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ABOUT THE CLUB MEETING
With more and more real estate companies reviewing their DEI strategies, celebrating women thriving in the industry and their success stories is important to support the next generation of female leadership. But what are the priorities for women and how can the industry come together not only to build a community of mentorship but to sponsor and activate the potential of new talent?
Format
Closed-door and Interactive discussion
Audience
Female Private Equity Investors, Fund Managers, Operators, LPs, Developers, Asset Owners and Lenders active in the European market.What participants said last year:
"I'm delighted to see more women in property. We had an amazing meeting and my encouragement would be to see more younger women coming through to be investors, managers and CEOs."
Margaret Sweeney
CEO & Board Director
Irish Residential Properties
*The private discussion and networking is complementary and open to all female participants of Europe GRI and GRI club members
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Confirmed Participants include
Aleksandra
Jach
Counsel
Wolf Theiss
Alexandra
Vaquin
Head of Acquisitions
STAM Europe
Ana
Estrada
Managing Director
Goldman Sachs
Anna
Ginkel
MD of Loan Markets & Syndication
Aareal Bank
Britta
Drexler
Senior Vice President
Apollo Global Management
Catherine
Choo
Chief Information Officer
Greenman
Chiara
Randazzo
Head of Transactions France and Belgium
DWS
Cristina
García-Peri
Managing Partner/ Director of Strategy and Corporate Development
Grupo Azora
Elle
Xu
Investment Director
Qatari Diar
Ewa
Parys
Executive Director, Head of Asset Mgmt
AEW
Irene
Ryan
Managing Director, Debt Asset Mgmt Europe
Starwood Capital Group
Kyle
Fox
Founder and Partner
KRF Capital
Lily
Lin
MD - Head of UK and Ireland
MARK
Limor
Shilo
Head of Origination
Starz Real Estate
Loraine
Berry
VP Development Europe & Middle East
Langham Hospitality Group
Margaret
Sweeney
CEO & Board Director
I•RES
Martina
Martino
Operations Director
Hill International
Monika
Duda
Managing Director
DHL Supply Chain Poland
Natalie
Breen
Global Head of Strategic Growth and Business Development
Sanne Group
Natalie
Howard
Head of Real Estate Debt
Schroders Investment Management
Priscilla
Le Priellec
Co-Head Real Estate Lending Department
La Banque Postale
Rebekah
Tobias
Managing Director
MARCOL
Samantha
Kempe
Co-Founder & CIO
IMMO Capital
Sonia
Da Silva
Director, Commercial Real Estate
Bouygues Immobilier
Sophie
Colin-Sansier
Head of Investment & Divestment France
Generali Real Estate
Stéphanie
Bensimon
Head of Real Estate
Ardian
Suzan
Dixon
Head of Workplaces, Europe & Americas
Standard Chartered Bank - London
Virginie
Walckenaer
Head of Real Estate France and Benelux
DWS
Aleksandra Jach
CounselWolf Theiss
Poland
Alexandra Vaquin
Head of AcquisitionsSTAM Europe
France
Alexandra Vaquin is Stam Europe's Head of Acquisitions. Prior to joining Stam Europe, Vaquin was a director at SG Real Estate Advisory (Société Générale Group), where she advised the group's clients (Société Générale Assurance, family office, private clients and corporates) in their real estate investment strategy (origination and execution) and asset management (sales, forward purchases/development contracts monitoring). Previously, she worked for more than 10 years for a pan-European real estate investment fund, Revcap, in London. As an associate partner, she was responsible for value-added real estate transactions through co-investments with local operating partners. She also worked in real estate debt management in London (LNR Partners)
Ana Estrada
Managing DirectorGoldman Sachs
United Kingdom
Ana is a managing director in the Merchant Banking Division responsible for sourcing executing and managing real estate investments across Europe. She joined Goldman Sachs in 2003 as an analyst and was named managing director in 2015. Ana earned a BS in Ec
Anna Ginkel
MD of Loan Markets & SyndicationAareal Bank
Germany
Anna Ginkel has over 20 years of experience in international Real Estate Finance. Anna joined Aareal Bank in 2013 as Head of Loan Markets & Syndication. Before joining Aareal Bank and after working in various positions at Frankfurter Hypothekenbank (former Eurohypo), lastly being in charge of Syndication Execution & Agency, Anna was responsible for the set-up of the European Syndication desk at Westdeutsche ImmobilienBank. She has been directly involved in large-volume club-arrangements and syndication of a wide variety of real estate loans nationally and internationally. Anna Ginkel holds a degree in Economics of the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany).
