After a great post-pandemic comeback of the real estate sector at GRI in 2021, our senior executives will gather at the España GRI 2022 to discuss the strategies for the upcoming deal flow, welcoming the largest concentration of Private Equity Investors, Fund Managers, LP’s Developers, Asset Owners, Operators and Lenders invested across all Spain and in all asset classes. Industry leaders will engage in a series of informal roundtables where everyone can participate, and navigate the current challenges presented by demand, purchasing and future trends.
Tuesday, May 10th 2022
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01:45pm - 02:00pm
Inflation - Horror show or jolt in the cycle a chance for investors' finding value in pricing?
Economy Affects - Inflation and its impact on RE
Price Rise - Construction materials skyrocketing. Threat to the industry or just a passing storm?
Current Scenario - How to mitigate this rise?
02:00pm - 03:00pm
The Investment Cycle - Opportunistic approach in new normal or new money finding a way in?
Interest Rates - Are central banks still printing money or are we out of the crisis mode?
Inflation Threat - Passing storm or are we heading to a big tsunami?
Money Matters - What asset class are local and foreign investors looking into investing?
Rare Gems - Where can we find the best deals in Spain? and in what cities?
03:45pm - 04:45pm
Logistics & Light Industrial Demand - At full capacity or can returns be squeezed some more?
Low Supply and High Demand - What price are we willing to pay?
Supply - Is the lack of it affecting the growth in the market?
Gross Land and Net Land - What is the role of public institutions in accelerating the rules and regulations processes on land?
Financing Challenges - Is the mouse chasing the cat? Are banks and investors looking for opportunities to invest in?
Sustainability & Innovative Solutions - What are new trends being developed in Light Industrial & Logistics assets?
03:45pm - 04:45pm
Traditional vs Alternative Debt - Survival or coexistence?
Potential for Growth in Alternative Finance - Margins and Gearings returning to pre covid levels?
Pressure! - Survival of the developers and asset managers who need financing for their sectors, What extent are they willing to go?
Coexistence of the Banks with Alternative Lending Companies - Who has the upper hand?
Risk Appetite - High returns or costs too high? How can they stay competitive?
Demand and Resilience - Which asset classes are the goers and the no goers?
03:45pm - 04:45pm
Traditional Resi - Blown out steam or still got game?
Multifamily Housing Segment - Huge Investor Interest or moved to alternatives?
Appetite for Urban or Suburban Areas?
Price vs Sale - What's working?
Future Demand - Increase in rentals or secondary cities?
Trajectory of Demand & Supply - Luxury real estate bullish despite COVID?
Branded and Service - International Investor´s Haven?
05:30pm - 06:30pm
Resilience, Change & Success In The Spanish Real Estate Market
Trajectory of your companies asset classes
Large Transactions & Deals
Future Vision, Market Adaptation and their challenges
ESG´s influence on the strategies
Wednesday, May 11th 2022
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09:15am - 10:15am
Future Of Real Estate - Urban intelligence & smart cities post covid
Social, Economic and Environmental Shifts - Sustainable recovery to be implemented by the cities
Need for More Human Friendly Cities - New definition of spaces, as we change to hybrid, ecommerce, post car, healthy models
Data as the 4th Industrial Revolution - AI, 5G, Automatización for intelligent cities
Metacity - What does this mean for RE?
11:00am - 12:00pm
Ecommerce & Last Mile - The biggest opportunity to shape RE in the cities?
Urban Appetite for Closer Last Mile Locations - How are the cities shaping out?
Online Demand - The biggest change to human habit trends? Have we reached the peak of online shopping yet?
Competition - Will there be a pricing tension across investors and asset managers?
The E in ESG Paradox - Sustainability as a deciding factor for investments, that older building that cant comply becoming obsolete?
Supply Chain Change - When the return of purchased good gets more important than its delivery and the whole supply chain is restructured
11:00am - 12:00pm
Co-living - Trendiest model in Spain or just for a few?
Types of Products and Their Use - What type of amenities are being developed? Unit size Vs affordability. Demand vs supply according to trends
The legal impact - Is the new law favourable towards residential asset owners?
Financing - What's available? Miss match between lending and selling balance?
Digitalisation of the Customer Experience, Cost or Benefit - What customer touchpoints is the digital experience truly changing?
Tertiary Development vs Residential Use - With a quick changing market and costs rising high, yields high?
11:00am - 12:00pm
Re Building Offices - New normal, new demand or the next big gamble?
Market Dynamics - Prime properties on a high rise and secondary suffering to the low?
Demand Post Covid- Growing or still reluctant? At what cost and at what margins?
Location - Madrid and Barcelona the only cities in Spain seeing a rise?
Co working, Corporate Hybrid & Shared Spaces - Green Building, Tech innovation, & home office, setting new trends?
Post pandemic impact on portfolio size, rent, revenue and costs?
01:30pm - 02:30pm
Retail & Commercial SoS! - Too late or just in time for distress bargains?
Post Pandemic Retail Strategies - Reposition, repurpose or mixed use?
Location, Location, Location is it all?
Redevelopment - Any opportunities and or finance available?
Commercial Converted into Experiencial hubs for customer experience?
The Toughest Survivors - The supermarkets and food retailers, Retail parks in prime high streets?
01:30pm - 02:30pm
Managed Residential - BTR, Service, the new safe haven for investors?
Managed vs Owned - Making the numbers work both ways?
