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Managing Director, Co-Head BGO Strategic Capital PartnersBGO
USA
Cherine Aboulzelof is Managing Director, Global Co-Head for BentallGreenOak's Strategic Capital Partners ("BGO SCP") and sits on its global investment committee. BGO SCP provides strategic capital by way of asset and portfolio recapitalisations, structured transactions, co investments trhrough its discretionary co-mingled vehicles, and fund investments for managed accounts. Prior to joining BGO SCP platform in 2017, she has been responsible for Europe investments with two different real estate investment managers, investing across a number of real estate sectors in Europe between 2005 and 2017. She started her career in investment banking with Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley. She holds an M.B.A from INSEAD and a graduate degree from EM Lyon. She is a French, British and Lebanese citizen. Cherine serves as a Non Executive Director on the board Urban Logistics REIT.
Global Head of Asset Management & DevelopmentAXA IM
France
Laurent Lavergne has just been appointed as Global Head of Sustainability for AXA IM Alts.
He is responsible for the development and the deployment of AXA IM Alts’ sustainability strategy across all AXA IM Alts’ business lines, comprising Real Estate, Infrastructure, Alternative Credit and Natural Capital& Impact Investments. He will also be a voting member of investment committee for direct investments (Real Estate and Infrastructure Equity as well as Natural Capital).
He is a member of AXA IM Real Estate Management Board.
Previously, Laurent held various senior positions within AXA IM Real Assets, as Global Head of Asset Management and Development from 2020 until June 2023 and Co-Head of Fund Management from 2013 to 2019.
Head of Real Estate Italy & Managing DirectorArdian
Italy
Matteo Minardi joined Ardian in 2016 with nine years of real estate experience. Prior to joining Ardian, Matteo was Fund Manager at Generali Real Estate. Prior to that, he was Senior Investment Manager at Redbrick Investment Group. Matteo studied at SDA Bocconi (MSc) and at Politecnico of Milan (Civil Engineering).
President - EMEA Real EstateCBRE Investment Management
Sweden
Rik is responsible for all elements of investment execution in the EMEA region, including acquisition, disposition, asset management, development, redevelopment and asset finance. Rik is an experienced retail fund manager and previously managed the CBRE Dutch Retail Fund, the European Shopping Center Funds series and the CBRE Nordic Property Fund. In this combined role, he was responsible for an AUM base of over €4 billion across Europe. His leadership experience in different parts of the direct real estate business give him a wide-ranging perspective on the business and inform his approach to opportunities and challenges.
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.
Pierre joined Investcorp in 2016 from Real Estate Private Equity firm Catalyst Capital where he spent four years as an Associate Director in the UK investment team. He started his career at Citi in the Real Estate Private Equity group focusing on European opportunistic real estate investments, followed by two years at AEW Europe. Pierre holds an MSc in Management from HEC Paris.
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.
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.
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.
Vanessa Sloan
Managing Director, Real EstateStepStone Group
United Kingdom
Vanessa is a Managing Director within the real estate group at StepStone. She has over 16 years of industry experience in real estate investment, portfolio management, product formation and sustainability / ESG, working predominantly on European markets, as well as on select global and US strategies. Prior to StepStone, she has held senior positions with Deutsche Finance Group, Patron Capital Advisors, National Pension Service (South Korea) and Aon Townsend. Vanessa holds a postgraduate Master’s degree in Finance from Henley Business School and a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering (with Architecture) from the University of Edinburgh.
Executive Vice PresidentSkanska Commercial Development Europe
Poland
Arkadiusz Rudzki took the position of Executive Vice President Leasing & Sales at Skanska’s CDE for Central and Eastern Europe in February 2020 and he is responsible for the leasing and sales of investment products, as well as real estate portfolio management and cooperation with key corporate clients across the CEE region. Arkadiusz joined the company in 2012 as Head of leasing and asset management for Poland, while also acting as the Key Client Director for CEE on the company’s Management Board. In January 2016, he was appointed the Managing Director the Managing Director of Skanska's development business in Poland, while remaining Board Member of the Senior Leadership Team in CEE region. Arkadiusz Rudzki has 20+ years’ experience .
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.
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.
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.
Omar el Glaoui is Managing Director and Co-Head of the EMEA Real Estate Finance business at Citigroup, focusing on origination, structuring and distribution of senior and mezzanine debt
Over an 18 year career in commercial property finance, Omar has expertise in loan underwriting, distressed acquisitions, mezzanine / equity investments, CMBS bond trading and underwriting & risk management across Europe and all traditional and operating asset classes.
He joined Citi in 2014, and prior to that was with J.P. Morgan in London where he started his career in 2005.
Executive Director - Senior Economist, Global Geopolitical Strategist, Global ResearchStandard Chartered Bank
France
Philippe is responsible for Global Geopolitical Economic analysis, based in Paris. He joined the Bank in 2007 and was previously an economist covering the Middle East and Turkey. Philippe is in close contact with policy makers and multilateral institutions, and comments regularly in global media. Before joining the Bank, he worked for HSBC Asset Management, for the French embassy in Washington, and in the US Congress. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics and a Master’s in business from the University of Paris (Dauphine), and Master’s degrees in international relations from Sciences-Po (Paris) and Columbia University. Philippe was recognised by Coalition Greenwich as one of the Most Helpful Analysts in Emerging Markets in 2021.
Chris is responsible for investing and monitoring real estate investments across Europe. He has over ten years of principal investing experience across value added, opportunistic and distressed real estate strategies and has completed transactions for HIG in both direct acquisitions and non-performing loans across multiple real estate sectors and geographies. Previously, Chris was a Partner at Kildare Partners and also held investment roles at Varde Partners and AIG Global Real Estate. Chris holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BSc in Finance from Drexel University.
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.
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.
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.
Simon is responsible for identifying new investment opportunities across the Group. He joined Hammerson in 1998 as Asset Manager before moving on to become Development/Investment Manager, Business Development Director in 2010 and Group Investment Director in 2018.
Briain is Managing Director of Slate Asset Management. He has significant corporate finance, restructuring, and capital markets experience in both North America and Europe. Briain leads the Slate European platform. His responsibilities include originating and executing acquisitions, capital raising, overseeing various asset management functions and establishing new investment platforms.
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.
Mr. Savoia has over 20 years of experience in finance and real estate and closed deals for over Euro 8 billion covering capital markets, M&A, real estate and structured debt. He is Chairman and CEO of Three Stars Capital Partners. Mr. Savoia also headed Merrill Lynch Real Estate Finance in Italy. Before then, Mr. Savoia worked at Morgan Stanley, in M&A, Securitization and Real Estate. He also spent 3 years at Dresser Industries in Houston (TX). Mr. Savoia graduated from Università Cattolica Milan and was awarded with Premio Gemelli as “Best Graduate of the 1995 Class”. He also holds an MBA in Finance from HBU in Houston (TX).
Fabio Barbaro is a Director in the Zetland Investment team where he is focused on pan-European real estate investments. Prior to joining Zetland in 2019, Fabio participated in sourcing, underwriting and acquisition of real estate at Sculptor Capital Management (previously Och-Ziff) and The Carlyle Group, executing investments in single asset, portfolios and programmatic real estate investments across Europe. Fabio started his career in the real estate investment banking team at Deutsche Bank in London. Fabio holds a B.Sc. from University of Tuebingen in International Business Administration.
Manuel graduated in Business Administration from Denver University (Colorado, USA) and holds an MBA from the University of Notre Dame. He has worked almost his whole career in Investor Relations. He joins Sareb from the consultancy King Worldwide Investor Relations, where he worked for the past four years. He was also the Founder and Managing Partner of Logical IR Solutions, Director of Strategy and External Relations at Parquesol Inmobiliaria, CEO of Eurocofin Investor Relations, Director of Equities at AB Asesores Bursatiles, Director of Investor Relations at Bankinter, and CEO of Link Securities, among other roles. He founded the Spanish Association of Investor Relations, being an Honorary Member and serving on it's Board.
CEO of the Shaftesbury Asset Management Group (SAM Group), Philippe has over 35 years experience in Continental European real estate. The Group is actively seeking acquisitions in Spain, Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg.
Mario leads investment management at Medan — overseeing the origination, underwriting, and execution of investments in existing platforms as well as building new investment thesis. Mario previously developed and executed investment strategies at Dunas Real Estate, particularly on the living sector. Prior to Dunas, Mario worked in restructuring in Duff & Phelps in London, focusing on asset-backed instrument portfolios. MSc Accounting and Finance by London School of Economics. BSC in Law and Management.
Omar has 11 years of real estate experience in the areas of deal making, due diligence, valuations and asset management. Omar has been a part of the Castellana Team for 1 year coming from Vukile investment team where he worked for the last three years. Prior to that he spent time at Investec Bank and the Public Investment Corporation (PIC). He holds an MSc. Real estate finance and investment from the University of Reading and is a professional associated valuer.
Mr Iborra joined Meridia Capital in March 2007. His working experience includes pre-entry due diligence business plan development M&A execution and asset management. Prior to Meridia he works for 2 years at Unilever within the financial controlling departm
Tim Wilkinson is driving the European expansion strategy of the Indotek Group, a value-add private fund currently with over Eur 2 bln AUM. Tim is responsible for sourcing and acquiring opportunistic investments across 13 European countries, with a focus on direct assets and/or real estate companies that need new capital to unlock un-realised potential. Previously he spent over 20 years with a focus on the emerging markets of Central & South East Europe, most recently as the Head of Capital Markets and equity partner with the Romanian affiliate of Cushman & Wakefield. Tim is a graduate of Nottingham Trent University and a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Chief Development Officer at Distrito Natural | Partner at Fluxus Ventures
With extensive experience in the real estate sector, I specialize in advising investment funds on asset transformation and delivering innovative solutions to real estate portfolios. I have successfully managed multiple co-working and co-living projects, introducing cutting-edge strategies for portfolio enhancement.
Currently, my focus is on driving the decarbonization of the industry through timber-structure residential developments, accelerating sustainable practices for a greener future.
Education:
- MSc in Industrial Engineering, Major in Structural Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- Bachelor of Architecture, École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris Malaquais
With a solid experience in the TLC and Energy sectors, Giovanna Della Posta has led for the past ten years insurance and Real Estate turnaround projects, supporting companies in rethinking their business model. She graduated in Economics, then earned a master’s degree in Economics and Finance and ultimately achieved a General Management program at Harvard Business School (2016). She won the Marisa Bellisario Prize (2012), within the Young Talents category, granted to women who distinguish themselves in management and economy. In 2019 Finance Community selected her among the 50 most influential people in Italian finance. Since January 2019 she is Invimit SGR’s CEO, a company 100% owned by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance.
Kevin has over 25 years’ real estate experience. He joined Octopus Real Estate in 2018 and heads up the team for raising funds and investing to facilitate the development of retirement communities. Kevin sits on the Investment Committee and has a Masters from Oxford Brookes School of the Built Environment.