Britta Drexler
Senior Vice PresidentApollo Global Management
United Kingdom
Catherine Choo
Chief Information OfficerGreenman
Ireland
Catherine Choo is chief information officer (CIO) at Greenman. She oversees the company and the Greenman Group’s strategic technology, data and communication initiatives and the deployment of innovative technologies and programmes that create a competitive advantage for the company.
Catherine has over 15 years’ experience in communication and marketing, 10 of which have been in the real estate industry. Prior to becoming CIO of Greenman, she held the position of Head of Marketing at the company, building the company brand and message and gaining significant experience in the funding, purchase, and management of grocery real estate assets.
Chiara Randazzo
Head of Transactions France and BelgiumDWS
France
Cristina García-Peri
Managing Partner/ Director of Strategy and Corporate DevelopmentGrupo Azora
Spain
Cristina García-Peri is Senior Partner and Head of Strategy and Corporate Development for the Azora Group. Prior to joining Azora in 2011, she worked for 16 years in the investment- banking sector at both Merrill Lynch (2 years) and JP Morgan (14 years), where she held various positions across M&A and Equity Capital Markets, and for 10 year, she was Managing Director responsible for Corporate Equity Derivatives for EMEA as well as Equity Capital Markets for Spain and Portugal. Cristina holds a bachelor degree in Economics from ICADE (Spain) and an MBA from Harvard Business School (USA). Cristina is Board Member at Bankinter, a Spanish IBEX 35 banking institution as well as member of the INREV ESG Committee.
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.
Ewa Parys
Executive Director, Head of Asset MgmtAEW
Poland
Ewa Parys is Head of Asset Management in Central Europe. She joined AEW Europe in 2014 and is based in Warsaw, Poland. Ewa is responsible for 3 countries in the region: Poland, Romania and Czech Republic, and reports to Stephan Boenning – Head of Germany and Central Europe. Ewa has broad asset management and acquisition experience; prior to AEW Europe, she worked at Atrium Real Estate Poland (Gazit-Globe Group) and was responsible for more than 20 retail assets. Here she managed a €1bn+ portfolio, located in Poland and Latvia. Before Atrium, Ewa worked as Head of the Leasing Department and Centre Director for Meinl European Land and at Foras Holding A/S. Ewa is a graduate of Warsaw University, Kozminski University and AGH Kraków.
Irene Ryan
Managing Director, Debt Asset Mgmt EuropeStarwood Capital Group
United Kingdom
Irene Ryan is a Managing Director at Starwood Capital Group, London office and is responsible for the asset management of debt investments by Starwood’s lending platform in Europe Since joining Starwood Capital in 2013, Ms. Ryan has managed the portfolio of loans held across multi-asset classes and European jurisdictions originated by Starwood Property Trust (NYSE: STWD) and Starwood European Finance Real Estate Finance (SWEF: LN). Prior to joining Starwood Capital Group, Ms. Ryan worked in a real estate focussed bank in London, holding a variety of lending roles from origination to loan restructuring and recovery. Before that, she gained her chartered accountancy qualification (ACA) while working at KPMG in Ireland.
Kyle Fox
Founder and PartnerKRF Capital
USA
KRF Capital is an investment advisory firm focused on a wide array of asset classes and sectors. With unparalleled execution for financial sponsors, public and private companies across a broad range of industry sectors and geographies. Our success is achieved because of our commitment and focus to provide and source strong investments.
Our experience includes complex, challenging and innovative equity and credit mandates which we successfully execute. Our team has transacted from the perspective of the lender, borrower, seller and buyer given we have worked on the Buy-Side, Sell-Side and Advisory. We leverage our expertise to structure and negotiate optimal investments.
