Fast becoming our flagship event for senior real estate investors, fund managers, asset owners, lenders and developers, active in the UK, as well as those with diversified pan European portfolios across countries and sectors. Create dealflow and benchmark pricing, location and risk hedging strategies with your peers. Spend real time with the right people with 2 days of private investor driven roundtables. No press, no formal agendas, no stages, just qualified decision makers with risk in real estate transactions, sitting down together for closed door discussions.
Expand your network
Transactional discussions about the market
In-depth industry knowledge with strategic insights
What you can expect
81%
Banks, funds, investors, and developers
High-level Networking & Matchmaking
Support in arranging 1-to-1 meetings and introductions with potential business partners
18
Discussion Rooms
Discussions will touch on
UK & Ireland Specific
London
The Regions
UK Light Industrial & Logistics
Dublin
Future of UK RE -Inflation’s hit the fan, how to deal with it?
Capital into UK
Finance & Investment
The Cycle
Distress, Value Add &
Opportunistic
Debt Alternatives
Co-Investment, JVs & Club
Deals
Refinancing
Values
Asset Classes
Prime Office Values
Hotels, Leisure, Retail & Mixed Use
European Hotspots for Last Mile Logistics Rental Growth
Commercial Alternatives
BTR Resilience
Urban Developments & Regeneration - Repurposing as the key value add?
Dr. Walters was previously global head of research at PIMCO Prime Real Estate (formerly Allianz Real Estate). Prior to joining Allianz Real Estate, she led a team of 170 researchers at JLL as head of research, Asia Pacific, and was a member of its leadership board. Previously, she worked developing deals for schools, hospitals, and hotels, and as an academic. Dr. Walters is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. She holds a Ph.D. in real estate economics from University of Hong Kong, and degrees from the University of Reading. She currently serves as a global governing trustee of ULI, and sits on the ANREV management board and on the Asia Pacific board of the RICS.
Dr. Walters is global head of research at PIMCO Prime Real Estate (formerly Allianz Real Estate). Prior to joining Allianz Real Estate, she led a team of 170 researchers at JLL as head of research, Asia Pacific, and was a member of its leadership board. Previously, she worked developing deals for schools, hospitals, and hotels, and as an academic. Dr. Walters is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. She holds a Ph.D. in real estate economics from University of Hong Kong, and degrees from the University of Reading. She currently serves as a global governing trustee of ULI, and sits on the ANREV management board and on the Asia Pacific board of the RICS.
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.
Founder, co-Managing Partner & CIO, DFIDeutsche Finance International
United Kingdom
Gavin Neilan is the Founder, Co-Managing Partner and CIO of Deutsche Finance International (DFI) a pan-European real estate private equity platform with over €4 billion AUM and offices in London, Munich, Madrid and Luxembourg. The firm focuses on thematic value add and opportunistic strategies investing through discretionary pan-European funds, co-investment vehicles and separate managed accounts. Gavin has 20+ years’ of industry experience, having been involved in more than €10 billion of transactions across Europe, America and Emerging Markets. He is a qualified lawyer, holds an MBA from INSEAD and studied law at UCL. DFI is part of Deutsche Finance Group, a privately owned global real estate investment company with over €11 billion AUM.
Co-Chief Investment Officer, Europe | Head of Debt & Value-Add StrategiesLaSalle Investment Management
United Kingdom
Michael Zerda serves as the Co-CIO for Europe and is Head of European Debt & Value-Add Strategies, responsible for LaSalle’s debt platform and value-add and opportunistic equity strategies in Europe. Michael has 22 years’ experience investing in equity and debt opportunities in Europe and the US, across a wide variety of real estate asset classes. Since 2010, he has been responsible for transactions totalling over $10 billion in net equity contributions, and $22 billion in gross loan commitments, across 140 individual transactions in major Western European markets spanning private equity, structured equity investments, equity joint ventures, senior debt, mezzanine debt, corporate debt, and development finance.
Managing Director, Head of European Real EstateStrategic Value Partners
United Kingdom
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.
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.
Abby has responsibility for leading the execution of Oxford's European investment strategy, with a particular focus on France and Germany, in line with Oxford's target for growth to over C$13.5bn AUM by 2020. Abby has over 10 years' experience in real estate development, investment and finance, working on over £3bn of transactions across Washington, DC, London and Paris. Prior to joining Oxford, Abby worked at The Carlyle Group’s European Real Estate Fund in London and at Buchanan Partners, a local real estate developer in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region.
