Diego Tavares é Managing Director & Senior Partner do GRI Club, hoje lidera as atividades do Club na Europa.
É graduado em Turismo e tem especialização em Marketing e Consumer Behaviour pela London School of Marketing.
12 years experience within conference production in infrastructure, tax, finance and real estate. Previously working with RICS for four years helping drive the global CPD rollout. I have been with GRI Club for over 4 years, from Sales Director, UK Markets Director, Content Director and now as Global Head of Content with Sales Specialty within our Europe and USA markets. Ask me about our European events,asset class specialisms and connecting wtih investors globally. BA Hons in Philosophy from Kings College London, hobbies include Rugby, Theatre Production and Time Out Tastemaker.
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As President and Chief Executive Officer of Ivanhoé Cambridge, Nathalie Palladitcheff is responsible for the Company’s overall strategy, growth and evolution. After a successful career based in France and the Indian Ocean, she joined Ivanhoé Cambridge in 2015 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and was appointed President in 2018. Her achievements from 2015 to 2019 include overseeing the Company’s digital shift with a view to a sustainable and forward-looking performance.
Ivanhoé Cambridge, a global real estate industry leader, invests in high-quality properties and real estate companies in select cities around the world. It does so prudently, with a long-term view to generate optimal, risk-adjusted returns. Founded in Quebec in 1953, Ivanhoé Cambridge has built a vertically integrated business across Canada. Internationally, the Company invests alongside key partners and major real estate funds that are leaders in their respective markets. Through subsidiaries and partnerships, Ivanhoé Cambridge holds interests in nearly 800 buildings, primarily in the residential, office, retail and logistics real estate sectors. Ivanhoé Cambridge held approximately C$56 billion in assets as at December 31, 2016. The Company is a real estate subsidiary of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (cdpq.com),one of Canada's leading institutional fund managers.
Fireside Chat:
Post COVID Accelerated Trends
COVID Accelerated Trends - Short term vs long term strategies
The Office of The Future - Sustainable vs fashionable trends
ESG in Real Estate - 10 years too late to use as a competitive advantage?
Managing A Global Portfolio - Old risks, new risks and how remain agile
Diversity and its role in resiliency in commercial real estate
For over 200 years, JLL (NYSE: JLL), a leading global commercial real estate and investment management company, has helped clients buy, build, occupy, manage and invest in a variety of commercial, industrial, hotel, residential and retail properties. A Fortune 500® company with annual revenue of $20.9 billion and operations in over 80 countries around the world, our more than 103,000 employees bring the power of a global platform combined with local expertise. Driven by our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world, we help our clients, people and communities SEE A BRIGHTER WAYSM. JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. For further information, visit jll.com.
Investment Cycle Recovery
Sunny side up or risking over easy?
Was the bounceback too easy?
Cyclical downturn vs structural shifts, how to adapt?
GDP, interest rates & unemployment - Will the markets cool or ramp up?
Diversification as the only safety net?
Has COVID changed pricing & leveraging and is it rational?
Europe Assets - Flight to core or alternatives in the driving seat?
Europe Regions - Finding Equity Partners & Adjusting Risk Profiles
Evan Z. Lazar is Co-Chairman of the Global Real Estate Group at Dentons. He is recognized as one of the leading real estate investment and property finance lawyers in Europe. Evan handles major real estate M&As for international real estate funds and private equity organizations, as well as joint ventures, developments and financings throughout Europe and on other continents. His extensive experience in all areas of cross-border property and finance transactions has placed him at the forefront of many of the region's most important deals, including major retail, hotel, office, logistics and residential developments, financings and institutional investments.
Rob joined Cromwell Property Group as a Fund Manager quickly taking on further responsibility for a number of key funds. With Rob's experience and expertise in acquisitions, he took on the role as Head of Transactions for Europe, managing the regional transaction teams, underwriting and closing on all acquisitions for both in-house Funds and Joint Venture partners. Now as Head of Investments, Rob’s focus is growing the European business through new Fund Products, Joint Ventures and strategic acquisitions. Rob has over 24 years of commercial property experience. Prior to joining the business, he worked at the investment agency, Allsop, and as an acquisitions and development specialist at ING Investment Management.
Pedro Antonio Arias
CEOSienna Investment Managers
Luxembourg
Before Sienna, Pedro joined Amundi as Global Head of PARA in 2013 to manage the alternative assets business line. The Platform of Alternative and Real Assets (PARA) fully integrates Real Estate, Private Debt, private Equity and Infrastructure and manages nearly €50 billion of assets in Europe. Pedro Antonio was previously Deputy CEO in charge of international development and real estate at the Casino Group, the French retail group. He served as board member of Casino’s major subsidiaries in Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Thailand, Hong-Kong and Vietnam. Pedro Antonio started his career in a law firm before moving to corporate and investment banking in various leading institutions.
Michael Zerda
Co-Chief Investment Officer, Europe | Head of Debt & Value-Add StrategiesLaSalle Investment Management
United Kingdom
Michael Zerda serves as the Co-CIO for Europe and is Head of European Debt & Value-Add Strategies, responsible for LaSalle’s debt platform and value-add and opportunistic equity strategies in Europe. Michael has 22 years’ experience investing in equity and debt opportunities in Europe and the US, across a wide variety of real estate asset classes. Since 2010, he has been responsible for transactions totalling over $10 billion in net equity contributions, and $22 billion in gross loan commitments, across 140 individual transactions in major Western European markets spanning private equity, structured equity investments, equity joint ventures, senior debt, mezzanine debt, corporate debt, and development finance.
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
Marco Plazzotta is the Head of RE Investments at Poste Vita, the life insurance company of Gruppo Poste Italiane leader in the Italian life insurance market. RE Investment is a newly created department, aiming to ensure the development of RE investment activities both direct and indirect, the management and monitoring of investments, in line with corporate strategies. Prior to joining Poste Vita, he worked for ten years at Allianz S.p.A. as Head of RE Asset Management. He was in charge of managing the whole RE portfolio of the Group in Italy and to oversee Southern European market and branches. He was also responsible for investment, portfolio and asset management activities. In addition he was Executive Vice President of CityLife spa.
Nadra Moussalem
CEOColony Investment Management
France
Nadra Moussalem is CEO Colony Investment Management. Nadra joined Colony in 2000 and has served as the portfolio manager for the Europe investment products since 2013, overseeing investments, asset management and risk management. Nadra has led over €5.1bn of equity and debt investments across 36 transactions through multiple investment strategies. He serves as Chairman of the Board of AccorInvest, and is also on the board of Carmila.
Karim Habra
Global Co-Head of Real Estate at Partners GroupPartners Group - Switzerland
France
Karim Habra is responsible for Ivanhoe Cambridge European platform and its future growth. He oversees all the company’s real estate operations in Europe including its development activities. Karim Habra began his career with GE Real Estate in 1998 and was given responsibility for its Central European operations in 2003, before joining JER Partners in 2008 as Managing Director, European Funds. In 2012, he joined LaSalle Investment Management as Managing Director of Central Europe before serving successively as Managing Director of France, then Head of Continental Europe.
Com mais de 20 anos de experiência, somos uma consultoria especializada em potencializar os resultados das empresas dos mercados imobiliário e de infraestrutura. Atuamos com soluções 360º nas áreas de gestão de pessoas e de estruturação de processos organizacionais.
Student Housing & Co-Living
Still immature or stable diversification opportunities?
Convergence of Asset Classes - Could Co-Living attract more mainstream investors this way?
PBSA - Impact of travel restrictions for international students on student housing take up
Co-Living - Increased importance of accessing communities while living alone; do the rental figures match?
New Tech - Necessary to increase operational flexibility?
Leasing Models - Can greater flexibility innovate the product offering?
Founder and CEO of BONARD and has over 20 years’ experience advising real estate investors, funds, developers and operators. Since 2007, under his leadership, his staff of 50 researchers and analysts operating in four offices around the world have been providing the highest level of secondary and primary in-field data, making BONARD a leading provider of independent and reliable research and solutions. Samuel, an individual member of the world's leading professional research association ESOMAR, is a frequent speaker at the major global real estate stages, attending dozens of conferences a year and sharing latest insights backed by his long-term industry experience
Peter Noack is co-founder of ZEITGEIST Asset Management. Today ZEITGEIST has over 50 projects under management with a total investment volume of ca. 800 mio Euro. ZEITGEIST with offices in Prague, Warsaw and Berlin, is a Real Estate Developer and Asset Manager for private and institutional investors in Germany and Central Eastern Europe. Prior to ZEITGEIST, Peter worked in institutional real estate in Germany, Central Eastern Europe and Turkey for HOCHTIEF Development and Rödl & Partner in Germany and Czech Republic. He is registered as licenced attorney at law in Germany and Czech Republic and holds a Law degree from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.
François graduated from ESSEC and Panthéon Assas university (M2 in notary law). François worked previously at Catella & Unibail-Rodamco (Investment) before launching Colonies with two other cofounders - Amaury Courbon (ex- Jaïna Capital) and Alexandre Martin (ex - Rothschild). They had a first entrepreneurship success with Gansky, a society specialized in flatsharing for students. With Colonies, they target to create a new urban housing experience for a broader audience. He is a member of the RICS.
Greenman is a market-leading, sector specific, German real estate investment fund manager, authorised as an Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) by the Central Bank of Ireland under AIFMD Regulations 2013. Greenman manage Greenman Investments S.C.A., SICAV-FIS, a Luxembourg seated investment platform. Greenman has developed an investment model which is designed to generate investor income from the purchase, operation and sale of food anchored real estate. Using this model, Greenman has, since 2005, successfully selected, funded and purchased properties for a number of segregated compartments within the platform’s umbrella structure. Greenman follow a buy and hold strategy with a focus on food anchored retail real estate let on long term leases to highly creditworthy tenants. Currently Greenman have c.€690m of assets under management.
CEE Supply & Demand
Strategic development opportunities or too risky?
Investment Volume - Still going strong, but which asset classes & locations are favoured?
Supply & Demand - Development slowdown causing potential supply constraints?
Cross Border Activity - Will foreign capital come back or too much risk?
Vacancies & Rents - Which asset classes will be most resilient?
Head of Real Estate Finance International Clients & CEE
pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank
Kevin Turpin
Regional Director of Capital Markets for CEEColliers
Czech Republic
Kevin has been working in the commercial real estate industry in the field of property market research and consultancy for over 16 years. Kevin manages a team of analysts covering up to 17 numerous markets across the CEE region and is responsible for the delivery of market research and insights to both Colliers clients and its business lines. Kevin and team research and advise on all market sectors with a key focus on Offices, Retail, Industrial & Logistics, Residential and Investment. Kevin's previous roles have been in the HR consultancy, Information Technology and Public sectors, where he has gained valuable international experience working closely with people, technology, business and finance.
Chairman & CEO, WING; Chairman of the Supervisory Board, ECHO InvestmentWING
Hungary
Noah M. Steinberg (Wing, ECHO, Bauwert, Germany, Poland, Hungary)
Noah M. Steinberg is Chairman and CEO of the WING Group and Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of Echo Investment SA in Poland and Bauwert AG in Germany.
Noah Steinberg was born in the US and has lived and worked in Central Europe since 1990. Based in Budapest, he was a founder of Wing in 1999 and he has been the company's Chief Executive since then, responsible for the development and investment activities of the WING group across all asset classes and geographies. He graduated from Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) with a BA and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna with an MA.He speaks English, French, German, Spanish and Hungarian
Dobrin Staikov serves as CFO & Head of Capital Markets at Lion's Head. Prior to this he joined AG Capital’s executive team in July 2016 after over 12 years at EBRD in London. At EBRD he developed the bank's distressed asset & non-performing loan financing and investing practice and enhanced the private-equity type business in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Turkey and North Africa. He was also part of the Deutsche Bank (London) Emerging Markets Structuring team with focus on the CEE region. He has been a board member of equity investee companies across CEE and Turkey. He holds MBA from INSEAD and is chartered certified accountant in the UK (ACCA).
Co-Owner & Managing PartnerGriffin Capital Partners
Poland
Managing Partner at Griffin Capital Partners. Nebil Senman held leading positions for nine years as Senior Vice President and Supervisory Board Member of Oaktree’s German and Polish real estate funds and operations worth several billion Euro. Before joining Oaktree, he spent eight years handling real estate and corporate consulting at Ernst & Young Real Estate (formerly Arthur Andersen), where he held various managerial positions. He is a graduate of universities in Berlin (TU Berlin, EBS), Paris (ESCP Europe) and London (LSE) and holds an MBA and a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering. He also holds a post-graduate diploma in real estate management (EBS), and is a Chartered Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, MRICS.