Demand vs Supply - What are the effects of Product scarcity?
Green field vs Brown Field - How is this Model Decompressing Yields?
Financing - Where is it coming from? Added venture?
Digitalisation - The answer to make them work?
01:30pm - 02:30pm
Opportunistic and Value Add - Still the high risk trendsetters or fortune telling gone wrong?
Where is the Good Deal? And what assets are likely to pick up in the future?
Hotels, Resi? Barring the structural changes, Investor confidence is holding strong?
03:15pm - 04:15pm
Student Housing Demand - Which way up?
Competitive Yet Profitable - With a quick changing market and costs rising high, yields high?
Public-Private partnerships post pandemic - Will these pay off?
Legal Limbo - Without a regulating body to back the model, what are the complications?
Financing and Demand - Where is the future growth perspective?
Difference between "Colegios Mayores" and Student housing
03:15pm - 04:15pm
Data Centres - New captivating toy in the Spanish market, promising or deceiving?
Digital Transformation - The boom for new investors & operators in the data centre segment?
Highest Yields - Biggest ROI than any other asset class, yet why is supply still scarce?
Demand and Location - Madrid, Barcelona as main cities or can we see growth and opportunities elsewhere?
Specialising Partners - Non traditional buying, requiring strategy and partnerships
Sustainability - High use of energy moulding construction type?
03:15pm - 04:15pm
Future Hotels Transactions - Deals gone from ugly duckling to attractive swan?
New Normal Recovery - Hidden potential to be unleashed or still to fill in the capital gaps?
Investments and Valuations - New deals and opportunities overlooking the figures of pre pandemic?
How are New Trends and Demands Shaping the Market?
JV - Is "sharing" a good way to minimise risks?
05:00pm - 06:00pm
ESG & Taxonomy - Enhanced by tech & innovation or becoming its own asset class? (Plenary)
The New Appetite for Investors - GRESB assessment for BREEAM, LEED and other certifications banner on all new investments?
Carbon Neutrality in RE - Eco-friendly materials, smart technology, solar heating and energy - Win-win scenario boosting returns on a long run
Strategy vs Action - Beyond certifications, looking into KPI, metrics on over all portfolio compliance for green financing
The S in ESG - We all know what it is, but how do we quantify it?
Carlos is partner in Clifford Chance since 2002 and specialises in complex transactions, such as acquisition/sale of real estate portfolios, NPLs portfolios, sale & leaseback and real estate joint ventures. He has recently advised Värde Partners on the acquisition of the Aliseda servicing platform and the credit card business from Banco Popular, TPG on the acquisition of the ServiHabitat real estate asset servicing platform, Bankia on the sale of the Foster Tower, Kennedy Wilson on the acquisition of a portfolio of retail assets. Carlos Portocarrero was the Partner responsible for the major sales and leasebacks carried out by banks in Europe.
Head of Direct TransactionsActivum SG UK Advisors Limited
Spain
Brian Betel is Head of Direct Assets at Activum SG and founding partner of Spanish homebuilding ASG Homes. Prior to Activum SG Brian was a Managing Director at Cerberus Capital Management. In a 14 year career at Cerberus, Brian helped to open and run advisory offices in Mexico and Spain in addition to advising on investments in Canada, the UK and Germany. Prior to Cerberus Brian worked at Citibank in Mexico City and the Bank of Mexico, the central bank, selling the REO portfolios of their bad bank. Brian is also a founding partner of Tech-Stone Developments, a Spanish hotel development company.
Managing Director, Co-Head BGO Strategic Capital PartnersBGO
USA
Cherine Aboulzelof is Managing Director, Global Co-Head for BentallGreenOak's Strategic Capital Partners ("BGO SCP") and sits on its global investment committee. BGO SCP provides strategic capital by way of asset and portfolio recapitalisations, structured transactions, co investments trhrough its discretionary co-mingled vehicles, and fund investments for managed accounts. Prior to joining BGO SCP platform in 2017, she has been responsible for Europe investments with two different real estate investment managers, investing across a number of real estate sectors in Europe between 2005 and 2017. She started her career in investment banking with Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley. She holds an M.B.A from INSEAD and a graduate degree from EM Lyon. She is a French, British and Lebanese citizen. Cherine serves as a Non Executive Director on the board Urban Logistics REIT.
Head of Value-Add InvestmentsLaSalle Investment Management
United Kingdom
Blake is Managing Director in the Debt & Value-Add Investments team at LaSalle and serves as Head of Value-Add Investment and Fund Manager for the Special Situations programmes. His focus is on delivering attractive risk-adjusted returns in value-add real estate investments in Continental Europe and the UK across all property types.
Blake has nearly 20 years’ experience in the European real estate private equity industry, having been involved in sourcing and actively managing c.€5bn of transactions across a range of property types and geographies, delivering attractive double-digit returns in excess of an 18% IRR.
Omar has 11 years of real estate experience in the areas of deal making, due diligence, valuations and asset management. Omar has been a part of the Castellana Team for 1 year coming from Vukile investment team where he worked for the last three years. Prior to that he spent time at Investec Bank and the Public Investment Corporation (PIC). He holds an MSc. Real estate finance and investment from the University of Reading and is a professional associated valuer.
