIS platform. Prior to this role, he was Head of AEW Europe’s Logistics Asset Management team. He joined the firm as an Asset Manager in the Office team in 2004, subsequently leading asset management for the firm’s logistics platforms. Rémy holds an MBA in finance and real estate from ESSEC Business School in Paris.

Harry is a Partner and Regional Director of Industrial Department at Colliers International Czech Republic since December 2018, and is on the leadership board for I&L. He has been working in the CEE Industrial business for over 10 years with vast experience gained as his last appointment as Head of CEE industrial for JLL. With a good understanding of the industrial sector including supply chain, Harry is a partner in the business with good connections with developers and end users alike. Over the last 8 years Harry has accomplished more than 100,000 sqm on a yearly basis helping tenants such as Metro/Makro, Mattel, Foxconn amongst others. After Glasgow Academy schooling, Harry went on to complete a merit HND in Marketing and Business.

Richard Wilkinson joined CTP Invest in 2018 as Group CFO and brings over 30 years of experience in real estate finance, asset management and executive oversight from his previous posts at Erste Bank. Richard’s unique central European experience guides his vision for CTP’s stable growth plan to reach a portfolio size of 10 million m2 across the 7 CEE countries where CTP is active. Since joining CTP, Richard oversaw the first sale of a portion of CTP’s portfolio of the portfolio to a 3rd party, and organized the largest industrial real estate refinancing in CEE history.

Dr. Walter Hampel is a Managing Director for Deutsche Pfandbriefbank and is based in Munich, dealing with clients active in the CEE Markets as well as International clients across Europe. Walter has been active in the CEE property markets for more than twenty years, including seven years based in Prague between 1995 and 2001 as a real estate lender for Austrian and German banks.

Łukasz Toczek is a specialist in financial modeling and adept at data analysis. Currently, as Vice President Investments at Griffin Real Estate, Łukasz navigates day-to-day operations across European Logistic Investment BV (ELI), a dynamically developing logistic platform and a leading player in the Polish logistics sector with high-quality and large-scale portfolio. His key responsibilities include overseeing the platform’s development, identifying new business opportunities as well as maintaining investor relations and continuously attracting potential investors. He is also actively involved in Griffin Real Estate’s projects outside Poland. Previously, Łukasz was engaged in the development of Chariot Top Group B.V.’s portfolio.

Artur Mokrzycki holds the position of Head of Capital Markets Europe. Artur is responsible for investor management and relationships including capital sourcing and structuring for the Panattoni platform across Europe. Artur Mokrzycki has 20 years experience in the real estate investment management. He joined Panattoni Europe from AEW Europe where he held various positions including Managing Director for Central Europe and fund manager. In these capacities he was responsible for debt and equity raising, acquisitions and management of a € 1,3 bn real estate portfolio. Artur is civil engineer, graduate from Polytechnique Cracow, Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris and holds a MBA from HEC Paris.

Ekaterina is a CEO and Co-Founder of Mirastar. Mirastar is a new specialist pan-European developer, investor and manager of big box logistics assets established by Ekaterina Avdonina, CEO, and Anthony Butler, CIO, in a joint venture with M7 Real Estate. From 2010 to 2018 Ekaterina was with Delin Capital Group focused on real estate investments and raising debt and co-founded DCAM. Previously, Ekaterina was with ING Real Estate in the Netherlands. Prior to ING, Ekaterina was with GVA in Moscow focused on the execution of development projects. Ekaterina graduated with a MSc. in Real Estate from Cass Business School and received a degree in Corporate Finance and Accounting from the Finance Academy under the Russian Government.