Director of Technology and InnovationPfP - Places for People
United Kingdom
Graziella Roccella
Chief Research & Product Design OfficerPlanet Smart City
United Kingdom
Graziella Roccella has been Adjunct Professor in Architectural Design at Politecnico di Torino and is now Chief Research and Product Design officer at Planet Smart City. Her research topics focus on Housing in the Lands of Excellence and more recently on Smart City and Smart Solutions for the Affordable Housing sector. She has worked for 2 years on "Smartfood", a project that combines interests in the fields of Eco-tourism, agriculture in peri-urban areas, short-chain food production and the re-use of existing buildings.
One of the leading international corporate law firms. It is ranked 2nd largest law firm in France by revenue. Its unique positioning and highly recognised expertise enable it to deliver innovative, high-value-added solutions in Tax, Business, Corporate and Employment law.
CMS provides expertise in Banking & Finance, Commercial, Competition, Corporate, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Energy, Intellectual Property, Lifesciences, Real Estate, Technology, Media & Communications and Tax.
Futurs besoins en bureaux
l’emplacement est-il plus important que le prix ?
Repenser le bureau traditionnel - rénover ou construire ?
L'Emplacement, l'emplacement, l'emplacement ? Aligner les priorités sur le prix et l’emplacement
Flexibilité des baux - les propriétaires et les locataires peuvent-ils se mettre d’accord ?
Bureaux en France - Panique sur les prix ou garder son calme et continuer ?
Appétit des investisseurs - Les allocations de capital restent fortes ou trop risquées ?
Cédric Dujardin est nommé depuis Septembre 2019 Managing Director dans l’équipe Investissement Immobilier de BlackRock. Basé à Paris, il sera en charge de la gestion des fonds immobiliers de BlackRock en France, Italie et Belgique, sous la responsabilité de Justin Brown, Head of Real Estate Europe. Cédric Dujardin dispose de près de 20 ans d’expérience dans l’immobilier et la gestion de fonds, avec une expertise liée à l’impact environnemental et sociétal des actifs immobiliers. Avant de rejoindre BlackRock, il était Directeur des opérations immobilières pour la France, la Belgique et le Luxembourg chez DWS. Il avait précédemment été Directeur Investissements Europe chez Ivanhoé Cambridge et occupé différentes fonctions chez Gécina.
Rémi Monglon
Managing DirectorPineBridge Benson Elliot
United Kingdom
Rémi has 24 years of experience in the real estate industry and leads the Firm’s activities in France. Prior to joining Benson Elliot in 2006, Rémi was an Investment Manager at Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners where he was responsible for four real estate portfolios in France and Italy. Previously, Rémi spent six years at Archon Group (a Goldman Sachs Group company), latterly as Portfolio Manager where he managed five portfolios valued at €1.8bn. Rémi holds a Masters in Finance & Real Estate from Paris University XII and a Bachelor’s in Law & Tax from the Sorbonne University. Rémi is a native French speaker and is fluent in Italian.
Christophe Burckart, est Directeur Général France de IWG, leader mondial des espaces de travail flexibles et innovants. A ce titre, il est en charge de conduire les activités opérationnelles et la profitabilité des marques du groupe telles que Regus et Spaces et siège au conseil de surveillance de Stop&Work, autre réseau de tiers lieux innovants, dont IWG est actionnaire majoritaire. Il est également responsable de définir et de mettre en œuvre les initiatives de croissance, s’associant à des acteurs-clés du marché au travers de partenariats stratégiques. Diplômé de l’Institut Supérieur de Commerce, Paris il a développé sa carrière dans le secteur de l’informatique au sein d’IBM, Compaq, Compaq, HP, Dell et d’Honeywell Safety Products.
Philip B. Gaillard is a Managing Director of HRO. Since joining in 1997, he has been instrumental in developing, leasing and selling many of HRO's projects in the Paris Region. Philip holds an AB degree in Economics and MBA in Real Estate, both obtained from University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). Since 1997, HRO has been a key player in Europe's dominant cities developing over 600,000 m² of offices occupied by some of the world's leading corporations. HRO provides a full range of advisory and asset management services to institutional clients
European Head of Investments, Arnaud Malbos is responsible for proposing, implementing and supervising Ivanhoé Cambridge’s European investment activities in the Office building, Logistics and Alternative sectors in Europe.
Olivier Katan
Managing Director, Head of Real Estate Finance FranceDeutsche Pfandbriefbank AG
France
Olivier Katan is a Managing Director for pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank , Head of International Clients, France. Before joining pbb in October 2013, he headed since 2005 the Origination team for France at Eurohypo AG. Olivier, who has over 20 years work experience in structured and asset finance, was previously responsible for LBO and asset financing at CDC Ixis and CLF Dexia. He focuses on origination and structuring of “tailor made” financing solutions for international clients buying real estate assets or portfolios in France and throughout Europe. He holds a postgraduate MSc in International Finance from HEC school of management Paris and he is a civil engineer (ESTP).
For over 200 years, JLL (NYSE: JLL), a leading global commercial real estate and investment management company, has helped clients buy, build, occupy, manage and invest in a variety of commercial, industrial, hotel, residential and retail properties. A Fortune 500® company with annual revenue of $20.9 billion and operations in over 80 countries around the world, our more than 103,000 employees bring the power of a global platform combined with local expertise. Driven by our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world, we help our clients, people and communities SEE A BRIGHTER WAYSM. JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. For further information, visit jll.com.
Office Investments
Values make sense post COVID?
Pricing, demand & investment fundamentals
Flight to Core - Is there a new dynamic for commercial office space?
Grade A Short & Long Term - What forecasts for valuations, capital growth, rents and leasing structures?
Managing Director, Head of Underwriting International
pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank
Chris Staveley
Head of Office, EMEA Capital MarketsJLL
United Kingdom
Chris has 25+ years of pan-European office Capital Markets experience and a significant track record in office transactions spanning more 15 European markets. Chris has worked in London, Paris and Brussels. Chris has deep, long-established knowledge of Europe’s Office markets and strong relationships with the main investor, developer and lender groups. Chris works closely with JLL’s International Capital Coverage Team, sourcing global capital for major European office transactions and JLL’s European Debt team.
Collin Schmitz-Valckenberg is a Managing Director and founding Principal of Blue Colibri Capital. Blue Colibri is sponsoring opportunistic funds with a focus on Germany France and Austria. Collin serves on the Funds’ Investment Committee and is Chief Investment Officer
Rouzbeh Badi-Arez is a founding partner of Black Swan Real Estate Capital since 2021. He has more than 15 years of experience in European real estate investment, asset management and business development. Prior to joining Black Swan Real Estate Capital, Rouzbeh was heading investment and asset management activities at Dea Capital in France. Earlier in his career, he was responsible for sourcing and execution for Freo France. He also gained experience of equity and debt structuring as head of business development at Paref and he was responsible for international funds. He started his career as investment and asset management at Atemi (French Lehman Brothers asset management company). Rouzbeh graduated from Bordeaux Business School
Guillaume Turcas
Managing PartnerFaro Capital Partners
France
Guillaume has a 20-year+ experience in the real estate industry and is Managing Partner at FARO CAPITAL PARTNERS, a boutique real estate investment and asset management company. He held senior positions at AEW and CBRE Global Investment Management from 2005 to 2017. Fellow member of the RICS, Guillaume holds a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from ESTP and a Master’s Degree in Finance and Real Estate from Paris Dauphine University – where he is also a lecturer since 2013.
FARO CAPITAL PARTNERS is an affiliate of SIOR
MD & Head of Asset Management for EuropeStarwood Capital Group
United Kingdom
Federico Bianchi is a Managing Director & Head of Asset Management at Starwood Capital Europe, based in London and responsible for the management of the European assets. Prior to joining Starwood, Federico was a Principal, Asset Management at GreenOak Real Estate (London), where he worked for 4 years with a specific focus on Spain and Italy. Previously, Federico was Italian Country Manager and a Member of the European Board of ISG; at that time he also joined the Executive Committee of ULI in Italy. Prior to that, he served as a Director of Asset Management at Condotte Real Estate and a Director at Tishman Speyer Properties, where he was overseeing deals and projects for a combined value of more than € 1.5 Bn.
Marian Herman
Group CEOHB Reavis
Slovakia
Marian Herman is the CEO and Member of the Board of Directors of HB Reavis Group. Previously, as Group CFO, he was responsible for all of the company’s finance-related activities including debt financing, divestments, investment management, budgeting, controlling and accounting. He joined HB Reavis in 2010 as Head of Investment Management & Divestments. In this role he was responsible for the Group’s M&A and divestment activities across all markets, having successfully concluded over €1bn of commercial RE deals. Marian has over 20 years of experience in investment mgmt and investment banking. Prior to joining HB Reavis, he had been working for over 10 years in London for RREEF Infrastructure, Deutsche Bank and ING Group
Benjamin Bill
PartnerCMS
France
Benjamin has extensive experience in the work with clients on complex real estate operations. He advises on a broad range of aspects related to it, including acquisition and disposal of real estate assets or companies, of French or pan-European portfolios, the structuring of projects and the negotiation of JV and partnership agreements.
Benjamin’s work covers all asset classes (office, retail, logistics, hotel and leisure, residential…).
Benjamin’s work also covers property development transactions, commercial leases and management agreements.
Peter joined HB Reavis in 2016 as a Group Leasing Director and was responsible for the overall leasing strategy, overseeing teams in Bratislava, Prague, Warsaw, Budapest and London. He was appointed to the Board in October 2017 and continues his contribution to delivering HB Reavis’ successful workspace solution service and co-working scheme. Peter is an MBA graduate of the University of New York in Prague and City University Bratislava, and has previous experience from IT sector where he held leadership positions as the General Manager at Exe, and Country Manager at both Microsoft and the SAS Institute.
Frank Steffen
Managing Director, Head of Underwriting Internationalpbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank
Germany
Frank Steffen has been working within the property financing sector since the mid-1990s. In his role as Managing Director International Clients, Germany he is responsible for originating and structuring commercial real estate transactions for international customers of pbb. His previous roles also include the responsibility of the Russian business, underwriting of European real estate transactions and Restructuring of critical facilities with a focus on UK, CEE & Asia.
Com mais de 20 anos de experiência, somos uma consultoria especializada em potencializar os resultados das empresas dos mercados imobiliário e de infraestrutura. Atuamos com soluções 360º nas áreas de gestão de pessoas e de estruturação de processos organizacionais.
Hotels Transactions & Investments
Capital bounceback or still in too deep?
Hotel Investment Transactions - where is the capital appetite coming from?
Liquidity - Investors, operators & owners to deploy capital to fill the gap on cash flows?
Sustainability Strategies: What are the strategies for current assets, ongoing deals and pipeline opportunities?
Macro trends and Hospitality: What are they and how will they play out in the hospitality industry?
Lorcain Egan is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Europe for Starwood. Mr. Egan is responsible for Starwood’s international lending platform covering Europe and Asia. Since joining Starwood in 2013, Mr. Egan has structured and executed financing transactions and secured financing for Starwood’s equity acquisitions across Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Starwood Capital, Mr. Egan was a Vice President at Barclays Bank where he worked in their Structured Property, Debt Finance team based in London. In this team, Mr. Egan focused on originating, structuring and executing real estate debt opportunities for Barclays.
Development & Investment Director EuropePrivate Investments
Netherlands
Mariapia Intini is Development and Investment Director at citizenM hotels, where she is responsible for securing new acquisitions in target cities in Europe. Prior to joining citizenM, she was Associate Director at Cushman & Wakefield’s EMEA Hospitality, where she valued over €1.5bn worth of single assets and portfolios (including NPLs) across Europe, and, before then, Senior Consultant at Colliers International’s EMEA Hotels. She started her real estate career at the global architectural firm Design International. She is a MRICS Chartered Surveyor and holds a Master’s Degree in Hotel Real Estate Finance from Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, NY, when she completed a rotational programme at Marriott International’s US HQs.
Rami Badr
Managing DirectorOrion Capital Managers
United Kingdom
Rami is a Partner & MD of Orion located in London. Since joining Orion in 2002, he has been involved in acquisitions, asset mgmt and realizations for the Orion European RE Funds across Europe with a particular focus on larger corporate transactions, pan-European portfolios, debt acquisitions, restructurings, hotel & retail investments. This includes active involvement in investments such as Infracity in Stockholm, Puerto Venecia or Sotogrande in Spain, the equity participation in Société Foncière Lyonnaise or the debt acquisition & restructuring of the Spanish company Inmobiliara Colonial. Before joining Orion he was an associate at Arthur Andersen within the transaction support team, advising large corporations on their RE strategies.
