Are you actively seeking investments, transactions, or project developments in the German real estate market while trying to understand what the competition is doing?
After another economically and geopolitically turbulent year, investors are trying to understand the current market stand. This is the perfect opportunity to discuss pressing matters like inflation, dealflow and investment risks in the real estate market. Join us and discover the best solutions to deal with market challenges and ensure value.
The 20th Deutsche GRI brings together the leading real estate investors, lenders, and project developers. The discussion format provides the opportunity to interact with each other easily and break the ice. Save time in finding new business partners, expand existing business relationships, and discuss the most pressing questions in the markets with your industry colleagues.
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Keynote Speaker
Carsten Brzeski is the Global Head of Macro for ING Research. Previously, he worked at ABN Amro, the Dutch Ministry of Finance and the European Commission. He is a 2019 JFK Memorial Policy Fellow at Harvard University and member of the Advisory Council on International Affairs for the Dutch government and Parliament. Carsten has studied at the Free University of Berlin, Northeastern University in Boston and Harvard University in Cambridge, USA.
Carsten Brzeski Global Head of Macro Research and Chief Eurozone Economist
Fireside Chat - Institutional Investing
Anni Hönicke
Managing Director
Maja Procz
Global Head of Transactions,
Real Estate Markets
Stefanie Pfister
Head of Asset Management,
Deputy
Head of Capital Investments
Agenda
15th May | 14:30 - 15:30
Fireside Chat - Unveiling LP’s German Real Estate Sentiment and the Path to Sustainable Recovery
Der Immobilienökonom und Fellow der Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Martin Eberhardt ist seit über 30 Jahren in der Immobilienwirtschaft tätig. Der Inhaber der Management- und Immobilienberatung AperDurus hat auf Geschäftsführungsebene bzw. auf C-Level namhafte Unternehmen begleitet wie Union Investment Institutional Property, Bouwfonds Investment Management, Corpus Sireo/ Swiss Life KVG, Corestate Capital Advisors/ Hannover Leasing Investment.
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.
MD / Country Head GermanyPAREF Investment Management Germany GmbH
Germany
Managing Director, Board Advisor and Strategic & Process Transformation Expert, developing and implementing the change agenda over the whole lifecycle, across asset classes and European markets in the Real Estate sector. Key strengths include: leveraging diverse cross-sector international leadership experience to introduce and integrate new investment and technical solutions into Real Estate; ensuring regulatory compliance across all areas of property development to mitigate risk; assembling and leading high-performing management teams and embedding performance management frameworks throughout the business to optimise productivity and profitability; and building trusted global key stakeholder relationships, up to Board level, to drive succe
Klaus joined the European Catella Group in 2008 as Managing Director and is responsible for all real estate development projects in Germany. In 2015 Catella Project Management (CPM) was founded as an independent division direct linked to the Stockholm headquarter of Catella. Meanwhile CPM has realised or initiated project volumes of approx. 1.8 b EUR in commercial and residential properties. As Managing Partner Klaus is one of the shareholders of these development projects. The set-up of all Catella projects is based on sustainable and long-term oriented investments. Consequently the economic and ecological goals must be combined.
PrincipalHenderson Park Capital Partners - Germany
United Kingdom
Robert Hellerschmied has 9 years of full-time real estate transaction and asset management experience.
Prior to joining Henderson Park, Robert was an Associate at AXA Investment Managers, focusing on Pan-European real estate transactions, specifically within the office, retail, hotel and data centre sectors. Robert started his career at LIST GROUP, supporting various asset management initiatives.
Robert holds an MSc in Real Estate Investment from Cass Business School, and a BSc in Finance, Accounting and Taxation from the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
Václav Matoušek
CEO - GermanyHB Reavis Germany GmbH
Germany
Multilingual hands-on and results-driven senior real estate executive with 20+ years of expertise creating profitable international real estate and construction environments for global players such as Skanska, HB Reavis and others with a core specialty in ESG strategies for RE; project management, value creation, leasing and marketing, construction, risks, stakeholder management, and negotiations
As the leading provider of smart financing, software products and digital solutions for the property sector and related industries we support our clients on three continents with our finance expertise and managing real estate projects. As a top employer with excellent trainee programs we offer various personalities a professional work place.