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

Joseph Ghazal is Regional Head Northern Europe and has the overall responsibility for ProLogis' operations in Scandinavia Benelux Germany Austria and Switzerland. In the years before Joseph was heading the Benelux and the Middle East operations where his r

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

Danilo Hunker is responsible for managing the local office in Berlin and driving investment strategy and asset management for Germany. Danilo has over 20 years of experience in commercial real estate in Germany. He is former Head of Germany at Valad Europe /Cromwell Property Group, where he was responsible for the investment and asset management of a combined portfolio of up to €1bn, working very closely with some of the world’s largest private equity businesses. Danilo holds an MBA in International Real Estate from Bauakademie Biberach and a Bachelor of Commerce (Real Estate) from the university of applied science in Berlin and is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Born in 1964. Degree in physics from the Technical University of Berlin. Until 1997 Research. 1997-1999 Redevelopments in Berlin. 1999-2005 Managing partner of the Linie Projektmanagement GmbH & Co. KG. Since 2005 BEOS AG as head of acquisitions - since 2016 board member. Since 2009 Lectures at IREBS, DVFA, University of Wuppertal, TU Berlin, etc. Since 2017 head of crenet Deutschland e.V. Since 2019 Head Industrial & Logistics Swiss Life Asset Managers Germany. Since 2020 director BEOS Logistics GmbH

I have been with UPS for more than 14 years now. I started in the operation 2006 as a Trainee, became PR and marketing representative in 2007 at the German headquarter in Neuss and was deputy spokesperson for the company for more than 10 years. I specialized in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and communication and somehow logical I became representative for Sustainability and City Logistics topics for Germany in 2017. Ever since I am connecting internal and external stakeholders who are in charge of City Logistics questions and try to find tailored solutions for the so called Last Mile Delivery in a variety of cities within Germany and Austria.

Max Kreuter holds the position Managing Director Capital Markets Germany. Max is responsible for investor management and relationships including capital sourcing and structuring for the Panattoni platform particularly in Germany and across Europe. Max Kreuter has 18 years experience in real estate investments. He joined Panattoni from PGIM where he worked 14 years in their Munich and London office. Max held various positions with PGIM including Executive Director and fund manager for a Pan European Open Ended fund, a Value Add fund and a globally investing German special fund. Max holds a MSc in Business Administration and Economics from University of Regensburg.

Andrew is Strategy Director at LondonMetric and a member of the Executive Committee. Andrew joined LondonMetric in May 2014 from The British Land Company PLC where he worked for nine years and was a senior member of the retail team and Head of Investment Portfolio Management across its portfolio.

Derek is a chartered surveyor who has worked in the industrial property sector since 1993 having worked in both the private and listed sectors. Prior to 4i Derek held senior positions in Hansteen plc and since 2014 was the UK Property Director. Derek has been involved in acquisitions that have included direct property, portfolios, corporates, JPUTs, PLC takeovers and bank loans across the UK and Europe and has transacted circa £3bn of property in his career.

Diederik Schol (London) joined KKR in 2017 and is an Associate in the European real estate team. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Schol was an analyst at Goldman Sachs working in the real estate financing group. Prior to that, he was an analyst at RBC Real Estate Capital Partners working in real estate lending. He holds a BA from Manchester University and an MSc from the London School of Economics.

Mark is a founding partner of Caisson and sits on its Management Committee which oversees the overall business direction of the firm. Mark oversees Asset Management. Mark commenced his career with Houston Lawrence, the specialist Covent Garden surveying firm, in 1993 he was involved in the development of Industrial Securities, a joint venture between Houston Lawrence and Marcol specialising in development and asset management of industrial properties throughout the UK. Mark joined The iO Group (subsequently TeeslandiOG, now Valad Property Group) in 1998 to work in the UK asset management team progressing in 2001 to the establishment of a European Asset Management platform.

Richard is formerly Head of Logistics at CBRE and has been involved in Logistics for in excess of 20 years and has extensive contacts in the Developer, Occupier and Equity spheres. More particularly he has been involved in; the creation of Urban Logistics REIT in 2016, a listed £115m Market Cap UK Urban Logistics platform which has generated 20% total returns in FY 2016,17 and 18, Founding Partner at M1 Agency LLP (Logistics Consultancy), setting up of ELREP in 2018 with James Rushworth and Doug Innes. First acquisition €100m Part pre-let, Part spec development at Schiphol Airport, €1.5bn pipeline, involved in transacting > €400m of logistics investments across the UK & Europe in 2018.