Director, Real Estate Artificial Intelligence Research & Innovation
Columbia University in the City of New York
Valentina Shegoyan
Founding Partner of OPREIMOPREIM
United Kingdom
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).
Karen Burns
Co-FounderFyma
Estonia
I am a regular speaker on strategy, business development and management topics at conferences and events: Google Baltics, Nordic Testing Days (keynotes); TTÜ Cyber Conference, Digigirls with Telia, Frankfurt Mobikon, Telia VUNK accelerator and many others, I have also hosted panels and interviews, most popular of these have garnered over a million views. I am passionate about getting more women into STEM and management positions and changing the world for the better through the use of computer vision.
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.
Antony Slumbers has been a software development and technology strategist in commercial real estate since 1995. Now, he consults and works with real estate boards on Transformation, Technology and Innovation. A well known speaker in property, he is a globally recognised expert on PropTech, and #SpaceAsAService. For more go to antonyslumbers.com or talk to him on Twitter @antonyslumbers
Director, Real Estate Artificial Intelligence Research & InnovationColumbia University in the City of New York
USA
Real estate is a complex and dynamic industry that requires the blending of quantitative data with qualitative data, as well as a deep understanding of the nuances of the industry. While there has been a large amount of money invested in the development of real estate technology (between $70 and $100 billion since 2008, depending on the source), many of the challenges of real estate have proven to be difficult to solve. Columbia faculty, staff, and students have engaged in work with top real estate firms to apply artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning on fundamental issues in real estate such as automated valuation, portfolio and asset allocation, and corporate real estate management frameworks.
Interactive Discussion led by GRI Chairman's Retreat Members, who will share voting results from their working groups held recently in St Moritz, a chance to debate and hear predictions of how 2024 will pan out.
I am a director of CoStar based in London. CoStar is probably the most exciting business in real estate. And one of the most valuable with a market cap of over $20 billion. Combining state of the art technology with the industry's best data to provide clients with powerful insights into market activity and opportunities. Real time data, metrics, analytics, and on-line tools enable our clients to make more profitable decisions. I and my teams are helping to create additional value by extending CoStar's footprint into new property verticals, types and territories to create a global information, transaction management and marketing platform, leveraging the company's premier position in the United States.
Managing Director, Head of EuropeQuadReal Property Group
United Kingdom
Jay Kwan joined QuadReal as Managing Director, Head of Europe in February 2018. His focus is on building the international portfolio, with an emphasis on investing in Global Cities in the U.K. and Europe. Jay was formerly an MD at TPG Real Estate, the real estate investment group of private equity firm TPG, specifically focused on European investments. Prior to joining TPG in 2016, Jay was a Partner at Grove International Partners (formerly Soros Real Estate Partners), where he spent 13 years investing in three continents across all asset classes at both the corporate and asset level. Jay began his career at Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners in New York in 2001. Jay graduated with a BA in Economics and Political Science from Columbia NY
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.
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
Founding Chairman of the GRI, a global club of investors active across the Americas, Europe, India and the Far East since 1998. He previously worked for 20 yrs as a RE investment banker, advising or partnering with Goldman’s Whitehall Street, KLM Pensioenfonds, Forest City Enterprises and others across the USA and Europe. He led Citicorp's RE investment banking efforts in Europe between 1988-94, closing Europe’s two largest land deals in Paris on behalf of Exxon and Pechiney. He previously spent 5 yrs in f/x activities with ITT Corp and Chemical Bank in New York and Brussels. A Columbia Business School MBA ('74), Henri is an undergraduate Technion Israel Industrial Engineer ('72). He is fluent in English, French, Hebrew, Dutch and German.
James Piper
PartnerTPG
United Kingdom
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.
Founding Partner & Managing DirectorOrion Capital Managers
United Kingdom
Aref Lahham is Founder and Managing Director of Orion. He is located primarily in Orion’s London office and acts as Orion’s Chief Executive Officer, setting the strategy and leading the Orion Fund’s acquisition team. He has been responsible for over €5.0 billion of property acquisitions throughout Europe. Aref has 34 years of real estate investment and development experience in the US and Europe. He has served on the board of French public quoted company Société Foncière Lyonnaise as well as on the investment committee of a Bulgari sponsored private equity fund called Opera. Mr. Lahham has a BSc in Civil Engineering from Purdue University, a Masters of Engineering in Civil Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from INSEAD.
