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Clelia Peters
Paul Unger
Domingo Speranza
Josh Livingstone
Brandon Hollihan
Montreal | Quebec | Canada
BrainBox AI uses deep learning, cloud-based computing, algorithms and a proprietary process to support a 24/7 self-operating building that requires no human intervention and enables maximum energy efficiency. Pre-commercialization tests have demonstrated that BrainBox AI enables a reduction in total energy costs of up to 25% in less than 3 months, with low to no CAPEX needed from property owners. It also improves occupant comfort by 60% and decreases the carbon footprint of a building by 20-40%.
United Kingdom
PlaceTech aims to provide a trusted platform for the proptech conversation to take place, exploring what proptech looks like in practice and how best to make decisions that respond to today’s challenges.
30/03/2021 13:05 - 14:05 BST (GMT+1)
Accelerated Trends Post-COVID
From transparent deals to efficient asset management, how are real estate players utilising technology?
From transparent deals to efficient asset management, how are real estate players utilising technology?
Moderator
Clelia Peters
Venture Partner
Bain Capital Ventures
Alexander
Piur
Head of Innovation and Sustainability
ING Wholesale Banking
Audrey
Klein
Partner
Spencer House Partners
Conan
Lauterpacht
Managing Partner
M7 Structura
Florent
Danset
Co-Founder & CEO
Alte
Frank
Sullivan
Chief Commercial Officer
BrainBox AI
30/03/2021 14:45 - 15:45 BST (GMT+1)
Data Analytics
The benefits from data-driving decisions for asset & property management
The benefits from data-driving decisions for asset & property management
Moderator
Paul Unger
Editor
Placetech
Alex
Edds
Head Of Sustainability, Europe
LaSalle Investment Management
Frank
Sullivan
Chief Commercial Officer
BrainBox AI
James
Whalen
SVP, Chief Information & Technology Officer
Boston Properties
Paul
Birkin
Chief Digital and Technology Officer
CB Richard Ellis
30/03/2021 16:30 - 17:30 BST (GMT+1)
Global Trends for Real Estate Occupiers in The Post-COVID-19 Era
Moderator
Domingo Speranza
Founder and CEO
Newmark
Arthur
de Charentenay
Director of EMEA Workplace
Criteo France
Caio
Silveira Guimarães
Real Estate, Logistics and Procurement Director
VIVO
Luis
Cantú
CEO
Caspian Investment Management
Roelof
Opperman
Founder & CEO
CogNovum
Roger
Wade
Founder and CEO
Boxpark
31/03/2021 13:00 - 14:00 BST (GMT+1)
High Value Residential
How is technology diversifying resi for rent and creating mainstream opportunities?
How is technology diversifying resi for rent and creating mainstream opportunities?
Moderator
Josh Livingstone
Vice President
Temerity Strategic Partners
Andy
Caddy
Group Technology Director
The Collective
Frédéric
Dib
CEO
MoZaïC Asset Management
Greg
Manuel
CEO
Opendoor
Gregory
Dewerpe
Founder
A/O PropTech
Joanna
Frazier
Managing Director - Tango by Greystar
Greystar
Ken
Wainer
Founding Partner
VBI Real Estate
Susan
Tjarksen
Cushman & Wakefield
31/03/2021 14:45 - 15:45 BST (GMT+1)
E-Commerce vs Bricks ‘N’ Mortar
How to use technology to provide a worthwhile journey for customers?
How to use technology to provide a worthwhile journey for customers?
31/03/2021 16:30 - 17:30 BST (GMT+1)
Office Revolution
Adapting accelerated tech trends to meet new workplace demands and maintain rental streams
Adapting accelerated tech trends to meet new workplace demands and maintain rental streams
Moderator
Brandon Hollihan
Founding Partner
Castleforge Partners
Anja
Ritchie
MD
Stepstone Group
David
Kaiser
Head of Real Estate, UK & Ireland
WeWork
Forgotten
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COO
EDGE
G
Abhinav Reddy
Managing Director
GAR Corp.
Simon
Loh
COO
Regus
Yotam
Alroy
Co-Founder & Chief Business Development
Mindspace
Clelia Peters
Venture PartnerBain Capital Ventures
USA
Clelia is an innovator, operator and investor working in the real estate industry. Prior to her role at Bain Capital Ventures, Clelia co-founded MetaProp, a $40 million seed stage venture fund focused exclusively on real estate technology and one of the first sector specific funds focused on PropTech. In addition to investing in real estate technology, Clelia currently serves as president of Warburg Realty, acting as key advisor to her father, CEO Frederick Warburg Peters, in managing and growing New York’s only remaining independent mid-size real estate brokerage. She is the elected co-chair of the Real Estate Board of New York’s RLS Board of Directors (the New York MLS system equivalent), and sits on the Board of REBNY’s Tech Committee.