Will Duffey is the Head of EMEA Hotels Capital Markets and is based in the London office of JLL. He is responsible in running the European hotel capital markets team, which spans across all the major markets of Europe, covered by a team of 50 sector specialists. The team are renowned in focusing on large, complex hospitality transactions across the region and have held the No.1 market share for
the sector as rated by RCA for 2019 and 2020.Will has far-reaching experience in the sector - from structuring of and advising on development agreements, to joint ventures and both debt and equity transactions. He advises global and domestic clients across the capital stack on their hotel exposure in Europe and provides strategic advice on disposals
Dieter Kornek
Head of Project ScoutingTUI Hotels & Resorts
Germany
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
Andreas Otto’s practice covers all aspects of commercial real estate law. Andreas had been head of the real estate practice group at CMS Germany for eight years. He has been recognised as an expert in the real estate market for many years advising a number of renowned German and international property owners, investors and project developers on transactions and project developments. In addition, Andreas has a strong, internationally focused notary practice, providing notarial services for real estate and corporate transactions.
Co-Head of EMEA RE FinanceGoldman Sachs Asset Management
United Kingdom
Jan is Co-Head of Real Estate Finance for the EMEA Region at Goldman Sachs. He has extensive transaction experience across asset classes including hospitality, office, logistics, retail, datacenter, cold storage assets as well as SPL/NPL portfolio financing and construction finance. He has worked in various jurisdictions across Europe. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Jan worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Citi in real estate finance, securitization and investment banking.
Jacopo Burgio is based in London and joined TPG Angelo Gordon in 2016. He oversees real estate investment opportunities in France and Spain and works on hospitality investments across Europe. Prior to joining TPG Angelo Gordon, Jacopo worked for Blackstone Group’s London real estate team and began his career at Jefferies in its Investment banking division. Jacopo holds a Bachelor of International Economics from Bocconi University in Milan and he is fluent in French, Italian, Spanish and English.
Sourcing and execution of residential investments for Heimstaden in Germany, Central Europe, France and Finland. Formerly responsible for residential investments in Europe at Round Hill Capital. Prior to this, he was an investment banker in the Goldman Sachs’ European real estate team in London. Stan holds a master’s degree in Finance and Business Strategy from Sciences Po University in Paris.
Former CEO IRES, Board Director Bank of Ireland GroupI•RES
Ireland
Margaret is CEO and Board Director of IRES REIT, Ireland’s leading private rental residential owner and operator with €1.5bn of assets. She is Chair of the Dublin City University Business School Advisory Board and is a former Non-Executive Director of Dalata Hotel Group plc, Birmingham Airport, Dusseldorf and Hamburg Airports, HSBC Security Servicces Ireland DAC. She has over 20 years of C Level and board director leadership experience She is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland and Chartered Director of IoD UK.
Daniele is an expert on energy and environmental services within smart urban environments, as well as on regulatory frameworks. He has over 16 years of experience managing projects in Europe, Africa and Asia and is a Senior Associate at the Institute for European Energy and Climate Policy Foundation.
Greenman is a market-leading, sector specific, German real estate investment fund manager, authorised as an Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) by the Central Bank of Ireland under AIFMD Regulations 2013. Greenman manage Greenman Investments S.C.A., SICAV-FIS, a Luxembourg seated investment platform. Greenman has developed an investment model which is designed to generate investor income from the purchase, operation and sale of food anchored real estate. Using this model, Greenman has, since 2005, successfully selected, funded and purchased properties for a number of segregated compartments within the platform’s umbrella structure. Greenman follow a buy and hold strategy with a focus on food anchored retail real estate let on long term leases to highly creditworthy tenants. Currently Greenman have c.€690m of assets under management.
Raising & Allocating Capital
Dry powder en mass but nowhere to go?
Distressed Investing - Post-pandemic bargain wave or wash out?
Raising Capital - Where is the capital coming from and will equity pour only in core assets?
All about Location or are Asset Classes the Main Deciding Factor?
Lack of Product - No shortage of capital but nowhere to invest?
Institutional Investment Appetite - What’s changed, what’s staying the same?
Which assets are most at risk of becoming obsolete?
Anthony is based in London. He has over 20 years of experience in raising capital from institutional investors for Real Estate investment.
Prior to joining CAPRA, Anthony was a Director at BlackRock where he led the Institutional Investor Relations & Fundraising Team for Real Estate in Europe.
Previously he spent two years working with CBRE in the Philippines. He has a particular interest on governance issues both inside and outside the industry: he spent 3 years on the INREV Corporate Governance Committee. Anthony started his career as a Police Officer in the United Kingdom, serving for 11 years in uniformed roles and as a detective.
Etienne Pax
Managing DirectorColony Investment Management
Luxembourg
Etienne Pax is Managing Director, responsible for investments and strategic asset management in Europe. Previously, Etienne served as Managing Director with Richemont Group, where he set up a fund focusing on value-add opportunities in North America and Europe. He also worked for Standard Life Investments where he was responsible for acquisitions, asset management and dispositions across Continental Europe. Etienne graduated from HEC Business School in Paris and received a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Chicago.
Adrian Karczewicz
Head of Divestments CEESkanska Commercial Development Europe
Poland
As Head of Divestments at Skanska’s commercial development unit in CEE, Adrian is responsible for sourcing buyers and conducting transaction processes in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania. While working at Skanska, Adrian has divested over 40 office buildings totaling almost EUR 2 bn. He has also expanded Skanska’s clients portfolio by 15 new buyers. Moreover, Adrian was involved in the sales process of Skanska’s asset in London and Helsinki. Adrian started his professional career in 1997 at Gerald Eve International. He went on to work for Knight Frank and GE Capital Golub Real Estate. Prior to joining Skanska in 2013, he worked for Echo Investment as the director responsible for the company’s asset divestments.
Dobrin Staikov serves as CFO & Head of Capital Markets at Lion's Head. Prior to this he joined AG Capital’s executive team in July 2016 after over 12 years at EBRD in London. At EBRD he developed the bank's distressed asset & non-performing loan financing and investing practice and enhanced the private-equity type business in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Turkey and North Africa. He was also part of the Deutsche Bank (London) Emerging Markets Structuring team with focus on the CEE region. He has been a board member of equity investee companies across CEE and Turkey. He holds MBA from INSEAD and is chartered certified accountant in the UK (ACCA).
CEO Real Estate & Head of Private Markets, Chairman MEPCFederated Hermes
United Kingdom
Chris joined Federated Hermes in 2010, having successfully established Australian fund manager QIC’s European office in London. Prior to that he was head of European Property at HSBC. Chris spent the majority of his career as a fund manager at Prudential, where he led the diversification of its UK real estate exposure into overseas markets in 2001. As CEO of Real Estate, managing over £7 billion of real estate, Chris is also the BTPS Director on the Argent Board and has taken a lead role in promoting responsible investment with major regeneration schemes such as King’s Cross London, Paradise Circus Birmingham, NOMA Manchester and Wellington Place Leeds.
Prior to co-founding Alte, Florent worked in the real estate private equity division of Blackstone where he led investments across multiple asset classes in Europe. Before Blackstone, Florent launched the European real estate equity and debt investment division of Partners Group, which he joined in 2007. Florent has been involved in the sourcing, underwriting, negotiating and structuring of more than Eur 2.3 billion of capital across 25 private equity real estate transactions in Europe. Florent received an M.Sc. in Management from the ESSEC business school in Paris and is a CFA charterholder.
Dr. Florian Stadlbauer (born 1976), as Head of Technology and Innovation, is responsible for the transformation of Commerz Real AG into a technology-centric asset manager. Mr. Stadlbauer is also a member of the supervisory board of BERGFÜRST AG and a member of the advisory board of ShareYourSpace GmbH.
Chris Zissis
Global Head - Investment Technology & International CTONuveen Real Estate
United Kingdom
Chris brings more than 20 years of technology, data & digital transformation experience in various industries around the globe. He has held a number of leadership roles that have put him at the forefront of many fintech and proptech transformations.
Chris is passionate about technology products and solutions. He's driven by:
• Providing business first digital and data solutions.
• Ensuring all stakeholders are brought on the journey to drive adoption and innovation.
• Buildings and integrating future proof solutions across products and services that scale globally.
• Developing and growing high-capability teams.
James is the Director of Digital & Technology at SEGRO plc, the FTSE100 pan-European developer and owner of industrial and logistics property, with over £15 billion of AUM. James joined SEGRO in 2010 and has held several senior roles, most recently leading SEGRO’s digital and technology innovation since 2018. Prior to SEGRO, James held a series of senior positions at American Express, and before that at Deloitte Consulting, Coca-Cola Schweppes and Xerox. James has over 25 years’ experience in real estate, business and financial services in strategy formulation and execution. James is a member of various industry committees and advisory panels, with a focus on technology, innovation, and increasingly their application to sustainability.
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.
Justus Wiedemann is the founder and CEO of QUANTREFY, the world's first ESG implementation platform. Based on AI-supported data analysis, QUANTREFY suggests concrete sustainable and, at the same time, economic optimization measures to users for their assets - and then acts as an interface to relevant service providers for implementation. The goal of Justus and his team is to simplify central processes in ESG implementation through automation and the user-oriented design of the platform, to provide reliable decision-making bases at the push of a button, and thus to reduce implementation hurdles.
Robbert Heekelaar
VP, IT Architecture & Emerging TechnologiesPrologis
Netherlands
Robbert is the vice president of Architecture & Emerging technologies at Prologis, he has over 16 years of experience in IT, Innovation, Strategy, Business development, Management, Finance and Consultancy, his focus is currently on Innovation, having setup Prologis Labs and performing experiments with and without Prologis' customers. Working in a Global team, testing, experimenting, learning, creating added value for the organization. In previous roles he focused on strategy setting and management. Main challenge was embedding the new IT strategy into our Global IT department, closing the ever-existing GAP between business and IT.
For over 200 years, JLL (NYSE: JLL), a leading global commercial real estate and investment management company, has helped clients buy, build, occupy, manage and invest in a variety of commercial, industrial, hotel, residential and retail properties. A Fortune 500® company with annual revenue of $20.9 billion and operations in over 80 countries around the world, our more than 103,000 employees bring the power of a global platform combined with local expertise. Driven by our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world, we help our clients, people and communities SEE A BRIGHTER WAYSM. JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. For further information, visit jll.com.
Valuations & Pricing
Time to sell or double down?
Continued increase despite pandemic or valuations nightmare?
Investment Strategies & Risk Appetite - ESG, location or asset class deciding factor?
Institutional Investment Appetite - What’s changed, what’s staying the same?
Lack of Product - No shortage of capital but nowhere to invest?
Office, Hospitality & Retail - Post Covid risk curve too steep or easy ride?
Head of Global and EMEA Capital MarketsColliers UK
United Kingdom
Luke has 15 years' experience in property acquisitions and dispositions, asset management, and leadership experience. His primarily focus is on business development, leading the regional Capital Markets efforts and attracting new investors to the region. He is also responsible for strategical management of the regional teams in Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia.
Head of Office & Retail - EuropeOxford Properties Group
France
Pierre Leocadio is responsible for Oxford Properties’ French platform, including the responsibility of the asset management and leasing strategies for the existing Paris portfolio. Oxford Properties currently owns and manages a portfolio of four offices and one luxury high street retail in Paris, totalling approximately €1.5 billion of assets under management.
Sandrine Amsili
Real Estate Debt Managing DirectorArdian
France
Sandrine has worked in the European Real Estate market for 18 years, and in Real Estate debt since 2005. Sandrine Amsili joined SCOR Investment Partners in November 2013 as Senior Real Estate Debt Manager. She was promoted to Head of Real Estate Debt on the 1st of December, 2018. Sandrine started her career in 2002 as an Acquisition Analyst for several real estate investment funds at CBRE Investors. In 2004, she became Asset Manager for French and German assets. She joined Eurohypo Bank in 2005 as a Credit Manager before being appointed Business Manager in the Origination department, in 2007. Sandrine holds a Master’s degree in Finance from EDHEC Business School. She has been a member of RICS since 2016.
Tim is a Managing Director in the Sustainable Investing team responsible for real estate.
Prior to 2022, Tim was a Managing Director in CPPIB’s real estate equity team, responsible for origination and portfolio management across Continental Europe (ex. Germany and CEE). Before CPPIB, Tim worked at Grosvenor both on their London Estate and Fund Management business, based in Paris.
Tim holds a BSc (Hons) from Edinburgh University and a MSc is Real Estate Finance from the University of Reading. Tim is also a Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
Com mais de 20 anos de experiência, somos uma consultoria especializada em potencializar os resultados das empresas dos mercados imobiliário e de infraestrutura. Atuamos com soluções 360º nas áreas de gestão de pessoas e de estruturação de processos organizacionais.
Senior Housing, Extra Care & Retirement Assets
Now is the time for scale?
Demand & Supply Imbalance - Is now the time to scale up?
Urban Location Opportunities - Neighbourhood assisted living to diversify portfolios & bridge supply gap?