Coert believes in the power of innovation and knows better than anyone how to convert a vision into solid plans that result in sustainable returns. For Coert, Cradle to Cradle® is the guiding principle for giving future generations something valuable. His unstoppable belief in Human Centered Design results in buildings where labor productivity is demonstrably higher than in comparable office buildings. Coert was voted the most influential sustainable real estate professional in the Netherlands in 2013 and Fortune Magazine sees him as one of the world's 25 top eco-innovators.

As Head of SEGRO Netherlands, Eelco Ouwerkerk is responsible for the overall operation and development of SEGRO in the Netherlands. Previously, Eelco held the position of Transition & Innovation manager at HOMIJ Technische Installaties bv. Within HOMIJ Eelco was responsible for the strategic development and implementation of concepts and applications in the field of energy transition, digitization and circularity. He has also worked for Slavenburg’s Bouwbedrijven BV and Vailog Nederland B.V., a SEGRO Group Company. In these positions, Eelco has gained a great deal of expertise in the realization of large real estate projects, including warehouses. With his technical insight he translates the needs of the market into future-proof buildings.

James has over 27 years’ experience in the RE sectors, 21 of which he has been an investor. He was previously European Fund Manager at Aberdeen Standard Investments where he opened the continental office in Paris in 2007. His transaction history includes; funding in excess of 1,300,000m2 of logistics developments across Europe, acquired > €1bn of assets since 2014 and supporting €300m of logistics sales in Germany, France and the Netherlands since 2016.

Olle Van Alphen studied business economics at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. In 1999 he began his career in the real estate division of JPMorgan in London. At JPMorgan, Mr. Van Alphen was responsible for a large number of real estate transactions throughout Europe. In 2005, Mr. Van Alphen returned to the Netherlands to work for ABN Amro as Head of Real Estate Structured Finance. From 2006 to 2009, he worked at HSH Nordbank as a Head of HSH Asset Management. Since 2009 Olle van Alphen has worked as part of the Management Boar at ARC Real Estate Partners, formerly known as Annexum Internacional.

Pieter is a managing director at Cairn Real Estate since 2011. Pieter started working in 2001 as an analyst within investment banking for Lehman Brothers. In 2005 Pieter joined ABN AMRO MeesPierson where he became managing director Real Estate (in 2008) responsible for all real estate investment funds and strategies.

Mr. Buck, as Senior Director of European Investments, manages the investment team and oversees the sourcing and acquiring of real estate assets across the continent. Prior to Gramercy, he worked in the investment team at the UK opportunistic real estate fund Brockton Capital where he split his time between acquisitions and asset management activities. Before Brockton, Mr. Buck worked as an investment professional for Doughty Hanson Real Estate (DHRE), the pan-European opportunistic real estate investor. Mr Buck started his career at Deutsche Bank working in the EMEA Real Estate advisory team.

Alex Nuhi is Group Deputy Chairman of the AKNO Group (www.aknogroup.com), a leader in the development and construction of logistics business parks for the past 50 years. With more than 16 years of experience, Alex has played a key role in the Group’s growth and expansion into multiple countries and sectors. To date, AKNO operates across Europe and North America with an existing portfolio of over 1,000,000 sqm in logistics and commercial assets (office and hospitality), plus an additional 2,500,000 sqm in the pipeline. Alex holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Università Bocconi and a MBA from SDA Bocconi

Cristina García-Peri is Head of Corporate Development and Strategy 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).

With more than 15 years’ real estate experience, Javier has been responsible for several assets, from Shopping Centres and Retail Parks to Logistic Warehouses, with a total GLA of 303,000 sqm, c. €400m AUM and c. €35m annual rent. He is responsible for Investment and Asset Management of Logistic assets, sourcing new investment opportunities in Spain and Portugal and leading the transaction process for logistics funds and mandates. Prior to joining the company in 2014, Javier was Property Manager at Cushman & Wakefield. He also worked for EXA and Negocenter, managing office assets. Prior to that, Javier was a Facility Manager for British Telecom in Spain. He started his professional career at Deloitte as a Financial Controller.