Alexander Piur
Head of Innovation and SustainabilityING Wholesale Banking
Germany
Alexander Piur is responsible for Sustainability and Innovation for the global Real Estate Finance activities of ING Wholesale Banking, with local presence in APAC, EMEA and US. He has more than 20 years of experience in the real estate financing markets in Germany and Europa. Prior joining ING, he worked for several banks in Munich. Alexander is a member of IMMOEBS, has a degree as Immobilienökonom from the International Real Estate Business School in Regensburg and holds a B.Sc. in Finance and Management from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.
Audrey Klein
PartnerSpencer House Partners
United Kingdom
Audrey Klein has held Head of Fundraising roles at several firms but is best known for starting the European business out of London for the Park Hill Real Estate Group, a Division of Blackstone, which she ran for 9 yrs. Prior to joining Park Hill, she ran her own business for 5 yrs marketing alternative asset funds across all asset classes to European investors comprised of pension funds, banks, family offices. She is a graduate of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of business where she received an MBA, and is also a graduate of Emory University with a degree in Economics. She is a Partner at Spencer House Partners (www.spencerhousepartners.com).
Conan Lauterpacht
Managing PartnerM7 Structura
United Kingdom
Conan launched M7 Structura (now acquired by PATRIZIA) with a desire to bring his experience gained in real estate technology as a start-up operator, strategic investor and angel investor to bear on the next generation of technology entrepreneurs. His prior experience includes: VP Corporate Development & Venture at Altus Group, a global real estate technology & services company and owner of Argus Software, where he led their corporate venture activities. COO of Voyanta, a real estate data management and reporting platform, which was sold to Altus Group and a Corporate solicitor at Allen & Overy in London. Conan holds a BA in PPE from Jesus College, Oxford, an LLM from the LSE and an MBA from INSEAD.
Florent Danset
Co-Founder & CEOAlte
United Kingdom
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.
Frank Sullivan
Chief Commercial OfficerBrainBox AI
Canada
Paul Unger
EditorPlacetech
United Kingdom
Alex Edds
Head Of Sustainability, EuropeLaSalle Investment Management
United Kingdom
Frank Sullivan
Chief Commercial OfficerBrainBox AI
Canada
James Whalen
SVP, Chief Information & Technology OfficerBoston Properties
USA
James Whalen serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Information and Technology Officer for Boston Properties where he is responsible for the direction and implementation of technology, applications and security. Prior to joining the Company in March 1998, he served as Vice President, Information Systems of Beacon Properties. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and a recipient of the New York City Urban Fellowship. Mr. Whalen is a current trustee and past President of the Boston Chapter of the Society for Information Management (SIM) and serves on the Realcomm Advisory Council, TechHire Boston and Boston Private Industry Council.
Paul Birkin
Chief Digital and Technology OfficerCB Richard Ellis
United Kingdom
Paul is a strategist, with a clear commercial acumen who has a clear understanding of the business value of IT and the future directions of the industry. Besides being a strategist, Paul is result and success oriented, an outstanding leader and has a clear history of delivering Technology driven Business Change Globally. Paul has significant global experience having global responsibility and having fulfilled expat engagements in Europe, US, Middle East and Asia. He has a track record in delivering innovation to business through the use of Innovative New Technology and Business Process Improvement. This was recently recognized with Capita being rated the 60th most innovative company in the Forbes Global 100 Most Innovative Companies (2016).
Domingo Speranza
Founder and CEONewmark
Argentina
Domingo Speranza has a degree in Architecture with more than 30 years’ experience in Corporate Real Estate. He is the CEO and co-founder of BACRE the Argentinean partner of Newmark Argentina. Mr Speranza also participate as MD of Cushman & Wakefield and in the 90´s was a member of Banco Hipotecario Nacional the leader mortgage and residential development Financial institution in Argentina.
Mr Speranza has also large academic experience local and internationally.