Dilip is Estabona Management’s Managing Director and has worked in Spain in the shopping centre sector for 25 years. Before establishing Estabona, Dilip held management positions in the American developer Hines where he was responsible for the development of Diagonal Mar shopping center in Barcelona and was previously Managing Director of the Canadian investment and development company TrizecHahn in Spain. Dilip currently maintains an investment company with Cadena, a U.K. based investment management company. Dilip holds undergraduate and post graduate degrees in Economics as well as an Advanced Certificate in Management and Technology Innovation from the MIT Sloan School of Business.
Ms. Fusi joined Castlelake in 2014 and is part of the Real Assets team, focused on European real estate investments. Prior to joining Castlelake, Ms. Fusi was a manager on Restructuring &Corporate Finance with KPMG in Madrid, where she worked on real estate corporate transactions and investments, as well as on re-financing and insolvency processes within the real estate sector. Prior to KPMG, Ms. Fusi worked as appraiser and consultant on land and real estate developments for diverse clients, including Altamira and Banco Santander, performing appraisals, due diligence, viability studies and asset management projects. Ms. Fusi received her B.Sc. and M.Arch. from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in architecture and urban planning.
CEO AEXX CAPITAL, a Madrid/London based privately held investment firm specialised in direct lending, asset backed distressed debt and other unique special situations, primarily in western Europe. Alberto is the Co-founder of URBANIA INTERNATIONAL, a real estate private equity firm with over €1 billion under management. Mr. Lopez has been involved in over €2 billion of opportunistic, value add and debt real estate investing in Europe. Mr. Lopez received an International MBA from EM Lyon & EOI and has a Bachelor’s degree of Economics.
Head of Real Estate Finance Spainpbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank
Spain
Senior finance expert with demonstrated successes in real estate lending, development finance, debt restructuring, portfolio management and controlling. Wide experience in the analysis of real estate and construction sectors on international level.
1997-2001 – Education at CUNEF, Major in Finance. 2001-2003 – Lehman Brothers, Analyst, Mergers & Acquisitions, London. 2003-2008 – Crédit Agricole CIB, Associate Director, Project and Acquisition Finance, Madrid. 2009-2016 – Crédit Agricole CIB, Managing Director, Head of Real Estate and Hotel Group Spain, Madrid
Nicole Jürgensen
Head of International ClientsMünchener Hypothekenbank
Germany
Nicole Jürgensen joined commercial real estate lender Rheinhyp in late 1998 and started her career in the International Property Lending Department, covering Spain. Thereafter, she was involved in setting up offices in Athens, Greece and Istanbul, Turkey to eventually take over, in late 2006, the Latin American business development at Eurohypo. After 5 years in Spain, between 2009 and 2014, where she was in charge of managing Hypothekenbank Frankfurt’s Branch in Madrid, she joined Commerzbank in 02/2015 to head the Frankfurt office of the Centre of Competence - Corporate Clients Real Estate.
José-Ignacio Tramuns is the Head of CRE Finance EMEA at Banco Sabadell. He joined Banco Sabadell in 2006 as a member of the Structured Real Estate Finance team, and afterwards was the CIO-Real Estate in BanSanbadell Inversión, with more than €1 billion under management. Prior to joining Banco Sabadell, he gained experience in Real Estate and Private Banking in firms such as Aguirre Newman and Morgan Stanley. He graduated in Economics with an MBA from ESADE Business School.
Juan Castaño Belda
Head of RE & HospitalityNatixis
Spain
Licenciado en Administración y Dirección de Empresas, bachelor en International Business por la Universidad de Northumbria, en Investigación y Técnicas de Mercado y cuenta con un MBA en ICADE y PDD de IESE. Desarrollará funciones ejecutivas con nuevos clientes y será el responsable de negociar las operaciones de financiación del banco, por encima de 50 millones €. Hasta ahora era director ejecutivo de Real Estate & Hospitality de Natixis para España y Portugal. Con 18 años de experiencia, desde su incorporación a en 2007 ha participado en proyectos de financiación de operaciones por valor de más de 5.000 millones €. Con anterioridad trabajó como analista en las áreas de riesgos y financiación de proyectos de BBVA e ICO en Madrid.
Director, Real Estate InvestmentsStarz Real Estate
United Kingdom
Gregoire is a Director at Starz Real Estate, where he is involved in all aspects of origination, underwriting and execution of real estate credit opportunities across Europe. Prior to joining Starz Gregoire worked for Deutsche Bank’s Credit Solutions Group, focused on illiquid and esoteric credit trades backed by real assets and Bank of America Merrill Lynch RESF team where he focused on underwriting, structuring and execution of senior loans, mezzanine debt, loan-on-loan financings and CMBS, across all real estate classes in Europe. Gregoire started his career as an Analyst at Westmont Hospitality Group involved in all corporate finance aspects. Fluent in French and English, Gregoire holds an MBA from ESSEC Business School.
Alantra Private Debt manages directly and indirectly c.€1.2bn in AuM focused on the European mid-market with different debt strategies including RE debt, corporate direct lending and special opportunities. Alantra Debt Funds are among the most active in its segment, having closed more than 40 transactions over the last five years in Europe. In RE debt, Alantra Private Debt provides senior (single-digit all-in cost) and/or subordinated financing of all the asset classes (logistic, office, retail, hotel, coliving, other alternative, etc.) including development financing.
Jaime Cano is partner in Alantra Private Debt since 2017. Prior to joining Alantra, Jaime was the Head of Real Estate Structured Finance for Iberia in Société Générale CIB.
