Irene Ryan is an advisory board member of GRI Women Leading RE Europe and is a Managing Director at Starwood Capital Group. Irene is responsible for the asset management of debt investments by Starwood’s international lending platform in Europe and Asia-Pacific. Since joining Starwood Capital in 2013, Irene has managed over $14bn of loans held across multi-asset classes including loans on refurbishment and construction projects. Prior to joining Starwood Capital Group, Irene worked in a real estate focussed bank in London, holding a variety of lending roles from origination to loan restructuring and recovery. Before that, she worked at KPMG in Ireland and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ireland (FCA).

Marc Fuhrmann is a Managing Director in Fortress’s European commercial real estate business, based in London. Since joining Fortress in 2007, Marc has held a variety of roles in Fortress’s real estate business in the United States and Europe. Marc’s current responsibilities include overseeing acquisitions and existing investments in Germany, BeNeLux, and the Nordics. Marc holds an MBA from London Business School and a B.S. and M.Sc. from the University of Texas at Dallas.

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.

Sid is a Managing Director at One Investment Management with over 14 years of experience investing in global real assets and corporate credit. Previously, he was at Blackstone’s real estate debt and corporate credit groups. At OneIM, he focuses on investing in real estate on a sub-sector and geography agnostic basis, covering mid to large scale private and public opportunities across the capital structure.

Laura is VP for European Debt Originations for PGIM based in London. Laura previously worked at Allianz and Maslow Capital on originations and loans

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.

George Molesworth is Managing Director, Credit at Apollo, where he works on the origination, structuring and execution of performing commercial real estate debt. Prior to joining in 2018, George was Executive Director in the Commercial Real Estate Finance Group at Goldman Sachs, and Associate Director in the Structured Real Estate Finance Group at Santander before that.

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.

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.

A relationship orientated professional with extensive international experience in commercialisation of startup businesses and operations setup. A member of the Court of Common Council for Bishopsgate Ward, in the City of London Corporation. Chairman of Planning & Transportation. Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Fuellers and a Court Assistant since 2012. As the City of London's Livery company associated with the Energy industry, this has provided wider knowledge as to the direction of Energy policy in the UK and emerging issues with the state of the energy sector. Also a Court Assistant of the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths. Past Chair of the Local Governing Body of the City of London Academies Trust, Southwark Schools Cluster

Jai is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Real Estate Debt. He is jointly responsible for the day-to-day implementation of ICG Real Estate's Debt strategies and serves as an investment committee member for both debt & equity strategies. Prior to joining ICG, Jai spent two years at Amro Partners - a real estate investment firm investing, developing and managing purpose built residential assets. As Investment Director he was responsible for acquisitions, capital raising and financing. Prior to this he held various debt investing roles at ICG-Longbow & Barclays, starting his career at Lehman Brothers Asset Management. Jai holds a BA in Industrial Economics from the University of Nottingham.

Emma Jack is an executive director with PGIM Real Estate and head of portfolio management for Asia Pacific debt strategies. Emma is responsible for the development and implementation of debt strategies across the region. Emma is a member of the Asia Pacific Debt Investment Committee and the Asia Investment Grade Sub-Committee. Previously, Emma was head of originations for European debt responsible for new business across our full range of debt products in Europe.

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.

Audrey Klein is a Partner at Spencer House Partners (www.spencerhousepartners.com) and is based in London. She has held Head of Fundraising roles at several firms but is best known for starting the European business out of London for the Park Hill Real Estate Group, a Division of Blackstone, which she ran for 9 yrs. Prior to joining Park Hill, she ran her own business for 5 yrs marketing alternative asset funds across all asset classes to European investors comprised of pension funds, banks, family offices. She is a graduate of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of business where she received an MBA, and is also a graduate of Emory University with a degree in Economics. Audrey is on the Corporate Board of Great Ormond Street Hospital and is a Non-Exec Board Member at Thriving, SFO and Planet Smart City. She is a Trustee of ULI's Charitable Trust and is on the board of Verbier 3-D.

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.

Dan is the Head of Debt Investment at Tristan. Prior to joining Tristan in 2021, Dan was Managing Director in the Debt & Special Situations team at LaSalle Investment Management where he was responsible for originating and executing transactions for the LaSalle Real Estate Debt Strategies fund series and several separate account mandates encompassing development finance, whole loan lending and special situations. During his time at LaSalle, Dan was directly responsible for transactions representing over €1.4bn of lending and was fund manager for the Special Situations program.

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.

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.

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

Sandy Su joined ARES as a principal investor. Previously, she was Vice President on the Carlyle Private Credit team focused on real estate credit transactions. Prior to joining Carlyle in 2021, she was on the Real Assets Credit team at CPPIB investing in real estate debt across Europe and the US.