Arthur de Charentenay
Director of EMEA WorkplaceCriteo France
France
Caio Silveira Guimarães
Real Estate, Logistics and Procurement DirectorVIVO
Brazil
Working at Telefonica's (leading Telecom Company in Brazil) Property Management, Real Estate, Energy Management, Design, Construction and Facilities with previous experience working for leading companies in Retail (8 years at Walmart), Real Estate (Gafisa S/A), Banking (Itau-Unibanco) and Real Estate Development and Construction (Luciano Wertheim).
Luis Cantú
CEOCaspian Investment Management
Mexico
Luis Cantu is a founding partner and serves as CEO of Seris Retail Holdings, a Mexico City and metropolitan area-focused retail property investment and management firm that has invested US$100 million since 2017. Seris Retail Holdings is backed by Calzada Capital Partners, a US-based private equity firm with over US$8.5 billion under management. Before founding Seris in 2017, Mr. Cantu was de COO for the retail development arm of Abilia and was responsible for the development of over 250,000 square meters of retail space and the successful sale of its largest retail development to Fibra Shop.
Roelof Opperman
Founder & CEOCogNovum
United Kingdom
Roelof is Founder & CEO of CogNovum, a new tech VC platform. Prior, Roelof was Head of Europe on the Real Estate Technology Investment team at Fifth Wall, where he focused on technology and innovations within the multifamily, office, and hospitality real estate asset classes.
Roelof has led Fifth Wall’s investments in Lyric, Eden, Appear Here, Hippo, Industrious, Loggi, Recharge, Lime, and Aurora Solar. Previously, Roelof worked at Norwest Venture Partners, Evercore Partners, Goldman Sachs, and Bridgewater Associates. Roelof is originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, from Emory University. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Roger Wade
Founder and CEOBoxpark
United Kingdom
Roger Wade is the Founder and CEO of Boxpark. After graduating from University, Roger started Boxfresh, the original British Streetwear brand in 1989. He grew the Boxfresh brand from a market stall, to an International Brand selling in over 12 different countries. In 2005, Roger sold the Boxfresh to Pentland Brands and formed his own Brand Consultancy, Brands Incorporated, specialising in the development, financing and licensing of UK Fashion Brands. In 2010, Roger founded and created the World’s 1st Pop Up Mall, Boxpark Shoreditch. In 2015 Boxpark launched Boxpark Croydon its first Food and Drink only retail concept, and in 2018 launched Boxpark Wembley, a new Fanzone for Wembley Stadium and Arena visitors.
Josh Livingstone
Vice PresidentTemerity Strategic Partners
USA
Josh Livingstone is a vice president on the Investments team at Equity International, responsible for origination of new investments, deal execution and portfolio management. Josh joined Equity International in 2014 and serves as a director on a number of EI portfolio companies. Prior to EI, Josh worked in HSBC’s Latin America investment banking group, focusing on diligence, valuation, and execution of M&A involving real estate, infrastructure, consumer goods, and telecom. He spent two years with the group in New York and two years in São Paulo, Brazil. Josh holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and an AB from Brown University.
Andy Caddy
Group Technology DirectorThe Collective
United Kingdom
Frédéric Dib
CEOMoZaïC Asset Management
France
Frédéric is Managing Partner of Mozaïc AM and has over 15 years experience in the healthcare sector. MoZaïC manages over 250M€ of healthcare assets over 4 geographies (France, Germany, Italy and Spain) Prior to this, he was the President of Senior Santé, an owner and operator of nursing homes in France. During his tenure, he was responsible for operations developing the group's operating model and processes. During that period it funded, developed, built, delivered and sold 11 nursing homes (circa 50,000 m2). Before Senior Santé/B-Patrimoine, Frédéric held various positions within HSBC (London) and Lazard (New York and London) Frédéric graduated from ESSEC Business School in Paris and speaks French, English, Spanish, Italian and Arabic.
Greg Manuel
CEOOpendoor
USA
Built and scaled venture backed companies and investment platforms
Part of executive team that took Amyris public (NASDAQ:AMRS)
Served as Special Advisor to U.S. Secretary of State for Alternative Energy
Sourced and/or invested $1.6B of capital
Stanford BA, Harvard MBA
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregory-manuel-b81265/
Gregory Dewerpe
FounderA/O PropTech
United Kingdom
Gregory is the Founder of A/O Proptech where he focuses on sourcing, investments and roll-outs. He is seasoned real estate and technology investor with over 15 years of experience, a deep understanding of market dynamics & eco-systems and multi-billion deal-making history.
Gregory started his career in I-Banking, where he spent 9 years at Credit Suisse and Citigroup, looking after sourcing, structuring, financing of new investments (in both public and private markets) for sovereign and semi-sovereign institutions globally, with over $30bn of transactions, executed.