Friedrich Einhoff joined Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG (pbb) in 2006 and is a Director in the Loan Markets Real Estate team. Pbb is looking after large loan arrangement, loan trades (club and post, in and out) and structured solutions (incl. Mezz and Equity) for all global pbb exposures. Friedrich has worked for more than 25 years in the German banking industry with more than 20 years’ experience in the commercial real estate finance business. He holds a degree in business administration (Diplom-Kaufmann) from University of Mannheim.
Thomas Wiegand is Managing Director of Cerberus Deutschland Beteiligungsberatung GmbH. He is responsible for real estate assets, NPL portfolios and property company investments in Germany, BeNeLux and the Nordics. Thomas was a member of the supervisory board for GSW Immobilien, a Cerberus investment that completed its IPO in 2011. Prior to joining Cerberus in 2005, Mr. Wiegand was a Director in the Institutional Restructuring Unit of Dresdner Bank, where he was responsible for the sale of non-core assets and loan portfolios of Dresdner Bank. Before that Thomas has held various positions in Private Equity and Structured Finance at Dresdner Kleinwort with a focus on restructuring cases.
Guillaume BERNARD has been active in the real estate finance markets for more than 10 years. He started his career at Société Générale in Frankfurt in the Debt Capital Markets and then moved to the Real Estate Finance. He joined NATIXIS in 2012 in the real estate finance origination team.
GFORM ist ein Full Service Immobilien- und Finanzmanager mit Schwerpunkt auf Lebensmittelgeankerte Fachmarkzentren in Deutschland. GFORM verwaltet derzeit mehr als 1,22 Milliarden Euro assets im Auftrag verschiedener Plattformen und Fonds, darunter Greenman OPEN. GFORM ist Teil der Greenman Gruppe, ein Zusammenschluss von Tochtergesellschaften, darunter Greenman Investments, Europa‘s einziger voll integrierter Investmentfondsmanager für Lebensmitteleinzelhandelsimmobilien.
Jan Backhaus has over 14 years’ experience in managing real estate. In 2015 he joined our Bruton Capital Frankfurt Office as Investment Director. Prior to joining Bruton Capital, he worked for a Frankfurt based real estate family office and at Lohnbach Investment Partners in the NPL sector repositioning distressed commercial. He holds a diploma in business administration, specialized in real estate from the University of Cooperative Science in Stuttgart. He is responsible for transaction and asset management.
Der Immobilienökonom und Fellow der Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Martin Eberhardt ist seit über 30 Jahren in der Immobilienwirtschaft tätig. Der Inhaber der Management- und Immobilienberatung AperDurus hat auf Geschäftsführungsebene bzw. auf C-Level namhafte Unternehmen begleitet wie Union Investment Institutional Property, Bouwfonds Investment Management, Corpus Sireo/ Swiss Life KVG, Corestate Capital Advisors/ Hannover Leasing Investment.
Patrick Otto
Managing Director Head of Real Estate Germany West & Key AccountsUniCredit Bank
Germany
Patrick Otto is a trained Banker and carries a master's degree in business from Westfaelische-Wilhelms-Universtitaet Muenster (WWU). He is heading UniCredit’s Real Estate Large Client team in Germany as a Managing Director. Patrick has spent more than 18 years with UniCredit Bank AG (and its predecessor organizations) in various senior/managing positions: Corporate finance, Risk Management, Liquid and Structured Assets, Hedging Solutions, Portfolio Management, Principal Investments, Real Estate.
Head of International Real Estate Finance & FundsBayernLB
Germany
Oliver Sill is Senior Director of BayernLB and serves national and international RE clients such as funds, listed RE companies and developers. He joined BayernLB in 1989 and has held a variety of specialist and sales positions in commercial RE. During his career he was responsible for all kinds of RE clients including companies with assets in residential, office, retail, hotels and hospitals. For the last 15 years he focused on international transactions including countries like the US, UK, France, Netherlands, Belgium and Poland. Also in charge of institutional international clients that focus on investing in German RE assets. At the moment he is overlooking a RE portfolio of approximately € 3 bln with his clients.