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.

- Ex-investment banker now running a leading fractional real estate investment platform - Connecting global capital with opportunities in the UK - investors in 60 countries - Specialise in funding experienced UK property developers with junior finance - mezzanine and equity - Launching whole loan solution in partnership with senior funding lines and family offices - Leading a drive to collaborate with industry peers to create a pan-European marketplace for alternative investments - A thought leader and regular keynote speaker and panel participant at industry events - Always looking to meet like-minded individuals and entrepreneurs to do great things for current and future generations

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

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Shaun is Managing Director,Head of European Debt at Affinius Capital (Commercial Real Estate Finance). Previously, he was Managing Director at AIG and works out of London.

Anders currently leads the European real estate team at SVP, having built the team and deployed over €400 million since joining. Before SVP, he headed the CRE special situations at Deutsche Bank, where they invested in CRE secured NPLs. Anders began his career at HSBC Bank Canada, moved to London in 2011 to work in the investment bank, and joined Deutsche Bank in 2013. Anders is originally from Toronto, Canada, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics from the University of British Columbia. They attended the executive program for leadership development at the Harvard Business School. In his free time he is the chairman of Forma Arts and Media, a non-profit producing experiential and visual art.

Adnan has been with Delancey since March 2008, and is focused on investments and acquisitions, corporate finance matters, underwriting, monitoring returns, financings and disposals. He has worked on several transactions at Delancey including the acquisition of the Athlete’s Village at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in joint venture with Qatari Diar, the take private of Minerva plc and the acquisition of Barwood Logistics. He is also involved in establishing new joint ventures, partnerships and investor relations.

Marta has 13 years’ experience in PERE, having developed her career on the buy-side specialising in acquisitions, restructuring and turnaround of operational real-estate backed platforms. Her background has covered different verticals within operational real estate, namely prime retail outlets, senior living, hospitality and healthcare, always within opportunistic or special situation structures. Prior to her career in Private Equity, Marta graduated as a MSc Civil Engineer at Universidad Politecnica in Spain. Marta is Head of Expansion at Gravity Co, in charge of implementing Gravity Co’s expansion plans from a real estate deal and capital markets perspective.

The first eleven years of my career took place in international banking in Real Estate Finance both in Madrid and in London (Royal Bank of Scotland and Credit Agricole). In early 2013 I joined Sareb, the Spanish bad bank, where I led the strategy and workout of a portfolio of over €40bn of Outstanding Balance for four years. After that, I moved to the Instiutional Sales team where I led the creation of the Loan Sales Chanel and after took charge of the Institutional Sales department and was also in charge of the sale of portfolios of both NPLs and REOs. In 2021 I joined Sigrun Partner as Managing Director for the Real Estate Department where I closed several transactions in Alternative Lending of Real Estate projects in Spain and Portugal.

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.

Thomas Lloyd-Jones has over 20 years’ advisory and investment experience focusing on alternative investments. Tom co-founded Zenzic Capital, a leading provider of real estate credit, in 2013 with Nadine Buckland. Over the past decade, Zenzic has advised on over $2bn of transactions across asset-backed sectors. Zenzic Capital provides a range of structured financing solutions to match the needs of borrowers. Investment strategies include opportunistic credit and development finance. Prior to founding Zenzic, Tom held roles at Macfarlanes and EY, advising private equity and credit funds on transactions and fund formation. Thomas holds a law degree from Cambridge University.

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.

Mr. Mackenzie is a partner and head of real estate at One Investment Management, a global alternative investment manager. Previously, he was a Managing Director of Oaktree Capital focused on real estate investing from its Opportunities Funds, based in London.

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.

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.

Rory joined Sancus in January 2021 from The Somerston Group where he managed their European real estate platform. Rory has over 20 years experience in the UK and European property market. He has an extensive track record in M&A, corporate finance, capital raising, debt finance, investment management and property development.

As the Founder and CEO of Puma Capital Group, David leads the strategy for its four core businesses: Puma Investments, Puma Private Equity, Puma Property Finance, and Puma Public Markets. David also co-leads the Shore Capital Group, overseeing its overall fund management activities.

Thomas Lloyd-Jones has over 20 years’ advisory and investment experience focusing on alternative investments. Tom co-founded Zenzic Capital, a leading provider of real estate credit, in 2013 with Nadine Buckland. Over the past decade, Zenzic has advised on over $2bn of transactions across asset-backed sectors. Zenzic Capital provides a range of structured financing solutions to match the needs of borrowers. Investment strategies include opportunistic credit and development finance. Prior to founding Zenzic, Tom held roles at Macfarlanes and EY, advising private equity and credit funds on transactions and fund formation. Thomas holds a law degree from Cambridge University.