Joan is the Managing Partner of Spinnia, a leading real estate investment manager mainly focussed in Spain and Portugal, brewing opportunities for a broad base of international institutional investors in the industrial/logistics and hospitality sectors, eventually coinvesting in the opportunities.
Joan holds a BA (UB, Barcelona), and an MBA-MIM (ESADE, Barcelona).

Sebastiano Ferrante is managing director at PGIM Real Estate and head of Germany and Italy. Based in Frankfurt, Sebastiano is responsible for a global platform of specialized products for German investors and the strategic growth of the business in Italy. He is also a senior portfolio manager of PGIM Real Estate's European Value Partners Fund. Sebastiano is a member of the European Investment Committee and serves on the European Executive committee.

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

Henk H.J. Folmer is Senior Vice President, Head of Customer Led Solutions Europe for Prologis Inc. In this role since 2003, Henk has been managing the global distribution space needs of several of Prologis’ largest and most strategic European key accounts – transportation companies, third-party logistics providers, technology, automotive and e-commerce companies. In addition to growing existing focus customer relationships within the Prologis global portfolio, Henk leads new business initiatives - providing access to new customers and helping to secure built-to-suit distribution center transactions. Prior to the Prologis-AMB Property Corporation merger (2011) Henk led AMB's European business development team. 

Alexander Heubes is the Managing Director Europe for Frasers Property Industrial. Alexander joined the multi-national industrial and logistics market leading business in April 2020. In Europe, the business currently manages approx. € 1.7 billion (AUM) which corresponds to approximately 1.5M sqm as at 30 September 2020 The European business is managed from offices in Amsterdam, Cologne and Munich. Previously, Alexander spent almost 13 years with Prologis, a U.S. owner/developer of logistics real estate.  Today he is leading the European team of over 60 employees at Frasers Property Industrial,focusing on providing market-leading solutions for customers, portfolio management and sustainable growth through new developments and acquisitions.

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.

Charles is a chartered surveyor who has been working in the industrial, logistics and technology sectors of commercial real estate for the last 28 years across Europe, Middle East and Africa. He has worked for several international companies including Deluxe Entertainment, SEGRO, General Electric and Walt Disney and for the last 18 months has been with XPO Logistics where he heads up Real Estate for Europe. Leading a team of ten people he manages over 4.5 million square metres of logistics and transport space in 15 countries.

David Ebbrell is the Chief Executive Officer for M7 Real Estate. He is responsible for sourcing new properties across Europe. Prior to co-founding M7 in 2009, David was a Fund Director at GPT Halverton where he was responsible for Funds with a combined value of €600m. These included BIP (which invested in German and Dutch multi-let industrial property) and DAF (which invested in Dutch multi-let industrial office properties). As Fund Director, David had responsibility for acquisitions, portfolio performance, client reporting and asset management strategy. He was also responsible for many of the acquisitions made by the Halverton Babock Industrial fund; his primary responsibility being the German and French acquisitions.

James Markby is co-founder and owner of Logistics Capital Partners, specialising in logistics real estate, development, project management, asset management. With offices in London, Paris, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, and Luxembourg, the group operates across the UK and Continental Europe and over €1 billion AUM, with a further short-term development pipeline totalling €2 billion GDV.  Logistics Capital Partners offers dedicated logistics expertise and a strong occupier and corporate real estate focus, combined with access to global capital providers, to deliver a leading pan European commercial real estate business. James has 20 years real estate investment experience, is a qualified member of the RICS.

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.

Graduated in Hotel Management and Postgraduate in Business Management, he began his career as a Cost Controller in a Portuguese hotel group being later promoted to Director with responsibility over the group's hotel units in Lisbon. Later, he performed the same role in the Algarve in an internationally branded beach resort. Since 2015 has been working as an Investment Consultant in Commercial Real Estate, participating in several transactions in segments such as hotels, offices or logistics within Capital Markets and Development departments which in total achieved +150k sqm and +€ 200m.