Manuel graduated in Business Administration from Denver University (Colorado, USA) and holds an MBA from the University of Notre Dame. He has worked almost his whole career in Investor Relations. He joins Sareb from the consultancy King Worldwide Investor Relations, where he worked for the past four years. He was also the Founder and Managing Partner of Logical IR Solutions, Director of Strategy and External Relations at Parquesol Inmobiliaria, CEO of Eurocofin Investor Relations, Director of Equities at AB Asesores Bursatiles, Director of Investor Relations at Bankinter, and CEO of Link Securities, among other roles. He founded the Spanish Association of Investor Relations, being an Honorary Member and serving on it's Board.
Mr. Gallego joined Cerberus in 2018 as Head of Real Estate Advisory in Spain. Based in Madrid, Mr. Gallego is responsible for executing and overseeing real estate acquisitions and transactions activities in Spain. Prior to joining Cerberus, Mr. Gallego was most recently a Partner at Deloitte LLP in its Financial Advisory business, where he provided advice to different funds on the execution of portfolio purchases amounting to over €39 billion and was responsible for the servicing and developers industries. In 2005, he founded Quadratia, a specialized consulting division for financial entities in the residential real estate sector, and he was the Managing Partner until 2015.
55 years, married 2 sons From 2002 - 2017 Square Asset Management - Partner; 1,5 Billion under management in all sectors for retail and institutional clients : Managing the highest Portuguese performance balanced portfolio over the last 8 years in a row according to MSCI/IPD; from 1990 - 2000 ESAF Espírito Santo Activos Financeiros SGPS - Real Estate Managing Director Investments: Portugal, Brazil, Russia.
Jaime is the co-CEO and co-founder -with his brother Paco- of Spanish developer and investment & asset manager Conren Tramway. His background is in international private equity and investment banking at JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley in London. He has extensive experience in strategy, fund raising, investment & asset management and, capital markets. Within real estate, his experience covers investing in commercial and residential developments, value add and core plus properties, including opco-propco structures in healthcare and in secured loans. He currently serves on the Board of APCE (developers´association) and has served on the boards of private, public sector and not for profit organisations.
Jeff has spent over 25 years creating successful new ventures in multiple industries. He has been a founder, executive, investor, advisor, and attorney advising real estate clients, served as a public company CEO, a private company founder (InfoGear sold to Cisco for $301M) and led numerous tech-sector acquisitions and financings totaling approximately $500M. In 2015, Jeff launched Haystack to focus on distressed residential real estate in Spain. (Ask him about jumping from tech in California to real state in Spain). Haystack has now purchased 16 portfolios of distressed residential properties with a combined market value of 50 million euros.
Jeff received his BA cum laude from UC Berkeley, his JD degree from NYU and his MBA from USC.
Blake Loveless
Head of Value-Add InvestmentsLaSalle Investment Management
United Kingdom
Blake is Managing Director in the Debt & Value-Add Investments team at LaSalle and serves as Head of Value-Add Investment and Fund Manager for the Special Situations programmes. His focus is on delivering attractive risk-adjusted returns in value-add real estate investments in Continental Europe and the UK across all property types.
Blake has nearly 20 years’ experience in the European real estate private equity industry, having been involved in sourcing and actively managing c.€5bn of transactions across a range of property types and geographies, delivering attractive double-digit returns in excess of an 18% IRR.
I have boasted a career spanning over 20 years in the real estate sector, focusing on strategic, technical and operational advice. I have developed an expertise in transactional processes (investment/divestment) and ESG (environmental, social and governance). I have a technical-financial education. I am a certified architect, having earned a degree in Architecture at the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid in 2002 and an MRICS-accredited professional in the area of Management and Consulting. I gained additional training at IE in Strategic Management, Project Management, Corporate Finance, and Digital Marketing, and I also completed a course in Management of High-Performance Teams at ESADE. In May 2015, I received the IE Woma
Cristina García-Peri
Senior Partner Head of Strategy and Business DevelopmentAzora
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, where she Chairs the Nominations and Sustainability Committee.
Ms Perez Liz, based in Madrid, is the Managing Director of Kennedy Wilson Spain and has almost 20 years of investment banking, real estate and capital markets experience throughout Spain and the rest of Europe. Prior to joining Kennedy Wilson, she was a Managing Director of Banco Santander’s restructuring unit for medium size corporates, and had previously played different roles at PwC, and Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan in London . Over her career, Ms Perez has intervened in the completion of more than 25bn in European real-estate related transactions, including equity, direct lending, mezzanine, securitisation, and restructuring work.
Carmina Ganyet inició su trayectoria profesional en el sector financiero en Caixa de Catalunya. El año 1991 ingresó en la firma de auditoría Arthur Andersen en Barcelona, especializándose en auditoría del sector financiero. En 1995 entró a formar parte del grupo “La Caixa” como responsable de Control de Gestión del Grupo Financiero, Inmobiliario y Asegurador de Caixa Holding (actual Criteria). En el año 2000, fue nombrada Directora del Área Operativa y Financiera de Colonial. En enero 2009 pasó a desempeñar las funciones de Directora General Corporativa de Colonial y es miembro del Consejo de Administración de Société Foncière Lyonnaise.
Debora is CFO and executive board member of Castellana Properties Socimi since 2018. Previously, she was financial director in Axiare Socimi after several years in PwC and KPMG in the areas of auditing and consulting.