Lily Lin
MD - Head of UK and IrelandMARK
United Kingdom
Lily Lin is a Managing Director responsible for acquisitions and asset management across the UK and Ireland. Prior to joining, Lily worked at Vanke from 2015 to 2020, where she established its UK platform as Managing Director. Previously, she worked at UBS in London across various UK and Pan European real estate funds, and at Ascendas, Singapore’s first and largest industrial REIT, in Shanghai.
Limor Shilo
Head of OriginationStarz Real Estate
United Kingdom
Limor has been working in the City of London for 15 years. After obtaining her MBA from Erasmus University in 1999, she joined JPMorgan Acquisition Finance, Global Syndicated Finance DCM. From 2007 to 2014 she held various roles in GE Capital (Leverage Finance: Workout, Restructuring and was the Head of Risk Underwriting Team). Over the past two years she has been focusing on Commercial Real Estate Lending and joined DB in 2014 as Senior Originator for CRE EMEA. Limor also holds an Accounting degree and worked at PWC Israel after serving as a Lieutenant in the Israeli Defense Forces.
Loraine Berry
VP Development Europe & Middle EastLangham Hospitality Group
United Kingdom
Margaret Sweeney
CEO & Board DirectorI•RES
Ireland
Margaret is a Non-Executive Director of Dalata Hotel Group plc, Chair of the Dublin City University Business School Advisory Board & member of the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ireland. She has over 20 years of leadership experience including as Chief Executive of Dublin Airport Authority and Postbank Ireland as well as Director of Audit & Advisory services at KPMG. She is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland and Chartered Director of IoD UK. She holds a First Class Hons Commerce Degree from the National University of Ireland Galway and was awarded the National University of Ireland Galway Alumni Award for Business Public Policy and Law in 2009. She was named Business & Finance’s Business Person of the Month May19
Martina Martino
Operations DirectorHill International
Italy
Monika Duda
Managing DirectorDHL Supply Chain Poland
Poland
Natalie Breen
Global Head of Strategic Growth and Business DevelopmentSanne Group
United Kingdom
As the Global Head of Strategic Growth and Business Development, Natalie is responsible for driving organic growth across Sanne’s product offering and delivering cross border opportunities through the group’s network of international offices. Natalie brings more than 25 years of commercial experience having worked in Australia, Singapore, and the UK. She joins Sanne in London from PwC where she held the role of Global and UK Real Estate Legal Leader. Natalie’s extensive experience of working with international clients on cross-border transactions adds significant capability to the firm’s team of product specialists.
Natalie Howard
Head of Real Estate DebtSchroders Investment Management
United Kingdom
Natalie joined Schroders in 2020 to create real estate debt strategies for Europe and the UK and to build a sizeable franchise for the Schroders Group in real estate debt. Natalie joined Schroders from DRC Capital, where she expanded their debt fund strategy and ran loan origination. Natalie has over 30 years’ experience, starting her career as a loan originator with Paribas and Charterhouse Bank until she joined Morgan Stanley, where she was a founding member of the largest and most successful European CMBS platform.
Priscilla Le Priellec
Co-Head Real Estate Lending DepartmentLa Banque Postale
France
Priscilla joined La Banque Postale in 2016 to create the arrangement desk of Structured Real Estate Loans ; since 2020, she is Co-Head of the Real Estate Lending Department of the bank and has also in charge the property development financing business. She has a 10-year experience in corporate and investment banking with CaCib in New York and Paris and an above 12-year experience in origination and execution of Real Estate Lending transactions in CaCib, DekaBank and currently La Banque Postale. She also had a 4-year experience as debt advisor in Hong Kong and is professor at Edhec in Real Estate Finance since 2009. Priscilla graduated from Edhec Business School and Oxford Brookes University. She is MRICS since 2016.
Rebekah Tobias
Managing DirectorMARCOL
United Kingdom
Rebekah heads Business Development at MARCOL, a UK family office and investment firm, to introduce new business growth opportunities and investor relationships across a diverse range of sectors in private equity and real estate.Prior to joining MARCOL, Rebekah worked at M7 as Divisional Director in the investor relations and capital raising team. Previously, she held various senior roles at CBRE in New York and London before moving to Cushman & Wakefield as a Partner in the London-based cross border capital markets team with primary responsibility for capital flows from North America into Europe.