Verivia is a proprietary investment firm actively involved in the acquisition, development, conversion and management of commercial and residential real estate. Our mission is to invest in properties and projects, alongside operating partners, where our flexibility, insights and expertise can create significant value.
Our current portfolio counts c. 50 single invesments in the US and Europe.
Jorge Fonseca has a hugely successful business track record that spans over 12 countries in
America, Asia and Europe but began in the most unlikely way possible: in 1983, at the tender
age of 19, in what was supposedly a temporary job in direct sales to put to good use a few
weeks of free time he had before starting college in Toronto, Canada. Less than a year after he
started, Jorge had already opened his first independent company, and from then went on to
expand the business in the US, beginning with covering Florida and New York, and also South
America and Europe, training affiliates that took the business to geographies as diverse as
Japan, Thailand, Chile and South Africa. He founded his Portuguese and Spanish businesses in
1989.
Mr. Keith is a managing director in Oaktree’s Real Estate group based in London. He joined Oaktree in 2020 from Partners Group, where he was a vice president in the Private Real Estate group. Prior thereto, Mr. Keith was with Arcapita Limited as an associate in the Real Estate Private Equity team. He began his career as a mergers and acquisitions analyst with Robert W. Baird & Co., before joining the Financial Sponsors group with Goldman Sachs & Co. Mr. Keith received an M.A. in international business from Edinburgh University.
Andrew Smith is a Partner at Northern Horizon. His duties include developing new investment products, deal sourcing and expanding the investor base. Andrew has 25 years of experience in the international and Nordic real estate sector and has built a very strong reputation and international industry network. Andrew has extensive experience in corporate finance. Before joining Northern Horizon, he worked for several international investment managers and real estate corporate finance advisors as a Managing Director. Andrew holds a bachelor’s degree in Real Estate Economics.
Achille is executive director leading the global client care program and the business development of the Value and Risk Advisory division (VRA) at JLL. Prior to joining JLL in 2007, he served as Project Controller at Drees & Sommer, a leading building consultancy in Europe. He started his career in 2002 as a Business Development Manager of a windows manufacturing company in Berlin. Achille graduated from the Technical University of Berlin with a degree in architecture, with focus on property development. He is Chartered Surveyor member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). He is co-chair of ULI’s Product Council “Office and Mixed-Use” in Europe and of the Product Council “Sustainable Cities” in Germany.
Vanessa joined True North to lead the expansion of the business to invest internationally in carbon sequestration opportunities via timber and reforestation. She joined in May 2023 as Fund Manager for True North's third Fund. Her 18 years' experience working as an investor, portfolio manager, product development and ESG are a great complement to the team of forestry experts. Prior to joining True North, Vanessa worked at Areim and was involved in the strategic business development of new products and initiatives in the ESG space and prior as an investor with Composition Capital Partners Fund of Funds, The Wellcome Trust and UBS Global Real Estate Multi Managers.
Sayed M. Alaali
Senior Vice PresidentSlate Asset Management
United Kingdom
Sayed is a Senior Vice President at Slate Asset Management, a global alternatives investment management platform focused on real assets. Sayed joined Slate in 2018 and is based in London. Sayed is responsible for Slate’s European investments and strategic initiatives, along with Middle Eastern capital raising efforts. He played a crucial role in executing several of Slate’s milestone transactions, including the firm’s first special situations credit investment and the acquisition of an Irish REIT.
Prior to joining Slate, Sayed spent six years on the North American real estate investments team at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
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.
Olivier Schwend
Managing DirectorThor Equities
United Kingdom
Olivier is Managing Director at Thor Equities Europe, operating out of London. Previously, Olivier was Senior Vice President at Round Hill Capital, focusing on Southern European Investments. Before joining Round Hill Capital, he was involved in building up the German Office platform with Blackstone from scratch, focusing on acquisitions and asset management. Prior to that, he worked in Jones Lang LaSalles’ Corporate Finance division focusing on large scale portfolio transactions and equity raising and Goldman Sachs Realty Management Division focusing on portfolio management of NPL portfolios.
Steve Nitschke
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.
David Gorleku is a Managing Director and Head of Europe Originations in the Blackstone Real Estate
Debt Strategies group, based in London. Mr. Gorleku is involved in sourcing, underwriting,
negotiating and structuring debt investments across all asset types throughout Europe.
Before joining Blackstone in 2020, Mr. Gorleku was a Principal at London-based Actis Capital in the
real estate private equity group. Prior to that, Mr. Gorleku worked at TPG Real Estate Finance and at
Goldman Sachs in New York where he focused on real estate debt and equity investments across the
United States.
Head of Group Commercial Real EstateErste Group Bank AG
Austria
Mr. Günther Artner, CFA, has been working for Erste Group in various management functions in equity research since June 2000, responsible for more than 170 companies in Austria and the CEE region with a personal focus on the real estate sector. From March 2015 onwards, Mr. Artner was heading the Equity Capital Markets and from 2017 onwards also the Corporate DCM teams at Erste Group. In July 2022 Mr. Artner was appointed as Head of Group Commercial Real Estate at Erste Group. In addition to the Master degree from the Vienna University of Business Administration and Economics, Mr. Artner holds a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) degree.
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.
Principal, Commercial Real Estate DebtApollo Global Management
United Kingdom
Richard is a Principal within Apollo's Real Estate Commercial Team, he has been with the team for over 8 years. Previously, he was Associate Director, Real Estate Banking within UBS.
Vice President, Real Estate Finance & Capital MarketsOxford Properties Group
United Kingdom
Tina manages Oxford’s €3 billion European debt portfolio, and is responsible for building and strengthening relationships with Oxford’s European and global lending partners.
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.
Rahul Sule is the Head of EMEA and APAC Real Estate Finance and Special Opportunities. He manages a cross functional team based in London, Milan, and Sydney
The business underwrites and executes large, complex financing solutions and acquires stressed and distressed loans as a principal.
Prior to this role, Rahul was the Co-head of EMEA, APAC Real Estate Finance focusing on origination, capital markets, risk pricing & trading. Previously he was responsible for EMEA CMBS Capital Markets having joined the CMBS business in 2007.
He is based in London having previously been based in Tokyo and Hong Kong where he was part of JPM’s Asia Credit Markets team trading corporate high yield and distressed debt securities and loans.
Russell Gould
Co-Head of EMEA Commercial Real Estate FinanceCiti Group
United Kingdom
Russell is a Managing Director and Co-Head of the EMEA CRE Finance team, business at Citigroup, focusing on origination, underwriting and distribution of senior and mezzanine debt. Over an 12 year career in commercial property finance Russell has expertise in loan underwriting, proprietary / special situation investing, CMBS bond and junior debt trading and underwriting & risk management across Europe and all traditional and operating asset classes
CEO Real Estate & Head of Private Markets, Chairman MEPC
Federated Hermes
Margaret Sweeney
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.
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.
Abhishek est le Président de Greenman Arth, une société de gestion de portefeuille Française. Abhishek a plus de 14 ans d'expérience en investissement, développement et gestion d'immobilier institutionnel en France et à l'international. Greenman Arth a inauguré GMA Essentialis, une SCPI, visée par l’AMF, spécialisée dans l'immobilier de la grande distribution alimentaire en France et en Allemagne.
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).
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.
Aziz Francis is the founder of Brook Lane Capital, an Investment and Asset Management platform focusing on real estate, credit and special situations with more than €1.5Bn of gross assets under management. Previously to Brook Lane Capital, Aziz was a partner at Spinnaker Capital in charge of European EM distressed and special situations. Aziz started his career at Morgan Stanley in the principal investments team in London. He studied at HEC in Paris
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.
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.
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.
Director, Real Estate InvestmentsStarz Real Estate
United Kingdom
Gregoire is a Director at Starz Real Estate, where he is involved in all aspects of origination, underwriting and execution of real estate credit opportunities across Europe. Prior to joining Starz Gregoire worked for Deutsche Bank’s Credit Solutions Group, focused on illiquid and esoteric credit trades backed by real assets and Bank of America Merrill Lynch RESF team where he focused on underwriting, structuring and execution of senior loans, mezzanine debt, loan-on-loan financings and CMBS, across all real estate classes in Europe. Gregoire started his career as an Analyst at Westmont Hospitality Group involved in all corporate finance aspects. Fluent in French and English, Gregoire holds an MBA from ESSEC Business School.
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.
Nicolas Massiere is a Partner at Cale Street Partners, a real estate investment and finance firm focused on the United Kingdom, Western Europe and North America. Since its inception in 2014 Cale Street has raised €7.6bn from a single sovereign wealth investor and has provided innovative structured debt and/or equity capital solutions to investors, operators and developers in ten countries across nearly every major real estate asset classes. Before joining Cale Street, Nicolas was a member of the real estate principal group of Oaktree Capital Management in London where he focussed on pan-European direct asset and portfolio acquisitions as well as NPL and distressed debt purchases. Prior to that, Nicolas was at Benson Elliot.
Alexis Trancart is Senior Originator at Aareal Bank based in Paris, responsible for the origination and structuring of senior and junior loans secured against French real estate assets. He started his career at Pfandbriefbank in London where he held origination and underwriting positions with a pan-European focus before specialising in the French market when he moved to Paris in 2010. Alexis holds an MSc in Real Estate Investment from Cass Business School.
Graduate of a Paris IX Dauphine Magistère, CFA charterholder, SFAF, Gilles CASTIEL has extensive experience in financing real estate in Europe. Before joining SCOR Global Investments in 2013, Gilles was, from 2005 to 2013, Director of the French origination department of Eurohypo in Paris. He previously held various finance positions within the CDC group and then at Natixis.
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.
Jean-Philippe Besse is Chief Business Development Officer at Accenta, which is a leader of decarbonization solutions for real estate.
Prior to Accenta, he was MD, Head of Investor Relations - Europe at Colony Capital from 2017 to 2022.
Prior to Colony Capital, he was co-founder and partner at La Française Asset Management, a leading asset manager in Europe, as Head of International Development.
He started his professional career within the AXA Group in New York and Paris, where he was Head of Marketing for AXA financial products.
Mr. Besse graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and he is an actuary.
Duarte Ferreira leads the Global Decentralized Energy Generation Business Unit @ Greenvolt – Renewable Energy, Inc by incorporating a series of European Companies where he sits as Board Member. The Decentralized Energy Generation Business Unit (Solar + Electric Mobility + Energy Storage) is the top transformational project within Greenvolt in line with the REPower EU strategy and that touches all business verticals to turn our buildings in net-zero real estate assets.
Duarte has an extensive national and international experience in challenging corporate leadership roles in B2B and B2C sectors as electric mobility, renewable energy, environment or FMCG.
Vanessa is a Managing Director within the real estate group at StepStone. She has over 16 years of industry experience in real estate investment, portfolio management, product formation and sustainability / ESG, working predominantly on European markets, as well as on select global and US strategies. Prior to StepStone, she has held senior positions with Deutsche Finance Group, Patron Capital Advisors, National Pension Service (South Korea) and Aon Townsend. Vanessa holds a postgraduate Master’s degree in Finance from Henley Business School and a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering (with Architecture) from the University of Edinburgh.