Head of International & Institutional Clients, REF Germanypbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank
Germany
Markus Wehnelt is a Managing Director and Head of Real Estate Finance Germany Institutional and Private Equity Clients for Germany at pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG. He has many years of experience in complex structured real estate financing transactions. In the past years, Markus and his team successfully closed a large number of lending transactions with a focus on Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Dirk Brandes is Member of the Executive Board and Head of Real Estate Finance at NATIXIS Pfandbriefbank AG based in Frankfurt am Main. The Bank combines the special abilities of a Pfandbrief bank with the commercial business resources of Natixis S.A., the corporate and investment bank of Groupe BPCE. The main markets are Germany, France, Italy, Spain and United States. Prior to joining NATIXIS in 2016, Dirk Brandes was Head of Business Origination at HSH Nordbank AG, Hamburg. Previously, he was Head of Commercial Real Estate at DG HYP, Hamburg.
Audrey Klein is a Partner at Spencer House Partners (www.spencerhousepartners.com) running the 3rd-party fundraising business and is based in London. Before SPH 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 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. Audrey is on the Corporate Board of Great Ormond Street Hospital and is a Non-Exec Board Member at Thriving, SFO and Planet Smart City. She is a Trustee of ULI's Charitable Trust and is on the board of Verbier 3-D.
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.
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.
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
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.
Founder and Managing Director at YOOBELONG GmbH.
YOOBELONG is the first local community builder for ‘young seniors’ in Germany (whether young by age, or young by heart).
Jil has 20 years of experience in international environments with real estate development and services companies as well as tech companies in the digital consumer and enterprise software areas.
Mr Widhalm has been Head of Sales Department Real Estate Finance in the Berliner Volksbank eG since 2008. His responsibility lays at all corporate clients with more than 70 Mill. € revenue, the professional real estate market and the infrastructure market, including renewable energies. He is also Member of the Supervisory Board of the BBT, a company which consults many Berlin based companies owning residential properties, and of the VVBI Capital AG.
Filipe, who is based in Frankfurt, brings 15 years of experience in real estate development, investment management and design.
He will be responsible for leading AXA IM Alts’ development activity across Germany, as well as further expanding the business and strengthening AXA IM Alts’ network of partners.
Prior to joining AXA IM Alts, Filipe spent nearly five years at MPC Capital, where he held various senior roles including Head of Acquisitions and Development for Micro-Living and Real Estate Investment Director. He also previously held the role of Acquisitions & Development Manager at DC Developments.
Prior to founding Fundament, Ben acted for 12 years as country head of Round Hill Capital including 5 years as CEO of Vitus Group. Selected previous experience include Head of German and Austrian real estate business for Pears Global, Director of Acquisitions at The Mills Corp. and KanAm Group in Munich, and Director of New Business Development at Tishman Speyer Properties in London and New York.
Ben holds a Dual Masters degree in Business Management and Engineering from TU Berlin and Masters of Real Estate Development from USC, Los Angeles.
Multilingual hands-on and results-driven senior real estate executive with 20+ years of expertise creating profitable international real estate and construction environments for global players such as Skanska, HB Reavis and others with a core specialty in ESG strategies for RE; project management, value creation, leasing and marketing, construction, risks, stakeholder management, and negotiations
Der Immobilienökonom und Fellow der Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Martin Eberhardt ist seit über 30 Jahren in der Immobilienwirtschaft tätig. Der Inhaber der Management- und Immobilienberatung AperDurus hat auf Geschäftsführungsebene bzw. auf C-Level namhafte Unternehmen begleitet wie Union Investment Institutional Property, Bouwfonds Investment Management, Corpus Sireo/ Swiss Life KVG, Corestate Capital Advisors/ Hannover Leasing Investment.
Daniel Ahrendt
Director InvestmentsActivum SG UK Advisors Limited
LifeX is a modern residential operator and technology platform. We design, let and operate studios to spacious co-livings in London, Berlin, Copenhagen, Munich and Paris.
We believe that finding the perfect home should be a quick and hassle-free experience. Whether you are moving in from abroad or just down the street, with LifeX you can arrive with just your suitcase and settle in right away.