Samantha Kempe
Co-Founder & CIOIMMO Capital
United Kingdom
Sonia Da Silva
Director, Commercial Real EstateBouygues Immobilier
France
Sophie Colin-Sansier
Head of Investment & Divestment FranceGenerali Real Estate
France
Sophie Colin Sansier joined Generali Real Estate as the Head of Investment and Divestment in 2014. Prior to this date, she has developed a consolidated experience during more than 15 years in the real estate market, holding senior positions such as Head of Investments in Beacon Capital Partners France and in charge of development, disposals and renovations for third parties at Bouygues Immobilier. She graduated from the ESSEC and holds a Master’s degree in economics and in finance.
Stéphanie Bensimon
Head of Real EstateArdian
France
Head of Real Estate in Europe, Stéphanie Bensimon joined Ardian France in 2016 with over 17 years’ experience, most recently at Invesco Real Estate, where she spent five years and was Head of Transactions in France, Belgium and Southern Europe from 2011. Prior to that, she held roles at Carval Investors, part of the Cargill Group, and GE Real Estate Group in Paris.
Suzan Dixon
Head of Workplaces, Europe & AmericasStandard Chartered Bank - London
United Kingdom
Virginie Walckenaer
Head of Real Estate France and BeneluxDWS
France
Virginie Walckenaer, actuelle Head of Asset Management – France et Belgique de DWS Real Estate, a été nommée en sus de ses activités actuelles, Responsable légale du Bureau de Paris et Directrice de la succursale française de DWS Grundbesitz GmbH, reportant directement à Clemens Schäfer, Head of Real Estate Europe. Diplômée de l’ESSCA, et ayant plus de 14 ans d’expérience en Asset Management, Virginie Walckenaer a commencé sa carrière chez Halverton REIM, puis en tant qu’Asset Manager chez Invesco Real Estate. Elle était préalablement Responsable de l’Asset management – bureaux chez Primonial Reim, et est arrivée en 2015 chez DWS
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Confirmed Participants
Aleksandra Jach
CounselWolf Theiss
Poland
Alexandra Vaquin
Head of AcquisitionsSTAM Europe
France
Alexandra Vaquin is Stam Europe's Head of Acquisitions. Prior to joining Stam Europe, Vaquin was a director at SG Real Estate Advisory (Société Générale Group), where she advised the group's clients (Société Générale Assurance, family office, private clients and corporates) in their real estate investment strategy (origination and execution) and asset management (sales, forward purchases/development contracts monitoring). Previously, she worked for more than 10 years for a pan-European real estate investment fund, Revcap, in London. As an associate partner, she was responsible for value-added real estate transactions through co-investments with local operating partners. She also worked in real estate debt management in London (LNR Partners)
Ana Estrada
Managing DirectorGoldman Sachs
United Kingdom
Ana is a managing director in the Merchant Banking Division responsible for sourcing executing and managing real estate investments across Europe. She joined Goldman Sachs in 2003 as an analyst and was named managing director in 2015. Ana earned a BS in Ec
Anna Ginkel
MD of Loan Markets & SyndicationAareal Bank
Germany
Anna Ginkel has over 20 years of experience in international Real Estate Finance. Anna joined Aareal Bank in 2013 as Head of Loan Markets & Syndication. Before joining Aareal Bank and after working in various positions at Frankfurter Hypothekenbank (former Eurohypo), lastly being in charge of Syndication Execution & Agency, Anna was responsible for the set-up of the European Syndication desk at Westdeutsche ImmobilienBank. She has been directly involved in large-volume club-arrangements and syndication of a wide variety of real estate loans nationally and internationally. Anna Ginkel holds a degree in Economics of the J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany).
Britta Drexler
Senior Vice PresidentApollo Global Management
United Kingdom
Catherine Choo
Chief Information OfficerGreenman
Ireland
Catherine Choo is chief information officer (CIO) at Greenman. She oversees the company and the Greenman Group’s strategic technology, data and communication initiatives and the deployment of innovative technologies and programmes that create a competitive advantage for the company.
Catherine has over 15 years’ experience in communication and marketing, 10 of which have been in the real estate industry. Prior to becoming CIO of Greenman, she held the position of Head of Marketing at the company, building the company brand and message and gaining significant experience in the funding, purchase, and management of grocery real estate assets.