Brett Ormrod is the Net Zero Carbon (NZC) Lead for Europe and is responsible for providing technical guidance to the European business in the development and delivery of asset-level NZC pathways. He is leading the roll-out of NZC audits by a select panel of NZC consultants across £20billion of direct real estate, which will establish existing performance and provide a detailed set of asset-specific energy conservation measures.
Matthew Marson is an experienced leader, working at the intersection of technology, sustainability, and the built environment. Having founded WSP’s Smart Places practice and grown Accenture’s offering in this field, Dr Matthew led a €100m business across a range of asset types and geographies. Marson was named as the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Young Engineer of the Year 2022 and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Young Visionary 2016 for his contributions to the global Smart Buildings industry. As a recognised thought leader, Matthew is a keynote speaker at international industry events related to emerging technology, net zero design and places at the building and city scales.
Stéphane Villemain leads IC's activities related to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable investment. Before joining Ivanhoé Cambridge in 2020, he spent nearly four years as Director, Responsible Investment, at PSP Investments, where he helped define and implement CSR strategies, policies and action plans. He was previously Senior Manager, Climate Change and Sustainability Services, at Ernst and Young from 2012 to 2016. He also held positions of increasing responsibility in CSR and sustainability for Deloitte and its clients from 2007 until 2012. Stéphane graduated (MSc) from the École Polytechnique (Paris) and AgroParisTech, and holds a master’s degree in civil and environmental engineering from McGill University.
Tal Lev Ari is a Managing Director in the Portfolio Oversight Group and is based in London. She is responsible for setting up CIM’s credit platform in Europe. Prior to joining CIM, Ms. Lev Ari was Head of Operations for the Debt & Value Add Strategies Team at LaSalle Investment Management, where she was responsible for portfolio management and loan asset management for all debt and special situations funds and separate accounts. She also worked at GE Real Estate managing its European debt asset management platform, and started her career at Lehman Brothers European real estate principal group. Ms. Lev Ari earned a Bachelor of Laws degree and a Bachelor of Science degree from Tel Aviv University.
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.
Ms. Massague is a member of the real estate team.
Prior to StepStone, Ms. Massague worked with the real estate finance fund at GAM International where she was responsible for the conception, structure and execution of real estate investments across the UK and Europe. Before that she was a vice president of real estate debt advisory at the Blackstone Group.
Ms. Massague received a MBA in real estate from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and dual BS degrees in architecture and management from MIT.
Mr. Rampin is a Managing Director on the Real Estate Private Credit team. Based in London, he leads Cerberus’ origination and execution of real estate debt investments across Europe.
Prior to joining Cerberus, Mr. Rampin served as a Managing Director for European Debt Strategies at CBRE Global Investors and separately, as an Executive Director at CBRE Capital Advisors. From 2007 to 2015, he we was Head of European Real Estate Finance within the Fixed Income division of BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking, where he was responsible for the bank’s commercial mortgage-backed securities program and the fixed income’s legacy commercial real estate loan book.
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.
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..
Laurent Tarneaud is a Principal in the Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies Group, based in London. Prior to joining Blackstone in 2018, Laurent was an Associate at Square Mile Capital Management in New York. Laurent received a B.S. from Georgetown University.
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
Managing Director of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the Global Market division, based in London. Greg works in the Global Mortgages and Securitised Products Department focusing on the origination, structuring and heads the distribution of commercial real estate debt in Europe. Since joining Merrill Lynch in 2007, Greg worked on the mortgages sales and trading desk as well as in the Commercial Real Estate Finance group on a wide range of CRE debt deals from senior lending, opco-propco, mezzanine, public to private and hotel financings throughout Europe. Greg led landmark transactions in Europe like the €935m Coeur Defense financing in Paris for Lone Star and more recently the £1.25bn financing for 22 Bishopsgate 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.
Dennis Selinas is a seasoned business leader with more than two decades of experience in the financial and property sectors. He possesses multidisciplinary expertise in executive management, operational and financial restructuring, mergers and acquisitions advisory, private equity, trading, and derivatives structuring, among other domains. His expertise spans various asset classes, including property, distressed debt, fixed income, and precious metals, across a diverse range of institutions such as listed property companies, private equity funds, investment banks, and hedge funds. Furthermore, he has operated in a range of jurisdictions, including South Eastern Europe, China, Brazil, the Middle East, and Western
Europe.
A Real Estate professional, member of the RICS with a background in Coworking, Coliving and Hospitality.
Expanding across Europe Bob W. One of Europe's fastest growing Tech Enabled 1-90 day stay Serviced Apartment operator. Operating in Nine Countries including UK, Spain, Italy, Germany, Estonia, Norway, Finland, Greece, Netherlands.
We sign Master Leases, Management Agreements and work with Investors, developers to secure funding and develop assets from 25 to 200 apartments in core European countries. Backed by some of Europe's best known VC companies and UHNW family offices.
Nearly25 years of experience in hotel development in various senior management positions. From 1995 to 2003 Director Development of ACCOR Hotels in Germany and Austria, from 2003-2011 Director Development of Motel One Group for European development of these Budget Design Hotels. In 2011 I joined TUI Hotels & Resorts, but after strategic change in hotel business I started in 2013 as Managing Director Development for Vienna based Falkensteiner Hotels & Residences, being responsible for the growth of Falkensteiner in CEE. In 2017 I returned to TUI Group to manage the growth of Tui own hotels & resorts worldwide, especially TUI Blue, Club Robinson and Club Magic Life
Head of Direct TransactionsActivum SG UK Advisors Limited
Spain
Brian Betel is Head of Direct Assets at Activum SG and founding partner of Spanish homebuilding ASG Homes. Prior to Activum SG Brian was a Managing Director at Cerberus Capital Management. In a 14 year career at Cerberus, Brian helped to open and run advisory offices in Mexico and Spain in addition to advising on investments in Canada, the UK and Germany. Prior to Cerberus Brian worked at Citibank in Mexico City and the Bank of Mexico, the central bank, selling the REO portfolios of their bad bank. Brian is also a founding partner of Tech-Stone Developments, a Spanish hotel development company.
Dimitri Chandogin is a co-founder of Numa Group, the leading European digital hotel operator and technology developer. The company provides disruptive design hotels and serviced apartments for modern travelers. A trusted partner for investors, owners, and developers, NUMA uses proprietary technology-based operating solutions that largely automate operations and increase cost efficiencies and revenues. NUMA successfully operates over 3,500 units in European A-cities, including Berlin, Munich, Rome, Milan, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, Oslo, and Vienna.
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Marcus has a broad experience in property development and finance. While working at the Swedish real estate advisor Annordia, Marcus advised in hotel establishments for some of the largest real estate companies in Sweden. Marcus joined Quartiers after his position as Analyst/Project Manager at Mangold, where he managed IPSs, M&A transactions, capitalizations and regulatory matters related to listed companies. Marcus has a Master’s Degree in Finance from Gothenburg School of Business Economics and Law with part of the program completed at ESSEC business school in Paris and HEC in Montreal.
Charlie is a co-founder of the Re:shape Living Group, an alternative living sector developer and operator in the UK. Charlie is responsible for funding and investment strategies, asset management and customer experience, branding and marketing. Over the past 8 years, Charlie has led fundraising initiatives combining circa £750m of debt and equity and led the creation and delivery of new branded, living platforms. Charlie also holds a 1st Class Honours Bachelor’s Degree and a Real Estate Master’s degree from CASS Business School.
Global Vice-President Development - HospitalityDamac
UAE
Is graduated in Civil Engineering from Universidade de Engenharia Mauá and holds an MBA (in Business Administration) from FGV/CEAG. For 15 years he has been at the forefront of the most important hotel projects for Accor in Brazil and Latin America. In 2009 he was appointed Technical Director LatAm and in 2013 he held the position of SVP Technical, Construction and Design. It is his responsibility to lead the Design & Technical Services team – South America, which is comprised by Engineers, Architects, Designers and a Technical Purchasing Department. One of his main targets in the company is to double the number of operating hotels by 2020.
For over 16 years in the real estate finance sector He has managed more than €6 billion in transactions in the sector since the beginning of his career Previously: Fosun Property Holdings (Executive Director, Asset Management), Arax Properties Ltd (Partner, Head of Italy), Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners (Director, Asset Management), RREEF Opportunities Management (Associate), Gallo & CSpA (Associate)
With a solid experience in the TLC and Energy sectors, Giovanna Della Posta has led for the past ten years insurance and Real Estate turnaround projects, supporting companies in rethinking their business model. She graduated in Economics, then earned a master’s degree in Economics and Finance and ultimately achieved a General Management program at Harvard Business School (2016). She won the Marisa Bellisario Prize (2012), within the Young Talents category, granted to women who distinguish themselves in management and economy. In 2019 Finance Community selected her among the 50 most influential people in Italian finance. Since January 2019 she is Invimit SGR’s CEO, a company 100% owned by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance.
Chris Watling is the CEO and Chief Market Strategist at Longview Economics, which he founded in 2003. Chris has been obsessed with markets and generating intelligent investment advice since beginning his career at Cazenove in 1994. Prior to that, he trained at KPMG in London. Outside the office Chris reads financial market (and other) history. He regularly chairs & speaks at global investment conferences, is often quoted in the financial press, and appears frequently on CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg & other media outlets.
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Chris Watling is the CEO and Chief Market Strategist at Longview Economics, which he founded in 2003. Chris has been obsessed with markets and generating intelligent investment advice since beginning his career at Cazenove in 1994. Prior to that, he trained at KPMG in London. Outside the office Chris reads financial market (and other) history.
Hans Vrensen, CRE, CFA, Drs Econ & MRE, is an AEW managing director heading the European Research & Strategy team. He is a seasoned analyst in the international commercial real estate and capital markets with over 25 years of experience. He is a voting member of AEW’s European investment committee and has introduced new innovative big data methodologies and alternative data sources. Prior to AEW, Hans was global head of research at DTZ (now C&W) from 2009 to 2015. Other roles included Barclay’s head of European securitization research and senior credit officer at Moody’s. Before moving to the UK, Hans also worked at LIM and C&L (now PwC) in the US.
Sameer Dalamal is a partner at Cale Street Partners, a real estate investment and finance firm focused on the United Kingdom, Western Europe and North America. Since its inception in 2014, Cale Street has raised €7.6bn from a single sovereign wealth investor and has provided innovative structured debt and/or equity capital solutions to investors, operators and developers in ten countries across nearly every major real estate asset classes and in multiple currencies. Before joining Cale Street, Sameer spent 10 years at Och Ziff in London, where he was most recently the head of European commercial real estate credit. Prior to that Sameer was at Deutsche Bank in the European commercial real estate group for 6 years.