Audrey Klein is a Partner at Spencer House Partners (www.spencerhousepartners.com) running the 3rd-party fundraising business and is based in London. Before SPH she held Head of Fundraising roles at several firms but is best known for starting the European business out of London for the Park Hill Real Estate Group, a Division of Blackstone, which she ran for 9 yrs. Prior to joining Park Hill, she ran her own business for 5 yrs marketing alternative asset funds across all asset classes to European investors comprised of pension funds, banks, family offices. She is a graduate of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of business where she received an MBA, and is also a graduate of Emory University with a degree in Economics. Audrey is on the Corporate Board of Great Ormond Street Hospital and is a Non-Exec Board Member at Thriving, SFO and Planet Smart City. She is a Trustee of ULI's Charitable Trust and is on the board of Verbier 3-D.
Partner - Global Co Head - Real EstateQuilvest Capital Partners
United Kingdom
Michael has over 27 years of experience in real estate private equity, having worked in Europe, Asia and the U.S. He started as one of the initiating members of the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds in Europe, out of London and NYC. He was then a Founding Partner of Soros Real Estate (later Grove), building up the firm’s business in Asia with close to $2.0bn in equity invested across a variety of asset classes. He is now responsible for Quilvest funds that invest in the EMEA region and a member of the firm's global Investment Committee. Michael sits at the boards of numerous investee companies. He also sits at the board of the Hellenic Public Properties Company, the largest company for management and development of public assets in Greece.
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.
Karen Dunstan
Co-FounderPrecede Capital Partners
United Kingdom
Karen has 15 years post qualification experience having completed her law degree at The London School of Economics. Karen was previously at Urban Exposure Plc for 7 years, as General Counsel. Karen has also worked at King & Wood Mallesons, Herbert Smith LLP and Charles Russell.
Pranav Goel
Co-CEOLodha Group
United Kingdom
Pranav joined Lodha in 2007 and co-leads Lodha’s UK business. Pranav has held numerous roles within Lodha and led the expansion into London in 2013. Prior to joining Lodha, he worked with McKinsey's Toronto office, advising clients across a range of industries. In a previous life, he developed enterprise software in silicon valley. Pranav obtained an MS in Management from Stanford University and has a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi.
Christian Jamison is the managing partner of Valor Real Estate Partners LLP (‘Valor’), a pan-European industrial platform, headquartered in London, focused on urban/infill industrial and logistics properties. Founded in 2016 by Christian and his partners, Valor is a full-service development management and investment business with offices in London, Paris & Berlin. The company currently manages a c. 200 asset portfolio totalling more than fourteen million sq ft and €3.5+bn of AUM on behalf of a number of global investors.
Prior to Valor, Christian established and served as CEO of Delin Property until 2016 and previously held senior roles at JP Morgan, GE Capital and Credit Suisse.
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.
As Regal London’s Investment Director, Marc leads the investment and legal functions, sits on the Board and is a member of the Management Committee. He has been responsible for executing and managing over £2 billion of capital since joining in 2011 and for driving forward the current pipeline of 10,000 homes.
Prior to joining in 2011, he spent a decade at Berwin Leighton Paisner as a commercial property solicitor.
Having joined CoStar as part of the acquisition of Realla (since rebranded to LoopNet), I now lead the UK sales & account management team, looking after our new business and clients relationships with service providers, owners, developers, lenders and occupiers across our largest European market.
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.
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 .
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.
Deputy Head of Asset Management (UK), Real Estate Technology LeadAberdeen Standard Investments
United Kingdom
Deputy Head of Asset Management (UK), Real Estate Technology Lead, leading a team of 30 asset managers with responsibility for cross-sector assets on a UK wide basis. Stephen has carried out Fund and Asset Management positions at Aberdeen Standard Investments and has wide-ranging investment and strategic asset management experience gained in both private practice and client side positions. Stephen is Chair of ASI’s Global Proptech team and drives policy in relation to Flexible Office provision. He is also a member of the Property Investment Committee (EMEA) considering transactions and projects across the UK.
As CEO of the successful coworking hub, Runway East, and Chair of the ICE List, Natasha’s core interests lie in nurturing high-growth startups and building collaborative tech communities. With over 1800 members and 170 companies spread across four locations in London and Bristol, members at Runway East include ClassPass, Settled and YellowDog, with a community that has raised over £300m in funding to date. The ICE List is a thriving community of over 300 entrepreneurs and investors, striving to improve the professional and personal lives of members, as well as embolden the UK tech scene as a whole. Prior to Runway East and the ICE List, Natasha has contributed to the success of leading companies across Silicon Valley and London.