Chiara Randazzo
Head of Transactions France and BelgiumDWS
France
Cristina García-Peri
Managing Partner/ Director of Strategy and Corporate DevelopmentGrupo Azora
Spain
Cristina García-Peri is Senior Partner and Head of Strategy and Corporate Development for the Azora Group. Prior to joining Azora in 2011, she worked for 16 years in the investment- banking sector at both Merrill Lynch (2 years) and JP Morgan (14 years), where she held various positions across M&A and Equity Capital Markets, and for 10 year, she was Managing Director responsible for Corporate Equity Derivatives for EMEA as well as Equity Capital Markets for Spain and Portugal. Cristina holds a bachelor degree in Economics from ICADE (Spain) and an MBA from Harvard Business School (USA). Cristina is Board Member at Bankinter, a Spanish IBEX 35 banking institution as well as member of the INREV ESG Committee.
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.
Ewa Parys
Executive Director, Head of Asset MgmtAEW
Poland
Ewa Parys is Head of Asset Management in Central Europe. She joined AEW Europe in 2014 and is based in Warsaw, Poland. Ewa is responsible for 3 countries in the region: Poland, Romania and Czech Republic, and reports to Stephan Boenning – Head of Germany and Central Europe. Ewa has broad asset management and acquisition experience; prior to AEW Europe, she worked at Atrium Real Estate Poland (Gazit-Globe Group) and was responsible for more than 20 retail assets. Here she managed a €1bn+ portfolio, located in Poland and Latvia. Before Atrium, Ewa worked as Head of the Leasing Department and Centre Director for Meinl European Land and at Foras Holding A/S. Ewa is a graduate of Warsaw University, Kozminski University and AGH Kraków.
Irene Ryan
Managing Director, Debt Asset Mgmt EuropeStarwood Capital Group
United Kingdom
Irene Ryan is a Managing Director at Starwood Capital Group, London office and is responsible for the asset management of debt investments by Starwood’s lending platform in Europe Since joining Starwood Capital in 2013, Ms. Ryan has managed the portfolio of loans held across multi-asset classes and European jurisdictions originated by Starwood Property Trust (NYSE: STWD) and Starwood European Finance Real Estate Finance (SWEF: LN). Prior to joining Starwood Capital Group, Ms. Ryan worked in a real estate focussed bank in London, holding a variety of lending roles from origination to loan restructuring and recovery. Before that, she gained her chartered accountancy qualification (ACA) while working at KPMG in Ireland.
Katja Pazelskaya
Managing PartnerBlue Tagus
Portugal
In 2013, following a decade of experience in the real estate financing sector, Katja (Ekaterina) Pazelskaya became a co-founder and managing director at Blue Tagus, Portugal. She is focused on translating investment strategies into tailor-made real estate investment programmes that work in geography-specific context. Next to that, Katja manages acquisitions, as well as creates real estate products adequate to the economic and market cycle. Before co-founding Blue Tagus, Katja had extensive experience in structuring and placement of funding and capital solutions for real estate loans portfolio. She was an Executive Director at ABN AMRO (Amsterdam / London) , overseeing a €120 billion real estate loan book.
Kyle Fox
Founder and PartnerKRF Capital
USA
KRF Capital is an investment advisory firm focused on a wide array of asset classes and sectors. With unparalleled execution for financial sponsors, public and private companies across a broad range of industry sectors and geographies. Our success is achieved because of our commitment and focus to provide and source strong investments.
Our experience includes complex, challenging and innovative equity and credit mandates which we successfully execute. Our team has transacted from the perspective of the lender, borrower, seller and buyer given we have worked on the Buy-Side, Sell-Side and Advisory. We leverage our expertise to structure and negotiate optimal investments.
Lily Lin
MD - Head of UK and IrelandMARK
United Kingdom
Lily Lin is a Managing Director responsible for acquisitions and asset management across the UK and Ireland. Prior to joining, Lily worked at Vanke from 2015 to 2020, where she established its UK platform as Managing Director. Previously, she worked at UBS in London across various UK and Pan European real estate funds, and at Ascendas, Singapore’s first and largest industrial REIT, in Shanghai.
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