Deal flow oriented discussions across Europe’s residential real estate value chain
London
October
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Some of the past attendees
Andres
Guzman
Sr. Director, Head of ESG, Europe
Tishman Speyer
Anil
Khera
Founder & CEO
Node
António
Pereira Dias
Chief Investment Officer & CFO
Bondstone
Audrey
Klein
Non Executive Board Member - Chair of ESG Committee at SFO Capital Partners and Planet Smart City
Planet Smart City
Charlie
Oliver
Curlew Capital
David
Lawlor
Director Corporate Finance - Real Estate
Cantor Fitzgerald
Elle
Xu
Investment Director
Qatari Diar
Gábor
Futó
Founder & Owner
Futureal
Guy
Hurwood
Investment Director
Moda Living
Ioannis
Verdelis
Chief Investment Officer
Vita Group
Jai
Patel
Head of ICG Living
ICG
James
Halstead
Director Head of UK, Ireland, Spain Value Add Real Estate
BlackRock
James
Piper
Partner
TPG
Jennifer
Murray
Head of Institutional Investment
Homes England
Jill
Xiaozhou Ju
Founder / CEO
True North Management
Jose
María Llosa
Head of Growth Capital & Real Estate
Limehome
Lorenzo
Martinengo
Managing Director
Cerberus
Michael
Vrana
Senior Managing Director
Blackstone
Mike
Hilton
CEO
QSix
Niall
Malone
Senior Vice President
CA Ventures
Oscar
Brooks
Director
Moda Living
Paul
Nearchou
Managing Director
Deutsche Finance International
Paul
Oliver
CEO
Curlew Capital
Pavlos
Yeorgaroudakis
Vice President, Investments, Europe
CIM Group
Pooja
Patel
Managing Director
StepStone Group
Richard
Ball
Partner
Urbeo Residential
Saad
Sohail
Oaktree Capital
Samantha
Kempe
IMMO Capital
Stan
Kubacek
Senior Managing Director
Heimstaden
Stanislas
Henry
Senior Vice President, Operations and Strategic Partnerships, Europe
Ivanhoé Cambridge
Tarek
Germanos
Managing Director | Head of Investments
SFO Capital Partners
Tom
Brooks
CEO
Yon Living
Andres Guzman
Sr. Director, Head of ESG, EuropeTishman Speyer
United Kingdom
As Head of ESG for Tishman Speyer's European business, Andres oversees the integration and delivery of the strategy that ensures ESG performance and manages associated risk, feeding into the wider global strategy. Andres has over 13 years’ experience driving responsible growth, having previously focused on providing functional leadership to property consultancies, most recently as Head of Sustainability for Colliers, embedding ESG in property investment strategies, chairing various ESG committees, and managing compliance with EU carbon legislation. He is passionate about driving sustainability in real estate and has a proven track record of positive internal and external engagement to meet ambitious targets.
Anil Khera
Founder & CEONode
United Kingdom
Anil is Founder and CEO of the Node group of companies and is responsible for the overall management, investment activities and expansion of Node throughout the US, Canada, UK, and Ireland. Anil has worked in real estate for 15 years in the US and Europe, including nearly 11 years at Blackstone, the world's largest private equity real estate firm with over $100 billion of assets under management.
António Pereira Dias
Chief Investment Officer & CFOBondstone
Portugal
Audrey Klein
Non Executive Board Member - Chair of ESG Committee at SFO Capital Partners and Planet Smart CityPlanet Smart City
United Kingdom
Audrey Klein has held Head of Fundraising roles at several firms but is best known for starting the European business out of London for the Park Hill Real Estate Group, a Division of Blackstone, which she ran for 9 yrs. Prior to joining Park Hill, she ran her own business for 5 yrs marketing alternative asset funds across all asset classes to European investors comprised of pension funds, banks, family offices. She is a graduate of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of business where she received an MBA, and is also a graduate of Emory University with a degree in Economics. She serves as the ESG Chair for a real estate company called SFO Capital and an affordable housing real estate company called Planet Smart City.