Leasing DirectorBattersea Power Station Development Company
United Kingdom
My career began, focussing on occupier workplace relocations before moving into large scale development. Currently the commercial leasing Director at Battersea Power Station.
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.
Senior MD & Head of Credit StrategiesAffinius Capital
USA
Jeffrey F. Fastov, Senior Managing Director and Co-Portfolio Manager- Credit Strategies. Mr. Fastov is responsible for establishing, overseeing and implementing Affinius Capital’s strategic direction with respect to all credit initiatives. Prior to joining Affinius Capital in 2013, Mr. Fastov was Co-head of Credit Suisse’s Real Estate Finance and Securitization Group. Prior to Credit Suisse, he founded Oasis Real Estate Partners, a capital markets advisor to foreign and domestic financial institutions, private equity funds and other significant real estate credit market participants. From 1992 to 2009, Mr. Fastov was with Goldman Sachs, where he ultimately served as Co-head of the commercial real estate lending business.
Manja Stueck is a Managing Partner at BGO. She co- founded BGO's European debt business which has invested over $6 billion of capital from institutional investors and is an active lender on commercial real estate properties located in the UK and across Western Europe. She is a member of the Investment Committee and responsible for strategic business development, fundraising, fund management, and capital markets. In her prior role Manja was European head of Lehman Brothers Global Real Estate Syndication Group.
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.
Managing Director, Real EstateOne Investment Management
United Kingdom
Sid is a Managing Director at One Investment Management with over 14 years of experience investing in global real assets and corporate credit. Previously, he was at Blackstone’s real estate debt and corporate credit groups. At OneIM, he focuses on investing in real estate on a sub-sector and geography agnostic basis, covering mid to large scale private and public opportunities across the capital structure.
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.
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.
- 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
Managing Director, Head International Debt Asset MgmtStarwood Capital Group
United Kingdom
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).
Dobrin Staikov serves as CFO & Head of Capital Markets at Lion's Head. Prior to this he joined AG Capital’s executive team in July 2016 after over 12 years at EBRD in London. At EBRD he developed the bank's distressed asset & non-performing loan financing and investing practice and enhanced the private-equity type business in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Turkey and North Africa. He was also part of the Deutsche Bank (London) Emerging Markets Structuring team with focus on the CEE region. He has been a board member of equity investee companies across CEE and Turkey. He holds MBA from INSEAD and is chartered certified accountant in the UK (ACCA).
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
Randeesh co-founded Precede Capital in 2021 as a portfolio company of Towerbrook Capital Partners. In 2022 the Company received a commitment of £1bn of new capital from QuadReal, who also acquired an equity stake in Precede.
Prior to founding Precede, Randeesh was the Co-Founder and former CEO of Urban Exposure Plc (LON: UEX), building the company over nearly two decades into the UK’s leading residential development financer and extending over £1.7bn in development finance and £3bn in real estate finance overall. In 2018 Randeesh led the company to a successful flotation on the London Stock Exchange AIM market.
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.
Ms. Patel is a member of the real estate team. She is also involved in the Firm’s responsible investing initiative.
Prior to StepStone, Ms. Patel worked in the Corporate Development Group at AT&T where she was involved in strategic projects, including acquisitions and divestitures, across the company’s business lines. Previously, Ms. Patel spent three years working in investment banking at Houlihan Lokey where she helped execute M&A, financing and restructuring engagements for clients in real estate and a number of different industries.
My role is to help grow the capital base of this dynamic Pan-European platform from its existing c. €13bn AUM focusing on sourcing equity for JVs, clubs and funds investing across sectors and risk profiles.
Dea Capital Real Estate has significant experience across the risk spectrum (from ground up development to managing core assets) and sectors (from offices and logistics to student accommodation and co-living) and has partnered with some of the industry's largest and most respected investors.
We invest in Italy, France, Germany, Iberia and Poland.
Ekaterina Avdonina
Co-Founder & CEOMirastar
United Kingdom
Ekaterina is a CEO and Co-Founder of Mirastar. Mirastar is a new specialist pan-European developer, investor and manager of big box logistics assets established by Ekaterina Avdonina, CEO, and Anthony Butler, CIO, in a joint venture with M7 Real Estate. From 2010 to 2018 Ekaterina was with Delin Capital Group focused on real estate investments and raising debt and co-founded DCAM. Previously, Ekaterina was with ING Real Estate in the Netherlands. Prior to ING, Ekaterina was with GVA in Moscow focused on the execution of development projects. Ekaterina graduated with a MSc. in Real Estate from Cass Business School and received a degree in Corporate Finance and Accounting from the Finance Academy under the Russian Government.