Burkhard Schlickenrieder is Managing Partner of Lenwood Capital, a debt investment manager investing instititutional capital across the entire financing structure in mezzanine, junior and senior loans secured by real estate covering almost all asset classes. He has a backgroud in structured finance, investment banking and in the planning & construction business, with former positions as an architect and afterwards in the financial industry at Hypo Vereinsbank (HVB), Hypo Real Estate (HRE) and REFTA. Burkhard Schlickenrieder holds an MSc in Philosophy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a Diploma in Engineering/Architecture from Dortmund University.
Michael Shields joined ING in May 2004 and has 25 years experience in real estate lending, asset management & restructuring. Based in London, he is currently responsible for ING REF’s EMEA lending platform – lending assets totalling over €18bn. He is also international head for Real Estate, looking after clients with a global real estate reach. Prior to his current role, he led ING REF’s highly successful U.S. lending platform which he helped grow from $200m to over $7.5bn at its peak in 2008. Before ING, Michael was an originator in BHF Capital’s U.S real estate lending team and was one of the original members of Helaba’s CRE finance team in the U.S. Michael started his banking career in Chemical Bank’s real estate group in Manhattan.
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.
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.
Mr. Piper is a Partner based in London and a member of TPG Real Estate’s Investment Committee. Prior to joining TPG, he was a Partner in the Real Estate Group at Ares Management, where he spent 12 years, before which he was a member of the European Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Credit Suisse. He received a Masters degree in Physics from the University of Cambridge, where he graduated with First Class Honours. He is also a trustee and Honorary Treasurer of the Royal Trinity Hospice, a charity providing care and support for those with life-limiting conditions in London.
Head of Value-Add InvestmentsLaSalle Investment Management
United Kingdom
Blake is Managing Director in the Debt & Value-Add Investments team at LaSalle and serves as Head of Value-Add Investment and Fund Manager for the Special Situations programmes. His focus is on delivering attractive risk-adjusted returns in value-add real estate investments in Continental Europe and the UK across all property types.
Blake has nearly 20 years’ experience in the European real estate private equity industry, having been involved in sourcing and actively managing c.€5bn of transactions across a range of property types and geographies, delivering attractive double-digit returns in excess of an 18% IRR.
Managing Director and Co-Portfolio Manager, Oaktree Capital Mr. Bianchi is a managing director and Head of Europe for Oaktree’s Real Estate group. Mr. Bianchi joined Oaktree in 2014 and has been involved in the investment and management of its real estate funds in the United States and Europe throughout his time at the firm. Prior to joining Oaktree, Mr. Bianchi worked for Deutsche Bank AG where he held senior positions in the firm’s London, Hong Kong and New York-based real estate divisions. Before joining Deutsche Bank, Mr. Bianchi was employed by Moore Capital's MSVP Japan where he served as a senior vice president. He began his career as an associate in Goldman Sachs's Archon Group in the U.S. and Asia.
Anuj oversees European real estate investments for Angelo, Gordon. Anuj was with AG in its NY office and moved to Europe in 2006. Prior to AG, Anuj worked in the Real Estate group at Morgan Stanley and was based in New York.
Mr. Jones is a Partner in Apollo’s European Principal Finance team and is primarily responsible for leading the sourcing and execution of direct and indirect special situations real estate investments across Europe. Prior to joining Apollo in 2010, Mr. Jones was a member of the Real Estate Private Equity group at Citi, where he focussed on European Opportunistic and Core Plus real estate investments. Previously, Mr. Jones was an Associate in the Investment Team at AEW Europe/Curzon Global Partners.
Demande - Y a-t-il des classes d’actifs qui marchent bien en France malgré le scénario d’incertitude ?
Stratégie - Quelles opportunités pour naviguer dans un contexte de volatilité ? Investir dans les actifs traditionnels ou parier sur les alternatives ?
Diversification - Pour contrecarrer la hausse des prix, favoriser l’allocation du capital vers d'autres régions est-il une solution ?
Rendements limités - Les classes d'actifs les plus recherchées sont-elles toujours compétitives en France vis-a-vis des autres grands marchés européens ?
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.
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.
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Jeremy, who has been with AEW since 2013 as an Executive Director in the Investment team, will lead the investment team in Paris with responsibility for all investments in France on behalf of AEW’s European funds and separate account clients. Thierry Locatelli has also been appointed Deputy Head of the investment team in Paris to support Jeremy.
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.
Founding Partner of OPREIM, the investment management business launched to co-invest alongside select real estate operators in assets that are in need of repurposing. Before launching this business Valentina spent 20 years in real estate private equity, investment banking and venture capital working in the past for businesses such as Stonehage Fleming, MGPA, UBS Investment Bank, and Second Century Ventures
Valentina holds a full time MBA degree from INSEAD (2010) and a Master's degree in Mathematical Methods for Economics from the National Research University Higher School of Economics (2007).
Naqash Tahir
Executive Director - Global CIO OfficePGIM Private Alternatives
An enthusiastic property professional with extensive acquisitions, asset management, property management, sales and leasing, planning and development, finance and investment experience in residential and commercial markets. I have gained exceptional experience and knowledge in both the commercial and residential real estate markets throughout my years as a property professional.
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.
Has over 12 years of real estate investment experience. David was previously Head of the Real Estate practice at Helios Capital, a London-based family office, and, prior to that, a senior member of the investment team at Moor Park Capital Partners. He has an extensive track record in real estate, having been involved in £2bn+ real estate transactions since the start of his career, both in equity and debt positions. David holds an MA from HEC Lausanne, HEC Paris and La Sorbonne University. He speaks French and English and is a Swiss and French citizen.
VP - Global Business & RE DevelopmentKerzner International
United Kingdom
Ms. Hazelton joined Kerzner International in 2017 and is responsible for the growth of the Atlantis and One & Only brands in Europe and the Americas. As a seasoned hotel investment and development executive, her experience includes all aspects of hotel investment including banking, asset management, finance, development, feasibility and investment analysis. She currently has a desire to influence new and existing hotel projects with best ESG practices.
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.
Director of Investment and Asset ManagementThe Ascott Limited
France
Experienced Real Estate Investment and Asset Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the hospitality real estate Industry. Skilled in real estate investment and Asset repositioning & disposal
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.
Dr. Wulf Meinel (German nationality) has over 25 years of real estate experience as an investment manager, banker and real estate lawyer. He heads up Frasers Property Europe (FPE). FPE was formed through a merger between Geneba Properties, which Frasers acquired in July 2017, follow-on investments into grade A logistical properties and the acquisition of Alpha Industrial, a German development company, in July 2018. FPE focuses on modern logistical assets and mission critical light industrial properties in Europe, mainly in Germany and The Netherlands. The Assets under Management exceed € 2 billion.
Advisor, "The Voice of the Occupier" MD Logivalue GmbH Expert in setting up Ecommerce NetworksVoice of the Occupier
Germany
Raimund is a Corporate Real Estate professional with 25 years experience in all sectors of Real Estate. Starting his career 1991 he has worked for a “medium sized enterprise” with a portfolio across all asset classes, he has worked 3 years for Union Investment and continued with 14 years’ tenure at Amazon Europe. Here he has been part of an amazing success story witnessing a growth from 600 million USD net sales to around 130 billion USD in 2016, building the most advances ecommerce logistic network for Europe. In September 2017, he has started as Vice President Corporate Real Estate for the number one European ecommerce Fashion platform Zalando SE in Berlin. Since June 2018 he is also Vice Chairman of the Committee on Logistics Properties
Christopher Garbe has a BA in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Hamburg and an MBA in International Management and Marketing gained in Sydney. He worked for the Australian shopping centre developer Westfield as a management executive for several years, before joining Garbe UK in 2006. Christopher Garbe has been a director of the London business since March 2006 and a Managing Director since March 2007. In 2006, he joined the Board of Directors of Garbe Holding AG & Co. KG, where he is responsible for developing the Group’s transactions in the UK and since 2009 also for the Group’s other foreign business. Recently, he has taken on a joint responsibility for the business area Corporate Finance.
Vojkan Brankovic is the Founder and CEO of Apeiron; he oversees investment strategies and transactional management, product and business development and investor relations with an extensive international network of institutional investors. Vojkan has more than 25 years of global investment management experience, combining strategic senior real estate executive roles with extensive experience and a clear understanding of real estate fundamentals such as acquisition, financing, development, fund management and senior institutional investor management. Vojkan is a member of the British Property Federation Committee, IPF and ULI.
Fabrizio began his career in 1998 with General Electric, where he held various leadership positions in Europe in the Finance and Business Development functions until 2006. He subsequently worked for eight years in the investment management sector, first as Head of European Asset Management at D.B. Zwirn & Co., then as CFO and Chief Operating Officer of Spazio Investment NV and, finally, as CEO of Arkos Capital SA, a Swiss hedge fund manager for institutional clients. He joined InvestiRE SGR in 2014 as the Head of Business Development & Fund Raising of the new merged entity. He holds a MSc degree in Economics from the University of Genoa, where he graduated cum laude in 1996.
Jill is currently building True North Management, a next-gen real estate platform creating a better way of living for today, tomorrow and the day after. Prior to that, Jill was the Chief Investment Officer at The Collective and was a member of the firm's Executive Committee. Prior to The Collective, she worked as Investment Director for Greystar Europe, where she sourced and managed a £1bn + student housing portfolio, and also in charge of the company’s Asia growth strategy and investor relationships. Jill received her Bachelor of Economics from Peking University, China and MBA from Harvard Business School, United States.
Jermaine is a co-founder of the Re:shape Living Group, an alternative living sector developer and operator in the UK. Jermaine is responsible for Joint Ventures, planning and development activities, product design and execution, and ESG. Jermaine has worked in Real Estate for over 15 years and is recognised as one of the UK’s leading alternative living experts, having co-designed and secured planning permission for 10 co-living buildings, PBSA and hotels worth in excess of £800 million GDV across London and Dublin since 2018. Jermaine is also the founder and chair of the Second Generation Shared Living Consortium (SGSLC), an industry body which exists to progress shared living policy across the UK.
Chief Development Officer at Distrito Natural | Partner at Fluxus Ventures
With extensive experience in the real estate sector, I specialize in advising investment funds on asset transformation and delivering innovative solutions to real estate portfolios. I have successfully managed multiple co-working and co-living projects, introducing cutting-edge strategies for portfolio enhancement.
Currently, my focus is on driving the decarbonization of the industry through timber-structure residential developments, accelerating sustainable practices for a greener future.
Education:
- MSc in Industrial Engineering, Major in Structural Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- Bachelor of Architecture, École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris Malaquais
As Director at Hamburg Commercial Bank Michael Windoffer is responsible for the Bank's real estate cross border business with a focus on international investors active in Germany. The bank provides financing for existing properties and portfolios as well as for residential and commercial developments. Michael Windoffer has more than 20 years of experience in banking and international real estate finance, both on the origination and the credit side. He studied Economics in Hamburg and Cardiff.
Sven is currently responsible for the origination and execution of Slate’s European investments and leads the portfolio management and strategic oversight of Slate’s European funds and portfolios.