Alex Nuhi is Group Deputy Chairman of the AKNO Group (www.aknogroup.com), a leader in the development and construction of logistics business parks for the past 50 years. With more than 16 years of experience, Alex has played a key role in the Group’s growth and expansion into multiple countries and sectors. To date, AKNO operates across Europe and North America with an existing portfolio of over 1,000,000 sqm in logistics and commercial assets (office and hospitality), plus an additional 2,500,000 sqm in the pipeline. Alex holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Università Bocconi and a MBA from SDA Bocconi

Alexander Heubes is the Managing Director Europe for Frasers Property Industrial. Alexander joined the multi-national industrial and logistics market leading business in April 2020. In Europe, the business currently manages approx. € 1.7 billion (AUM) which corresponds to approximately 1.5M sqm as at 30 September 2020 The European business is managed from offices in Amsterdam, Cologne and Munich. Previously, Alexander spent almost 13 years with Prologis, a U.S. owner/developer of logistics real estate.  Today he is leading the European team of over 60 employees at Frasers Property Industrial,focusing on providing market-leading solutions for customers, portfolio management and sustainable growth through new developments and acquisitions.

André has accumulated extensive experience in the Construction and Real Estate sectors, since 2002, having led €1.8Bn of buy and sell-side transactions and managed assets of +500.000 sqm, across all segments and in different markets (Australia, Belgium, Japan, Portugal, UK, USA)

Main skills: Structuring/Execution, Strategic Asset Management, Licensing, Development

Prior to founding Bedrock Capital Partners, André was Head of International Real Estate Investment at Fidelidade. Previously worked at ECS Capital, Crimson and Savills / Aguirre Newman

MS Civil Engineering, IST Lisbon | Master in Real Estate Valuation and Management, ISEG Lisbon | Master in Finance, UCP Lisbon

Andrew is Strategy Director at LondonMetric and a member of the Executive Committee. Andrew joined LondonMetric in May 2014 from The British Land Company PLC where he worked for nine years and was a senior member of the retail team and Head of Investment Portfolio Management across its portfolio.

Founder of AS REAL ESTATE since 2020, a pan European advisory for Logistics & Industrial real estate, connecting developers, investors, owner-occupiers and advisors with cross border capital. Anita was previously Head of Logistics & Industrial Europe at BNP Paribas Real Estate, responsible for coordinating investment activities for the company in the sector and working on pan European and single country transactions. Prior to this, Anita was Director European Valuations at Prologis in Amsterdam, responsible for all valuation related workflows across Europe. Anita worked earlier with Knight Frank in London in the European Valuations team and qualified as MRICS with Savills in Exeter in the residential development department.

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.

Artur Mokrzycki holds the position of Head of Capital Markets Europe. Artur is responsible for investor management and relationships including capital sourcing and structuring for the Panattoni platform across Europe. Artur Mokrzycki has 20 years experience in the real estate investment management. He joined Panattoni Europe from AEW Europe where he held various positions including Managing Director for Central Europe and fund manager. In these capacities he was responsible for debt and equity raising, acquisitions and management of a € 1,3 bn real estate portfolio. Artur is civil engineer, graduate from Polytechnique Cracow, Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris and holds a MBA from HEC Paris.

Audrey Klein is the Head of Fundraising for Kennedy Wilson Europe. Prior to this she 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 including private equity, real estate and hedge funds to European investors comprised of pension funds, banks, family offices and high net worth individuals. 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.

Axel Brinkmann is a Managing Director in Royal Bank of Canada’s Real Estate Capital Partners (“RECP”) group heading its London based commercial real estate lending team in Europe. RECP provides comprehensive mortgage, mezzanine and loan-on-loan portfolio acquisition facilities to real estate sponsors in the US, Europe, UK and Australia. Axel joined from LaSalle Investment Management’s Debt Investment and Special Situations group which he helped to set up and grow since 2010. Axel started his career in Wells Fargo's real estate structured finance team in Frankfurt/London.