Our company is built on the harmonization of long-term investment and value creation. This works for our clients regardless of whether they are tenants, investors or partners, further fostering sound decision-making and creating a durable company.
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.
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.
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.
With over 15 years’ experience as real estate professional, in Spain, Norway, the Netherlands and Germany. Developing a relevant business acumen through managerial and technical practice within a different array of organizations. Holding superior degrees in Architecture and Business Administration, from the University of Granada and the IE Business School. Enrique manages and is active in the living vertical, including PBSA developments in association with Holland2Stay BV, trough Spain2Stay PBSA platform, in classic residential BTR & BTS, and ongoing developments for PE within Flex Living formats.
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.
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.
Audrey Klein is a Partner at Spencer House Partners (www.spencerhousepartners.com) running the 3rd-party fundraising business and is based in London. Before SPH she held Head of Fundraising roles at several firms but is best known for starting the European business out of London for the Park Hill Real Estate Group, a Division of Blackstone, which she ran for 9 yrs. Prior to joining Park Hill, she ran her own business for 5 yrs marketing alternative asset funds across all asset classes to European investors comprised of pension funds, banks, family offices. She is a graduate of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of business where she received an MBA, and is also a graduate of Emory University with a degree in Economics. Audrey is on the Corporate Board of Great Ormond Street Hospital and is a Non-Exec Board Member at Thriving, SFO and Planet Smart City. She is a Trustee of ULI's Charitable Trust and is on the board of Verbier 3-D.
Executive Managing Director - Head of EuropeAffinius Capital
Netherlands
Justin Hildebrandt serves as Executive Managing Director, Head of Europe, for Affinius Capital, where he is responsible for overseeing all European operations and investments, including fund management, joint venture relationships, acquisitions, developments, and dispositions. Justin sits on the Board and is actively involved in the pan-European logistics joint venture, Mountpark Logistics EU Sarl, and its majority ownership of the Mountpark Logistics development company for which he is also CEO. In addition to the logistics businesses, Justin leads the firm's growing investment activities in Europe in purpose-built rental housing, data centers, and credit.
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.
As Delancey’s Head of Real Estate Debt Strategies, Martin is responsible for managing debt investments and developing and executing real estate debt strategies. Martin has over 25 years of experience in real estate finance and investment and, prior to joining Delancey in 2022, Martin was at Brookfield, where he ran the European CRE credit business sourcing, evaluating and executing new investments.
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.
Jill Xiaozhou Ju
Founder / CEOTrue North Management
United Kingdom
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
European Hotspots for Last Mile & Logistics Rental Growth
Location still king?
Co Chair Criteria
Investors, Owners, Developers, Lenders that attrobute to european light industrial & logistics last mile - MD, CIO, CEO, Heads of Ttransactions Logistics, Heads of Logistics
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.
Will Prewer
Head of Capital Markets Real Estate Solutions UK&I and EMEADHL Supply Chain
The company serves clients including AEW, Primonial REIM, Generali Real Estate, SwissLife Asset Managers and the French government. In March 2022 Deepki raised €150 million in a Series C round of funding which was jointly led by Highland Europe and One Peak Partners. Other investors include Bpifrance, through their Large Venture fund, and Revaia.
ESG
All hail the green premium or overpromising?
Co Chair Criteria
Investors, Owners, Lenders, Operators Developers - Director, MD and above
Instuttional Investors - Heads of ESG, CEO, CIO, MD
Heads of Europe ESG from such companies
Tenants - Head of Workspace, Wellbeing - Retail, Offices, Residential Services, Hotel Brands
Lindsay Taylor leads the implementation of Deepki’s ESG platform & consultancy services for global real estate clients, accompanying stakeholders from data collection & analysis to ESG strategy alignment to implementation with the goal of accelerating real estate’s environmental transition towards net zero and sustainability.
Starting her career in hospitality, initially in operations and then commercial pricing, her roles highlighted a lack of accessible data that allows for effective commercial decision-making. Lindsay branched out into data systems and technology before moving into real estate, which continues to face the same challenges.
Senior Director, Global Market Development, EMEAIWBI
USA
Giovanna brings over 15 years’ experience working in business development and sustainability to IWBI. Her career started with advising FTSE 500 companies on CSR strategies and reporting before most recently becoming Global Business Development Director of her own consultancy supporting clients in leading market penetration, incorporating ESG solutions, and driving business growth. Giovanna has an extensive understanding of industry and reporting requirements, having worked closely with organizations around the world to map strategic objectives to leading frameworks including GRI, SASB, CDP and the UN SDGs. In 2020, Giovanna’s leadership was recognized when she was named one of the 10 Most Influential Women in Tech.