Mario invested in Urban Input Asset Management in 2014 having previously worked with them as a local operating partner and asset manager when he was investing in Spain. Since starting his career, Mario invested in over €3bn of real estate transactions via equity or debt across Europe and across multiple asset classes, having worked at Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Och-Ziff and Benson Elliot. Mario holds a MSc in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Manchester and speaks 5 languages. Mario sits on the board of listed retail REIT Tander Inversiones and UNIQ Residential as well as a number of PropTech ventures. Until the sale to AXA, Mario sat on the board of NYSE-listed REIT, Northstar Realty Europe.
Esteve leads all Node Iberian efforts, which are organized across three departments: development, operations and capital markets. He has extensive experience in coliving, multifamily and vacation rentals and previously worked at Starcity, Airbnb and VTS. Esteve has a degree in Finance from New York University.
Fabrizio Agrimi has a wide knowledge and experience of real estate industry in Spain as well as internationally. Prior to joining VBARE Iberian Properties SOCIMI in November 2017, he was Managing Director and Partner in Altan Capital, part of the Altamar Group and one of the leading international real estate investment manager in Spain. Previously he was part of the Investment team at Aguirre Newman, where he participated in the acquisition and sale of numerous real estate assets. He also worked in Milan and London in the distinguished law firm Vita Samory, Fabrini as part of the M&A, Private Equity and Financial Services team.
Chief Development Officer at Distrito Natural | Partner at Fluxus Ventures
With extensive experience in the real estate sector, I specialize in advising investment funds on asset transformation and delivering innovative solutions to real estate portfolios. I have successfully managed multiple co-working and co-living projects, introducing cutting-edge strategies for portfolio enhancement.
Currently, my focus is on driving the decarbonization of the industry through timber-structure residential developments, accelerating sustainable practices for a greener future.
Education:
- MSc in Industrial Engineering, Major in Structural Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- Bachelor of Architecture, École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris Malaquais
Chief Development Officer at Distrito Natural | Partner at Fluxus Ventures
With extensive experience in the real estate sector, I specialize in advising investment funds on asset transformation and delivering innovative solutions to real estate portfolios. I have successfully managed multiple co-working and co-living projects, introducing cutting-edge strategies for portfolio enhancement.
Currently, my focus is on driving the decarbonization of the industry through timber-structure residential developments, accelerating sustainable practices for a greener future.
Education:
- MSc in Industrial Engineering, Major in Structural Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- Bachelor of Architecture, École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris Malaquais
Prior to joining Greystar, Mr. Acosta worked within CBRE’s Global Investment Partners (“CBRE GIP") as well at ING Real Estate, where he was responsible for sourcing, acquisitions and portfolio management across Continental Europe. Since joining CBRE GIP in 2011, Juan has been responsible for the acquisition and management of over €2.5bn of assets including €1.5bn of residential and student housing opportunities throughout Continental Europe. Juan started his career in 2003 at PwC Argentina in the advisory practice before joining ING Group in 2007. Juan received his MSc in International Finance at Amsterdam University.
Ignacio Pareja Sierra
CEOMomentum Reim
Spain
Ignacio is a founding partner of Momentum REIM and responsible for business development since 2008. He studied Law at ICADE and Business Administration at UNED and has a Master in SME Management from EOI and a Master in Real Estate Management from ICADE. From 2004 to 2012 he has been a Postgraduate Professor at ICADE. In 2000 he began his professional career in the RE consultancy division of Arthur Andersen, and after years of experience in the sector he held the position of CEO in Grupo Gesfesa and Deputy Managing Director in Grupo Vemusa, RE companies focused on residential and tertiary development business. MOMENTUM was born in 2008 with the conviction that the change of cycle would generate good opportunities for the RE business.
8000 residential units developed; Logistics: 300000 m2 developed, 2.250.000m2 GLA under development; 50000m2 retail high street under management; 28000m2 GLA healthcare/housing for seniors; 120 student housing units recently open.
TRAINING: • IESE - Senior Business Management Program • Bachelor of Business Administration and Management. • Technician in Business Administration and Management • Master in Financial Management • High Executive program RE Management and Valuations • High Executive degree grade: Private equity and structured finance • Executive Administration Program.
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE: • General Director of Wilcox Group • Vice President of AEDHE • Member of the Board of Directors of CEIM • Member of ULI and ICSC.
Jose is leading the international growth for Smartrental. We are a group of hospitality and living brands leading the spanish market for hospitality (hostel, hotels, serviced apartments) and living (coliving, senior and student housing). Currently, we operate +4.000 beds.
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.
Jesús Abellán holds a degree and MBA from ESADE (Barcelona). He also completed the FMP at Stanford University. He began his career on the treasury desk of Banc de Sabadell. Subsequently he spent five years as CFO of Cilsa, a subsidiary of Port de Barcelona, before becoming Head of Corporate Finance at Medgroup, a RE investment and management company backed by Soros REI. He spent 12 years at Medgroup in different roles, ultimately becoming CEO. In 2009 he founded Impulse, specialized in managing real estate assets in different European countries. In 2017 he was appointed CEO of ArumGroup, company specialised in Development of Resorts and Luxury Real Estate. In 2021 founded Lorum, company that has developed a real estate management software.
Joan is the Managing Partner of Spinnia, a leading real estate investment manager mainly focussed in Spain, Portugal and México, sourcing, executing and managing opportunities for a broad base of international institutional investors in the industrial/logistics and hospitality sectors, eventually coinvesting in the opportunities.