Working with Operators - The Risks and potential
Institutional Investment Appetite - What investment models are attracting capital?
Rental vs For Sale Models - Which Living Concepts Offer the Best Value Proposition for Tenants & Investors?
Frédéric is Managing Partner of Mozaïc AM and has over 15 years experience in the healthcare sector. MoZaïC manages over 250M€ of healthcare assets over 4 geographies (France, Germany, Italy and Spain) Prior to this, he was the President of Senior Santé, an owner and operator of nursing homes in France. During his tenure, he was responsible for operations developing the group's operating model and processes. During that period it funded, developed, built, delivered and sold 11 nursing homes (circa 50,000 m2). Before Senior Santé/B-Patrimoine, Frédéric held various positions within HSBC (London) and Lazard (New York and London) Frédéric graduated from ESSEC Business School in Paris and speaks French, English, Spanish, Italian and Arabic.
Managing Director - Head of UK/Euro AcquisitionsMedical Properties Trust
USA
Steve is Managing Director - Head of UK / Euro Acquisitions for Medical Properties Trust. Steve is based out of London and New York and is focused on strategic transactions.
Since April 2018: Managing Director of TSC Real Estate Germany GmbH; 2013 – 2018: Managing Director and Head of Asset Management Operations, JLL Retail Asset Management GmbH & Acrest Property Group, 2008-2013: Managing Director & Head of Asset Management of Internos Global Investors KAG; 2008: Associate Director, JLL Asset Management GmbH; 2006-2007: Deloitte & Touche, Manager RE Advisory; 2005-2006: Site Acquisitions Manager, Bauhaus München GmbH (Munich based RE developer) 2000 – 2005: Technical Project & Development Manager, Nixdorf Consult 1993-1998: Dipl.-Ing. Architect 2005-2007: International Real Estate Management MBA 2010 – 2011: Real Estate Investment & Finance (ebs).
Managing Director, Head of Fund & Portfolio ManagementApleona
Germany
Jan Petersen ist seit mehr als 20 Jahren in leitenden Funktionen bei Unternehmen der Bank-, Finanz- und Immobilienbranche tätig. Er hat u.a. einen Abschluss als Diplom Bankbetriebswirt der Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. Bei Apleona verantwortet Herr Petersen als Geschäftsführer der Apleona Invest GmbH das Fonds- und Portfoliomanagement und ist seit 2017 Mitglied des Apleona Real Estate Management Boards.
Head Product Development & Fund RaisingInvestire SGR
Italy
Michele Beolchini is the Head of Product Development & Fund Raising of InvestiRE SGR. Michele has been present in the Italian real estate market for more than 11 years, and prior to joining InvestiRE, was in the Real Estate Advisory team of Banca IMI – Intesa Sanpaolo Group - where he had the opportunity to take part to the origination, structuring and execution of numerous real estate transactions between 2008 and 2015. Michele holds a M. Sc. cum Laude in General Management and a B. Sc. in Business Administration from Bocconi University (Milan).
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.
Founder and CEO of BONARD and has over 20 years’ experience advising real estate investors, funds, developers and operators. Since 2007, under his leadership, his staff of 50 researchers and analysts operating in four offices around the world have been providing the highest level of secondary and primary in-field data, making BONARD a leading provider of independent and reliable research and solutions. Samuel, an individual member of the world's leading professional research association ESOMAR, is a frequent speaker at the major global real estate stages, attending dozens of conferences a year and sharing latest insights backed by his long-term industry experience
Head of Continental EuropeCBRE Investment Management
Netherlands
Alexander van Riel is the Regional Head of Continental Europe within the CBRE GIP team. Based in Amsterdam, Alexander is responsible for the relationship and portfolio management of clients, investment sourcing, selection and monitoring of investments in Continental Europe. He is a member of the CBRE GIP Executive Committee and Investment Committee. Alexander has been in the European property investment industry since 1999. He took up his current role in June 2006. Prior to joining CBRE Global Investors, Alexander was an Analyst and Portfolio Manager at Achmea in Amsterdam and Aberdeen Property Investors in Stockholm. Alexander holds a Masters degree in Spatial Science from Rijks-Universiteit Groningen and is a CFA charter holder.
Ms. Patel is a member of the real estate team. She is also involved in the Firm’s responsible investing initiative.
Prior to StepStone, Ms. Patel worked in the Corporate Development Group at AT&T where she was involved in strategic projects, including acquisitions and divestitures, across the company’s business lines. Previously, Ms. Patel spent three years working in investment banking at Houlihan Lokey where she helped execute M&A, financing and restructuring engagements for clients in real estate and a number of different industries.
Partner and Head of Commercial Real Estate Debt in EuropeApollo Global Management
United Kingdom
Mr. Ben Eppley joined Apollo in 2013. Prior to that time, Mr. Eppley was a member of the Real Estate Structured Finance group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and prior to that was a member of the Commercial Real Estate Debt Capital Markets group at Barclays Capital. Mr. Eppley graduated from Yale College with a BA in English Language and Literature.
Head of Capital Markets EuropeStarwood Capital Group
United Kingdom
Duncan MacPherson is a Managing Director and Head of Debt for Europe for Starwood Capital Group. In this role, Mr. MacPherson is responsible for all debt capital markets activities for Starwood Capital in Europe, including financing, foreign exchange and interest rate hedging for the Firm’s European investments. He is also responsible for originating, executing and managing debt investments for Starwood Property Trust and Starwood European Real Estate Finance. Prior to joining Starwood Capital in 2012, Mr. MacPherson spent six years at Citigroup, where he served as a Director on the commercial real estate finance team in London.
MD Real Estate - Structured FinanceEastdil Secured
United Kingdom
Riaz Azadi is a Managing Director at Eastdil Secured LLC based in London responsible for the firms U.K. and European CRE debt placement, structured finance and structured equity transactions. Riaz was brought in by Eastdil Secured in 2011 having previously worked for Hypo Real Estate International AG on the Real Estate Investment Banking team as well as Wachovia and Wells Fargo Special Situations Group restructuring and selling loans.
Siddharth Trivedi
Managing Director, Real EstateOne Investment Management
United Kingdom
Sid is a Managing Director at One Investment Management with over 14 years of experience investing in global real assets and corporate credit. Previously, he was at Blackstone’s real estate debt and corporate credit groups. At OneIM, he focuses on investing in real estate on a sub-sector and geography agnostic basis, covering mid to large scale private and public opportunities across the capital structure.
Thibaut is an investment Banking expert starting his career working for Naxicap Partners, focused on small and mid-cap LBO investments. He joined CBRE Global Investors in 2007 where he first served in the acquisition team working on value-added transactions across continental Europe. In 2009 he joined the risk management team and then participated in the setting-up of the financing department in charge of debt raising and loan’s book management (up to €2bn debt commitment). Thibaut joined DekaBank in 2011 to reinforce the origination team in Paris following domestic and international clients. Since then he has arranged over €2bn senior loans. He is graduated from Toulouse Business School and a degree of Financial Engineering from EM Lyon.
Luca Giangolini is a Senior Director in the Debt and Structured Finance team at JLL, arranging CRE debt across a broad range of sectors and geographies, with a focus on the UK. Luca was previously a Partner at CAPRA Global Partners, a boutique CRE debt and equity capital markets sourcing and advisory business which was acquired by JLL in early 2021. Prior to that, he was an Equity Partner and Head of Corporate Finance in Europe at Cushman & Wakefield.
Hugh Fraser
CEOM7 Capital
Netherlands
Hugh is the Chief Executive Officer of M7 Capital and is responsible for all the group’s activities. Hugh also serves on the M7 Capital Credit Committee.
Before the launch of M7 Capital in July 2020, Hugh was responsible for all debt capital market activities for M7 Real Estate’s European investments, including asset-level and fund-level financings, interest rate derivative strategy, the acquisition of non- performing loans and distressed real estate corporates. Since 2009, Hugh and his team have arranged and managed over €4.0bn of debt financings across 30 transactions on assets located in 12 jurisdictions.
MD, Co-Head of EMEA RE FinanceGoldman Sachs Asset Management
United Kingdom
Andrea Bora is a Managing Director in Goldman Sachs Real Estate Finance team, he is located in London and co-heads the firm's EMEA CRE debt team, focusing on distribution. Andrea joined the firm from Morgan Stanley where he worked for 7 years in CRE finance mainly within the ELOC CMBS program and prior to that he was for 5 years at Bear Stearns on a similar role. Andrea has extensive experience in all aspects of CRE finance including origination, structuring and distribution. From his current role Andrea has recently run distribution of debt transactions in various jurisdictions including UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Benelux and Poland.
Greenman is a market-leading, sector specific, German real estate investment fund manager, authorised as an Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) by the Central Bank of Ireland under AIFMD Regulations 2013. Greenman manage Greenman Investments S.C.A., SICAV-FIS, a Luxembourg seated investment platform. Greenman has developed an investment model which is designed to generate investor income from the purchase, operation and sale of food anchored real estate. Using this model, Greenman has, since 2005, successfully selected, funded and purchased properties for a number of segregated compartments within the platform’s umbrella structure. Greenman follow a buy and hold strategy with a focus on food anchored retail real estate let on long term leases to highly creditworthy tenants. Currently Greenman have c.€690m of assets under management.
Greenman Presents
Grocery Retail & The New Core
Institutional Appetite - Not only for retail specialists anymore?
Re-imagining Retail - How will the retail landscape change to adapt to new demand drivers?
John Wilkinson is CEO and founding member of Greenman. John has over 15 years’ experience in real estate development and investment. Since managing the company from 2005, John gained a significant expertise in the selection, funding, purchase and management of German food and non-food retail warehousing. Since forming Greenman, the company has acquired and manages real estate projects to a value of €900m including Greenman OPEN, Germany’s largest grocery focused retail RE fund. John is currently leading the execution of Greenman’s European expansion, with the target of acquiring c.€175m of grocery dominated retail real estate in France and Spain during 2020.
João Lélis joined Sonae Sierra in 2004 as an investment analyst, later becoming Director of the Fund Management business. As member of the executive team, current responsibilities include management of the real estate funds co-owned by Sonae Sierra, of the direct investments outside Iberia and transaction support. Prior to Sonae Sierra, João was a consultant with McKinsey & Company and also with Arthur Andersen. João completed the INSEAD – Advanced Management Programme in 2018 and the INSEAD - International Executive Programme in 2010. He also holds an MBA from the Yale University School of Management (2002) and a BS in Management from Faculdade de Economia do Porto (1997).
Rachel joined the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) in November 2016, bringing her broad sustainability expertise and her track record as a leading global advocate for green schools, movement building and social equity to IWBI’s work to advance human health through better buildings, more vibrant communities and stronger organizations. She was named president of IWBI in 2018 and CEO in November 2020. With over 2.5 billion square feet of space registered, rated or certified in 97 countries, IWBI’s evidence-based WELL offerings anchor an ecosystem of solutions that advance, measure and monitor real estate features that help people thrive.
Xavier Denis
PresidentAG Real Estate
Belgium
Xavier is a member of the Management Committee and the Board of Directors at AG Real Estate, a Brussels based real estate investor and developer with an international and diversified portfolio under management in excess of €6bn. As Chief Development Officer, he is responsible for all development projects of the group representing a 1.000.000 m² pipeline. Xavier is also Chairman of AG Real Estate France. Prior to his current positions, Xavier was Chief Operating Officer and Board Member at Cofinimmo. Xavier graduated from UCL as Civil Engineer Architect, received an MBA from INSEAD and attended different executive programmes at the Harvard Business School. Xavier is Past Chair of the Urban Land Institute for Belgium & Luxembourg.
Senior real estate executive with 18 years’ experience in investment, development, asset and portfolio management in Europe, within leading international organizations
Specialties: Real estate investment and asset management.
Emilie Jaskula has been appointed to the newly created role of Global Head of Offices within the Asset Management team, in recognition of AXA IM Alts continued conviction for low carbon, high-quality offices in prime locations alongside the significant opportunity to lead the transition of older generation office product. Emilie has been at AXA IM Alts for almost twelve years, most recently as Head of Asset Management for France.
One of the leading international corporate law firms. It is ranked 2nd largest law firm in France by revenue. Its unique positioning and highly recognised expertise enable it to deliver innovative, high-value-added solutions in Tax, Business, Corporate and Employment law.
CMS provides expertise in Banking & Finance, Commercial, Competition, Corporate, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Energy, Intellectual Property, Lifesciences, Real Estate, Technology, Media & Communications and Tax.
Cycle d’investissement en France
Dépend-il plus que jamais des flux mondiaux ?