Christian is a founding partner of Waterway Investments, manages the Frankfurt office and is responsible for all aspects of the transaction process on behalf of Waterway’s international client base. Prior to co-founding Waterway, Christian has worked for various American opportunity funds as well as German open-ended fund vehicles. He received a Master ´s in Economics from Freie Universität Berlin/Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil and a Master´s in Real Estate Economics from European Business School (ebs), Germany. Christian is fluent in German, English, French and Portuguese.
Karsten is a Managing Partner of Arcturus Capital Management. He has lived almost half his life abroad, while covering the German speaking property market with his own transaction advisory business and as investment manager for various international opportunity and private equity funds before working with Arcturus. Karsten has a Diplom-Kaufmann from European Business School (ebs), Oestrich-Winkel and an MBA from Katz Graduate School of Business, Pittsburgh. Karsten speaks German, English and French.
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.
Kean Hird oversees Catalyst Capital's activities in Germany and Poland along with fund raising and investor relations. Catalyst Capital purchases, develops and manages a significant portfolio of retail, office and industrial assets in Europe. Since its inception, Catalyst Capital has invested more than €7 billion in 60 real estate transactions in nine countries and has approximately €1.7 billion of assets under management. Kean began his career at Townsend Thoresen Properties and then subsequently spent 13 years with Imry Group Plc, before becoming MD and principle shareholder of Frame Investments.
Since 2018, Xavier Scheibli is Portfolio Director at GSA, based out of Frankfurt. He has more than 17 years of experience in multiple RE sectors, both on the equity & debt sides. In his current role, he’s responsible for managing portfolios of PBSA assets in Germany & UK, maintaining a close relationship with all players in the capital stack. Prior to GSA, Xavier was a Director at LNR/Hatfield Philips, leading NPL underwriting activities in Continental Europe & the firm’s co-investment opportunities. Before joining LNR in 2013, Xavier served as VP at Hudson Advisors & held posts in the RE division of UBS Wealth Mgt, where he was involved in fund structuring, acquisitions & distributions to high net worth individuals & inst. investors.
Thomas Wiegand is Managing Director of Cerberus Deutschland Beteiligungsberatung GmbH. He is responsible for real estate assets, NPL portfolios and property company investments in Germany, BeNeLux and the Nordics. Thomas was a member of the supervisory board for GSW Immobilien, a Cerberus investment that completed its IPO in 2011. Prior to joining Cerberus in 2005, Mr. Wiegand was a Director in the Institutional Restructuring Unit of Dresdner Bank, where he was responsible for the sale of non-core assets and loan portfolios of Dresdner Bank. Before that Thomas has held various positions in Private Equity and Structured Finance at Dresdner Kleinwort with a focus on restructuring cases.
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.
Saïd Hejal is the CEO & founding partner at Kronos Real Estate Group, an investment management platform with offices in London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Barcelona, Málaga and Lisbon. Kronos focuses on the development of residential for sale through its brand Kronos Homes and BTR through its brand STAY. Previous to Kronos, Saïd was at Fortress responsible for investments in Spain, France and Greece. Saïd started his career at Morgan Stanley’s real estate group in New York. He holds a Bachelor in Commerce from McGill University and an MBA from Columbia University.
Mr. Troy Javaher is currently Managing Director of UK/European operations for Lincoln Property Company (LPC). Lincoln Property Company was founded in Dallas in 1965 and has developed more than 14 million square meters of commercial projects and 220,000 multifamily units at a total cost of over $30 billion. Troy has a Master's degree in Real Estate from Columbia University in New York.
Jaime leads investment and asset management at Medan — overseeing new and existing investments in our platforms as well as developing new investment thesis and integrated platforms.
The firm was founded as a management buyout from Dunas Capital RE division, through a partnership of professionals with a long-lasting relationship in the Spanish RE investment, management and development space. We institutionalise local opportunities and allow international partners to achieve outsized risk-return potential by accessing untapped pockets of value, through active asset management and thematic approaches.
Nadav has 20 years of experience in Real Estate and investment
banking, M&A and advisory work. He was Morgan Stanley’s Head of
Israel investment banking office and served as the European Banking
Operations Officer in London. Nadav was also the COO of Delek
Global Real Estate plc. He served as the Chairman of Soluto Ltd and is
currently the Chairman of Ownera which is a digital trading platform.
He continues to serve as Board Member on a number of company
boards, public and private. Nadav holds and MSc in Finance from the
London Business School and an LLB in Law.
Lending Risks
ESG, Interest Rates & CRE oh my!
Mortgages - Banking's worst nightmare or a mere road bump?
Commercial RE - Brace for impact, will values hold or take a dive?
Dealflow - Shift in loan-to-value percentages impacting deals that need cheap debt?
Interest Rates - How to master the post-pandemic rate game?
Green Lending & ESG - Are lenders seeing eye to eye or singing different tunes?
Bank System US, UK & Europe - Are we riding the waves of change in the credit cycle?
Partner, Head of European Capital SolutionsKSL Capital Partners
United Kingdom
Hal Shaw is a Partner at KSL Capital Partners where he serves as Head of European Capital Solutions and
is based out of London. Hal joined KSL in 2007 as a Summer Associate with the Private Equity Team.
During his time at KSL, Hal has invested across the capital structure ranging from senior and mezzanine
debt originations to acquisitions and has played a lead role in the formation and subsequent growth of
KSL’s Capital Solutions strategies. Hal is a member of KSL’s Equity Investment Committee, Credit
Investment Committee and Tactical Opportunities Investment Committee.
Director - European OriginationRBC - Real Estate Capital Partners
United Kingdom
Matthias Aksoy is responsible for the origination of mezzanine and mortgage loans across Europe and the UK. Matthias also maintains relationships with key clients across Europe and plays an active role in the management of RECP’s loans and portfolio. Prior to joining RBC, Matthias worked in the London office of Wells Fargo’s Commercial Real Estate business where he was responsible for the origination, underwriting and management of commercial real estate loans to value-add and opportunistic sponsors as well as for the work-out of special situation credits. Matthias holds a master’s degree in business administration (Diplom) from University of Applied Sciences Biberach, Germany.
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.
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.
MD EMEA Real Estate FinanceBank of America Merrill Lynch
United Kingdom
Guillaume Gruchet is a Managing Director within the Global Market division at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London. Guillaume works within the RE Finance group where his focus is on origination, structuring and distribution of real estate debt in EMEA. Guillaume has worked on a wide range of financings from traditional senior lending, opco/propco and mezzanine loans. Between 2009 and 2012, Guillaume worked on the ABS trading desk and was responsible for the CMBS trading book. Prior to joining BofAML in 2006, Guillaume held positions at Rothschild and Fitchratings, always with a focus on real estate and fixed income products. Guillaume started his career in London in 1998 in the real estate & hospitality team at Ernst & Young.
Entre flexibilité et diversification du portefeuille, quelles solutions pour gérer cette classe d'actif ?
Flex Office, Flex Out, coworking et bureau opéré - À la fin du modèle traditionnel de bureau, quelles stratégies pour favoriser la reprise du secteur ?
Décentralisation - Investir dans les régions et les zones mixtes pour accompagner les nouvelles habitudes de travail ?
Dette - À la montée des taux de vacance et la baisse des recettes, comment les propriétaires gèrent-ils le poids de la dette ?
Reconversion - La clé pour diversifier les portefeuilles de bureaux obsolètes ?
Directrice des OpérationsConstructa Asset Management
France
Expertise en Asset Management Immobilier // Expériences internationales (France, Suède, Danemark, Pays Bas et Russie) // MRICS, spécialisation Commercial Property // ESSEC Grande École + la Chaire Immobilier et la Chaire Vente et Stratégie
Fabrice Lombardo
Head Real EstateSwiss Life Asset Managers
France
Jacques Perpere
Vice PrésidentAssociation des Directeurs Immobiliers
Alain de La Bellière joined DTZ Investors France at the beginning of 2015 as Director of Investments and member of the Executive Committee. Alain’s main responsibilities include developing the firm’s investments for third party clients. Prior to joining DTZ Investors Alain, was Director of Investments at CBRE Global Investors France for one year and head of acquisitions and sales at Generali Real Estate between 2004 and 2013. Alain started his career at STAM Europe as a Risk Manager in Real Estate acquisitions. Alain holds a masters degree in management and a post-graduate diploma in real estate management from Paris IX-Dauphine University.
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.
Stefano is a Principal in Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies Europe, previously he was with M&G Investment working within the real estate financing division
European Head - RBC Real Estate Capital Partners & Real Estate Corporate BankingRBC Capital Markets
United Kingdom
Axel Brinkmann is the European Head of the Royal Bank of Canada’s Real Estate Capital Partners (RECP) group. This group provides a range of financial services including mortgage, whole-loan, mezzanine, and loan-on-loan facilities to real estate sponsors in the US, Europe, UK, and Australia. Axel is also a member of the RBC Capital Markets' European Executive Committee and manages the bank's European real estate corporate banking activities. Previously, he was part of LaSalle Investment Management's Debt Investment and Special Situations group, contributing to its establishment and growth since 2010. Axel began his career in the real estate structured finance team at Wells Fargo, working in Frankfurt and London.
Alantra Private Debt manages directly and indirectly c.€1.2bn in AuM focused on the European mid-market with different debt strategies including RE debt, corporate direct lending and special opportunities. Alantra Debt Funds are among the most active in its segment, having closed more than 40 transactions over the last five years in Europe. In RE debt, Alantra Private Debt provides senior (single-digit all-in cost) and/or subordinated financing of all the asset classes (logistic, office, retail, hotel, coliving, other alternative, etc.) including development financing.
Jaime Cano is partner in Alantra Private Debt since 2017. Prior to joining Alantra, Jaime was the Head of Real Estate Structured Finance for Iberia in Société Générale CIB.
Director, Loan Markets RE FinanceDeutsche Pfandbriefbank AG
France
Fabien started his career in 2006 in the NPL department of Archon Group in Paris before joining the Credit Suisse platform of Situs in London. In 2009, he worked for Credit Foncier de France on the origination of senior loans and acquisition of CMBS notes in Europe while restructuring some of the bank’s impaired positions. In 2012, Fabien joined ACOFI Gestion to participate in the structuring, fundraising and investment of several senior debt funds. Since 2016, he is responsible for the distribution of real estate loans arranged by Deutsche Pfandbriefbank in Continental Europe and the UK.
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.
Global Real Assets Business DevelopmentNB - Independant Advisor
United Kingdom
As the Global Head of Strategic Growth and Business Development, Natalie is responsible for driving organic growth across Sanne’s product offering and delivering cross border opportunities through the group’s network of international offices. Natalie brings more than 25 years of commercial experience having worked in Australia, Singapore, and the UK. She joins Sanne in London from PwC where she held the role of Global and UK Real Estate Legal Leader. Natalie’s extensive experience of working with international clients on cross-border transactions adds significant capability to the firm’s team of product specialists.
Tony Iannazzo is Head of European Real Estate and oversees the firm’s real estate asset management globally. Based in London, he joined the firm in 2008.