Through his 30-year career of real estate investment and development experience in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, Joan has been active across various asset classes including industrial, office, mixed use, and residential, totalling a track record of almost €4 Bn of investments.
Joan holds a BA (UB, Barcelona), and an MBA-MIM (ESADE, Barcelona).
Professional with 29 years experience in Equity Capital Markets and Commercial Real Estate Investments. I have worked in International Investment banks like JP Morgan, AB Asesores Morgan Stanley, Salomon Brothers and in the last few years working as a Real Estate Investment Manager at Banco Santander. I am very experienced in Real Estate portfolio fund management and Institutional Investors relationships management. I can add seniority and long term reliability in a variety of aspects related to Institutional Investors coverage
Diego Fernández
Vice PresidentActivum SG UK Advisors Limited
Spain
Diego is a Vice President at ASG Iberia. Prior to joining ActivumSG group in 2015, he completed an MBA at Instituto de Empresa Business School, during which time he did an internship at Alpha Moonlight, a boutique real estate company in Madrid. Before studying for his MBA, Diego worked as an Investment Banking Associate in debt capital markets and risk & portfolio management in BBVA Bancomer Mexico. There he structured and executed investment grade and high yield debt, including new issues of both public and private debt, evaluated financial risks and managed a portfolio of more than €500 million for local and global clients. Earlier in his career, Diego worked at Banco Inbursa as a Credit & Risk Senior Analyst.
Pedro Seabra
PartnerRefundos Explorer
Portugal
Joined Explorer in 2012 and currently is the Partner in the Real Estate Business Area. He worked at CBRE in Madrid in 1987 and opened the Portuguese office in 1988, leading it until 2012. Pedro has a degree in Systems Engineering from Instituto Superior de Matemáticas Aplicadas and a master in Finance and Company Financial Management from ISCTE-INDEG. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and appraiser certified by the CMVM.
Ms. Fusi joined Castlelake in 2014 and is part of the Real Assets team, focused on European real estate investments. Prior to joining Castlelake, Ms. Fusi was a manager on Restructuring &Corporate Finance with KPMG in Madrid, where she worked on real estate corporate transactions and investments, as well as on re-financing and insolvency processes within the real estate sector. Prior to KPMG, Ms. Fusi worked as appraiser and consultant on land and real estate developments for diverse clients, including Altamira and Banco Santander, performing appraisals, due diligence, viability studies and asset management projects. Ms. Fusi received her B.Sc. and M.Arch. from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in architecture and urban planning.
Managing Partner, Alternative InvestmentsUrbania International
Spain
Jeffrey holds a Degree in Civil and Structural Engineering and more than 20 years’ experience in Management and Business Development in the Real Estate area. In 2018 he joined Urbania International as CEO of Syllâbus, Urbania subsidary, leading the company’s operations as well as strategy, investment advisory and structuring. Syllâbus is a Property Development Company specialised in the delivery of prime Student Accommodation. Nowadays, he is also Proffesor at IE School of Architecture and Design. Prior to Syllâbus, Jeffrey held a position as Vice-President and Managing Director at Hill International and he was Development Director of Shopping Centre Specialist at Sonae Sierra.
Martin joined Bonard in 2020. He leads the company’s engagement in rented residential asset classes. His expertise and focus are within student housing, senior living, co-living and other rented resi sectors. During his tenure with Bonard, Martin assisted global investors, fund managers, developers and operators with data-driven expansion to new asset classes and territories, incl. CEE, as well as with in-depth analysis and assessment of strategies and opportunities in order to mitigate their investment risk, increase ROI and allow for more accurate decisions.
Javier Ricote Mateos, Senior Director of the Commercial Real Estate Structured Finance team at Caixabank - CIB. With 15 years of experience in Investment Banking and Structured Finance, developing functions in origination and structuring of Syndicated, Corporate and Project Finance operations, national and international. Since 2008 he has been part of the Real Estate Structured Finance team and since 2014 he has been a Senior Director of Real Estate at Caixabank. The CaixaBank team is one of the main spanish lenders and market leaders in structured commercial operations of Commercial Real Estate, with special mention to the financing of projects of Shopping Centers, Offices and Hotels
Jorge Pepa
Chief Development OfficerNeinor Homes
Spain
Mr. Pepa serves as member of the Board of Directors and Chief Development Officer at Neinor Homes, a leading residential developer in Spain. He has over 20 years of real estate and investment banking experience. He was previously based in New York were he run the Latin America Private Financing division at UBS, and similar roles at Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank. Mr. Pepa has a Business Degree from Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires.
Ruben Otero comes from a family with more than 60 years experience in construction business, even he has got a BA profile, we can say that the construction is within his blood. With 20 years of experience managing both, development and building companies, he has developed over 80 M€ until 2008 in Spain. Between 2010 and 2014 he was managing a company specialized in designing and building luxury villas on Costa del Sol (Spain) with a turnover of 50 M€ during these years. In 2014, he decided to create OTERO group with the intention of being self sufficient in all development process and be able to speed the process and control the costs with the highest quality.
Manuel graduated in Business Administration from Denver University (Colorado, USA) and holds an MBA from the University of Notre Dame. He has worked almost his whole career in Investor Relations. He joins Sareb from the consultancy King Worldwide Investor Relations, where he worked for the past four years. He was also the Founder and Managing Partner of Logical IR Solutions, Director of Strategy and External Relations at Parquesol Inmobiliaria, CEO of Eurocofin Investor Relations, Director of Equities at AB Asesores Bursatiles, Director of Investor Relations at Bankinter, and CEO of Link Securities, among other roles. He founded the Spanish Association of Investor Relations, being an Honorary Member and serving on it's Board.