Gregory is a Swiss national, fluent in English, French and Italian; he attended HEC Lausanne University, London School of Economics (Masters), and Harvard Business School.
Joanna Frazier
Managing Director - Tango by GreystarGreystar
Mexico
Joanna Frazier is the Managing Director of Operations for Greystar Mexico. She joined Greystar in 2013 to oversee the multifamily portfolio in Mexico City, Monterrey, Cancun, and Guadalajara. She is responsible for the strategy and execution of operational assets; supporting capital partnerships with market expertise; and oversight across business lines. She holds an MBA from Chicago Booth School of Business and a BBA and BA from the University of Georgia. Prior to Greystar Ms. Frazier worked as a management consultant at Bain & Co. in Mexico City.
Ken Wainer
Founding PartnerVBI Real Estate
Brazil
Ken co-founded VBI Real Estate in 2006 and has been involved in all of VBI Real Estate’s investments since inception. Prior to the formation of VBI Real Estate, Ken was a founding partner of Vision Brazil and was responsible for establishing the real estateprivate equity practice. At Vision Brazil, Ken was responsible for investment origination, transaction structuring, and portfolio management for investment funds with an AUM of U.S.$2 billion. Ken’s professional experience has included twenty years of investmentmanagement and M&A advisory work based in New York and São Paulo. Ken received a B.A. from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Susan Tjarksen
Cushman & Wakefield
USA
Mark Faithfull
EditorRetail Property Analyst
United Kingdom
Diego Ysita
CEOFibra Storage
Mexico
Diego Isita Portilla is a Mexican businessman and entrepreneur. He founded and is currently the CEO of U-Storage Group, a Mexican based development and management platform focused on the establishment and expansion of the self-storage market. In 2008 he partnered with Kenneth T. Woolley and Extra Space Storage, a self-storage REIT that owns and operates more than 1,000 facilities in the US. In 2018 U-Storage became the first self-storage focused REIT (FIBRA) in Mexico - Fibra Storage. This vehicle accelerates growth and encourages small and medium developers, as well as landowners to look for ways of contribution or association with Fibra Storage, allowing them to co-participate in the development of new U–Storage facilities.
Duarte Cabral
Deputy Managing Director EMEASonae Sierra
Portugal
Mari Carmen Ardura
Sr. Director Real Estate Management Mex & CAMWalmart
Mexico
Architect with 27+ years of experience in Real Estate development: managing large-scale and complex projects, foreclosure of assets, appraisals, RE portfolio profitability, operation and negotiation. Participating and later Leading Corporate RE Mexico Team for 17 years, and later, responsible for the Transaction & Treasury Services (TTS) Implementation team for the Corporate Banking clients at CitiBanamex (part of Citi Group). Currently working for Walmart Mexico & Centro America leading the Realty Business: Rent & Other Income (over 10.5k tenant in & out store spaces, operation of parking lots, etc), Portfolio profitability, sale of assets, Lessor Relations and the operation of 23 owned Commercial Galleries.
Stephen Tanenbaum
CEO & FounderSKUrban
Brazil
Eleven years of Real Estate investment and development experience in the United States and Brazil with a primary focus on the industrial and logistics sector. Extensive portfolio of completed transactions including build to suit and speculative warehouse developments for end users and third party logistics providers (3PLs), acquisitions of sale-leaseback, greenfield and brownfield properties as well as asset management (leasing & property management). Participation in capital markets fundraising activity with institutional investors. Currently oversee industrial platform activities for a diversified private equity real estate fund focused on real estate investment in Brazil.
Brandon Hollihan
Founding PartnerCastleforge Partners
United Kingdom
Brandon co-founded Castleforge Partners (formerly Mercer Real Estate Partners) in July 2010. Prior to founding Castleforge, Brandon worked for Westbrook Partners and Morgan Stanley Real Estate. Brandon has been involved in transacting over £1.5b of Real Estate asset value across the U.S. and Western Europe and has experience as both an advisor and an investor across a diverse range of investment types and asset classes. Castleforge Partners manages discretionary funds on behalf of a range of institutional investors and can invest across asset classes. It focuses thematically on select opportunity sets and seeks to generate high cash flow using operations.