Matteo Ghedini is the founder and CEO of Brera Serviced Apartments. Matteo started Brera in 2013 by opening the first location in Nuremberg. Since then Brera expanded in many German cities and manages today ca. 700 Apartments. Born in Italy, Matteo started his career as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, attended an MBA at INSEAD and thereafter successfully completed the turnaround of a Real Estate Family Office in Germany. Passionate about Interior Design and about unleashing People´s talent, Matteo´s goal is to develop Brera to one of the most important long stay players in Europe.
Head of Real Estate Finance Germanypbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank
Germany
Gerhard Meitinger is Managing Director at pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank and is responsible for the Real Estate Finance Business Germany. He has many years of experience in the German Real Estate and Lending business both with real estate professionals as well as international and institutional clients. The focus of his activities is the financing of real estate investments with single properties and portfolios. He also focuses on the financing of development projects in appropriate locations and adequate financing models.
Chief Financial OfficerDEMIRE Deutsche Mittelstand Real Estate
Germany
Tim Brückner is an experienced real estate professional with in-depth corporate finance skills. He has an academic background from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Prior to join DEMIRE, Tim was Managing Director at Corpus Sireo.
Head of Team Western EuropeHYPO NOE Gruppe Bank AG
Austria
He has over 20 years of experience in Finance & Banking. 12 years as Deputy Head of Corporate Finance and Head of Real Estate and Project (Volksbank International/Sberbank Europe), 3 years as Deputy Head of Credit Department in an Italian cooperative bank (Raiffeisen) Private Wealth and Asset Management in an Austrian bank for Italian and German private clients (BAWAG) Project manager of several banking related key projects (bank license application, sale of banking group), several supervisory board mandates in CEE subsidiaries. Business Development Manager for a Multi-Family Office (Carey – Group) Investment Director (NPL) in Intrum Austria Since 2018: Real Estate and Project Finance in HYPO NOE Landesbank für Niederösterreich und Wien AG.
Located in BayernLB’s office in Frankfurt, Gunnar Rüffer is responsible for international and domestic client of the Greater Frankfurt real estate clients. Before joining BayernLB he was heading the Loan Sales and Securitisation department within Eurohypo’s Debt Capital Markets division. Altogether he can look back on a more than 25 years ofreal estate banking experiences. Prior to joining Eurohypo in 2002 he worked as an analyst within the CRE Structured Finance sector at Dresdner Bank New York Branch.
Head of Real Estate Investment BankingDeutsche Hypothekenbank
Germany
Dieter Koch joined the NORD/LB in 2001 as Head of Real Estate Investment Banking (REIB). He took over the same function at Deutsche Hypo after it was acquired by the NORD/LB in October 2008. The focus of the department is on the support of large international customers, arranging structured finance, portfolio and acquisition finance as well as structured alternatives and financial advice. Dieter Koch and his team can present higher business volumes by integrating Structured Financing Alternatives. Combining regional expertise with high structuring know-how and linking objectives of clients with those of potential investors, REIB provides an optimized use of available resources.
Burkhard Schlickenrieder is Managing Partner of Lenwood Capital, a debt investment manager investing instititutional capital across the entire financing structure in mezzanine, junior and senior loans secured by real estate covering almost all asset classes. He has a backgroud in structured finance, investment banking and in the planning & construction business, with former positions as an architect and afterwards in the financial industry at Hypo Vereinsbank (HVB), Hypo Real Estate (HRE) and REFTA. Burkhard Schlickenrieder holds an MSc in Philosophy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a Diploma in Engineering/Architecture from Dortmund University.
Simon Koenig founded Lakeward Holding 2013. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director at Armada Investment AG, the single Family Office of Daniel S. Aegerter. During his time at Armada he was also a CEO at Gutburg Immobilien SA, the owner and manager of a large German residential real estate portfolio. Before this he held various positions in Asset Management, Corporate Finance, Accounting/Controlling and Banking for companies like Pempa Credit Advisors (Man Investments), KPMG Corporate Finance, Credit Suisse First Boston and Schweiz. Kreditanstalt.
Christian is a founding partner of Waterway Investments, manages the Frankfurt office and is responsible for all aspects of the transaction process on behalf of Waterway’s international client base. Prior to co-founding Waterway, Christian has worked for various American opportunity funds as well as German open-ended fund vehicles. He received a Master ´s in Economics from Freie Universität Berlin/Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil and a Master´s in Real Estate Economics from European Business School (ebs), Germany. Christian is fluent in German, English, French and Portuguese.