Fabrizio Agrimi has a wide knowledge and experience of real estate industry in Spain as well as internationally. Prior to joining VBARE Iberian Properties SOCIMI in November 2017, he was Managing Director and Partner in Altan Capital, part of the Altamar Group and one of the leading international real estate investment manager in Spain. Previously he was part of the Investment team at Aguirre Newman, where he participated in the acquisition and sale of numerous real estate assets. He also worked in Milan and London in the distinguished law firm Vita Samory, Fabrini as part of the M&A, Private Equity and Financial Services team.
Howard has been working in the real estate sector since 1993 first in the London market and since 1998 in Spain. His UK experience was in the valuation, investment and agency areas of business. He is a founding partner of Urban Input (2004) and has been involved on both the investor relations and transaction sides of the business. Howard has a BSc (Hons) in Land Management from Reading University and is on the RICS Continental European Educational Standards Board.
Xabier Barrondo has served as Business General Manager at the Gmp group since September 2013. Previously, he held executive posts at Metrovacesa and GE Real Estate, at the latter he was appointed to the position of CEO for Iberia and then CEO for Western Europe. Gmp is one of the leading property-owning developer groups in Spain, specialising in the office and business park segment and a pioneer in promoting sustainability, wellbeing and the health of occupants at its buildings. Aligned with this focus, one of its assets, Castellana 81, was the first building to be awarded WELL certification in Spain.
Philippe Jimenez
Country Manager Spain & Vice president Sales Southern Europe, Benelux and the UKIWG - Spain
Edmund Eggins joined Ardian Real Estate in 2019 with ten years of real estate experience. Prior to joining Ardian, Edmund was a Director at Inmobiliaria Colonial. Prior to that, he was a Director at Axiare Patrimonio. He started his career working at Savills where he spent five years in the Capital Markets team.
Carlos Becerril
Head of Asset ManagementGenerali Real Estate
Spain
Carlos has 23 years ́ experience as a real estate professional. He is Head of Asset Management of Generali Real Estate Spain since 2014, where he is the primary focus on sourcing, analyzing and executing new investments both in Spain & Portugal. In addition, Carlos is in charge of Generali ́s asset management in the Iberian Peninsula. Prior to joining Generali Real Estate, he held senior management positions at Neinver, IKEA and the Spanish Ministry of Treasure. He is Bachelor's degree in Law, Graduated in European Economic Studies, Masters in Urban Planning and Development, and Real Estate Executive Programme from IE Business School. Carlos is MRICS in Commercial Property.
Paco Hugas
Co-Ceo/ PartnerConren Tramway
Spain
Paco is the co-CEO and co-founder -with his brother Jaime- of a Spanish developer, investor & asset manager Conren Tramway. His background is in commercial and residential real estate in Spain. His responsabilities focus on business development, sourcing and structuring deal as well development and asset management where he leads a design and construction team of 25 people. His experience covers investing in commercial and residential developments, value add and core plus properties. He currently serves on the Board of AEO (Spanish Office Association) and ULI Spain.
Nabil Mabed joined PGIM Real Estate in 2014. He is acting as Head of France, Spain and Portugal, and Senior Portfolio Manager responsible for PGIM Real Estate’s European Value-Add funds business. Before joining PGIM Real Estate, Nabil had previous experiences with Doughty Hanson & Co, Morgan Stanley Real Estate and Morgan Stanley Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley in London and Paris. Nabil has a Masters degree in Civil Engineering and Finance from Ecole Centrale Paris, is fluent in French, English, Spanish and Arabic. Nabil is a French and Algerian national.
Real Estate expert with more than 20 years of experience in the industry, from retail and offices to industrial & logistics. Alfonso Brunet holds a Bachelor in Business Administration with Concentration in Finance from Boston University. He has dedicated his last 14 years in the retail Real Estate industry heading different projects, at CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) he assumed the position of responsible for logistics and industrial assets and in Pradera, a Private Equity Retail Fund he held the position of Country Head. Alfonso is since 2017, CEO of Castellana Properties REIT.
Dilip is Estabona Management’s Managing Director and has worked in Spain in the shopping centre sector for 25 years. Before establishing Estabona, Dilip held management positions in the American developer Hines where he was responsible for the development of Diagonal Mar shopping center in Barcelona and was previously Managing Director of the Canadian investment and development company TrizecHahn in Spain. Dilip currently maintains an investment company with Cadena, a U.K. based investment management company. Dilip holds undergraduate and post graduate degrees in Economics as well as an Advanced Certificate in Management and Technology Innovation from the MIT Sloan School of Business.
Vitor Freitas Duarte joined Sonae in 1997 and held various positions ranging from Investor Relations at Sonae SGPS to Project Manager at Sonae UK. In 2004 he joined Sonae Sierra as a Finance Manager and, three years later, he assumed responsibilities as Senior Manager for New Projects and Acquisitions in Europe. In 2010, he was also appointed Corporate Controller with responsibilities for information systems and European back offices. In 2017 Vitor moved to the Madrid office with responsibilities for the investment and management of ORES Socimi and developing new investment vehicles. Academic achievements: Degree in Management, Oporto University; MBA, ESADE Business School/NYU Stern.
