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Some of the past attendees
Abigail
Shapiro
SVP Europe
Oxford Properties Group
Ali
Imraan
Head - European Real Estate Credit
KKR
Ana
Estrada
Managing Director
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Aline
de Beer
Vice President Acquisitions & Asset Management
Omnam
Roger
Orf
Partner & Head of Real Estate, Europe
Apollo Global Management
Irene
Ryan
Managing Director, Head International Debt Asset Mgmt
Starwood Capital Group
Claudia
Bilgic
Managing Director - Real Estate Asset Management
Marathon Asset Management
Ruben
Bos
Head of Real Estate Investment Strategy, Europe
DWS
Kevin
Cahill
Partner, Head of European Investments
Ares Management
Lorna
Brown
CEO
Birchwood Real Estate Capital
Fiona
Voon
Head of Real Estate Capital Markets UK
BNP Paribas
Laurine
Amiel
Investment Director
Australian Super
Samantha
Kempe
Co-Founder & CIO
IMMO Capital
Ana
Gonzalez-Iglesias
MD, Global Head of Capital Markets, BREDS Group
Blackstone
Manja
Stueck
Managing Partner, Europe Debt
BGO
Elle
Xu
Head of Acquisitions (Europe)
Lendlease
Ronen
Journo
Senior Managing Director, European Head of Management Services
Hines
Daniel
Pottorff
Head of Debt Investment
Tristan Capital Partners
Cristina
García-Peri
Senior Partner Head of Strategy and Business Development
Azora
Michael
Shields
EMEA Head of Real Estate
ING Real Estate
Daniel
Dawe
Director of Investments
Delancey
Christophe
Ben Naceur
Head of Europe Real Estate
ADIA
Gavin
Neilan
Founder, co-Managing Partner & CIO, DFI
Deutsche Finance International
Michael
Zerda
Co-Chief Investment Officer, Europe | Head of Debt & Value-Add Strategies
LaSalle Investment Management
Ekaterina
Avdonina
Co-Founder & CEO
Mirastar
James
Piper
Partner
TPG
Jay
Kwan
Managing Director, Head of Europe
QuadReal Property Group
Laia
Massague
Managing Director
StepStone Group
Laura
Denenga
VP European Debt Origination
PGIM Private Alternatives
Peter
Robinson
Partner
Crosstree Real Estate Partners
Simon
Carter
CEO
British Land
Simon
Travis
Group Investment Officer
Hammerson
Abigail Shapiro
SVP EuropeOxford Properties Group
United Kingdom
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.
Ali Imraan
Head - European Real Estate CreditKKR
United Kingdom
Ana Estrada
Managing DirectorGoldman Sachs Asset Management
United Kingdom
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
Aline de Beer
Vice President Acquisitions & Asset ManagementOmnam
United Kingdom
Responsible for managing, originating, analysing and executing new investment opportunities, alongside asset managing the existing portfolio, focussing on the European market.
Over ten years’ experience in the hospitality sector working for various luxury brands globally, with a focus on the real estate industry for the past six years. MSc Real Estate, Cass Business School / BSc International Hospitality Management, Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne
Roger Orf
Partner & Head of Real Estate, EuropeApollo Global Management
United Kingdom
Mr. Orf joined Apollo in November 2010 and is a Partner & Vice-Chairman of Apollo’s Principal Finance and Real Estate businesses segment focusing on transaction development for both real estate equity and debt, operating partner outreach, significant limited partner matters and general ambassadorial work across the platform. He serves on the Investment Committees of the Apollo North American Real Estate and the European Principal Finance funds. Previously Mr. Orf was responsible for Citigroup’s global real estate investment activities. He has spent the majority of his career investing in the European real estate markets since he arrived in the UK in 1991 whilst working for Goldman Sachs.
Irene Ryan
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).
Claudia Bilgic
Managing Director - Real Estate Asset ManagementMarathon Asset Management
United Kingdom
Claudia is a Managing Director in Marathon's European Real Estate Asset Management team in London, where she is running multiple large pan-European commercial value-add/opportunistic real estate portfolios incl. their dispositions. Prior to joining Marathon, Claudia was a Real Estate Asset Manager at Goldman Sachs' Archon Group in Frankfurt, where she focused on value-add/opportunistic assets across the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region. Claudia started her career in the global Corporate Real Estate Management team of Sanofi-Aventis in Frankfurt. She holds a Diploma in Business Administration (University of Applied Sciences Mainz) and a Real Estate Investment Advisor (EBS University). She speaks German and English.