Prior to joining Värde, Tony was an Associate at Lazard, focusing on middle-market M&A advisory work. Prior to Lazard, he practiced securities and M&A law at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in their Chicago office, and corporate law at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York.
Tony graduated from St. John’s University in Minnesota with a B.A. in Political Science and received a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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.
Elle Xu joined Lendlease in September 2023. Previously, she was the Investment Director at Qatari Diar Europe. In her role at QD, Elle has been responsible for originating new investment opportunities, structuring JVs, and raising debt finance for QD’s existing projects in Europe. Elle has over 15 years of experience in real estate and investment banking. Elle is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and holds a Msc in Investment Management from Cass Business School.
Experienced Senior Real Estate Investment professional within the student housing and alternative commercial RE sectors. Qualified accountant, and project manager with over 10 years' experience.
Domenico Giusti
SMD, Head of Business DevelopmentCastello
Italy
For over 16 years in the real estate finance sector He has managed more than €6 billion in transactions in the sector since the beginning of his career Previously: Fosun Property Holdings (Executive Director, Asset Management), Arax Properties Ltd (Partner, Head of Italy), Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners (Director, Asset Management), RREEF Opportunities Management (Associate), Gallo & CSpA (Associate)
Harald Hübl is Managing Director of greenturtle gmbh working with developers & HNWIs in real estate, energy, and start ups. Prior to that, he acted as Investment Director for value one group, a European developer, operator where he expanded the student housing platform in a JV with TIAA/nuveen. Before that he headed Corporate Finance and Real Estate Finance at Bawag PSK (a Cerberus owned bank in Austria). He spent nearly ten years in London at GE Capital as leader in European Healthcare Leveraged & Real Estate Finance, M & A and infrastructure investment.
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.
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.
Founder and CEO of Varig. Varig makes sustainability software for Commercial Real Estate. Experienced Leader with a demonstrated history of working in the Construction and Real Estate industries. Focused on technology as a key enabler for Sustainability within the use and ownership of buildings . Strong operations professional with a Master focused in Property development and Facilities management from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
Vera Economou
ESG Group Competence Center LeadRaiffeisen Bank International AG
Head of Innovation and SustainabilityING Wholesale Banking
Germany
Alexander Piur is responsible for Sustainability and Innovation for the global Real Estate Finance activities of ING Wholesale Banking, with local presence in APAC, EMEA and US. He has more than 20 years of experience in the real estate financing markets in Germany and Europa. Prior joining ING, he worked for several banks in Munich. Alexander is a member of IMMOEBS, has a degree as Immobilienökonom from the International Real Estate Business School in Regensburg and holds a B.Sc. in Finance and Management from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.
Volkert is presently President of the Board of Directors of Novo Banco Real Estate and has over twenty years of international experience in M&A, private equity and real estate. Prior to joining Grupo Novo Banco (GNB), Mr. Reig served as a Managing Director for Hudson Advisors. Mr. Reig Schmidt has a Master in Law from the Universidad San Pablo CEU and is admitted to practice in the Madrid Bar Association. Volkert is fluent in Spanish, German and English and has a basic knowledge of French and Portuguese.
55 years, married 2 sons From 2002 - 2017 Square Asset Management - Partner; 1,5 Billion under management in all sectors for retail and institutional clients : Managing the highest Portuguese performance balanced portfolio over the last 8 years in a row according to MSCI/IPD; from 1990 - 2000 ESAF Espírito Santo Activos Financeiros SGPS - Real Estate Managing Director Investments: Portugal, Brazil, Russia.
Following a decade of experience in the real estate financing sector, Katja (Ekaterina) Pazelskaya became a managing partner at Blue Tagus, co-founded by her in 2013. In her role, she has been focused on translating investment strategies into tailor-made real estate investment programmes that work in geography-specific context. Next to that, Katja manages acquisitions, as well as creates real estate products adequate to the economic and market cycle. Before co-founding Blue Tagus, Katja had extensive experience in structuring and placement of funding and capital solutions for real estate loans portfolio. She was an Executive Director at ABN AMRO (Amsterdam / London) , overseeing a €120 billion real estate loan book.
Over 20 years experience with a proven track record as a successful property asset manager and development manager with an extensive knowledge of Residential, Commercial and Hotel industries.
Management in Acquisitions, Development and Property Investment Adviser/Leader.
Property assets are a really special kind of assets...
Jared is responsible for sourcing and acquiring new assets in the UK and Europe at may capital. He has over 16 years of real estate experience, having previously worked for both Thor Equities and Pears Global, where he was responsible for sourcing acquisitions, financing and asset management. Jared has been involved in an excess of £2bn real estate transactions.
Originally born in New Zealand and now a UK resident, Jared studied at Lincoln University in Christchurch where he received a B.A. in Property.
Nicolas Goffin
Country Director PortugalBesix Red
Portugal
Nicolas Goffin joined BESIX RED in 2015 as Project Manager based in Brussels. After successfully leading and delivering several projects domestically and abroad, Nicolas was promoted to Head of Portugal in late 2018. In 2020, he moved to Lisbon where he opened the first-ever Portuguese branch of BESIX RED in downtown Lisbon. Nicolas and his team are currently heading two projects, DUUO, a residential complex of 280 apartments over two buildings at Praça de Espanha and Parque Oriente, a multi-use project with over 43,000 m2. Prior to joining BESIX RED, Nicolas served as Architect for Archi 2000 (BE) and Hamiltons Architects (UK). Nicolas Goffin holds a Master of Architecture. He is fluent in French, English, Dutch and Portuguese.
With over 20 years in property development and investment, Garth has been investing in Portugal since 2016. Aside from co-founding a property development company, Garth’s previous roles include Senior Manager of Development and Hospitality within the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi. Garth oversees the day to day running of the business.
Achille is executive director leading the global client care program and the business development of the Value and Risk Advisory division (VRA) at JLL. Prior to joining JLL in 2007, he served as Project Controller at Drees & Sommer, a leading building consultancy in Europe. He started his career in 2002 as a Business Development Manager of a windows manufacturing company in Berlin. Achille graduated from the Technical University of Berlin with a degree in architecture, with focus on property development. He is Chartered Surveyor member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). He is co-chair of ULI’s Product Council “Office and Mixed-Use” in Europe and of the Product Council “Sustainable Cities” in Germany.
Ingenious is a specialist investment manager with extensive expertise in the Real Estate, Media, Infrastructure and Education sectors having invested over $10 billion. We believe our investments should deliver both a positive financial and community impact.
Neil is Chief Executive of the Ingenious Group. Neil has overseen the growth of Ingenious’ Real Estate and Infrastructure businesses with capital deployed in each sector of over $1 billion. The Real Estate division provides development and bridging finance to the mid-market residential and commercial sectors in the UK to address the UK’s chronic housing shortage. Finance is provided via senior debt lending to deliver attractive investment returns via careful risk management.
Jocelyn de Verdelon
Head of Transactions - EuropePGIM Real Estate
France
Jocelyn de Verdelon is a managing director at PGIM Real Estate France SAS and Head of France, Spain & Portugal. Based in Paris, Jocelyn is responsible for the strategic growth of the businesses in these countries. Jocelyn is a member of the European Investment Committee and serves on the European Executive committee. Prior to joining PGIM in 2013, Jocelyn was office investments director at Altarea-Cogedim Group in Paris, responsible for the sourcing and execution of all acquisitions, focusing on value-add and opportunistic deals, as well as playing a key role in the fundraising, development and asset management activities at the company. He was also a member of the Altarea-Cogedim Executive Management Committee.
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
Arnaud joined Invel in 2014 and is instrumental in the execution & management of Invel’s transactions and the firm’s investment philosophy. Arnaud comes from an Investment Banking Advisory background, he was Managing Partner with Brookfield Financial, and was a director in the Eurohypo Global Advisory team. Arnaud has advised institutional clients on a range of RE transactions across Europe, from M&A to corporate and debt restructuring, fund raising, JV creations, and IPOs. He was involved in RREEF and Borletti Group’s equity disposal of the “Le Printemps” transaction in 2013, the Inmobiliaria Colonial restructuring, and the acquisitions of Groupe Taittinger & Société du Louvre. Arnaud started his career with PwC audit in Paris & London.
Jonathan Haas is responsible for the origination of mezzanine and mortgage loans across Europe and the UK.
Jonathan also maintains relationships with key clients across the UK & Europe and plays an active role in the management of RECP’s loans and portfolio.
Prior to joining RBC, Jonathan worked in the New York and London offices of Blackstone’s Commercial Real Estate Lending business (BXMT & BREDS) where he was responsible for the origination, underwriting and management of commercial real estate loans & preferred equity to value-add and opportunistic sponsors as well as for the work-out of special situation credits.
Jonathan joined Blackstone from Morgan Stanley, where he worked in real estate investment banking advisory across EMEA.
Britta is Principal at Apollo Global Management, based in London. Previously, she was a Director at Eastdil Secured Debt Advisory in the UK and Continental Europe, Real Estate Investment Banking.
Rossitsa is a managing director in Real Estate Investing within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where she is responsible for the origination and execution of new investments for the Real Estate Credit Partners program in Europe.
Rossitsa earned a Masters degree in Management and Corporate Finance from ESSEC Business School in Paris in 2010.
Mr. Parker is a Partner at Ares and serves as a member of the Ares Secondaries Group's Real Estate Investment Committee. Prior to joining Ares in 2021, he was a Partner in the Landmark Partners Real Estate Group, where he focused on the origination and execution of private equity real estate transactions and investor client relations across the United Kingdom, continental Europe and Asia Pacific. Previously, Mr. Parker was a Director of DTZ Investment Management Ltd, an FSA regulated subsidiary of DTZ Plc, now Cushman & Wakefield, where he was responsible for investment in direct and indirect real estate across Europe and Asia.
George Nicholas
FounderShibui Capital
United Kingdom
Most recently George was Global Head of Hotels at Savills, and advised, transacted and oversaw the valuations of over €18bn of hotel, mixed-use CRE for banking, sovereign and private clients globally.
Prior to leading the Savills team, George worked with JLL Hotels & Hospitality in London, CBRE Hotels in Asia Pacific, Hotel Partners in Orange County, California, and in various operational management positions including with Merivale Group in Australia.
George holds a BSc. from Cornell University, and a Diploma in Hotel Administration from the Swiss Hotel Association Hotel Management School, “Les Roches”.
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Managing Director, Head of EMEA Real Estate, Private Funds GroupUBS
United Kingdom
Charles works for UBS in the Investment Bank and is Head of EMEA Real Estate, Private Funds Group. The team focuses on real estate private placements, providing private capital raising solutions for funds, joint ventures, co-investments, as well as strategic and restructuring advisory services. The team has raised over $48bn of equity from a mixture of institutional investors and private wealth.
Charles was previously at CBRE Capital Advisors in London where he worked on equity raising, fund recapitalisation, secondaries and M&A transactions. Prior to this, Charles worked as a Real Estate European Acquisitions Manager for New Star Asset Management.
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.