Trouver de la valeur Post Covid
Appétit d'investissement mondial en France - Appétit entrant dans les marchés immobiliers français
Qu'y a-t-il de haut (ou de bas) avec l’inflation ? Les ratios américains et leur impact sur l'Europe
Élections présidentielles (en France et en Allemagne) : comment les changements de politique affecteront-ils les investissements ?
Comment le Pacte vert pour l'Europe affectera-t-il le cycle ?
Laurent Diot is CEO of HARVESTATE Asset Management. He was previously the CFO of NEXITY, leading French developer, from 2008 to early 2014. He has served as Vice President of NEXITY in charge of international operations and CEO of NEXITY International (2002-2007) and as Vice President, Business Development of NEXITY (2000-2002) in charge of mergers and acquisitions. Before joining the CGIS (Compagnie Générale d'Immobilier et de Services) in the Vivendi group as Director of Audit and Strategy (1996-2000), he served as project manager at the Compagnie des Eaux et de l'Ozone (Générale des Eaux Group). He holds a degree from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (H.E.C.).
Trained as a Civil Engineer, Didier Unglik is the Founder and Chairman of L’Etoile Properties and has over 30 years of experience in investment and development across Europe.
L’Etoile Properties is an international property service provider established in Paris in 1990 and now maintains seven additional offices in London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Madrid, Seoul, Singapore and Luxembourg.
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.
Managing Director, REF Continental Europe FranceDeutsche Pfandbriefbank AG
France
Philippe Duvergne is a Managing Director for Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG and is based in Paris. Philippe, who has over 25 years work experience in real estate and banking, started his career at Group Paribas where he fulfilled a number of functions. In 2000, he joined The Royal Bank of Scotland, where he was part of the new team which created the Real Estate Business. He focuses on origination and execution of domestic and cross-border structured real estate finance in France.
Mounir Hamrouni is Head of France for DekaBank and responsible for its Real Estate Lending business. He has in excess of 15 years of experience in Origination within multiple German banking institutions and held various positions including restructuring of non performing loans. Mounir achieved several billions of complex Investment and Development CRE loans in multiple asset classes with French and International institutional investors. He graduated from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne with a Master in Financial Engineering.
Benjamin Bill
PartnerCMS
France
Benjamin has extensive experience in the work with clients on complex real estate operations. He advises on a broad range of aspects related to it, including acquisition and disposal of real estate assets or companies, of French or pan-European portfolios, the structuring of projects and the negotiation of JV and partnership agreements.
Benjamin’s work covers all asset classes (office, retail, logistics, hotel and leisure, residential…).
Benjamin’s work also covers property development transactions, commercial leases and management agreements.
For over 200 years, JLL (NYSE: JLL), a leading global commercial real estate and investment management company, has helped clients buy, build, occupy, manage and invest in a variety of commercial, industrial, hotel, residential and retail properties. A Fortune 500® company with annual revenue of $20.9 billion and operations in over 80 countries around the world, our more than 103,000 employees bring the power of a global platform combined with local expertise. Driven by our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world, we help our clients, people and communities SEE A BRIGHTER WAYSM. JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. For further information, visit jll.com.
Opportunistic & Value Add
Enough rope to climb or time for discretion?
Investors going up the risk curve?
Portfolio Resilience & Finding Value - Cities vs Assets
Value Add Markets in Europe - How to identify future projects and ensure their quality and profit?
Rates & Yields - When and how can we ensure profitability of those deals?
Banks' Appetite & Lending Confidence - Why does the crisis impact banks' involvement in opportunistic and value add projects?
Buy Cheap, Sell Green - Is value adding brownfield offering decent returns?
Mohamad is the CEO of SFO Capital Partners. He is also a member of SFO’s Board of Directors and its ESG Committee, and chairs the firm’s Executive and Investment Committees. Mohamad has been leading all aspects of the firm’s development since 2013.
With over 18 years of experience, Mohamad has been involved in more than USD15 billion of transactions in both advisory and principal roles across the real estate, hospitality and financial services sectors. Prior to joining SFO, Mohamad held positions at Kingdom Hotel Investments, JLL and Gulf Merger where he advised and acted on behalf of institutional investors and family offices on cross border transactions including mergers and acquisitions, direct investments and asset management.
Founder, co-Managing Partner & CIO, DFIDeutsche Finance International
United Kingdom
Gavin Neilan is the Founder, Co-Managing Partner and CIO of Deutsche Finance International (DFI) a pan-European real estate private equity platform with over €4 billion AUM and offices in London, Munich, Madrid and Luxembourg. The firm focuses on thematic value add and opportunistic strategies investing through discretionary pan-European funds, co-investment vehicles and separate managed accounts. Gavin has 20+ years’ of industry experience, having been involved in more than €10 billion of transactions across Europe, America and Emerging Markets. He is a qualified lawyer, holds an MBA from INSEAD and studied law at UCL. DFI is part of Deutsche Finance Group, a privately owned global real estate investment company with over €11 billion AUM.
23 years of Real Estate. Education: ESTP: Engineering diplomma, MIT: M.S. in Nuclear Engineering, Insead: MBA. Eric joined The Carlyle Group in 2001 as Fund Head in charge of establishing its European RE platform (from scratch). Over 12 years, he has raised and invested around 4 billion euros of equity (in 3 funds) in more than 100 transactions in 13 countries. Over this period, he had established a talented team of almost 50 people of different nationalities in 6 countries with no turnover. Prior to Carlyle, he was Head of Lasalle Investment Management continental European operations where he raised and invested several funds.
Managing Director, Co-Portfolio Manager European Real EstateTPG Angelo Gordon
United Kingdom
Tom Rowley is based in London and is the co-Portfolio Manager of TPG Angelo Gordon’s Europe real estate funds. He is also a member of the European Real Estate Investment Committee. Prior to joining Angelo Gordon in 2012, Tom was the co-founder of a real estate investment and operating platform based in London. Prior to that, Tom was the Head of UK Real Estate for Babcock & Brown, where he purchased and managed opportunistic real estate investments throughout the UK, Europe and Asia. Tom has over 20 years of industry experience and holds a Business degree (Hons) from the University of South Australia.
Pierre joined DeA Capital in 2018 and is supporting the investment and asset management strategy. He has more than 11 years of experience in M&A, financing and investment. Prior to joining DeA Capital Pierre was investment manager at FREO. Before, he worked 10 years at GE Capital including roles as Senior Manager for the M&A team (executing on several transactions across Europe) and the Private Equity funds. Pierre joined GE Capital through the Financial Management Program (FMP). Pierre graduated from NEOMA Business school, France.
Anthony has more than 20 years experience in the real estate industry, in acquisitions, development and fund management.
He is Head of International Funds at Credit Suisse Asset Management and is responsible for funds and products with AuM of ca. €8bln. At CSAM he was previously Head of UK real estate. Before joining CSAM, Anthony spent 15 years at Hines.
Anthony has a BA from Oxford University, qualified as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and is a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Paul Raingold is the Founder and President of Générale Continentale Investissements which is based in Paris. Générale Continentale Investissements has invested in over 1.000.000 m2 of offices and other commercial properties mainly in the Paris region and o
Ioannis is a Partner at Arbitrage Real Estate with more than 15 years of experience in real estate investment management, advisory and underwriting. Ioannis is splitting his time between London and Athens to work closely with private equity investors to assess, structure and manage value add real estate investments in commercial and hospitality sectors in the UK and SE Europe as well as high yield REO opportunities in Greece deriving from local NPL portfolios. In the past, Ioannis worked for Europa Capital in London, where he oversaw development investments in Europe, and for Deloitte in London, where he advised on real estate strategy, management and transactions. Ioannis also worked for Citigroup in Rome.
Com mais de 20 anos de experiência, somos uma consultoria especializada em potencializar os resultados das empresas dos mercados imobiliário e de infraestrutura. Atuamos com soluções 360º nas áreas de gestão de pessoas e de estruturação de processos organizacionais.
Alternative Lending
Best to price up new normal or opportunities too niche?
Pricing - Senior, junior & mezzanine; how to stay competitive?
Banks, Debt Funds, Mezz - Any upsides to more risk & higher prices?
Risk Aversion of Banks - Alternatives the only way for higher risk asset classes?
Clark Coffee is the Chief Investment Officer and Head of European Commercial Real Estate Debt at AllianceBernstein (AB). His previous business, Lacarne Capital, was acquired by AB in 2020 to establish the firm’s real estate debt business in Europe. Previously, Coffee was head of Tyndaris Real Estate, where he was responsible for building the business into a top-10 real estate debt fund in Europe. Prior to that, he co-headed origination for Deutsche Bank’s European commercial real estate credit business and oversaw the risk management and restructuring of more than €2 billion of troubled loans during the global financial crisis.
Executive Director - European Real Estate Debt InvestmentsTristan Capital Partners
United Kingdom
Ashil is an Executive Director at Tristan Capital Partners where he is responsible for spearheading the origination of new debt investment opportunities across all European jurisdictions. Prior to joining Tristan, Ashil was a Vice President at Starz Real Estate, based in London where he played a key role in creating and scaling a new real estate lending platform investing in public and private real estate debt. Prior to joining Starz, Ashil was at BlackRock where he was an investment professional in the Global Real Estate Debt business, responsible for underwriting, both in the U.S. and Europe. Ashil holds the CFA IMC qualification and received a BA with Honours in Economics and Hispanic Studies from the University of Sheffield.
Lorcain Egan is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Europe for Starwood. Mr. Egan is responsible for Starwood’s international lending platform covering Europe and Asia. Since joining Starwood in 2013, Mr. Egan has structured and executed financing transactions and secured financing for Starwood’s equity acquisitions across Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Starwood Capital, Mr. Egan was a Vice President at Barclays Bank where he worked in their Structured Property, Debt Finance team based in London. In this team, Mr. Egan focused on originating, structuring and executing real estate debt opportunities for Barclays.
David White is a Managing Director at LaSalle in the Debt Investments team, and Head of LaSalle Real Estate Debt Strategies. David has a 14+ year track record of working in real estate private equity and debt investment. He has extensive experience lending throughout the capital structure and in real estate debt investments, including mezzanine and whole loans, as well as direct real estate investments, distressed credit, and restructuring. Prior, David was a Partner at Intriva Capital Advisors LLP, where he was based in London as a member of the Investment Committee, and oversaw the investment team. David was also a founding Partner at Tyndaris Real Estate, an alternative lending platform based in London.
Prior to joining Oaktree in 2019, Mr. Rich was a senior advisor to Oaktree’s Real Estate group for three years. Before joining Oaktree, he was responsible for European Commercial Real Estate lending at Credit Suisse within the Asset Finance team, and served as a managing director for LNR Partners Europe. Mr. Rich began his career in commercial real estate with Goldman, Sachs & Co., before moving on to Deutsche Bank as a director and founding member of the European Commercial Real Estate Group..
Philippe joined ICGRE in May 2020 and serves as Managing Director and Head of European Investments. Philippe joined from BNP Paribas Asset Management where he founded and headed the Real Estate Debt activity from 2017. Beforehand he was at Acofi Gestion where he was head of Real Estate Debt funds and was responsible for managing investments in CRE loans in Europe from 2013. In 2008 Philippe joined CBRE, the property consultancy firm, to set up the Debt Advisory business for France. Philippe holds a Master's degree in Corporate Finance from EM Lyon business school and a Master's degree in Business Law from Jean Moulin University.
George Molesworth is Managing Director, Credit at Apollo, where he works on the origination, structuring and execution of performing commercial real estate debt. Prior to joining in 2018, George was Executive Director in the Commercial Real Estate Finance Group at Goldman Sachs, and Associate Director in the Structured Real Estate Finance Group at Santander before that.
Investor Appetite - Capital allocations still going strong or too much risk?
Occupiers Demands - Go green & go flex, are landlords adapting quick enough?
Blurred Lines - Moving beyond categorising spaces by asset class?
Flexible Leasing - What short to long term plans are occupiers making? What are the impacts on real estate business models & valuations?
Space Planning - Can technology help align occupier and landlord needs to optimise spaces?
Work from Anywhere & Tenant Experience - Can landlords leverage tech to provide a seamless occupier experience whether working remotely, at home or office?
Ms. Patel is a member of the real estate team. She is also involved in the Firm’s responsible investing initiative.
Prior to StepStone, Ms. Patel worked in the Corporate Development Group at AT&T where she was involved in strategic projects, including acquisitions and divestitures, across the company’s business lines. Previously, Ms. Patel spent three years working in investment banking at Houlihan Lokey where she helped execute M&A, financing and restructuring engagements for clients in real estate and a number of different industries.
Mr. Alroy co-founded Mindspace, a flex space operator with over 40 locations in Europe and the US, serving the entire spectrum from start up to the largest companies in the world. Mr. Alroy currently serves as Chief of Business Development.