Charlie Oliver
Curlew Capital
United Kingdom
David Lawlor
Director Corporate Finance - Real EstateCantor Fitzgerald
Ireland
Elle Xu
Investment DirectorQatari Diar
United Kingdom
Elle Xu joined Qatari Diar in 2014 and is 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.
Gábor Futó
Founder & OwnerFutureal
Hungary
Gábor Futó is a mathematician turned investor and real estate entrepreneur. He co-founded Futureal real estate group two decades ago. Under his leadership, the group has become one of the leading real estate developer/investors in Europe with 200+ projects on over 40 million sqf of new developments. Gabor Futo is also the founder and majority owner of Cordia group, a residential developer and investor active in 6 countries, the Helloparks logistcs platform and Finext Capital, his family office.
A previous gold medalist of the International Mathematical Olympiad, Gábor received his MSc in Mathematics from Eötvös Loránd University, his MBA from London Business School and has been visiting fellow at Harvard University.
Guy Hurwood
Investment DirectorModa Living
United Kingdom
Ioannis Verdelis
Chief Investment OfficerVita Group
United Kingdom
Growing our footprint in the PBSA sector in Spain and beyond.
Jai Patel
Head of ICG LivingICG
United Kingdom
Jai is a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager for the ICG Living strategy.
He serves on ICGRE Management Committee and Investment Committee for the Real Estate Opportunities strategy.
He was previously Investment Director at Amro Partners, raising and investing equity into the European living sector and has specialised in European residential markets for the last 5 years.
Previously held real estate and corporate debt roles within ICGRE Partnership Capital and at Barclays.
James Halstead
Director Head of UK, Ireland, Spain Value Add Real EstateBlackRock
United Kingdom
James Halstead, Director, is a member of BlackRock's Real Estate Team. He is responsible for sourcing and managing value add and opportunistic real estate investments in the UK, Ireland and Spain. Prior to joining BlackRock Mr. Halstead was a director at MGPA and lead Transactions team working on opportunistic pan-European acquisitions. Before this he practised as a corporate real estate lawyer at Berwin Leighton Paisner. He holds an MBA from London Business School and LLB from University of Southampton.
James Piper
PartnerTPG
United Kingdom
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.
Jennifer Murray
Head of Institutional InvestmentHomes England
United Kingdom
Jill Xiaozhou Ju
Founder / CEOTrue North Management
United Kingdom
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.
Jose María Llosa
Head of Growth Capital & Real EstateLimehome
Germany
Jose is the Head of Growth Capital & Real Estate at limehome, a leading European digital hospitality operator at the intersection of real estate, hospitality and tech.
Jose is responsible for the capital growth strategy in Europe, RE structures and partnerships with funds and investors. Previously, Jose worked for more than 10 years in international real estate development (Brazil, Poland, Hungary, Romania) and banking (Bankinter). In addition, he has significant experience in the financial and strategy area in foreign multinationals (SKF).
He has also undertaken several business projects in the hospitality area. International MBA and Real Estate program at Instituto de Empresa business school in Madrid.
Lorenzo Martinengo
Managing DirectorCerberus
Netherlands
Michael Vrana
Senior Managing DirectorBlackstone
United Kingdom
Michael Vrana is a Senior Managing Director in the Real Estate Group based in London. Mr. Vrana leads Blackstone’s real estate acquisitions in the U.K. and Ireland. Since joining Blackstone in 2013, Mr. Vrana has been involved in a number of Blackstone’s investments in Europe, including the acquisitions of iQ Student Accommodation, Sage Homes, St Modwen Properties, The Arch Company, and The Office Group. Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Vrana was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, where he spent eight years focused on investments in North America on behalf of Goldman Sachs’ real estate private equity group. Mr. Vrana graduated from Duke University and received an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Mike Hilton
CEOQSix
United Kingdom
Mike is QSix’s CEO and one of the Founding Partners focused on the firm’s growth strategy and overseeing all aspects of the German residential business and Phoenix Spree Deutschland, the LSE listed German residential property fund for whom QSix is Property Adviser. Prior to founding QSix Mike was Managing Director and European Sector Head at UBS where he worked closely with Matthew Northover, with whom he founded QSix in 2006. Mike also held roles at Charterhouse Bank and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson as an equity research analyst and LEK Partners within their corporate strategy division. Mike holds an MA in Economics from Cambridge University.