Founder and Managing Director at YOOBELONG GmbH.
YOOBELONG is the first local community builder for ‘young seniors’ in Germany (whether young by age, or young by heart).
Jil has 20 years of experience in international environments with real estate development and services companies as well as tech companies in the digital consumer and enterprise software areas.
Philipp is Managing Director at mrp hotels and has extensive experience in asset management, operational and financial restructuring of hotel properties.
Philipp advises and leads several asset management mandates and hotel consulting projects across Europe and is active Asset and Investment manager for the newly founded hotel investment fund "ECHO" across Europe.
His academic background includes a Bachelor's degree in Hotel Management from the prestigious Glion Institute of Higher Education and a Master's degree in International Management from IE Business School Madrid.
Marius Koch, Managing Director. Mr. Koch joined Cerberus in 2009. Prior to joining Cerberus, Mr. Koch worked in the Real Estate Research Department of Corpus Sireo. Mr. Koch graduated from the European Business School (EBS) with a B.S. in General Management and a M.S. in Real Estate Finance and Investments. His responsibilities include the underwriting and execution of real estate and NPL transactions across Europe with a focus on Germany, Portugal, Nordics and CEE.
A Real Estate professional, member of the RICS with a background in Coworking, Coliving and Hospitality.
Expanding across Europe Bob W. One of Europe's fastest growing Tech Enabled 1-90 day stay Serviced Apartment operator. Operating in Nine Countries including UK, Spain, Italy, Germany, Estonia, Norway, Finland, Greece, Netherlands.
We sign Master Leases, Management Agreements and work with Investors, developers to secure funding and develop assets from 25 to 200 apartments in core European countries. Backed by some of Europe's best known VC companies and UHNW family offices.
Nearly25 years of experience in hotel development in various senior management positions. From 1995 to 2003 Director Development of ACCOR Hotels in Germany and Austria, from 2003-2011 Director Development of Motel One Group for European development of these Budget Design Hotels. In 2011 I joined TUI Hotels & Resorts, but after strategic change in hotel business I started in 2013 as Managing Director Development for Vienna based Falkensteiner Hotels & Residences, being responsible for the growth of Falkensteiner in CEE. In 2017 I returned to TUI Group to manage the growth of Tui own hotels & resorts worldwide, especially TUI Blue, Club Robinson and Club Magic Life
Dimitri Chandogin is a co-founder of Numa Group, the leading European digital hotel operator and technology developer. The company provides disruptive design hotels and serviced apartments for modern travelers. A trusted partner for investors, owners, and developers, NUMA uses proprietary technology-based operating solutions that largely automate operations and increase cost efficiencies and revenues. NUMA successfully operates over 3,500 units in European A-cities, including Berlin, Munich, Rome, Milan, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, Oslo, and Vienna.
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Since 2011 Lorenz is the Managing Director of Romania within the Soravia Group (Soravia Real Estate Development), a group of companies which actives in the real estate market, developing and managing office buildings. Lorenz graduated from Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and in 2014 graduated from the University of Chicago.
Sebastian is a partner and head of the CMS practice group Real Estate & Public in Germany. Sebastian Orthmann provides advice to national and international investors and project developers on the acquisition and sale of companies as well as real estate and real estate portfolios (domestic and cross-border), both in the form of asset deals and share deals. He also focuses on advising on joint ventures, corporate structuring measures, project developments, commercial lease law and financing. His clients include institutional investors, banks, asset managers, family companies and public authorities as well as corporates from the automation, chemical, cosmetic, electrotechnical, logistics, retail, IT and manufacturing sectors.
Lars joined RI Partners as CEO in 2015. RI Partners is an active investment company specialized in the value-enhancing management of real estate for institutional and semi-institutional investors. Prior to that he worked as a senior project manager in real estate investment banking at the investment bank BERENBERG. Previously to that he gained his professional experience as a consultant in transaction management focusing on corporate finance in Hamburg.
Lars received an international MBA at the International Real Estate Business School with modules at Harvard University and the University of Reading; he graduated as Real Estate Economist at the ebz Business School and as Private Equity Advisor at the European Business School.