Miguel Lainez is a Principal at Cale Street Partners, a real estate investment and finance firm focused on Western Europe and North America. Since its inception in 2014 Cale Street has raised €3.6 bn from a single sovereign wealth investor and has provided innovative structured debt and/or equity capital solutions to investors, operators and developers in 8 countries across nearly every major real estate asset class. Before joining Cale Street, Miguel was a member of Goldman Sachs EMEA Real Estate and Leisure M&A team.
David is Global Managing Partner and Global Head of Logistics Acquisitions at Thor Equities. Previously David was a European director with The Blackstone Group’s European logistics platform, Logicor. He was involved in over €3bn of transactions in over 10 countries across Europe and was responsible for the valuations of the €13bn platform sold to China Invesment Corporation (CIC). David received an Executive MBA from the University of Cambridge, where he and peers formed Lookfit, an avatar / augmented reality based startup, focussing on solving the issue of reverse logistics.
Joan is the Managing Partner of Spinnia, a leading real estate investment manager mainly focussed in Spain, Portugal and México, sourcing, executing and managing opportunities for a broad base of international institutional investors in the industrial/logistics and hospitality sectors, eventually coinvesting in the opportunities.
Through his 30-year career of real estate investment and development experience in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, Joan has been active across various asset classes including industrial, office, mixed use, and residential, totalling a track record of almost €4 Bn of investments.
Joan holds a BA (UB, Barcelona), and an MBA-MIM (ESADE, Barcelona).
8000 residential units developed; Logistics: 300000 m2 developed, 2.250.000m2 GLA under development; 50000m2 retail high street under management; 28000m2 GLA healthcare/housing for seniors; 120 student housing units recently open.
TRAINING: • IESE - Senior Business Management Program • Bachelor of Business Administration and Management. • Technician in Business Administration and Management • Master in Financial Management • High Executive program RE Management and Valuations • High Executive degree grade: Private equity and structured finance • Executive Administration Program.
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE: • General Director of Wilcox Group • Vice President of AEDHE • Member of the Board of Directors of CEIM • Member of ULI and ICSC.
María Laguna joined DeA Capital Iberia in 2019, as Managing Director, responsible for Investments and Asset Management. Prior to joining DeA Capital, María was Director of Investments and Asset Management at TRIUVA Iberia (later Patrizia). She has more than 22 years of experience in real estate investments. María graduated in Economics from the University Autónoma of Madrid, she has a Master in Real Estate from the Arquitecture University of Madrid and MBA studies in the University of Missouri, Columbia (USA).
Director of Strategy & Business Development IberiaCloud & Heat Technologies
Spain
Working since more than five years in a dynamical environment in constant growing, qualifies you to readapt to each new situation. I have discovered project management as a flexible concept –actually closer to product development- and could apply my technical and management skills in an everyday exciting and innovating field: data center solutions using water-cooled infrastructure and open source cloud services.
David Hunt-Cuadrado
Head of Europe, Managing PartnerThor Equities
United Kingdom
David is Global Managing Partner and Global Head of Logistics Acquisitions at Thor Equities. Previously David was a European director with The Blackstone Group’s European logistics platform, Logicor. He was involved in over €3bn of transactions in over 10 countries across Europe and was responsible for the valuations of the €13bn platform sold to China Invesment Corporation (CIC). David received an Executive MBA from the University of Cambridge, where he and peers formed Lookfit, an avatar / augmented reality based startup, focussing on solving the issue of reverse logistics.
Roy Gibbens
Thor Equities
United Kingdom
David García Núñez
Presidente y DIRCOM Madrid Capital Mundial de la Ingeniería, Construcción y Arquitectura Madrid WCCMadrid World Capital Construction (MWCC)
Mario invested in Urban Input Asset Management in 2014 having previously worked with them as a local operating partner and asset manager when he was investing in Spain. Since starting his career, Mario invested in over €3bn of real estate transactions via equity or debt across Europe and across multiple asset classes, having worked at Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Och-Ziff and Benson Elliot. Mario holds a MSc in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Manchester and speaks 5 languages. Mario sits on the board of listed retail REIT Tander Inversiones and UNIQ Residential as well as a number of PropTech ventures. Until the sale to AXA, Mario sat on the board of NYSE-listed REIT, Northstar Realty Europe.
Javier is Drooms’ General Manager Southern Europe. Based in Madrid, oversees the business expansion in real estate, corporate finance and M&A in Spain, Portugal and Italy. Javier Meseguer has 16 years’ experience in digital services and data rooms and has invaluable expertise in establishing sales networks. He previously worked as Director of Sales for Snowflake, a provider of cloud-based data rooms, as well as IntraLinks, SAS Institute and The MathWorks.
Elena Corredor Tamurejo
Sustainability Team Leader Spain & PortugalArcadis
Spain
Carlos Olmos de Frutos
Associate Professor IE Business SchoolInstituto de Empresa (IE)
Clifford Chance is the leading international law firm in Spain, with an extensive network of 32 offices in 21 countries. It has over 35 years´ experience in Spain and is widely recognized in the sector. With a well-established presence in Madrid and Barcelona, we have a renowned team of over 140 lawyers and 25 partners. Our participation in the highest profile matters and our wide transactional experience has helped us from close relationships with regulators, government agencies and leading international companies, and positioned our firm at the top if the market, combining the reach and resources of a global network with extensive knowledge of local business.
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