20+ years' experience in sourcing/structuring debt, mezzanine, and equity capital for investment and development projects across the UK and Western Europe. Drive Doric’s European real estate investment, fund structuring, and asset management platform. Previously worked at Credit Suisse and Citigroup’s structured corporate finance division, focusing on Pan-European project finance and capital structuring transactions. Secured $16B in equity and debt funding from 300+ global investors and lenders across 18 countries. MBA from the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in Switzerland and holder of the CFA Certificate in ESG Investing from CFA UK. Recipient of 'Best Asset Manager' and 'Sustainability' awards.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Selin Halman is a Principal in the Real Estate Debt Strategies Group at Blackstone. Based in the London office, she has been involved in originating real estate financings across all asset classes in Western Europe. Prior to joining Blackstone in 2018, Selin received her B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University in Chicago, USA.
Kate Tovey is a Director at Birchwood Real Estate Capital, where she focuses on originating and executing new investment opportunities across the UK and Europe. Kate has extensive experience in Real Estate and Real Estate Finance having worked for a number of leading financial institutions in London, including Legal & General Investment Management and Lloyds Banking Group. Kate has a broad understanding across Investment Management and Asset Management having acted as both a borrower and lender through recent cycles. Kate is currently co-chair of the Board of Advisors for the Commercial Real Estate Finance Committee Europe.
Harrison Smith
Vice PresidentAres Management
United Kingdom
Mr. Smith is a Vice President in Ares Real Estate, where he focuses on European real estate debt. Prior to joining Ares in 2022, Mr. Smith was an Associate on the European Real Estate Debt team at Starwood Capital Group. Previously, Mr. Smith was an Associate Director at Barclays Bank, where he focused on real estate. Mr. Smith holds a B.Sc. from the University of Nottingham in Management.
I joined Trimont as a BD Consultant in 2019. Trimont are industry experts, specialising in the management of loans secured by real estate.Trimont currently manages over 200Bn USD of loans for over 150 clients.
I started my career as a commercial property lawyer, practicing for ten years. I then ran the business development for the real estate arm of a large corporate, before building a boutique real estate practice and selling the business in 2017.Since 2018 I have been a consultant for a number of service providers, family offices and private propcos in the industry. I'm a Trustee of Variety, the Children’s Charity and Chair of the “Props”, a premier real estate charity event.
Randeesh co-founded Precede Capital in 2021 as a portfolio company of Towerbrook Capital Partners. In 2022 the Company received a commitment of £1bn of new capital from QuadReal, who also acquired an equity stake in Precede.
Prior to founding Precede, Randeesh was the Co-Founder and former CEO of Urban Exposure Plc (LON: UEX), building the company over nearly two decades into the UK’s leading residential development financer and extending over £1.7bn in development finance and £3bn in real estate finance overall. In 2018 Randeesh led the company to a successful flotation on the London Stock Exchange AIM market.
I joined OakNorth Bank a few months prior to it’s initial launch in 2015. Since then, we're proud to have lent over £8bn to support fast-growth businesses.
In 2021, I completed over 50 transactions, including several in the hospitality, leveraged finance and senior living sector.
In 2020, I won the Corporate Banker of the Year Award at Insider Media’s South East Dealmaker Awards, having completed 30 transactions in the South East that year.
Before joining OakNorth Bank, I spent almost 13 years at Santander where I was a Relationship Director originating and structuring deals for businesses with up to £50m turnover.
Omega joined LendInvest in September 2021 to head the Capital Raising team and became Head of Funds Management in October 2022. She has 20 years of professional experience in real estate as a corporate finance advisor, debt advisor, financier and lawyer.
- 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
Development & Investment Director EuropePrivate Investments
Netherlands
Mariapia Intini is Development and Investment Director at citizenM hotels, where she is responsible for securing new acquisitions in target cities in Europe. Prior to joining citizenM, she was Associate Director at Cushman & Wakefield’s EMEA Hospitality, where she valued over €1.5bn worth of single assets and portfolios (including NPLs) across Europe, and, before then, Senior Consultant at Colliers International’s EMEA Hotels. She started her real estate career at the global architectural firm Design International. She is a MRICS Chartered Surveyor and holds a Master’s Degree in Hotel Real Estate Finance from Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, NY, when she completed a rotational programme at Marriott International’s US HQs.