Klaus joined the European Catella Group in 2008 as Managing Director and is responsible for all real estate development projects in Germany. In 2015 Catella Project Management (CPM) was founded as an independent division direct linked to the Stockholm headquarter of Catella. Meanwhile CPM has realised or initiated project volumes of approx. 1.8 b EUR in commercial and residential properties. As Managing Partner Klaus is one of the shareholders of these development projects. The set-up of all Catella projects is based on sustainable and long-term oriented investments. Consequently the economic and ecological goals must be combined.
Christina Schädler has been a member of the BEOS AG Executive Board since September 2022 and is responsible for Property Management, Research and Risk Management as well as the BEOS locations in Munich, Stuttgart and Cologne.
As Managing Director at CORPUS SIREO, an affiliate of Swiss Life Asset Managers, Benjamin holds senior management functions within the company’s business development activities. Focusing on international investors and institutions, Benjamin has a joint responsibility to originate direct (co-)investments with preferred equity partners, i.e. through JV or Club Deals, and to acquire new asset management service mandates to be executed by the company’s full range operational platform. He joined the company in 2006. Since then he has been managing several operational value-add sectors such as transaction and portfolio management. Benjamin holds an Urban Planning degree and is a lecturer at the German Private Real Estate Academy IREBS.
GFORM ist ein Full Service Immobilien- und Finanzmanager mit Schwerpunkt auf Lebensmittelgeankerte Fachmarkzentren in Deutschland. GFORM verwaltet derzeit mehr als 1,22 Milliarden Euro assets im Auftrag verschiedener Plattformen und Fonds, darunter Greenman OPEN. GFORM ist Teil der Greenman Gruppe, ein Zusammenschluss von Tochtergesellschaften, darunter Greenman Investments, Europa‘s einziger voll integrierter Investmentfondsmanager für Lebensmitteleinzelhandelsimmobilien.
Emmanuel Verhoosel is Managing Partner at the venture capital firm Fluxus Ventures. Fluxus Ventures invests in PropTech companies and incubates innovative platforms linked to digitalisation, sustainability and new ways of living and working. He is also CEO of Square Sense, a data analytics platform. Emmanuel has 30 years of experience in real estate, investment banking and venture capital in London, New York, Paris and Brussels. He has been advising and financing leading property companies with JPMorgan, ING and Natixis. Education: Master in Finance from the London Business School, Master of Laws from the London School of Economics and law and political science degrees from the Université Catholique de Louvain.
Stefan is a founding partner of 4 Friends Investment Group (4FI) and responsible for the general strategy, acquisition and structuring as well as member of the investment committee. 4FI is a privately held investment manager with a focus in the sectors health & lifestyle and real estate combining both platform and corporate investments. Through different subsidiaries 4FI has acquired real estate in continental Europe in excess of 700mn EUR and has invested into five different platforms. Prior to 4FI, Stefan founded ACREST Property Group, Germany’s largest non captive retail asset manager and worked for companies such as TishmanSpeyer or Tenkhoff Properties. He is an active member of ULI and ZIA.
Hannah Stern brings 10 years of experience in engaging and supporting multi-national customer accounts with a background in retail and CRE.
She also focuses on analysis and utilization of market insights, ensuring relevance of product offerings to partners and customers.
Hannah holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.
As the Chief Commercial Officer at BuildingMinds, Hannah leverages her expertise to drive the company's commercial strategies.
An enthusiastic property professional with extensive acquisitions, asset management, property management, sales and leasing, planning and development, finance and investment experience in residential and commercial markets. I have gained exceptional experience and knowledge in both the commercial and residential real estate markets throughout my years as a property professional.
Robert Bachmann is Head of Technical Sales at Heidelberg Materials Beton DE GmbH. He is responsible for Heidelberg Materials Germany value added products and contact person for real estate developers, architects and planners. He is also one of Heidelberg Materials evoZero brand ambassadors in Germany.
Dirk Jörns verantwortet das nationale Geschäft mit großvolumigen Wohnungsfinanzierungen (recourse/non-recourse) der Landesbank Baden Württemberg. Er verfügt über langjährige Erfahrung bei der Finanzierung von Immobilieninvestitionen in den verschiedenen Realisierungsphasen und Nutzungsarten.