Ruben Bos
Head of Real Estate Investment Strategy, EuropeDWS
United Kingdom
Kevin Cahill
Partner, Head of European InvestmentsAres Management
United Kingdom
Mr. Cahill is a Partner and Head of European Investments in Ares Real Estate, where he focuses on European real estate equity. He also serves as a member of the Ares Real Estate Global Investment Committee. Prior to joining Ares in 2013, he was a Director at AREA Property Partners. Previously, Mr. Cahill was an Associate at Citigroup Capital Markets. Mr. Cahill holds a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario (Canada) in Business.
Lorna Brown
CEOBirchwood Real Estate Capital
United Kingdom
Fiona Voon
Head of Real Estate Capital Markets UKBNP Paribas
United Kingdom
Fiona is a Managing Director and Head of Real Estate Capital Markets UK, based in London. She has been based in the UK since 2001, with c.20 years of experience in the real estate sector, spanning investment banking, debt funds and advisory in the UK and Europe. She started her career at Deutsche Bank in London, focusing on European large loan origination for CMBS/syndication exit and was most recently investing in UK and European real estate whole loans, senior loans and mezzanine loans at the real estate debt funds of Intermediate Capital Group and latterly M&G Investments, prior to joining BNP Paribas in 2017. At BNP Paribas, she is responsible for running the real estate financing and coverage business in the UK.
Laurine Amiel
Investment DirectorAustralian Super
United Kingdom
Samantha Kempe
Co-Founder & CIOIMMO Capital
United Kingdom
Ana Gonzalez-Iglesias
MD, Global Head of Capital Markets, BREDS GroupBlackstone
United Kingdom
Ana Gonzalez-Iglesias is a Managing Director and Global Head of Capital Markets in the Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies (“BREDS”) group. Since joining Blackstone in 2021, Ms. Gonzalez-Iglesias has been involved in sourcing, structuring and executing financings across vehicles in US, Europe and Australia.
Manja Stueck
Managing Partner, Europe DebtBGO
United Kingdom
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.
Elle Xu
Head of Acquisitions (Europe)Lendlease
United Kingdom
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.
Ronen Journo
Senior Managing Director, European Head of Management ServicesHines
United Kingdom
Daniel Pottorff
Head of Debt InvestmentTristan Capital Partners
United Kingdom
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.
Cristina García-Peri
Senior Partner Head of Strategy and Business DevelopmentAzora
Spain
Cristina García-Peri is Senior Partner and Head of Strategy and Corporate Development for the Azora Group. Prior to joining Azora in 2011, she worked for 16 years in the investment- banking sector at both Merrill Lynch (2 years) and JP Morgan (14 years), where she held various positions across M&A and Equity Capital Markets, and for 10 year, she was Managing Director responsible for Corporate Equity Derivatives for EMEA as well as Equity Capital Markets for Spain and Portugal. Cristina holds a bachelor degree in Economics from ICADE (Spain) and an MBA from Harvard Business School (USA). Cristina is Board Member at Bankinter, a Spanish IBEX 35 banking institution, where she Chairs the Nominations and Sustainability Committee.
Michael Shields
EMEA Head of Real EstateING Real Estate
United Kingdom
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.
Daniel Dawe
Director of InvestmentsDelancey
United Kingdom
Christophe Ben Naceur
Head of Europe Real EstateADIA
UAE
Gavin Neilan
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.
Michael Zerda
Co-Chief Investment Officer, Europe | Head of Debt & Value-Add StrategiesLaSalle Investment Management
United Kingdom
Michael Zerda serves as the Co-CIO for Europe and is Head of European Debt & Value-Add Strategies, responsible for LaSalle’s debt platform and value-add and opportunistic equity strategies in Europe. Michael has 22 years’ experience investing in equity and debt opportunities in Europe and the US, across a wide variety of real estate asset classes. Since 2010, he has been responsible for transactions totalling over $10 billion in net equity contributions, and $22 billion in gross loan commitments, across 140 individual transactions in major Western European markets spanning private equity, structured equity investments, equity joint ventures, senior debt, mezzanine debt, corporate debt, and development finance.
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.
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.
Jay Kwan
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
Laia Massague
Managing DirectorStepStone Group
United Kingdom
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.
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
Peter Robinson
PartnerCrosstree Real Estate Partners
United Kingdom
Peter is responsible for sourcing, analysis and execution of investments.
Simon Carter
CEOBritish Land
United Kingdom
Simon Travis
Group Investment OfficerHammerson
United Kingdom
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.
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