Prior to co-founding Mindspace, Mr. Alroy had several executive business development roles at Roboteam and SHL Telemedicine (SWX: SHLTN). During his career he served as a partner for AYRAD Investments, a single-family office focused on high tech investments. Mr. Alroy holds a BA in Law & Business Administration from the Raichman University, and an EMBA from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.
Board Member Square Sense SAS, Investor/Family OfficeNM - Family Office
France
Norbert Müller is investing, via his Family Office, in i) Real Estate (standing investments as well as developments), mainly in Flanders (Belgium), Brussels (Belgium) and Berlin (Germany), ii) consumer products (Whisky (Scotland) and Rum (Caribbean), iii) tech and data driven companies (Square Sense SAS (Paris), various via Zurich)
Deputy Head of Asset Management (UK), Real Estate Technology LeadAberdeen Standard Investments
United Kingdom
Deputy Head of Asset Management (UK), Real Estate Technology Lead, leading a team of 30 asset managers with responsibility for cross-sector assets on a UK wide basis. Stephen has carried out Fund and Asset Management positions at Aberdeen Standard Investments and has wide-ranging investment and strategic asset management experience gained in both private practice and client side positions. Stephen is Chair of ASI’s Global Proptech team and drives policy in relation to Flexible Office provision. He is also a member of the Property Investment Committee (EMEA) considering transactions and projects across the UK.
Greenman is a market-leading, sector specific, German real estate investment fund manager, authorised as an Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) by the Central Bank of Ireland under AIFMD Regulations 2013. Greenman manage Greenman Investments S.C.A., SICAV-FIS, a Luxembourg seated investment platform. Greenman has developed an investment model which is designed to generate investor income from the purchase, operation and sale of food anchored real estate. Using this model, Greenman has, since 2005, successfully selected, funded and purchased properties for a number of segregated compartments within the platform’s umbrella structure. Greenman follow a buy and hold strategy with a focus on food anchored retail real estate let on long term leases to highly creditworthy tenants. Currently Greenman have c.€690m of assets under management.
Buying Light Industrial
Too specialised or diversification opportunities galore?
Last Mile & Cold Storage - Only for experts or opportunities for all?
Urban Density - Finding land, product & permits
E-commerce Boom Pushing Light Industrial Demand - How long can it continue?
Jon is the founder and managing partner of Realty Corporation, a pan-European real estate and PropTech investor with a strong ESG ethos. Realty invests in compelling residential, logistics, data center, and life sciences opportunities, particularly in key European cities where densification and urban vibrancy are disrupting the way people need or use real estate. Realty brings a creative mindset to investment, executing with simplicity and transparency in the transactions it pursues. Jon also currently serves as a senior adviser to McKinsey & Company, advising leading institutions around the globe on their investment strategies. He is on the board of Round Hill Capital and NEPI Rockcastle plc. Previously he worked at Blackstone and Goldman.
Head, Industrial, United States and Latin AmericaIvanhoé Cambridge
Canada
Michael has held the position of Head, Industrial, USA and LatAm since 2022. He oversees the management of Ivanhoé Cambridge’s existing platforms in the USA and Brazil and investment diversification into new geographies and alternative asset classes such as self-storage and data centres. From 2019, Michael acted as VP, Investments, Europe.
Michael has worked in investing and real estate for nearly 15 years. Before joining Ivanhoé Cambridge in 2014, he spent five years at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield as a senior investment and asset manager for the Office and Hotels division.
He graduated from HEC Paris in 2008 with a Master of Science in management and economics. He is also a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Darko Matovski, PhD, is the CEO of and co-founder causaLens. The company is leading Causal AI research, a way for machines to understand cause & effect, and serves some of the most sophisticated organisations. Darko has also worked for cutting edge hedge funds and research institutions. For example, the National Physical Laboratory in London (where Alan Turing worked) and Man Group in London. Darko has a PhD in Machine Learning and an MBA.
Titus is a Co-Founder and CEO of realxdata which was recently acquired by Moody’s Analytics. Prior to this, Titus was responsible for portfolio management for real estate funds at Union Investment Institutional and real estate transaction services at EY Real Estate. Titus holds BA and MA degrees in real estate and a PhD in Law from Goethe. Furthermore he is a Fellow of the The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS).
One of the leading international corporate law firms. It is ranked 2nd largest law firm in France by revenue. Its unique positioning and highly recognised expertise enable it to deliver innovative, high-value-added solutions in Tax, Business, Corporate and Employment law.
CMS provides expertise in Banking & Finance, Commercial, Competition, Corporate, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Energy, Intellectual Property, Lifesciences, Real Estate, Technology, Media & Communications and Tax.
France, Germany & UK
Finding value in saturated markets
Germany - Pricing dislocation & lack of product; where to find value?
UK Dealflow- ‘New’ capital injections or stagnant bid & ask gap?
Inbound Appetite into French Real Estate Markets - Direct vs Indirect?
Dry Powder Allocations - Lack of product putting a halt in investments?
Buyer & Seller Pricing Differences - How to find common ground?
Heinz Joachim Kummer is a partner of CMS Germany with more than 25 years of in-depth experience in the real estate sector, having advised on various landmark deals and projects. His expertise includes the full range of commercial real estate law with the focus on complex real estate transactions, structuring and advising private equity and other real estate funds. Before joining CMS, Heinz Joachim was a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP for over 20 years. Heinz Joachim is recognized as a leading real estate lawyer in the current issue of The Who’s Who Legal 2017. The same is true for the major legal directories.
James Bauer MRICS is the Country Managing Director at Duff & Phelps REAG GmbH. He has experience in transaction advisory, development, as well as asset management of commercial buildings, office buildings, portfolio strategy and valuation. He holds a MBA degree from City University and is a member of various national and international organizations and a speaker at conferences. Prior to joining REAG in 2004, he worked with CALLISTON development company as a manager responsible for acquisition, development and asset management of commercial properties. Before coming to Germany in 1990, he worked in the field of real estate in the USA. He’s a registered valuer with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Patrice Genre
CEOFoncière Crossroads
France
Real estate specialist and entrepreneur. Patrice has 30 years of experience in real estate as executive manager, entrepreneur and investor working cross-borders with international clients and business partners. Patrice has raised, invested and managed over 10 billion € (equity and debt) for French/European and international institutional clients.
Richard Divall
Head of Cross Border Capital Markets, EMEALondon & Oxford Group
United Kingdom
Richard joined Colliers in 2012 having worked at Strutt & Parker for over 16 years. Over the past 20 years he worked in National UK and Central London Capital Markets teams before becoming Head of Cross Border Capital Markets, EMEA at Colliers in 2013. Richard is committed to providing a broader and sophisticated service, diversifying the traditional offering of buying and selling property and works with a multi-sector discipline. He connects international investors who are interested in investing in the region with local partners, Colliers experts and opportunities based on their investment requirements. Richard is the business leader for Colliers EMEA Capital Markets and integral part of the Colliers Global Capital Markets Platform.
Alberto Haddad
Member of the BoardMJ&CIE
USA
Marcus Lemli
CEO Germany & Head of Investment EuropeSavills
Germany
Marcus is Chief Executive Officer of Savills Germany and Head of Investment Europe. Marcus started his real estate career in 1996 with Jones Lang LaSalle, at that time Jones Lang Wootton, in Frankfurt. In 1998 he changed to the Madrid office of Jones Lang Wootton and took over the leadership of the investment department for Spain. From 2005 to 2006 Marcus headed the investment department of Savills in Madrid. In 2006 he returned to Jones Lang LaSalle as head of leasing & capital markets Germany. He was also member of the German management board of Jones Lang LaSalle. In July 2012 Marcus joined Savills as Head of Investment Europe and since October 2012 he is responsible for the German business as CEO Savills Germany.
Markus Wehnelt
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.
Knobloch studied Law & Business Administration and is admitted to the German Bar. From 1979 until 1991 he was a Managing Partner of Allgemeine Bautraeger GmbH Cederbaum. In 1991 he joined the Frankfurter Hypothekenbank and was Chairman of the Managing Board of Directors of Eurohypo AG until 2008. From 2006 until 2008 he was Member of the Board of Managing Directors of Commerzbank AG. From November 2008 until August 2009 Knobloch was Member of the Supervisory Board of Hypo Real Estate Holding AG. From 2009 until 2012 Knobloch was Board Member of Schörghuber Group. He is Non Executive Director of Palatium Investment Management Ltd. and Deputy Chairman of Citycon Oyj Helsinki and Gem. Hertie Stiftung. He is also Partner at Continuum Capital.
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.
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.
Head of French Branch,UK and BeneluxGenerali Real Estate
France
Sebastien Pezet joined Generali Real Estate in 2001. Nominated as Head of the French Branch in 2015, he is also in charge of UK, Benelux from January 2018 with a total portfolio of €11 billion. Previously he worked 2 years for Archon Group ( Goldman Sachs subsidiary ). Sebastien obtained a Master in Economics and a Master in Real Estate from the University of Paris Dauphine, and is a Chartered Accountant.
Head of Global and EMEA Capital MarketsColliers UK
United Kingdom
Luke has 15 years' experience in property acquisitions and dispositions, asset management, and leadership experience. His primarily focus is on business development, leading the regional Capital Markets efforts and attracting new investors to the region. He is also responsible for strategical management of the regional teams in Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia.
Rachel joined the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) in November 2016, bringing her broad sustainability expertise and her track record as a leading global advocate for green schools, movement building and social equity to IWBI’s work to advance human health through better buildings, more vibrant communities and stronger organizations. She was named president of IWBI in 2018 and CEO in November 2020. With over 2.5 billion square feet of space registered, rated or certified in 97 countries, IWBI’s evidence-based WELL offerings anchor an ecosystem of solutions that advance, measure and monitor real estate features that help people thrive.
Com mais de 20 anos de experiência, somos uma consultoria especializada em potencializar os resultados das empresas dos mercados imobiliário e de infraestrutura. Atuamos com soluções 360º nas áreas de gestão de pessoas e de estruturação de processos organizacionais.
Hospitality & Serviced Residential
Demand for amenities vs scalability
Rise of Service - Amenities more important than size?
Impact on Valuations - How are new models changing the game?
Any Lessons Learned from a Mature US Market?
Blurring of Asset Classes - From co-living to serviced apartments; how much flexibility are tenants looking for?
Hotels Moving into Multifamily - Any operators looking to expand cross sector?
What Can Residential Learn from the Hospitality Industry?
Charles-Antoine Lussier is responsible for Ivanhoe Cambridge's investment and asset management operations for the residential and hotel sector in North America and Europe. Having worked in real estate and finance for 20 years, Mr. Lussier has acquired extensive experience in conducting negotiations and implementing investment strategies in various regions and jurisdictions.
Hideki Kurata
Head of Real Estate France & Head of Living StrategiesSchroders Investment Management
France
Hideki Kurata is Head of Real Estate France & Head of Living Strategies at Schroders Capital.
He has over 25 years of experience in financial services and real estate and has previously held positions at Greystar, AXA IM, GE Capital, JP Morgan and BNP Paribas.
Hideki holds a master’s degree in economics from Paris X University, is a graduate of ESCP Business School and holds an MBA from INSEAD.
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.
MD & Head of Asset Management for EuropeStarwood Capital Group
United Kingdom
Federico Bianchi is a Managing Director & Head of Asset Management at Starwood Capital Europe, based in London and responsible for the management of the European assets. Prior to joining Starwood, Federico was a Principal, Asset Management at GreenOak Real Estate (London), where he worked for 4 years with a specific focus on Spain and Italy. Previously, Federico was Italian Country Manager and a Member of the European Board of ISG; at that time he also joined the Executive Committee of ULI in Italy. Prior to that, he served as a Director of Asset Management at Condotte Real Estate and a Director at Tishman Speyer Properties, where he was overseeing deals and projects for a combined value of more than € 1.5 Bn.
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.
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.
He graduated in Civil Engineering from IST, Lisbon in 1988 and started his career at Proman, Centro de Estudos e Projectos, SA, in the Structural Design Department, with special emphasis on participation in the stability projects at Quinta de Carvalhais of Metro Rotunda II, cold storage centers in the Azores. Among many other residential and industrial projects design. Recently, he has been a member of Hagen Imobiliária SA Board for approximately 2 years. Currently and for the last 6 years he is Board Member of Fidelidade Property Europe, SA., a company 100 % held by Fidelidade Companhia de Seguros, managing all Real Estate Investments of the Insurance Group.
In 2010 Eng. Paolo Beccaria started Beccaria & Partners, investment and advisory company with focus on the Italian real estate market. Beccaria & Partners assists Private equity funds, national/ international developers and private high net worth individuals. The main services requested are opportunities scouting, acquisition underwriting advisory, debt financing arrangement, all aspects of asset management and final sales of properties. Prior Paolo managed for more than ten years the successful high returns investments of Orion Capital Managers in Italy. Paolo has over 29 years of real estate experience ranging from investment management in all the different assets classes to engineering and constructions.