Pierre a co-fondé Accenta en 2016 et occupe depuis le poste de CEO, en charge de la stratégie et du développement d’Accenta. Véritable « serial-entrepreneur », il créé sa première société à 22 ans dans le domaine des jeux ludo-éducatifs, qu’il revendra au groupe Ubisoft. Il se lance ensuite dans le marketing en ligne ainsi que dans le e-learning. En 2005, Pierre créé le site e-commerce delamaison.fr, dont le groupe de Leroy Merlin fera l’acquisition en 2012. La même année, Pierre est co-fondateur de 50 Partners, un incubateur spécialisé dans les nouvelles technologies. Depuis 2016, il écrit un nouveau chapitre de sa vie professionnelle avec Accenta, qui combine savoir-faire digital et hardware pour répondre aux enjeux environnementaux.
Head of Project & Development Services EMEACurrently Unaffiliated
France
Walid rejoint JLL en 2006, d’abord au sein des équipes Tenant Representation sur des transactions complexes en VEFA/BEFA puis intégre en 2010 les équipes de maîtrise d’ouvrage. Il dirige l’équipe Conseil & AMO-MOD depuis 2015 et est membre du Comité de Direction depuis début 2020. En 2020, Walid prend également la responsabilité du périmètre France - Benelux & Nordics.
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 of Real Estate in Europe, Stéphanie Bensimon joined Ardian France in 2016 with over 17 years’ experience, most recently at Invesco Real Estate, where she spent five years and was Head of Transactions in France, Belgium and Southern Europe from 2011. Prior to that, she held roles at Carval Investors, part of the Cargill Group, and GE Real Estate Group in Paris.
Managing Director, International Transactions and Asset Management
Indotek
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
Head of Real Estate Finance CEEpbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank
Germany
Dieter Knittel is Head of International Real Estate Finance for Central and Eastern Europe at pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank. Dieter is responsible for the bank’s lending portfolio in the region. The regional focus is on Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. Dieter has been active in the CEE market for more than twenty years, including five years based in Warsaw as Head of Credit and Senior Risk Management.
Omar Koleilat is a co-founder of the Crestyl Group. He draws up business strategy, maintains relations with investors and ensures funds. He graduated in architecture and holds the British RICS postgraduate diploma in RE investments. He has been active in the RE development in Central Europe since 1998. Thanks to him the CRESTYL group became a respected market leader with a Eur 2 billion development program, including for example lucrative and unique Savarin project.
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.
Dorota is a Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of REINO Group (fund and investment management company based in Poland). Dorota has over 25 years of professional experience in the real estate industry working for PWC and Knight Frank in the CEE region. She advised local and international developers, global investment funds, and Polish entities in these roles. Dorota has invested and managed more than EUR 2bn of Polish real estate for various Polish and international structures.
She is a Polish licensed valuer and a Member of the RICS. She holds a Master’s degree in Business Management and MBA from the University of Minnesota/Carlson Schoof of Management.
Barbara Wojdełko is CEO of Greenman Poland, leading a 16-strong team based in Warsaw. Before her appointment as CEO, Barbara was managing partner of Newbridge Poland Sp. z o.o., managing the company’s finance, operations and acquisitions since 2015. She has over a decade’s worth of real estate experience and was previously an analyst for a warehouse developer active in the CEE region. She is a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics and holds a magister degree in Corporate Finance.
Florian heads up the Frankfurt office team and leads Verdion’s investment activity in Germany. A member of the Investment Committee, he is responsible for sourcing and executing Verdion’s value-add investment strategy and the urban logistics development programme. He is regularly called on to speak to the industry about our focus on brownfield regeneration. Joining Verdion in 2020 from DEKA, where he was Senior Investment Manager, Florian has over 18 years’ high-level experience in the German logistics real estate market with previous senior roles at Catella and CBRE.
International Investments - Executive DirectorW P Carey International
United Kingdom
Karolis Adlis joined W. P. Carey’s European Investments Team in 2015 and currently serves as Executive Director. Prior to joining the firm, he worked at Jefferies Investment Bank as an Equity Derivatives Trader and prior to that as a Market Risk Analyst. Previously he interned as a Credit Analyst and also a Quantitative Analyst at UBS Investment Bank. Karolis has extensive experience structuring transactions in the Nordic and Central and Eastern European markets. Since joining the firm, he has played an instrumental role in over €1.2 billion in sale-leaseback, net lease and build-to-suit investments. Karolis graduated magna cum laude from the University of Bath with a B.Sc. in Business Administration.
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.
Before founding TRUSTONE REIM, Jean-Philippe was Deputy Director within the Investment team at BNP PARIBAS REAL ESTATE and led the team dedicated to Families and Institutional Investors which he had launched 10 years before.
He worked on all types operations: development, yield investment, property trading transactions and supervised more than 500 commercial Real Estate transactions. Jean-Philippe started his career structuring Real Estate investment funds. He then moved to BNP PARIBAS where he held various positions in the Real Estate market. Jean-Philippe graduated from IEP Paris and ASSAS University, Paris.
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.).
President / Head of Investments FranceCBRE Investment Management France
France
Gautier Beurnier is President of CBRE Investment Management France and responsible for sourcing french deals for pan European and domestic funds and for international clients through club deals and separate account mandates. Gautier has over 30 years of experience in real estate and risk management, previously as CEO for ATEMI, a French real estate developer and asset management company. He has also worked for Unibail in Paris as well as Marsh Inc in New York, where he specialized in alternative risk finance and risk management consulting.
Directeur du Marché des Professionnels de l’ImmobilierBanque Populaire Rives de Paris
France
After 14 years at RTA, Yannick joins Banque Populaire Rives de Paris to lead the Marché des Professionnels de l'Immobilier, with a team of 27.
Rouzbeh Badi-Arez
Founding PartnerBlack Swan Real Estate Capital
France
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
Arnaud Taverne
Directeur GénéralCDC Investissement Immobilier
France
Arnaud Taverne est diplômé de l’Université Paris IX Dauphine d’un Magistère Banque Finance Assurance (License, Master 1 et Master 2) et d’un Master 2 (DEA) en Economie et Finance internationale. Il a débuté sa carrière chez PWC en 1997 (Auditeur Senior Banques et Assurance) avant de rejoindre Arthur Andersen en 2000 (Restructuring Transaction Advisory Services Paris, Senior Manager).En 2006, il a intégré la Direction Financière de Veolia Transport en tant que Responsable acquisitions. Il a rejoint la Direction Financière du Groupe Caisse des Dépôts fin 2007 au sein du département immobilier compte propre et a pris la direction générale deCDC Investissement Immobilier (anciennement CDC GPI) en juillet 2014.
Omar Fjer
Managing Director Real EstateArdian
France
Omar Fjer joined Ardian in 2015. Prior to joining Ardian, he spent 2 years as head of investments at Société Foncière Lyonnaise. He started his career working at Unibail-Rodamco as an asset manager on major French shopping centers.
Mario invested in Urban Input Asset Management in 2014 having previously worked with them as a local operating partner and asset manager when he was investing in Spain. Since starting his career, Mario invested in over €3bn of real estate transactions via equity or debt across Europe and across multiple asset classes, having worked at Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Och-Ziff and Benson Elliot. Mario holds a MSc in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Manchester and speaks 5 languages. Mario sits on the board of listed retail REIT Tander Inversiones and UNIQ Residential as well as a number of PropTech ventures. Until the sale to AXA, Mario sat on the board of NYSE-listed REIT, Northstar Realty Europe.
Frans Heijbel is Managing Director in Heimstaden's European investment team and a member of the Group Investment Committee. Prior to joining Heimstaden in 2022, Frans spent ten years at Alecta where he was responsible for building up and overseeing a EUR 10 billion international real estate portfolio in Europe and the US. Before then he held various senior real estate roles in London and Stockholm. He holds a MSc in Real Estate Finance and Economics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (2001).
Ruediger Kimpel is Senior Vice President at Immo Capital, the first technology-led residential real estate platform, designed to create quality portfolios of existing single-family rental (SFR) housing at speed and scale.
Obsolescence Timeline vs. Yield Chase - Safeguarding portfolios, preparing exit strategies, and understanding the potential to retrofit assets, all doable?
Placemaking - Is it the new hot topic? How to ensure with changing places and products complexity?
Head of Asset ManagementBayerische Versorgungskammer
Germany
Stefanie is currently responsible for the asset management of all on-balance-sheet assets of BVK, AuM totalling EUR 7 bn existing stock and EUR 1.7 bn projects
In addition, since July she took over the deputy role of BVK’s real estate management platform, allowing her valuable insights in the global real estate investments via fund structures.
Previous assignments include Europe-wide responsibility for corporate real estate management with global IT company Fujitsu and Asset Management and Portfolio Management roles at Goldman Sachs as well as valuable expertise in architectural planning of large, highly complex buildings. In a planning company.
She holds degrees in architecture and business.
Michael Fuller is a Managing Director in Brookfield’s Real Estate Group, responsible for Brookfield’s European Core-Plus Fund. He has over 19 years of real estate experience.
Prior to joining Brookfield in 2014, Michael served as a Principal at Apollo Global Management's real
estate and non-performing loan business in London. Prior to that he was an associate at Citi Property Investors covering a wide range of European real estate transactions and worked for BFD Finance Management in Munich, Germany.
Mr. Fuller received an MBA in International Business Administration from European Business School in Germany.
Rouzbeh Badi-Arez
Founding PartnerBlack Swan Real Estate Capital
France
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
Paul Raingold
PresidentGénérale Continentale Investissements
France
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
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.
Avantages consolidés ou de la place pour les nouveaux entrants ?
Stratégies et Régions - Dans un marché sélectif, faut-il privilégier l'investissement de premier plan ou parier sur les régions sous-exploitées ?
Pricing - Peut-on s'attendre à une revalorisation de l'actif avec un équilibre entre l'offre et la demande ?
Loyers - Jusqu'à quel point les locataires sont-ils à l'aise avec le prix vs l'espace ? Avons-nous atteint un point de rupture ou les prix continueront-ils d'augmenter ?
Prior to joining EUROSIC, Adrien BLANC worked for UBS as Head of France for its real estate division. He spent 10 years at Morgan Stanley where he took up various roles in acquisitions and asset management both in France and internationally. He was notably Director of asset management for France, Benelux and Scandinavia in 2006-2010. In the past, Adrien has held numerous board directorships positions notably for Compagnie la Lucette, Altaréa, Korian and Ogic. He began his career working for Archon (Goldman Sachs group). Adrien has obtained a masters in Management science from the Sorbonne, and holds a DESS in Construction strategy and urban development.
Laurent Dubos
Country Manager - FranceLogicor Gestion - France
France
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.
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.
Laurent Vouin
Head of France / BeneluxSavills Investment Management
Aymeric has nearly 20 years experience in real estate across a variety of sectors and roles including asset management, property management and project management.
Prior to Mileway, Aymeric spent 8 years at CBRE, most recently as Head of Property Management France, and before that Development and Marketing Director with the international consultancy business.