Anja Ritchie
MDStepstone Group
Ireland
Prior to joining StepStone, Mrs. Ritchie worked at Cara Investment GmbH, a Germany-based Family Office, where she was responsible for the firm’s Private Equity and Real Estate fund selection. Prior to that, she was a senior analyst alternative investments at Bank of Oklahoma after starting her career at ClearRidge, a boutique corporate advisory firm in the United States. Mrs. Ritchie holds a master’s degree in Management from HHL-Leipzig Graduate School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in International Business Administration from the European University Viadrina. She is also a CAIA charterholder.
David Kaiser
Head of Real Estate, UK & IrelandWeWork
USA
David is head of WeWork's UK and Ireland real estate team. Before joining WeWork, David was a lawyer at a pre-eminent real estate law firm in the City of London advising developers and landlords on investment, development and asset management work across a number of industries and sectors. David graduated with a law degree from the University of Birmingham and obtained a distinction in his LPC qualification from BPP, London.
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G Abhinav Reddy
Managing DirectorGAR Corp.
India
Mr. G. Abhinav Ram Reddy is the Managing Director of GAR Corporation Pvt. Ltd, a leading Hyderabad based owner of commercial office parks. Mr. Reddy is presently managing and developing various companies that are engaged in commercial real estate asset creation. Mr. Reddy has also been instrumental in creating long-term partnerships with several MNC’s linked to the infrastructure facilities for IT & ITES companies. GAR is currently on track to create an asset base of 12 million square feet in the Office Parks segment by 2020.
Simon Loh
COORegus
United Kingdom
Focused on growing and diversifying B2C and B2B revenue and shaping industries, experienced in turning around operational performance in thin margin businesses, engages diverse stakeholder commitment and enthusiasm, furthermore, passionate about organisational cultural and diversity, actively seeks out emerging and consumer technology to improve products and processes.
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.
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Montreal | Quebec | Canada
BrainBox AI uses deep learning, cloud-based computing, algorithms and a proprietary process to support a 24/7 self-operating building that requires no human intervention and enables maximum energy efficiency. Pre-commercialization tests have demonstrated that BrainBox AI enables a reduction in total energy costs of up to 25% in less than 3 months, with low to no CAPEX needed from property owners. It also improves occupant comfort by 60% and decreases the carbon footprint of a building by 20-40%.
United Kingdom
PlaceTech aims to provide a trusted platform for the proptech conversation to take place, exploring what proptech looks like in practice and how best to make decisions that respond to today’s challenges.
Confirmed Participants
Adelaide Amaral
Marketing DirectorMillennium
Portugal
Adriano Magalhães
Diretor de FranquiasRegus
Brazil
• 17 anos de atuação no Franchising e expansão de redes de negócios
• Atual Diretor de Franquias da IWG no Brasil
• Histórico de mais de 400 franquias vendidas em sua carreira
• Responsável pelo Case Study de expansão da Canadense Maple Bear, com início em 2017. Apoiou o crescimento global com foco no Brasil. Atuação que triplicou o tamanho da rede de escolas, agregando aproximadamente 200 novas franquias em 3 anos.
• Palestrante em feiras e eventos de franchising, com destaque para Mentorias e Mesas Redondas de expansão promovidas pela ABF – Associação Brasileira de Franchising
• Já desenvolveu projetos na Europa, Ásia e América do Sul
• Empresas atual/recentes: IWG PLC, MAPLE BEAR , PEARSON
Alberto Figueroa Lorrabaquio
EXECUTIVE DIRECTORRSM Mexico
Mexico
Alec Page
Vice PresidentRET Ventures
USA
Alec joined RET Ventures in 2017 from the Leveraged Finance group at BofA Merrill Lynch in New York, where he worked on debt capital financings for corporate issuers and private equity funds. He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago. Originally from San Francisco, Alec is a traveler at heart and spends his time out of the office outdoors: hiking, skiing, snowboarding, and skydiving.
Alejandro Krell
MD, Head of Central/South AmericaPaladin Realty Partners
USA
Alejandro (Alex) is a Managing Director with Paladin Realty Partners, where he oversees the firm’s activities in South and Central America (excluding Brazil). He serves on the firm’s investment committee. Mr. Krell has three decades of management and real estate development experience, including senior executive positions at some of the largest residential development and construction firms in the world. He was previously the Development Director for an Abu Dhabi government-owned company. Mr. Krell also held executive positions with leading US homebuilders more recently as Division President for Pulte Homes.
Alejandro Pidal
Managing DirectorAssetCo
Argentina
Alessandro Carmo
Diretor de OperaçõesCBRE
Brazil
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