Lily Wecker
Development Director EMEA & North AmericaMandarin Oriental Hotel Group
United Kingdom
Due diligence, asset management and acquisitions for hospitality and leisure real assets
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.
Joaquín Castellví
Co Founder & Head of European AcquisitionsSTONEWEG
Switzerland
Joaquin Castellvi is a former transaction manager with major consultancy firms, investment banks and developers. He was directly involved in transactions totalising over $ 2.0 billion. Mr Castellvi holds a master’s degree from university of Barcelona and an MBA from Ramon Lull University.
Ryan is CIO and Head of Europe of Trinity Investments. Mr. Donn is responsible for leading Trinity’s transactional activity, including due diligence, acquisitions, dispositions, and financings. Prior to joining Trinity, Mr. Donn worked for Hotel Capital Advisers, Inc., Lehman Brothers, and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He is a former instructor of New York University’s graduate hospitality program.
Cane Napolitano is the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Valor Real Estate Partners LLP and serves on its Investment Committee. Mr. Napolitano is responsible for overseeing the firm’s capital deployment and investment strategy across Europe. Prior to joining Valor, Mr. Napolitano was at IDI Gazeley Brookfield Logistics Properties where he was responsible for originating a UK acquisitions program with a specific focus on infill opportunities within the M 25 and South East markets. Prior to IDI Gazeley, Mr. Napolitano was a member of the KTR Capital Investments team.
Jeff Fastov
Senior MD & Head of Credit StrategiesAffinius Capital
USA
Jeffrey F. Fastov, Senior Managing Director and Co-Portfolio Manager- Credit Strategies. Mr. Fastov is responsible for establishing, overseeing and implementing Affinius Capital’s strategic direction with respect to all credit initiatives. Prior to joining Affinius Capital in 2013, Mr. Fastov was Co-head of Credit Suisse’s Real Estate Finance and Securitization Group. Prior to Credit Suisse, he founded Oasis Real Estate Partners, a capital markets advisor to foreign and domestic financial institutions, private equity funds and other significant real estate credit market participants. From 1992 to 2009, Mr. Fastov was with Goldman Sachs, where he ultimately served as Co-head of the commercial real estate lending business.
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.
Mr. Moore is a Partner and Head of European Real Estate Debt in Ares Real Estate. He also serves on the Ares Real Estate Global Investment Committee and the Real Estate Debt Investment Committee. Prior to joining Ares in 2021, Mr. Moore was a Managing Director in The Carlyle Group's flagship Credit Opportunities Fund where he headed up the Real Estate investment activities for that strategy across Europe and North America. Previously, Mr. Moore was a Managing Director at HPS Investment Partners, where he ran the firm's European Real Estate Credit investment activities. In addition, Mr. Moore held positions at DRC Capital, Lehman Brothers and J.P. Morgan.
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.
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.
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.
Founder, co-Managing Partner & CIO, DFIDeutsche Finance International
United Kingdom
Gavin Neilan is the Founder, Co-Managing Partner and CIO of Deutsche Finance International (DFI) a pan-European real estate private equity platform with over €4 billion AUM and offices in London, Munich, Madrid and Luxembourg. The firm focuses on thematic value add and opportunistic strategies investing through discretionary pan-European funds, co-investment vehicles and separate managed accounts. Gavin has 20+ years’ of industry experience, having been involved in more than €10 billion of transactions across Europe, America and Emerging Markets. He is a qualified lawyer, holds an MBA from INSEAD and studied law at UCL. DFI is part of Deutsche Finance Group, a privately owned global real estate investment company with over €11 billion AUM.
Manja Stueck is a Managing Partner at BGO. She co- founded BGO's European debt business which has invested over $6 billion of capital from institutional investors and is an active lender on commercial real estate properties located in the UK and across Western Europe. She is a member of the Investment Committee and responsible for strategic business development, fundraising, fund management, and capital markets. In her prior role Manja was European head of Lehman Brothers Global Real Estate Syndication Group.
Partner - Global Co Head - Real EstateQuilvest Capital Partners
United Kingdom
Michael has over 27 years of experience in real estate private equity, having worked in Europe, Asia and the U.S. He started as one of the initiating members of the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds in Europe, out of London and NYC. He was then a Founding Partner of Soros Real Estate (later Grove), building up the firm’s business in Asia with close to $2.0bn in equity invested across a variety of asset classes. He is now responsible for Quilvest funds that invest in the EMEA region and a member of the firm's global Investment Committee. Michael sits at the boards of numerous investee companies. He also sits at the board of the Hellenic Public Properties Company, the largest company for management and development of public assets in Greece.