CEO - Vorsitzender des Vorstandesabrdn Investments Deutschland AG
Germany
With approximately seven billion euros in real estate assets under management in Germany, Aberdeen Standard Investments Deutschland AG is one of the leading providers of real estate funds for institutional investors in Germany. Our investment focus is on German and pan-European residential real estate. We also invest in Scandinavian commercial real estate and logistics properties. In total, we manage investments of approximately 37 billion euros in Germany.
Filipe, who is based in Frankfurt, brings 15 years of experience in real estate development, investment management and design.
He will be responsible for leading AXA IM Alts’ development activity across Germany, as well as further expanding the business and strengthening AXA IM Alts’ network of partners.
Prior to joining AXA IM Alts, Filipe spent nearly five years at MPC Capital, where he held various senior roles including Head of Acquisitions and Development for Micro-Living and Real Estate Investment Director. He also previously held the role of Acquisitions & Development Manager at DC Developments.
Since 2018, Xavier Scheibli is Portfolio Director at GSA, based out of Frankfurt. He has more than 17 years of experience in multiple RE sectors, both on the equity & debt sides. In his current role, he’s responsible for managing portfolios of PBSA assets in Germany & UK, maintaining a close relationship with all players in the capital stack. Prior to GSA, Xavier was a Director at LNR/Hatfield Philips, leading NPL underwriting activities in Continental Europe & the firm’s co-investment opportunities. Before joining LNR in 2013, Xavier served as VP at Hudson Advisors & held posts in the RE division of UBS Wealth Mgt, where he was involved in fund structuring, acquisitions & distributions to high net worth individuals & inst. investors.
GFORM ist ein Full Service Immobilien- und Finanzmanager mit Schwerpunkt auf Lebensmittelgeankerte Fachmarkzentren in Deutschland. GFORM verwaltet derzeit mehr als 1,22 Milliarden Euro assets im Auftrag verschiedener Plattformen und Fonds, darunter Greenman OPEN. GFORM ist Teil der Greenman Gruppe, ein Zusammenschluss von Tochtergesellschaften, darunter Greenman Investments, Europa‘s einziger voll integrierter Investmentfondsmanager für Lebensmitteleinzelhandelsimmobilien.
With the largest commercial real estate team in Europe and one of the biggest worldwide, CMS is well positioned to help investors, funders, developers, landlords and occupiers navigate all aspects of the real estate market and maximise their assets. Whatever the size and scope of your project or deal, with almost 800 real estate lawyers in 46 countries we have the resources to meet your needs quickly and efficiently, offering expert advice. We have been active in real estate in our markets for decades, so we understand the culture, the economic context, the local legal context and the history.
Heidelberg Materials is one of the world's largest integrated manufacturers of building materials and solutions with leading market positions in cement, aggregates, and ready-mixed concrete. We are represented in over 50 countries with more than 51,000 employees at almost 3,000 sites. At the centre of our actions lies the responsibility for the environment. As the forerunner on the path to carbon neutrality and circular economy in the building materials industry, we are working on sustainable building materials and solutions for the future. We enable new opportunities for our customers through digitalisation.
BuildingMinds enables owners and managers of real estate to de-risk and drive the performance of their portfolios, clear regulatory hurdles, and protect portfolio valuations across day-to-day operations now, and in the future. Its technology platform is helping some of the world’s largest organizations to transform real estate from a resource-consuming industry into a resource-generating industry. By leveraging AI to optimize decarbonization strategies, BuildingMinds’ platform offers ESG reporting solutions that ensure organizations adhere to global and local policies and standards, including upcoming regulatory changes. BuildingMinds was founded in 2019 by Schindler Group to meet the company's need for building data monitoring and management and has grown to a team of more than 150 experts across 40 countries. With over $100M in funding from Schindler and technological support from Microsoft, BuildingMinds has expanded to meet the needs of real estate managers across reporting and ESG
Every building owner, real estate portfolio holder, developer and investor faces the challenge that data on buildings, energy consumption, CO2 emissions, tenants and climate risks is either not available or scattered in different places. They also lack the tools to act on their ambitions to become sustainable while remaining profitable.
Predium’s end-to-end platform empowers you to efficiently manage key building data and cost-effectively identify renovation opportunities.
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