Salvi has 15 years’ experience in commercial real estate in France, including more than 10 years at Prologis, where he oversaw its investment services team in Southern Europe from 2010 to 2014. He then joined the capital deployment team in charge of the Paris and Le Havre markets until 2020, when he became head of capital deployment for France.
He joined Panattoni in 2021 as managing Director in charge of setting up the group's operations in France.
From idea to insight to impact.
A global investor, executive, intra/entrepreneur and advisor with a career spanning all top 25 industries, 20 countries, and 5 different C-level titles- currently COO for Planet Smart City’s Thinkubator and a certified advanced sustainability practitioner- Susannah brings breadth & depth of perspective to inspire transformation, create opportunity, and monetize value where strategy, innovation, community, and sustainability converge. She has designed new markets, companies, products, and services ranging from real estate to renewable energy, luxury yachts to logistics, education to environment, consulting to city regeneration. Not just preparing for the future, Susannah can help you to define and create it.
I am the proud Managing Partner of Imoteca - The residential experts, a successful RE company in Romania, with a Human2Human approach. After 20 years, a track record of 5000 transactions (1BillonEuros), we have a deep understanding to inspire a paradigm shift in the RE industry. Therefore in 2020 I launched Grupo Demetra. Acting as advisor&developer, our purpose is to be the change agent, encouraging others to thrive into a liquid RE model and Think Beyond Buildings.
In 2023 we launch Demetra Sat Gulia (A village within a village) and Demetra Tineretului Park (Reimagine urban life); two sustainable living destinations, offering a positive environment for people, a positive return for investors and a positive impact for our planet.
Head of Innovation and SustainabilityING Wholesale Banking
Germany
Alexander Piur is responsible for Sustainability and Innovation for the global Real Estate Finance activities of ING Wholesale Banking, with local presence in APAC, EMEA and US. He has more than 20 years of experience in the real estate financing markets in Germany and Europa. Prior joining ING, he worked for several banks in Munich. Alexander is a member of IMMOEBS, has a degree as Immobilienökonom from the International Real Estate Business School in Regensburg and holds a B.Sc. in Finance and Management from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.
Compete, connect, and relax with your fellow Club Members with organised group runs (all abilities and skill levels catered for and welcome) around Paris, preceding Europe GRI.
Already a favourite tradition among leading female GRI Club Members, our annual get together of 80+ female real estate decision makers features invaluable networking opportunities and collegial market discussions, followed by a private lunch.
Does Capital into Europe still stack up? 12th September, 10:45 - 12:15
Spend time in a relaxed, private setting alongside other top executives with capital at risk across European real estate asset classes. Available exclusively to GRI Retreat Level Club Members and a limited number of CEOs on a highly selective, invitation-only basis.
Carry on the conversation after the first day of discussions at our exclusive cocktail event celebrating 25 years of GRI. Reserved for all onsite attendees of Europe GRI 2023, enjoy music and drinks with fellow industry leaders.
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Sponsorship - Ready to become a dealmaker at Europe GRI?
With more than 700 top real estate executives joining us for two days of in-depth industry discussions and networking, Europe GRI 2023 is the perfect place to showcase your brand and thought leadership, in front of the people who matter most to your business development.
Sponsorship opportunities include creating and moderating your own session, getting closer to clients, tailor-made matchmaking with synergistic leaders who will benefit your business, visibility, branded discussion rooms, and a dedicated account manager to book meetings for you.
Available for all participants as an add-on to your ticket or as a bespoke bulk package.
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.
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.
With the largest commercial real estate team in Europe and one of the biggest worldwide, CMS is well positioned to help investors, funders, developers, landlords and occupiers navigate all aspects of the real estate market and maximise their assets. Whatever the size and scope of your project or deal, with almost 800 real estate lawyers in 46 countries we have the resources to meet your needs quickly and efficiently, offering expert advice. We have been active in real estate in our markets for decades, so we understand the culture, the economic context, the local legal context and the history.
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.
Accenta s'attaque à un immense défi environnemental : décarboner le chauffage et la climatisation des bâtiments, qui représentent 10% des émissions mondiales de CO2. Elle est issue de 3 années de R&D au X-Novation Center de l'Ecole Polytechnique. Grâce à des innovations portées par l'Intelligence Artificielle, l'entreprise a mis au point des technologies énergétiques uniques qui rendent accessibles et garantissent aux propriétaires immobiliers une décarbonation drastique du chauffage et de la climatisation. Avec la chaufferie bas carbone et la plateforme d'optimisation d'Accenta, vous chauffez et climatisez vos bâtiments de manière compétitive en divisant par 14 vos émissions de carbone et réduisant vos émissions carbone jusqu’à -95%.
Colliers (NASDAQ, TSX: CIGI) is a leading diversified professional services and investment management company. With operations in 68 countries, our more than 15,000 enterprising professionals work collaboratively to provide expert advice to maximize the value of property for real estate occupiers, owners and investors. For more than 25 years, our experienced leadership, owning approximately 40% of our equity, has delivered compound annual investment returns of almost 20% for shareholders. In 2019, corporate revenues were more than $3.0 billion ($3.5 billion including affiliates), with $33 billion of assets under management in our investment management segment.
Sienna Real Estate is a pan-European investment manager with over 30 years of experience in the European real estate investment and asset management market.
Sienna Real Estate positions itself as a long-term strategic partner for local and international investors, advising and accompanying them throughout the entire investment cycle of a property, from the acquisition, administration of the asset or property, to the sale process.
Wolf Theiss is one of the leading law firms in CEE and SEE. We have built our reputation on a combination of unrivalled local knowledge and strong international capability. We opened our first office in Vienna 60 years ago. Our team now brings together over 340 lawyers from a diverse range of backgrounds, working in offices in 13 countries throughout the CEE and SEE region. Over 80% of our work involves cross-border representation of international clients, and we offer full range of services.
Yard Reaas is an independent group, a leader in Italy in real estate consultancy and integrated management of real estate services. The Group, with its subsidiaries Yard CAM and Yard RE, operates in both the institutional market and the distressed segment for Italian and foreign investors, banks, SGR/funds, industrial groups, private equity funds, and family offices. Yard Reaas has over 30 years of experience in the technical sector (due diligence, project management, and monitoring), environmental, valuation, and management (property management). In the context of ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) criteria and investment sustainability, in 2015, it became the first real estate consultancy company registered for Italy in PRI – Principles for Responsible Investment.
Climate X is a climate risk data provider giving businesses and governments the data needed to build climate resilience.
We help organizations become more resilient to the impacts of climate change by quantifying, at an asset level, the probability and severity of weather events decades before they happen.
Spectra is an award-winning on-demand revolutionary climate risk data analytics platform, delivering location-specific risk ratings and climate-adjusted loss estimates between now and 2100
Combinando a experiência do Grupo Katz com a tecnologia desenvolvida pela IT3D, estamos preparados para impulsionar o desenvolvimento tecnológico da impressão 3D com concreto, com o objetivo de oferecer uma alternativa mais viável para casas e estruturas.
Nosso propósito representa um salto qualitativo para o setor da construção. Buscamos eliminar o déficit habitacional global, mudando a forma como as casas são construídas: reduzindo o tempo de construção, os custos e os resíduos de materiais.
We are Alpha – an award-winning provider of financial solutions dedicated to global corporates and institutions operating internationally.
Working with over 1,000 clients across 50+ countries, we blend deep expertise with cutting-edge technologies to solve complex problems across three key areas: FX risk management, global accounts and mass payments.
Key to our success is our team – over 350 people based across 9 global offices, brought together by a high-performance culture and a partnership
The commercial real estate industry relies on rent rolls as the core data source, but these are frequently inconsistent, inaccurate and inaccessible, posing challenges for real estate professionals. Through automated data standardisation, PRODA can:
- Increase process efficiency, through faster report generation.
- Improve data-driven decision making, by ensuring the accuracy of input data.
- Enhance data access, by building repositories of clean, standardised data.
In addition, PRODA easily integrates with existing systems, to ensure consistent dataflow through the whole organisation.
The Real Estate Investment arm of Goldman Sachs' Asset Management Division focuses on investing in equity and debt positions across all forms of real estate.
SFO Capital Partners, a London-based global real estate investor and investment manager focused on establishing and maintaining long-term relationships with its global clients and partners. SFO adopts disciplined investment strategies organized by asset classes and geographies. As of December 2023, SFO Capital Partners has acquired a diversified portfolio comprising more than USD2.4 billion in assets located primarily in the USA and Europe.
EVORA Global is a professional real asset sustainability consultancy. Since our inception, ten years ago we have grown from three founding partners to a team of over 200 passionate and empowered professionals, with common values to support one another as a cohesive team which enables us to provide the best possible solutions and services to our clients.
GFORM ist ein Full Service Immobilien- und Finanzmanager mit Schwerpunkt auf Lebensmittelgeankerte Fachmarkzentren in Deutschland. GFORM verwaltet derzeit mehr als 1,22 Milliarden Euro assets im Auftrag verschiedener Plattformen und Fonds, darunter Greenman OPEN. GFORM ist Teil der Greenman Gruppe, ein Zusammenschluss von Tochtergesellschaften, darunter Greenman Investments, Europa‘s einziger voll integrierter Investmentfondsmanager für Lebensmitteleinzelhandelsimmobilien.
Basée à Paris, Greenman Arth est une société de gestion de portefeuille. Elle maîtrise toute la chaîne de valeur, à savoir, l'acquisition, la valorisation et la gestion des actifs grâce à une équipe d'experts dans ce domaine. Elle a lancé début 2022 la SCPI GMA Essentialis, qui est spécialisée dans l’immobilier de la grande distribution alimentaire en France et en Allemagne.
Greenman Poland, headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, is an asset manager and developer in the convenience retail sector, focused on the acquisition, management and development of food anchored retail parks and shopping centres. Greenman Poland has 150 million EURO assets under management, comprising of retail parks and shopping centres totalling 87,000 sqm. The assets are anchored by leading European retailers including Carrefour, Rossmann, JYSK, Pepco and Spar. Greenman Poland is part of the Greenman Group, a collection of subsidiary corporations including Greenman Investments, Europe’s only fully integrated grocery real estate investment fund manager.
VARIG puts property owners in control of their environmental performance, amid the increasing demands for action and reporting on sustainability. Providing the complete overview of embedded and operational emissions on tenant, asset and portfolio level, VARIG also has features for continuous improvement and effect measurement, as well as automated reporting.
VARIG offers one complete system for the whole vertical of commercial real estate operations
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Prior to joining EUROSIC, Adrien BLANC worked for UBS as Head of France for its real estate division. He spent 10 years at Morgan Stanley where he took up various roles in acquisitions and asset management both in France and internationally. He was notably Director of asset management for France, Benelux and Scandinavia in 2006-2010. In the past, Adrien has held numerous board directorships positions notably for Compagnie la Lucette, Altaréa, Korian and Ogic. He began his career working for Archon (Goldman Sachs group). Adrien has obtained a masters in Management science from the Sorbonne, and holds a DESS in Construction strategy and urban development.
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