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.
Hal Shaw
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.
Dr. Walters was previously global head of research at PIMCO Prime Real Estate (formerly Allianz Real Estate). Prior to joining Allianz Real Estate, she led a team of 170 researchers at JLL as head of research, Asia Pacific, and was a member of its leadership board. Previously, she worked developing deals for schools, hospitals, and hotels, and as an academic. Dr. Walters is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. She holds a Ph.D. in real estate economics from University of Hong Kong, and degrees from the University of Reading. She currently serves as a global governing trustee of ULI, and sits on the ANREV management board and on the Asia Pacific board of the RICS.
Nadav Zohar
ChairmanLRC Group
United Kingdom
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.
Laura Denenga
VP European Debt OriginationPGIM Private Alternatives
United Kingdom
Laura is VP for European Debt Originations for PGIM based in London. Laura previously worked at Allianz and Maslow Capital on originations and loans
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.
Audrey Klein is a Partner at Spencer House Partners (www.spencerhousepartners.com) running the 3rd-party fundraising business and is based in London. Before SPH she held Head of Fundraising roles at several firms but is best known for starting the European business out of London for the Park Hill Real Estate Group, a Division of Blackstone, which she ran for 9 yrs. Prior to joining Park Hill, she ran her own business for 5 yrs marketing alternative asset funds across all asset classes to European investors comprised of pension funds, banks, family offices. She is a graduate of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of business where she received an MBA, and is also a graduate of Emory University with a degree in Economics. Audrey is on the Corporate Board of Great Ormond Street Hospital and is a Non-Exec Board Member at Thriving, SFO and Planet Smart City. She is a Trustee of ULI's Charitable Trust and is on the board of Verbier 3-D.
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.
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).
Ben Eppley
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.
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.
Laurie Lagarde is the Head of EMEA Logistics Operator Division and leads a sector-specialized team to support all elements of execution and operations for CBRE Investment Management EMEA Logistics investments.
With a logistics platform reaching almost EUR12 billion AUM and approximately 7 million square meters, she is directly responsible for the entire EMEA Logistics value chain for our investors from transaction management and operations to the enhancement of our customer experience.
Managing Director, Head International Debt Asset MgmtStarwood Capital Group
United Kingdom
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).
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.
Co-hosted with WIRE and the GRI Club Women Leading Real Estate
Committee, is complementary and open to all female participants of GRI UK & Europe Reunion and GRI Club
Members.
Moderator
Audrey Klein
Partner, Spencer House Partners;
Board roles at Elix, PfP, SFO and Planet Smart City
Co-hosted with WIRE and the GRI Club Women Leading Real Estate Committee,
is complementary and open to all female participants of GRI UK & Europe Reunion and GRI Club Members.
12 years experience within conference production in infrastructure, tax, finance and real estate. Previously working with RICS for four years helping drive the global CPD rollout. I have been with GRI Club for over 4 years, from Sales Director, UK Markets Director, Content Director and now as Global Head of Content with Sales Specialty within our Europe and USA markets. Ask me about our European events,asset class specialisms and connecting wtih investors globally. BA Hons in Philosophy from Kings College London, hobbies include Rugby, Theatre Production and Time Out Tastemaker.
One of the leading international corporate law firms. It is ranked 2nd largest law firm in France by revenue. Its unique positioning and highly recognised expertise enable it to deliver innovative, high-value-added solutions in Tax, Business, Corporate and Employment law.
CMS provides expertise in Banking & Finance, Commercial, Competition, Corporate, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Energy, Intellectual Property, Lifesciences, Real Estate, Technology, Media & Communications and Tax.
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.
DLA Piper is a global law firm capable of taking care of the most important legal needs of clients wherever they do business. With offices throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, we represent more clients in a broader range of geographies and practice disciplines than virtually any other law firm in the world.
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.
The company serves clients including AEW, Primonial REIM, Generali Real Estate, SwissLife Asset Managers and the French government. In March 2022 Deepki raised €150 million in a Series C round of funding which was jointly led by Highland Europe and One Peak Partners. Other investors include Bpifrance, through their Large Venture fund, and Revaia.
We’re helping businesses across all different industries thrive by funding their growth needs. And our savings customers can reach their long-term financial goals with competitive interest rates across a range of different savings accounts.
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.