Emmanuel Verhoosel
Managing PartnerFluxus Ventures LLP
France
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.
Head Product Development & Fund RaisingInvestire SGR
Italy
Michele Beolchini is the Head of Product Development & Fund Raising of InvestiRE SGR. Michele has been present in the Italian real estate market for more than 11 years, and prior to joining InvestiRE, was in the Real Estate Advisory team of Banca IMI – Intesa Sanpaolo Group - where he had the opportunity to take part to the origination, structuring and execution of numerous real estate transactions between 2008 and 2015. Michele holds a M. Sc. cum Laude in General Management and a B. Sc. in Business Administration from Bocconi University (Milan).
Greenman is a market-leading, sector specific, German real estate investment fund manager, authorised as an Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) by the Central Bank of Ireland under AIFMD Regulations 2013. Greenman manage Greenman Investments S.C.A., SICAV-FIS, a Luxembourg seated investment platform. Greenman has developed an investment model which is designed to generate investor income from the purchase, operation and sale of food anchored real estate. Using this model, Greenman has, since 2005, successfully selected, funded and purchased properties for a number of segregated compartments within the platform’s umbrella structure. Greenman follow a buy and hold strategy with a focus on food anchored retail real estate let on long term leases to highly creditworthy tenants. Currently Greenman have c.€690m of assets under management.
Repositioning Retail
Structural shifts or sticking to proven concepts?
Risk Return Considerations - Only for opportunistic players?
New Concepts - All about experiences, location or tenant mix?
Financing - Any lenders interested or all about equity?
Repurposing Retail Assets - Is there a magic formula for success?
Cyrille joined Klépierre in 2014 as Head of M&A. From 2007 he worked for HSBC Investment banking in Paris where he started the M&A real estate team in 2009. Cyrille started his career at Deloitte in France and thereafter in the US doing due diligence for private equity funds.
Co-founder and now Chairman of a specialist shopping centre and retail park operating partner, asset and investment management company active in Continental Europe, China and the U.K.
Heinz Joachim Kummer is a partner of CMS Germany with more than 25 years of in-depth experience in the real estate sector, having advised on various landmark deals and projects. His expertise includes the full range of commercial real estate law with the focus on complex real estate transactions, structuring and advising private equity and other real estate funds. Before joining CMS, Heinz Joachim was a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP for over 20 years. Heinz Joachim is recognized as a leading real estate lawyer in the current issue of The Who’s Who Legal 2017. The same is true for the major legal directories.
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.
Charles is Director, Real Estate at GRESB, where he is responsible for the strategic development and execution of all products and services within GRESB Real Estate. These include the Real Estate Assessment and related benchmarking methodologies, market solutions addressing industry needs on emerging ESG topics, sustainability compliance and asset-level benchmarking.
Prior to joining GRESB in 2017, Charles worked for five years as a financial audit manager at Deloitte specialised in real estate and renewable energy investment funds.
Charles is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), certified EFFAS ESG analyst (CESGA), and holds a MSc in business engineering from the SBS-EM, Brussels.
Roland Farhat
Head of Audit Real EstateDekaBank
Germany
Roland Farhat is head of Audit Real Estate at DekaBank, a Top-10 European asset manager, and has 20 years of real estate investment and development management experience. At Deka, Roland is responsible for the audit business of the real estate organization with a € 35bn international real estate portfolio. Prior to Deka, Roland was in charge of the real estate management advisory business at PwC in Frankfurt. Over 20 years Roland has built up a € 250 million residential and commercial real estate projects portfolio. Roland holds an MBA and studied at Harvard BS, Saïd BS, IESE BS and University of Augsburg. Roland has successfully completed the Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme. He is founder member of Oxford Blockchain Foundation.
Othmane Zrikem is a Moroccan-French Data Science & Digital technologist. He is the Chief Data Officer and part of the founding BIO team at A/O PropTech, where he designs and executes innovative investment strategies combining data-driven methodologies and financial engineering. Previously, Othmane was Lead Strategist at the largest Data & AI consulting firm in Europe employing over 220 Data Scientists worldwide. During his tenure at Ekimetrics he advised several Fortune 500 companies about transformation and their Data Science & AI strategy implementation roadmap Othmane is a board member and business
angel in several European AI and FinTech Startups. He is a guest lecturer for Masters degree at Centrale Paris
Discussion
Development Deals & Fundraising for BTR
Right partner, right location, lacklustre pricing?
Com mais de 20 anos de experiência, somos uma consultoria especializada em potencializar os resultados das empresas dos mercados imobiliário e de infraestrutura. Atuamos com soluções 360º nas áreas de gestão de pessoas e de estruturação de processos organizacionais.
Development Deals & Fundraising for BTR
Right partner, right location, lacklustre pricing?
Raising Capital - Where is the capital coming from and will equity pour only in core assets?
Allocation Game - Too soon or opportunities en masse?
Post COVID Fundraising - Fewer funds, but more capital available?
Institutional Investment Appetite - What’s changed, what’s staying the same?
Lack of Product - No shortage of capital but nowhere to invest?
Managing Partner and co-founder of our Commercial Real Estate business. Before joining Venn in 2013, Paul spent over 20 years with Citigroup, heading Citi’s European Real Estate business. Paul has a wealth of experience in loan origination, transaction structuring, advisory and loan distribution. Paul benefits from an extensive list of key relationships with sponsors and market participants, and has led a number of landmark transactions including the largest hotel deal in Europe. Paul started his career with Citi in 1993 in Canada, before moving to Citi New York, and then to Citi in London in 2000. Paul is a member of the CFA Institute and holds an MBA from Schulich School of Business in Toronto, Canada.
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.
Real asset investor with 20 year track record. Have built and led investment programs through direct investments, co-investments and fund investments in North America, Europe and Asia. Committed $850m+ of equity in 90+ investments in real estate, energy, mining and agriculture. Eight years of direct development experience across office, residential, hospitality, retail and mixed-use projects totalling nine million square feet.
Thomas joined QuadReal as Vice President, International Real Estate in May 2019. He forms part of the investment team which is focused on building the international portfolio, with an emphasis on investing in Global Cities in UK and Europe. Thomas joins QuadReal having spent eight years at Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (MSREI) in London, where he was originally hired as an Analyst and was promoted to Vice President prior to joining QuadReal. At MSREI, he was a part of the pan-European acquisitions team, where he invested in Western Europe and CEE. Prior to MSREI, Thomas spent a year as an investment analyst for AEW Europe’s real estate private equity fund. Thomas graduated from HEC Paris with a specialisation in Economics.
Head of International Real Estate FinanceBerlin Hyp
Germany
Assem El Alami is the Head of the International Real Estate Finance Sales Division of Berlin Hyp AG. As such he supervises four sales teams: Origination International Investors based in Berlin, as well as the offices in Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw. Berlin Hyp's loan book accounts for approximately 26 bn EUR. Being a law graduate, Assem has more than 25 years of experience in the real estate sector of which he has spent 10 years in France. He joined Berlin Hyp in 2010.
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Berlin Hyp is a wholly owned subsidiary of LBBW and specialises in large-volume real estate financing for professional investors and housing companies. It also provides German savings banks with a comprehensive range of products and services.
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.
As Head of Treasury Europe & Capital Markets, Christian Nickels-Teske is responsible for the negotiation and structuring of secured and unsecured financings for Prologis and its joint venture partnerships in Europe. In addition, Christian is arranging public capital market offerings, Bond issuances as well as executing derivative hedging instruments on behalf of the company. He has extensive experience in structuring Mergers & Acquisitions as well as development and mezzanine financings, portfolio and cross-border (Pan-European) facility structuring.
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.
Greenman is a market-leading, sector specific, German real estate investment fund manager, authorised as an Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) by the Central Bank of Ireland under AIFMD Regulations 2013. Greenman manage Greenman Investments S.C.A., SICAV-FIS, a Luxembourg seated investment platform. Greenman has developed an investment model which is designed to generate investor income from the purchase, operation and sale of food anchored real estate. Using this model, Greenman has, since 2005, successfully selected, funded and purchased properties for a number of segregated compartments within the platform’s umbrella structure. Greenman follow a buy and hold strategy with a focus on food anchored retail real estate let on long term leases to highly creditworthy tenants. Currently Greenman have c.€690m of assets under management.
Logistics Rental Growth
Sky’s the limit or tenants creating drag?
Finding Product - Availability, price and locations
Ecommerce penetration creating demand across Europe - What opportunities to buy, sell?
Occupational Market Drivers Impact on BTS & Acquisitions - Cold storage, retail, food and automotive
Strategies in saturated markets? UK, France, Germany, Netherlands?
Jon is the founder and managing partner of Realty Corporation, a pan-European real estate and PropTech investor with a strong ESG ethos. Realty invests in compelling residential, logistics, data center, and life sciences opportunities, particularly in key European cities where densification and urban vibrancy are disrupting the way people need or use real estate. Realty brings a creative mindset to investment, executing with simplicity and transparency in the transactions it pursues. Jon also currently serves as a senior adviser to McKinsey & Company, advising leading institutions around the globe on their investment strategies. He is on the board of Round Hill Capital and NEPI Rockcastle plc. Previously he worked at Blackstone and Goldman.
Michael Eisenkolb is currently Director Special Property Finance within Aareal Bank's Special Property Finance division, based in Wiesbaden, Germany. Since joining Aareal Bank he has been involved in the origination of commercial real estate investment and development loans based in Amsterdam, thereafter in Berlin and currently ou of Wiesbaden for various international markets wirh a special emphasis on logistics and retail property finance. He has extensive experience in single-country single assets loans, portfolio financings as well a cross-border financing structures.
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.
Kristian joined QuadReal, Europe in November 2019. As Senior Vice President, his focus is on building the international portfolio, with an emphasis on investing in the U.K. and Europe. Kristian was formerly Vice President at Lone Star Europe in London, where he spent 6 years investing across UK, Ireland and Scandinavia. He has invested all asset classes and has experience making both equity and distressed debt investments. Prior to Lone Star, Kristian trained as an analyst in Rothschild & Co’s European real estate team (M&A and DCM). Kristian graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Exeter and holds an MSc Finance and Private Equity from the London School of Economics.
One of the leading international corporate law firms. It is ranked 2nd largest law firm in France by revenue. Its unique positioning and highly recognised expertise enable it to deliver innovative, high-value-added solutions in Tax, Business, Corporate and Employment law.
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L’Avenir de l’immobilier
ESG, projets d’aménagement, ou évolution démographique ?
Post COVID World : vers une nouvelle géographie du marché immobilier ? De retour en ville ou prospérer à la périphérie
Future Mobility - Voitures autonomes et autres qui façonnent l'avenir des villes ?
Impact de RE 2020 : trop ambitieux ou réellement atteignable ? L’impact sur investissements, construction et exploitation d'actifs
Cédric Dujardin est nommé depuis Septembre 2019 Managing Director dans l’équipe Investissement Immobilier de BlackRock. Basé à Paris, il sera en charge de la gestion des fonds immobiliers de BlackRock en France, Italie et Belgique, sous la responsabilité de Justin Brown, Head of Real Estate Europe. Cédric Dujardin dispose de près de 20 ans d’expérience dans l’immobilier et la gestion de fonds, avec une expertise liée à l’impact environnemental et sociétal des actifs immobiliers. Avant de rejoindre BlackRock, il était Directeur des opérations immobilières pour la France, la Belgique et le Luxembourg chez DWS. Il avait précédemment été Directeur Investissements Europe chez Ivanhoé Cambridge et occupé différentes fonctions chez Gécina.
Benjamin Cartier-Bresson
Head of French BranchBerlin HYP
France
Benjamin Cartier-Bresson, 46, is head of Berlin Hyp representative office in Paris. Cartier-Bresson has extensive knowledge of the French commercial property market. He has specialised in property debt structuring since 2002. He is a former officer of the Royal Bank of Scotland and of Credit Suisse, where he was in charge of debt origination until 2008. More recently he held a senior position at DekaBank.
Head Real Estate Lending Department (structured loans/ development loans)La Banque Postale
France
Priscilla joined La Banque Postale in 2016 to create the arrangement desk of Structured Real Estate Loans and is currently Head of the Real Estate Lending Department (Structured loans mainly for PE investors / funds and development loans for property developers). She has a 10-year experience in corporate and investment banking with CaCib in New York and Paris and an above 15 -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.
Global Head - Investment Technology & International CTONuveen Real Estate
United Kingdom
Chris brings more than 20 years of technology, data & digital transformation experience in various industries around the globe. He has held a number of leadership roles that have put him at the forefront of many fintech and proptech transformations.
Chris is passionate about technology products and solutions. He's driven by:
• Providing business first digital and data solutions.