Niall Malone
Senior Vice PresidentCA Ventures
United Kingdom
n his role as senior vice president, Niall is responsible for spearheading CA’s European multifamily and build-to-rent (BTR) business, while supporting the continued growth and success of CA’s premium purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) platform.
Oscar Brooks
DirectorModa Living
United Kingdom
Paul Nearchou
Managing DirectorDeutsche Finance International
United Kingdom
Paul is Managing Director and Head of Northern Europe Investments at DFI.
Prior to joining the firm, he was an Associate in the investment team at Patron Capital, focusing on the origination, execution and asset management of opportunistic/value-add asset-backed investments across Europe. He began his career as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs in London. Paul holds a first-class Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Nottingham and achieved a distinction in his Postgraduate degree in Real Estate Economics and Finance from the London School of Economics.
Paul Oliver
CEOCurlew Capital
United Kingdom
Paul is currently CEO of Curlew. He has over 40 years’ experience in development and investment management in both the UK and Europe. He has been at the forefront of the establishment of unlisted property funds since 1991. He spent the 1980′s leading development teams on predominantly shopping centre schemes, following which, he moved to head up Dusco alongside Chairman Dik Dusseldorp, founder of Lend Lease plc. Paul then established Equity Partnerships promoting and managing collective investment schemes, which merged with the Teesland Group in 2000. In 2002 he launched Teesland plc on the London Stock Exchange, building funds under management to €6.5 billion before sale to Valad in June 2007.
Pavlos Yeorgaroudakis
Vice President, Investments, EuropeCIM Group
United Kingdom
Pooja Patel
Managing DirectorStepStone Group
USA
Ms. Patel is a member of the real estate team. She is also involved in the Firm’s responsible investing initiative.
Prior to StepStone, Ms. Patel worked in the Corporate Development Group at AT&T where she was involved in strategic projects, including acquisitions and divestitures, across the company’s business lines. Previously, Ms. Patel spent three years working in investment banking at Houlihan Lokey where she helped execute M&A, financing and restructuring engagements for clients in real estate and a number of different industries.
Richard Ball
PartnerUrbeo Residential
Ireland
Saad Sohail
Oaktree Capital
United Kingdom
Samantha Kempe
IMMO Capital
United Kingdom
Stan Kubacek
Senior Managing DirectorHeimstaden
Czech Republic
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.
Stanislas Henry
Senior Vice President, Operations and Strategic Partnerships, EuropeIvanhoé Cambridge
France
Stanislas Henry began his career in 1987 at Groupe Paribas, based successively in Paris, London and New York. In 1997, he worked in GE Capital Europe’s merger and acquisitions team in London. He then joined GE Capital Real Estate in Paris, as Director of Equity Participations.
After working for the finance and operational treasury department at Assurances Générales de France in 2001, he joined Groupe Crédit Agricole’s CALYON Corporate and Investment Bank as Executive Director, Global Investment Banking for the real estate sector, a position he held until 2008. From 2008 to 2019, Stanislas Henry was one of the main contributors in the significant expansion of Amundi Immobilier, where he was responsible for all institutional real estate fund
Tarek Germanos
Managing Director | Head of InvestmentsSFO Capital Partners
United Kingdom
Tarek is Managing Director and head of investments and asset management at SFO Capital Partners, a London-based global real estate investment management firm focused on investing in high-quality assets acquired at attractive valuations with a clear path to value creation. Tarek has previously held different positions at Orion Capital Managers in their investment team and at Goldman Sachs’ real estate team. His experience includes investing in transactions totaling over $4bn in real estate and advising on transactions financing and M&A situations in excess of $20bn. Tarek holds a diploma of Grande Ecole from HEC Paris.
Tom Brooks
CEOYon Living
United Kingdom
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