• Ensuring all stakeholders are brought on the journey to drive adoption and innovation.
• Buildings and integrating future proof solutions across products and services that scale globally.
• Developing and growing high-capability teams.
Sandrine has worked in the European Real Estate market for 18 years, and in Real Estate debt since 2005. Sandrine Amsili joined SCOR Investment Partners in November 2013 as Senior Real Estate Debt Manager. She was promoted to Head of Real Estate Debt on the 1st of December, 2018. Sandrine started her career in 2002 as an Acquisition Analyst for several real estate investment funds at CBRE Investors. In 2004, she became Asset Manager for French and German assets. She joined Eurohypo Bank in 2005 as a Credit Manager before being appointed Business Manager in the Origination department, in 2007. Sandrine holds a Master’s degree in Finance from EDHEC Business School. She has been a member of RICS since 2016.
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.
Head of International Real Estate FinanceBerlin Hyp
Germany
Assem El Alami is the Head of the International Real Estate Finance Sales Division of Berlin Hyp AG. As such he supervises four sales teams: Origination International Investors based in Berlin, as well as the offices in Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw. Berlin Hyp's loan book accounts for approximately 26 bn EUR. Being a law graduate, Assem has more than 25 years of experience in the real estate sector of which he has spent 10 years in France. He joined Berlin Hyp in 2010.
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Berlin Hyp is a wholly owned subsidiary of LBBW and specialises in large-volume real estate financing for professional investors and housing companies. It also provides German savings banks with a comprehensive range of products and services.
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.
Marian Herman is the CEO and Member of the Board of Directors of HB Reavis Group. Previously, as Group CFO, he was responsible for all of the company’s finance-related activities including debt financing, divestments, investment management, budgeting, controlling and accounting. He joined HB Reavis in 2010 as Head of Investment Management & Divestments. In this role he was responsible for the Group’s M&A and divestment activities across all markets, having successfully concluded over €1bn of commercial RE deals. Marian has over 20 years of experience in investment mgmt and investment banking. Prior to joining HB Reavis, he had been working for over 10 years in London for RREEF Infrastructure, Deutsche Bank and ING Group
Bernd Knobloch
ChairmanContinuum Capital
Germany
Knobloch studied Law & Business Administration and is admitted to the German Bar. From 1979 until 1991 he was a Managing Partner of Allgemeine Bautraeger GmbH Cederbaum. In 1991 he joined the Frankfurter Hypothekenbank and was Chairman of the Managing Board of Directors of Eurohypo AG until 2008. From 2006 until 2008 he was Member of the Board of Managing Directors of Commerzbank AG. From November 2008 until August 2009 Knobloch was Member of the Supervisory Board of Hypo Real Estate Holding AG. From 2009 until 2012 Knobloch was Board Member of Schörghuber Group. He is Non Executive Director of Palatium Investment Management Ltd. and Deputy Chairman of Citycon Oyj Helsinki and Gem. Hertie Stiftung. He is also Partner at Continuum Capital.
CEO Real Estate & Head of Private Markets, Chairman MEPCFederated Hermes
United Kingdom
Chris joined Federated Hermes in 2010, having successfully established Australian fund manager QIC’s European office in London. Prior to that he was head of European Property at HSBC. Chris spent the majority of his career as a fund manager at Prudential, where he led the diversification of its UK real estate exposure into overseas markets in 2001. As CEO of Real Estate, managing over £7 billion of real estate, Chris is also the BTPS Director on the Argent Board and has taken a lead role in promoting responsible investment with major regeneration schemes such as King’s Cross London, Paradise Circus Birmingham, NOMA Manchester and Wellington Place Leeds.
Mr Tanghe has thirty-five years of private equity and real estate investment, development and advisory experience in Europe, North America, and Australasia. Mr Tanghe is the founder and Managing Director of Aventicum Real Estate, a private equity real estate investment management joint-venture with Credit Suisse and the Qatar Investment Authority, operating from Zurich, London, and Amsterdam, and investing in value-add real estate projects across Europe. Prior to that, Mr Tanghe held several senior real estate positions with ING Real Estate, Hines, Lehman Brothers, Security Capital and JP Morgan.
Michael Zerda
Co-Chief Investment Officer, Europe | Head of Debt & Value-Add StrategiesLaSalle Investment Management
United Kingdom
Michael Zerda serves as the Co-CIO for Europe and is Head of European Debt & Value-Add Strategies, responsible for LaSalle’s debt platform and value-add and opportunistic equity strategies in Europe. Michael has 22 years’ experience investing in equity and debt opportunities in Europe and the US, across a wide variety of real estate asset classes. Since 2010, he has been responsible for transactions totalling over $10 billion in net equity contributions, and $22 billion in gross loan commitments, across 140 individual transactions in major Western European markets spanning private equity, structured equity investments, equity joint ventures, senior debt, mezzanine debt, corporate debt, and development finance.
Clark Coffee is the Chief Investment Officer and Head of European Commercial Real Estate Debt at AllianceBernstein (AB). His previous business, Lacarne Capital, was acquired by AB in 2020 to establish the firm’s real estate debt business in Europe. Previously, Coffee was head of Tyndaris Real Estate, where he was responsible for building the business into a top-10 real estate debt fund in Europe. Prior to that, he co-headed origination for Deutsche Bank’s European commercial real estate credit business and oversaw the risk management and restructuring of more than €2 billion of troubled loans during the global financial crisis.
Frédéric is Managing Partner of Mozaïc AM and has over 15 years experience in the healthcare sector. MoZaïC manages over 250M€ of healthcare assets over 4 geographies (France, Germany, Italy and Spain) Prior to this, he was the President of Senior Santé, an owner and operator of nursing homes in France. During his tenure, he was responsible for operations developing the group's operating model and processes. During that period it funded, developed, built, delivered and sold 11 nursing homes (circa 50,000 m2). Before Senior Santé/B-Patrimoine, Frédéric held various positions within HSBC (London) and Lazard (New York and London) Frédéric graduated from ESSEC Business School in Paris and speaks French, English, Spanish, Italian and Arabic.
Co-Head of EMEA RE FinanceGoldman Sachs Asset Management
United Kingdom
Jan is Co-Head of Real Estate Finance for the EMEA Region at Goldman Sachs. He has extensive transaction experience across asset classes including hospitality, office, logistics, retail, datacenter, cold storage assets as well as SPL/NPL portfolio financing and construction finance. He has worked in various jurisdictions across Europe. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Jan worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Citi in real estate finance, securitization and investment banking.
Mr. Pham is a Senior Fund & Portfolio Manager at Swiss Life Asset Managers, responsible for acquisitions in France, Belgium and Luxembourg for Swiss Life’s German and Swiss funds, as well as sourcing, structuring and executing deals in Italy, Spain and Portugal for the group. Prior to that, he was at GE Real Estate in a number of roles, the last one being European Head of Portfolio Management, as well as at Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners where he was a Principal responsible for investments in France. Mr. Pham also worked as a project engineer for the City of Vancouver. Mr. Pham holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) from McGill University, a Masters in Engineering from the University of British Columbia and an M.B.A. from INSEAD.
Gunther Deutsch
MD, Head of Investment Transactions EUBarings
Germany
Gunther Deutsch is Barings Head of Transactions Europe and Managing Director at Barings Germany. He is overseeing the investment markets Sweden, Finland, The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, France and the UK. Transaction volume executed over the last 3 years. 3 bn EUR of acquisistions and 2.25 bn EUR of dispositions. Prior to co-founding PAMERA in 2010 (before its acquisition by Cornerstone/Barings in 2014), Gunther Deutsch was founder and owner of the asset management platform Metis Asset Management GmbH in 2004. Previous to that, he spent 13 years in senior positions at Deutsche Bank (RREEF) and Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) in Munich, Berlin and New York.
Jason is an independent consultant to global real estate clients with investments in European real estate.. Previously, Jason was an Executive Committee member at Europa Capital LLP and the Fund Manager for the pan-European value-add series. He joined Europa Capital in 2005 where he gathered pan-European experience with a primary focus on the UK, French and German markets and in the logistics, residential, office and retail sectors. Jason started his RE career at MEPC Ltd, where he worked on the development of its business park portfolio. Jason has been working in RE for over 20 years, holds a post-graduate MSc in RE from Reading University & is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Co-Owner & Managing PartnerGriffin Capital Partners
Poland
Managing Partner at Griffin Capital Partners. Nebil Senman held leading positions for nine years as Senior Vice President and Supervisory Board Member of Oaktree’s German and Polish real estate funds and operations worth several billion Euro. Before joining Oaktree, he spent eight years handling real estate and corporate consulting at Ernst & Young Real Estate (formerly Arthur Andersen), where he held various managerial positions. He is a graduate of universities in Berlin (TU Berlin, EBS), Paris (ESCP Europe) and London (LSE) and holds an MBA and a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering. He also holds a post-graduate diploma in real estate management (EBS), and is a Chartered Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, MRICS.
Rob joined Cromwell Property Group as a Fund Manager quickly taking on further responsibility for a number of key funds. With Rob's experience and expertise in acquisitions, he took on the role as Head of Transactions for Europe, managing the regional transaction teams, underwriting and closing on all acquisitions for both in-house Funds and Joint Venture partners. Now as Head of Investments, Rob’s focus is growing the European business through new Fund Products, Joint Ventures and strategic acquisitions. Rob has over 24 years of commercial property experience. Prior to joining the business, he worked at the investment agency, Allsop, and as an acquisitions and development specialist at ING Investment Management.
Stanislas Henry
Vice President PrincipalCDPQ
France
Stanislas Henry began his career in 1987 at Groupe Paribas, based successively in Paris, London and New York. In 1997, he worked in GE Capital Europe’s merger and acquisitions team in London. He then joined GE Capital Real Estate in Paris, as Director of Equity Participations.
After working for the finance and operational treasury department at Assurances Générales de France in 2001, he joined Groupe Crédit Agricole’s CALYON Corporate and Investment Bank as Executive Director, Global Investment Banking for the real estate sector, a position he held until 2008. From 2008 to 2019, Stanislas Henry was one of the main contributors in the significant expansion of Amundi Immobilier, where he was responsible for all institutional real estate fund
Chairman & CEO, WING; Chairman of the Supervisory Board, ECHO InvestmentWING
Hungary
Noah M. Steinberg (Wing, ECHO, Bauwert, Germany, Poland, Hungary)
Noah M. Steinberg is Chairman and CEO of the WING Group and Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of Echo Investment SA in Poland and Bauwert AG in Germany.
Noah Steinberg was born in the US and has lived and worked in Central Europe since 1990. Based in Budapest, he was a founder of Wing in 1999 and he has been the company's Chief Executive since then, responsible for the development and investment activities of the WING group across all asset classes and geographies. He graduated from Princeton University (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) with a BA and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna with an MA.He speaks English, French, German, Spanish and Hungarian
Board Member Square Sense SAS, Investor/Family OfficeNM - Family Office
France
Norbert Müller is investing, via his Family Office, in i) Real Estate (standing investments as well as developments), mainly in Flanders (Belgium), Brussels (Belgium) and Berlin (Germany), ii) consumer products (Whisky (Scotland) and Rum (Caribbean), iii) tech and data driven companies (Square Sense SAS (Paris), various via Zurich)
Sourcing and execution of residential investments for Heimstaden in Germany, Central Europe, France and Finland. Formerly responsible for residential investments in Europe at Round Hill Capital. Prior to this, he was an investment banker in the Goldman Sachs’ European real estate team in London. Stan holds a master’s degree in Finance and Business Strategy from Sciences Po University in Paris.
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What tech trends should be carefully observed by the real estate players in 2022? What’s coming next in the sector in terms of innovation? With so many technologies being created, how do you pick the winners?
After running multiple online activities during 2021, the GRI proptech division will answer the members’ requests and run the first face-to-face event alongside Europe GRI to connect senior real estate players to the key innovations for the future of the sector.
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2050 Net Zero Target
Retrofit & Value Add
Leveraging Technology for RE Investment
On Demand Buildings
Improving Asset Performance via Data
Investing in Proptech
Hybrid Spaces
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Greenman is a market-leading, sector specific, German real estate investment fund manager, authorised as an Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) by the Central Bank of Ireland under AIFMD Regulations 2013. Greenman manage Greenman Investments S.C.A., SICAV-FIS, a Luxembourg seated investment platform. Greenman has developed an investment model which is designed to generate investor income from the purchase, operation and sale of food anchored real estate. Using this model, Greenman has, since 2005, successfully selected, funded and purchased properties for a number of segregated compartments within the platform’s umbrella structure. Greenman follow a buy and hold strategy with a focus on food anchored retail real estate let on long term leases to highly creditworthy tenants. Currently Greenman have c.€690m of assets under management.
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